Easy Hair For the Fancy Girl on the Go!

This is my play on the traditional Swiss braid!

This is a great style for dirty hair. If you can keep a secret... I only wash my hair once a week. With the colors I use the more you wash the faster they fade.  Don't worry I still take a shower daily, I just wear a fancy shower cap. I also use a lot of dry shampoo  and I'm lucky to have pretty thick hair, so my hair doesn't get super oily. When I don't feel like doing much or am in a hurry, this is a quick go to hair style that I use frequently. 

Start with brushed hair. 

 Next Take a section from were you want to start. If you have a side cut like me, I start from the top of the back side of the shaved part. If you don't have a side cut, start at the front of your head were your hair is parted.

Seperate your chunk of hair into three sections and start to french braid. If you are unsure how to french braid check out some videos on youtube. That is what I do when I need to know how to do something!

Continue to braid following the curve of your head. Follow and try to stay close to your hair line. 

Once you reach the nape of your neck on the opposite side of were started, pin to secure. It took me 3 bobby pins. 

Tease the front of your hair... real big!

 wrangle your hair and smooth down and pin how you like to normally wear in the front. I chose to just with my standard pouf in the front. Gather the remaining hair on the one side and braid into a side braid. and you are done!!!! Congrats :)

Thanks everyone for stopping by :)

Febuary is a month of self love! OOTD

I'm not one that makes a big deal out of Valentine's day. It always seem like a holiday to buy stuff. Celebrating love should not be about one day or candy or cards. Jim knows how much I love him and we both don't need a holiday to show it! I will say that the girly side of me wants to be spoiled and wants a little something on a special day, but then the rest of me steps up and tells girly me that what I really need is a motorcycle helmet and not a fancy ring or candy in a velvet box!  I will say however, that I was inspired by v-day when I painted my nails. This time I decided to paint my toe nails. Over at A is for ampersand, Amy is doing a month long feature on body acceptance and self love! I love this and will be talking more about it in the next couple posts, but with that being said I chose to do my feet because I'm super self conscious of them. I have a pretty gnarly rash-thing on one of my feet (I've seen the doctor about it and it's just something that will get better or worse on it's own) and I have chubby sausage feet with little nails. With all of those things, I usually avoid my feet, but focusing on self acceptance I chose to share my insecurity with y'all! 

All in all I'm pretty proud of my little robots. Each robot is holding half of a heart and when I stick them next to each other they connect. I thought that was cute. I also grabbed a couple pictures yesterday on our way out the door. I had an eye exam and I finally ordered new glasses!

MEOW!

 

 

 

 OOTD-

sweater- Walmart

Shorts and plaid shirt- Torrid

Tank and Thermal leggings- Target

Today is a busy day. We bought paint to re-do the dining room. we are going to refurbish the ceiling fan and paint over the awful fake wood paneling on the walls. So with that being said, I'm off to home improvement land and I'll be back soon. Hope you all have an awesome day!

Hair and Makeup in ten minutes-ish!

This week I set myself a challenge to do my makeup and hair in ten minutes. It was hard! I think me being frantic made it take longer. Also this was my first time editing a video, so it's a little choppy, but all in all, I'm pretty proud. Enjoy!

New found Freedom

     Don't let me fool you, I totally only wore those shoes for the photos! I will say that when I opt for heels that I normally go for wedges. They are more comfortable and easier to walk in and no matter what heels I wear my feet are going to feel like they might fall off, so I need all they help I can get.





 

OOTD- 

Tanks & Jeans- F21 

Cardigan- target 

Suede wedges- New look (like 2 years ago) 

Necklace & bracelets- F21



      So with my tax return, I need to get new glasses! The ones I have now are so old that the protective coating is flaking off. It like constantly looking through a dirty window. With my new found freedom I am finally getting to do what I want and not having to adhere to rules! I think I might get some cat eye glasses or something equally awesome and vintage inspired. 

     I'm really enjoying having purple hair and I have been getting a lot of complements too. I'm also getting a lot of looks and a lot of questions about how I did it. Living in a tiny town full of super conservative types is probably not the most conducive to my new creative and free outlook.

Purple People Eater... Eat your heart out!

