Pretty Picture Post: Vintage Hair Envy

Hi Everyone,

After having a short pixie cut for so long, I have decided it is time for a change. No I'm not giving in to all those people that say they liked my hair when it was long. I'm just wanting to grow it a tiny bit longer into a short Marilyn style. I think I would like to experiment with my hair a bit more and try out different ways of styling it.

While I was looking up pictures of different hair cuts on the internet, I came across some really cool and unique looks from a few different eras. I thought I would share them on here as it has been a little while since I did a picture post. I included some longer hair pics as well. I would also like to do a shout out to a new favourite Youtuber Dizzymakeupgirl who has some great tutorials on styling short hair.

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There are so many different hair cuts and hair styles for vintage style enthusiasts. Don't be fooled into thinking you can't have a vintage hair style because you don't have long hair, or because you don't know how to do some of the trickier styles like victory rolls. 

I hope you all enjoyed this post. Let me know if you'd like to see more of this kind of thing,

Your Favourite Blogger,

Natalie

Book Haul/Update: I am always making excuses...

Hi guys,

I haven't done a haul/update in a while so I figured I probably should. I am still reading that Audrey book and I've just been so preoccupied with all sorts of things to be bothered to do any blogging. I'm sorry guys but, I feel like I've found more important things to spend my time on than blogging. Which is a first. I've gotten involved in a cause and it's kind of given me a life. Kind of. I've been going to the markets on Sunday mornings updating a few different social networking pages and drawing pictures to promote it. Hopefully though, not for too much longer and then I get my life back.

I'm not going to go on too much about this cause because I know due to some misleading campaigns etc that the reception of this issue is not going to be very positive and I think I've already talked too much about it on here. I've also become very politically minded (my first federal election!) and while I don't know the ins and outs of everything in parliament I feel like I have a good enough idea to make an informed decision. I even went to a political debate. Sounds so unlike usual air-head me right? I have to say though, I am a bit annoyed with how one-sided Tumblr is politically. People get really aggressive if you like a certain party and I don't think that's fair. 

I also had a run-in a couple of weeks ago where a car ran into the back of my little car on the way from work and it scared the living daylights out of me. And, no I wasn't in the wrong. Even though this is true I feel like I am in denial every time I mention this. Car should be getting fixed soon though and, I will have to drive mum's car to work. 

Today I started watching Gilmore Girls. I have decided that I really like this show and may have to get all of the seasons. I guess I am a bit spoilt, but what is the good of life if you can't enjoy it? I had to pause it at one point because the dog wanted to go outside and the silly thing ran so fast she pulled the lead out of my hand and I ended up grazing my knee trying to catch her. I forgot how much that stings. 

I've also got Father's day and a few birthdays coming up too... It's pretty hectic.

-Here are some books. I bought 'Keeping The Castle', the two Dodie Smith books and 'Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done' from Booktopia. 'Crown of Midnight' by Sarah J Maas is a review book I got from Bloomsbury. And, 'Nails Nails Nails' is a non-fiction Fishpond pre-order from way-back. I was really interested in getting some more Dodie Smith after reading 'I Capture The Castle' and this election madness has me craving some Sarah J Maas sword fighting action.

-Here are some DVDs I got. I bought all 7 seasons of 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch', Season 1 of 'Gilmore Girls', 'Beautiful Lies', 'Stick it', 'Nancy Drew', 'What a Girl Wants', 'When in Rome', 'She's The Man' and 'The Host'. I just adore Salem in 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' and I will have to do a movie/book comparison of 'The Host' at some point.

-Here are some cheap sunnies from EBay and a bit of make-up that I have bought over the past couple of weeks. I may review some of it. I stashed the make-up into this cute fluffy sheep Easter basket mum bought me this year. I still have no idea what I am actually going to use this basket for...

