A Nuffnang sponsored post. Before you read this, please note that the photos contained are very scary. Seriously, the things I’ve done to my hair in the past mean that I have no remaining photographs of the worst of it. These are the remnants of those stories.. Me on my 16th Birthday The first time I ever...
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I thought I’d just keep quiet about this for a bit and see if anyone noticed the difference in my last few posts. Those of you who follow my Facebook page will already be in on the secret. No longer do I have my blonde streak; I now have NAVY BLUE HAIR! The blonde has been a constant friend for about 7 years...
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Welcome back to the weekly tutorial! My apologies for the small hiatus there, I’m currently dealing with a dislocated jaw; not fun! But thanks to the miracle of modern medicine I can now soldier on and bring you this much requested tutorial. Today’s look is an easy 1950 style, smooth set. This is...
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Today’s tutorial is my most complex, time consuming tutorial to date. I’m not going to sugar coat it, because I don’t want you to have unrealistic expectations that this is an easy one. I’ve been asked to create a 1920′s authentic finger wave hair tutorial by many of you for a long...
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I know it isn’t quite yet Christmas, but I wanted to prepare a special gift for you this year. My gift to you is the long awaited 1920′s tutorials you’ve been asking for! WIth plans for New Years Eve outfits and makeup just around the corner, it seems the perfect time to make like the Great Gatsby...
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Thank you so much for your patience everyone. This was a few days late in coming as I’ve had a terrible bout of tonsillitis and have had no voice! So while the tutorial was ready, the voice over wasn’t finished, so the moment I had a decent voice today I got it finished for you. Please excuse the...
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Much of what we see around, and indeed even my own daily style, is not (strictly speaking) vintage makeup. Instead it is a way we have taken elements from the past and stylised them to suit currents trends, our moods and our wardrobes. Inventiveness is essential. But today I want to take my tutorial back to a much...
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If there is one beauty product I absolutely, positively cannot live without, it is sunscreen. I learnt from a very early age, and my Mum’s tales of fair-skinned woe, that sunscreen was going to be my best anti-aging weapon. Once I finally came to terms with the fact that my pale skin was never going to tan...
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