New Hair

As I really didn't have enough time to do the normal scouring of hair magazines (which oft result in a wailing 'I waaaaaaaant thaaaat oneeeee but my faaaaaaccccceee is tooooo rooound!') i just went to see the lovely James at James Alexander in Edinburgh and told him 'do with me what you please'. This is the result. I think i like it!



One of these days i'll get something completely different. It just seems that today was not that day.

The Scenario

Here's the scenario:

A phone rings in a darkened room. A single spotlight falls on a girl. She is dressed in pajamas, minus makeup and bedraggled of locks. She looks at the phone. Weighs up in her mind whether she can ignore it and go back to her Lost DVD. Decides she cant. Answers phone.

Mother McMakeup: Did I just wake you up?
Me: No, Ive been awake for ages. (brazen lie)
Mother McMakeup: Good. Will you be ready to leave the house in an hour?
Me: Emmm...maybe. Why?
Mother McMakeup: Your bedraggled flowing hippy locks are taking over the world. Ive booked you a hair appointment. Go forth daughter of mine, for thine is the appointment, the stylist and the glory, forever and ever amen.
Me: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

What do you think of this??

See you in a while!xx

Minimal make up day and a nice surprise!

Hello lovely followers (Feeeeeel the appreciation - I lost a follower today! Hope I'm not saying anything to offend!?)!

I think there must be something in the air. At least 2 other bloggers that i follow have done the barely there, as-little-as-i-can-get-away-with make up today and i am about to join them. I too woke up this morning and stuck to the barest of minimum and that for me, is a rare occasion. Like Hele said, I envy those of you who look amazing without make up!

Here's my FOTD. These were taken after been blown to blustery while walking around town. My hair looks a hot mess...oh how i wish i could afford a hair cut!


FACE

As always, Lily Lolo Mineral Foundation in Porcelain + Cover up in Blondie

Bobbi Brown Blusher in Clementine

Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Gold - i think this is discontinued!?

EYES

Bobbi Brown Gelwear Eyeliner

Loreal Collagen Mascara

LIPS

Rose & Co Cherry Kiss Lip Balm

AND after reading my blog yesterday i can only assume that the BF felt sorry for me as he took me to the MAC counter in Harvey Nicks and got me the MSF in Perfect Topping. Aaah, lovely! Cant wait to try it out tomorrow!

Taaz.com

I've seen this on a few other blogs...and its genius! The website is http://www.taaz.com/ and allows you to use a picture of yourself (or anyone else) with your hair tied back and no make up on and digitally try out a bunch of different make up and hair looks.

You apply the make up one layer at a time according to a colour wheel which then tells you the corresponding product from a massive range including Bobbi Brown, Stila and even MAC.

For me the fun was really to be had in the hair section. Ever wondered what you look like as a blonde(Ill!)? with a fringe(fat faced!)? a crop(Hitler!!!)?...This is place to try it out without committing to the chop.

Here are a few of mine:

As a red head with a fringe

Light brown. for some reason i think i look a bit like Kym Marsh here. blegh.Ew. minging choppy hair.And finally, a bob. all i can say is NO!I can here by state that i will not be taking any of these picture to the hairdresser any time soon!

But someone who actually DOES look good in these photos is my long suffering bf. I did of course ask permission to post these (frankly rather scary) photos and was told that i could, as long as i also posted a picture of him looking normal.

So heres everyday Fraser:And here is, my boyfriend, The barmaid.Ewwwwwww.creepy.And finally, my boyfriend: Nicky Hilton.I definitely suggest you give it a go. This kept me entertained for HOURS!

xxx

The life and hair of me!

Hi Everyone,

I am aware that it has been literally AGES since i last posted and i pretty much fell off the blog wagon...but there's been a lot going on! As i said in my last post, i recently lost my job as an Events Manager at a live music venue so i've been spending this time looking and applying for jobs- Didn't think it would take this long! So now i have a few job prospects that are looking good... but i dont want to jinx my chances so i'll tell you about them as and when they do or dont work out!

Anyway, I have also been really getting into reading everyone elses blogs! Im loving Natalya at Filthy Gorgeous, Hele Says, Holly at The Yummy Mummy, Rosie and american beauty Nessa at nessasary make up...soooo many beautiful girls with great blogs.

I am loving reading everyones hair timeline and am majorly impressed with the hair bravery of you all! I always go to the hairdresser and ask for something comepletely different that's a radical change...but i always come out with the same straight, brown longish hair.

But heres a run down on the tiny changes that have occured in my hair world:

This first one was when i was 17 and had just moved away from Edinburgh to Surrey to go to boarding school. My hair was pretty much the template and the basic 'revert back to' style that i have always had. Longish, brown and straight. And dull.

Then while at Uni studying vocals and generally being a poor musician, i grew my hair pretty long, added a few highlights and began to curl it a bit with my GHD's. Finally a bit of texture to my hair! I quite like this look. quite romantic and pretty.

Winter came and i dyed it back to a dark brown. At this point i discovered how much better my hair looked with VOLUME so got a bit backcombtastic. Sultry!

Then what with being at Uni, partying WAY too much and generally not taking care of myself, i started to fall apart. My eyes just couldn't cope with the contacts I was wearing all the time so started to reject them, leaving me not only totally red of eye but also pretty blind. I had to start wearing my glasses full time for about 6 months while my eyes settled down which i HATED! My hair got really dry and broken from all the back combing and heat abuse so i chopped it to shoulder length, cut in a side fringe and mainly because i refused to touch it with any heat styling, wore it tied back most of the time.

I then pretty much left it to do its own thing until i moved back to Edinburgh after uni. I put it a slice of caramel blonde down one side which I liked... although it was weird; Ages after id had it done, i mean about a year or so, people started saying "ooh, thats new!"

And then it got left again due to a lack of money so it got LONG and a bit scraggley...

Until i got it chopped to just below shoulder length, cut the side fringe back in again and dyed it black which is where i am today!

Id LOVE to do something totally different with it though! Any ideas??