-Here are some markers. I didn't get all of them this week (gosh I'm not that rich), but I wanted to show you all how much my stash has grown. There are some brighter colours in there that I may not have ever gotten (I normally draw people), but I started trying to draw sea creatures and they are very bright! These are all Copic Ciao or Letraset Promarkers mainly because they are the cheapest, but I think they work fairly well. 

-I have also bought a few cheap skirts from eBay , some pastel marcel wave clips and some rollers. I had great fun doing my sisters hair with these. It's a little messy because her hair didn't get a chance to dry properly before I took it out. 

You may have noticed that the quality of my pictures has improved? This is because I've been using my new Samsung galaxy s2 4g to take pics and I've downloaded the Vignette app onto that. 

What did you get in the mail this week?

Your Favourite Blogger,

Natalie

The Magic Haircut

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Yesterday I had a haircut and eyebrow wax. I decided against growing my hair out (again) and decided to keep the pixie for a while longer (or possibly forever). I've always spent an awful lot of time thinking about my hair and have wondered if hair is just like every other aspect of our lives in the way that we humans often tend to think our lives will miraculously improve if we just make one more change; try something new; follow the next trend etc. You know what they say: the grass is always greener on the other side...

There is always this concept of self-improvement and yet after the chop is complete I've often regretted my decision. Did the hairdresser do a good enough job? Did I print out the right pictures? Is it crooked? and after deciding that the haircut is not really what I wanted I have decided that some old hair-cut of mine was "the haircut" and that I should try to get it that way, but by this stage I probably have a different hairdresser, I use different styling products and I have to remember how I described the cut to my hairdresser at the time. The result is always different. 

I do remember once having a hairdresser tell me that a haircut won't make my hair look just like that in the picture. I would need to use styling products and tools too. After a while I have learned that she is right. And, it bothers me to hear people complain about the hairdresser's work when not a single dob of creme, spray, mouse, gel or wax has been used in the hair. Older ladies with perms are extremely bad for this. They won't use any sort of conditioning treatment or mouse in their freshly permed hair and wonder why it looks so frizzy. Healthy good-looking hair takes time, effort and product.  

I also find it really annoying that some people will choose to have long hair because "girls must have long hair" or that they must have a style because so-and-so has it regardless of the face shape or the way the hair naturally sits. While long straight hair with a straight fringe might be the "in" thing at some point, the trend will change. And the haircut? on a person with thick wavy hair that naturally sits to one side? Would take a long time to style each morning. I'm no hairdresser, but trust me, I've been there. 

I suppose my pixie cut is probably the best hair-cut I have had. With thick and wavy hair I've had difficulty keeping it long and neat and it has been too "big" when kept in a bobbed hair style. A pixie cut allows me to do finger-waves if I want (when it's nearly time to get my hair trimmed) and is perhaps the most grown-up I've ever looked. I suppose a Pixie would be my "Magic Hair Cut".

I don't like the fact that my ears and neck get cold, that I can't wear up-dos, that my collection of hair accessories lay unused in a trinket box on my duchess or that colouring my hair is about as pointless as making the bed, but I guess that is the price you pay for a magic hair-cut. I do like that in a way my fringe is uneven like Audrey Hepburn's was or that I can really pull off the vintage sunglasses and fifties liner without looking too try-hard, And that I can now dress ultra-feminine without looking out-of-place like I normally would. 

What's your "Magic Hair Cut"? 

Your Favourite Blogger,

Natalie

Book Haul, Sunglasses and Hair Styling Fun!

Hello :)
Above is a picture of me in my new sunglasses. I haven't done a haul in a little while so I thought it was about time I posted one for you. I  haven't been posting as much as I would like to and I've got some book purchases (and a review book) that I would like to share with you. As well as some other cute things I bought and some pictures of hair styles that I did last weekend with my sister and cousin with a pack of pins and not much else.