When I started out on this adventure my first thought was "I wanna look like a Mermaid. Oh, or a Unicorn!" I Google imaged Unicorn hair and got a whole lot of awesome stuff, but nothing to really help me out. My hair to start out with was a tinge of lavender so I figured I would roll with it and just make it more extreme. Thanks to a butt load of you tube videos and Kaylah from The Dainty Squid(she had some awesome hair advice and tips) I embarked on a shopping journey. I pick up two purple-y colors and some conditioner to mix in so that it came out a pastel-ish color 

  

I have some roots but not bad enough to bleach my hair. So I threw on an old tee and said good bye to by blonde hair!

I mixed the color, doing equal parts conditioner to dye. To be honest I was nervous about this because in hair school we always used conditioner to repel dye.  P.S. did you notice that in the above picture, I'm missing half an eyebrow? :) Haha  Anyways, Jim slapped on some gloves and helped me slather the color on. 

 

I decided to slice in some of both colors to create dimension. I thought it would add to the Unicorn effect!

I let the dye sit for two hours. That's when I did yesterday's blog post! Normally with colorful dyes like the package says to only leave it on for a 20-30 minutes, but realistically you can leave it on as long as you like. There is no peroxide or ammonia in these types of dyes to harm your hair. I usually leave dye on for 2-3 hours. 

 I'm pretty attractive in this picture!  When I rinsed my hair out I used cold water. You wanna used as cold as you can stand. This will lock in your color.  It also helps if you use a Sulfate free shampoo. From now on I'm going to keep a bottle in the shower with a mixture of what I like to call "Unicorn juice", it's a mixture of the hair dye and conditioner, that that it's like getting a tough up every time you take a shower. Let your Unicorn juice sit on your hair for 5-10 minutes in the shower and it will give your mane a fresh blast of color. 

 

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I think when I bleach my roots in a couple weeks I do another update and let you know how it went, but in real like I totally look like a unicorn.  On a side note, Jim wanted to join in the fun and he decided he wanted to be a dragon, so he dyed his beard green!

Thanks for stopping by and until next time be safe and have fun. Tootles. Oh don't forget to subscribe!!!!!

Storms A Brewin'

This is the outfit I was wearing in yesterdays video. I really liked it and thought I would share it with all of you! I bought these jeans online from Forever 21 and I was a little nervous about them fitting, but they look pretty good. They are not very thick jean material, I normally go for thicker material because the thinner stuff gives me what Jim calls (front butt). Haha. I can't believe I just wrote that and now am going to talk about "front butt" on the Internet! Front but is wear your pants are snug enough to make a dent in your belly and well, it looks like a butt. From time to time this happens to even the most put together of us chubby chicks. The thinner the pants are the more noticeable, or more often the front butt phenomena may happen.

I'm going to start off by saying I used to hate Uggs. With a Passion! I hated seeing girls in the city with Uggs and mini skits on. What is the point of that. Living in California I often see people wearing leg warmers with flip flops and I have been guilty of wearing scarves with t-shirts, but the Uggs trend just sent me over the edge. This may stem from the fact that my college professor drilled it into our brains that Uggs were made by the devil. To him Uggs being worn anywhere except Australia was like going outside your house in Pajama pants. I refused to fall into the Ugg trend... until I moved to the woods. I still refused to pay for Uggs so I settled for the off brand Uggs (what I like to call Fuggs) I wear my Fuggs when it's super cold, raining real bad, or light snow. I live basically at the snow line. At my house we get 3 or 4 really good snow storms during the winter, but literally if you drive ten minutes from my house, you are in a chain zone, people are snowed in, and out of power at least half the winter. Now Fuggs are not good for lots of snow because they don't have a whole lot of traction, but a light dusting is ok. So the point of me saying that is because It was raining pretty bad yesterday, hence me wearing my Fuggs!  With the impending snow coming tonight I'm held, Jim and I stocked up on foods, filled our netflix Que and I stocked up on crafty things.  It's supposed to hit tonight and we will see how bad it really it. 

I think it's a little funny that just a few posts ago I was talking about how it feel like spring in January and now we are held up in the house waiting for the storm to pass! Oh well. What is the weather like were you live? 

 OOTD-

Black and stripy tank- target (I think)

Red Bow tank & Necklace- Forever 21

Blue Black jeans- forever 21

Fuggs- Payless shoes

Cardigan- Ross

Hair flower- Local Salon

Thanks for stopping by. Be safe everyone and until next time tootles. Don't forget to Subscribe :)

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