BOOKS:

^In the mail I got 'Star Cursed' by Jessica Spotswood (from Penguin for review), 'Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales' (A graphic novel I bought) and 'The Magic of Sabrina The Teenage Witch (Also a comic, but more like an analogy of stories). While I am not really feeling the fantasy genre at the moment 'Star Cursed' is a book that I definitely want to pick up soon! I have already read the Sabrina comic and am contemplating writing a review soon.

ON KINDLE:

^'The Summer I Turned Pretty' by Jenny Han

-I have heard a lot of praise for this series and I would really like to read a summery book as it is cold here at the moment and I'm wishing I was hanging out in the sun like all my US blogger friends

^'The Boys Next Door' by Jennifer Echols

-I haven't actually heard much about this book, but the author seems to be very popular and it looked like a cute fun read.

^'The One That I Want' by Jennifer Echols

- Another book by Jennifer Echols (which seemed like a bit of a gamble seeing as I haven't read any of her books before) and this is a title I have actually heard of before.

^'My Life Next Door' by Huntly Fitzpatrick

-The cover is nice (not that it really matters on a kindle edition) and I have read some really positive reviews about this novel.

OTHER PURCHASES:

^Here are some cat-eye sunnies (pictured at the top of this post as well), some new dangle earrings and a 'tinkerbell' scarf that I purchased from the Lace Affair Shop online. I love the colour of the scarf and am always wanting to buy sunnies. There was a second pair of sunglasses, but they were scratched in transit, I am currently in the process of contacting the shop about it, but I'm not too worried as the sunglasses were fairly cheap.

^I thought I would show you guys an updated picture of my sunglasses collection. No, I didn't buy these all this week. I have previously shown a picture of my collection in This Post back when I had only 4 pairs...

^Here is my new deer plush toy that I bought from this ebay store. Isn't it just cute?! it has the spots on it's back too... And it's wearing my new bookmark around it's neck like a scarf. The book mark was from Bookmark corner.

^This is a bookmark that my mum bought from the same place :) 

HAIR :

So last Sunday we had brunch at my Auntie's house for her birthday and I got bored and pulled some hair pins out of my handbag. Why did I have hairpins in my handbag when I have short hair? Well, I had been seeing a lot of old-school hair tutorials on YouTube and my sister was going to be my guinea pig the day before. She did however decide that she had washing to do (scaredy cat) so I took pins on Sunday. I wasn't letting her get out of that one! I took three pictures of each style.

I didn't have any spray, brushes or curling irons to do these hairstyles so there are a few flyaways and some very obvious pins on show. My sister actually got sick of me after one style so I did my cousin's hair afterwards.

^This is my eleven year old cousin. I wanted to show her an up-do hairstyle and she is now convinced that I am going to do her hair for her year seven graduation. Which I would love to, but that will all depend and I don't want to make any promises I can't keep.

^This is the top of her hair. I created a bit of a flat roll to keep the front of the hair in place. when I was doing the back I put the next top layer of hair in an elastic and did a victory roll underneath. This meant that when I let that layer out and pinned it over the top of the roll the style had a bit of a "pouf" in it.

^Here is a view of the back. I pulled the sides of hair across the roll and pinned at the middle. The ends of the hair are all pin curled under the roll (which at this point is completely concealed from view). Some very obvious pins here...

^Here is a side (well kind-of) view of the overall hair style I created in my sister's hair. My aim was to create a faux-fringe style victory roll at the front and to do side and back victory rolls that sort of joined up to make one big u-shape roll. I kind-of overestimated how much hair she had though and that just wouldn't happen, so I pinned some sort of heart shaped arrangements of pin-curls at the back.

^Here is the top view. You can see that the part is very uneven and the victory roll on the right  is trying to come undone. 

^And, here is the back view, again with the obvious bobby-pins. It  looks so contrasted against the backdrop of a hooded-jumper. LOL

What did you get in the mail box this week? Anything exciting? I hope you all had a good week :)

Your Favourite Blogger,

Natalie