Playing with the new hair!

 I have been playing around with ways to style my new hair.

I did a style where it was lightly curled. Just enough to give it body and have it look a little fun. This is the first time I wore my bangs side swept and I like it a lot.

A little note, I look great with high-necked tops now. The short hairstyle gives my wardrobe a completely new look, which is great!

This is one where it’s completely straight and blunt. I didn’t even turn it under at the tips. I wore it with a tux shirt, mini skirt and wide belt. The look was great although the picture turned out crappy.

This is the first time I really played with doing a masculine look and I like it a lot.

Out for a picnic! Tight spiral curls everywhere! This took me a full hour. Which is ridiculous considering how short the hair is. Next time I’m going to do leave-in rollers. However, it looked great and Ansell loved it. I definitely want to do it again but leave it overnight with more product. The curls dropped and by the end of the day it looked like the first picture in this blog.

Again, I feel like the hairstyle gives my wardrobe new life and makes everything a little more edgy.

PS Check out those shoes. I love them.

Annnnnnnd Ansell, who always looks great. He made us a fantastic pasta salad for lunch and we had a picnic at the Georgetown Waterfront. Ansell is my number 1 inspiration for wardrobe style right now. He ALWAYS looks fashionable and classic but definitely has his own personal look.

I’m hoping to do some more styles with my hair in terms of braids and other fun. For now, I’m enjoying how light and easy it is!

New hairstyle!

On September 1^st I went to Lorraine Aprile Salon to get my long blonde hair chopped off. I was super excited! I was bored by my long locks and ready for something new.

In short (pun intended), I wanted a modern 1920s bob.

A true 1920s bob was very short, cut bluntly across the cheekbones with thick bangs cut ending above the eyebrows and symmetrical all the way around.

I wanted my hair to end a little longer, before my chin and my bangs to fall a bit over my eyebrows. I used Katie Holmes bob pictures as reference. (Cutting her hair short was the best thing Katie H ever did.)

This length:

These bangs:

Most importantly I wanted razor cut ends to add some texture.

My stylist was Kris and she knew exactly what I wanted. She had plenty of experience with retro hairstyles and she was great to work with. They also gave me free wine so that was a bonus. Even better, the first cut was half off, so I ended up only paying $33 for it!

This is the end result! I love it!

It’s super easy to deal with. Quick to blow dry and I only need to use a round brush to get the look. I can’t wait to play with it and see what else I can do. :)

 

Sock Bun Tutorial!

Sock Bun Tutorial

To celebrate my last days of long hair I thought I would post a hair tutorial for a hair style I wear frequently.

This tutorial uses a sock to get the perfect bun. It's a quick and easy up-do that looks great with almost no effort. 

This look is very versatile. You can wear this bun smooth for a chic night out, a little messy for a more casual look, or plain for a simple yet sophisticated work look. 

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial! Now, go and give this a try!

PS You can see a bigger video version of this either by clicking the full screen version or just going directly to the YouTube video here.

NYC - Day 2 Wednesday 8/15

Another day, another chance to explore!

I started off the day practicing the fishtail braid. It’s the only braid that truly gives that shaft of wheat look.

We began our touristing (yes, I made that into a word) in Central Park and it is so much bigger than I thought!

It’s huge and so beautiful. It really has everything. From castles, to huts, to little brick houses, lakes, ponds, fountains, gardens, open grounds, big trees, little trees, playgrounds, EVERYTHING you could want in a park!

We started about 1/3^rd the way down and it took us two hours to get to the bottom. It was a great way to start the day. I was a bit puffed out at the end of it though!

Unfortunately our next stop in Brooklyn wasn’t so great. We met up with a friend, Nick, and tried to find the Brooklyn Flea, a big flea market, which is supposed to be great. I went to their website to make sure it didn’t say Weekends Only. Whelp, the website didn’t say it was but there was no flea market to be found. Then it rained hard and that sucked.

We aborted the Brooklyn plan and headed into the East Village, which was awesome! Packed with cool restaurants from end to end it’s the perfect location to do a food tour. Wish we had the time!

Nick, Ansell, and I drank some beers at an Irish pub while the storm overhead passed then walked around the awesome that is East Village until we ducked into a Cuban restaurant. The boys had rum punch while I snacked on these amazing Latin inspired deviled eggs. SO GOOD!

Inadvertent picture of Nick when getting
the Cuban restaurant...he's making a weird face.

It was great to chill out and talk with our friend Nick. He recently got accepted into Columbia’s writing program so it’s only a matter of time before we have his published books on our bookshelf. It’s also a great excuse to keep coming back to NY!

East Village had so many great niche restaurants that it is my No. 1 place to go back to and explore. I will definitely have to stop in to here next time and get my tea on!

Ansell and I were planning on hitting some bars at night but the weather got so bad we beat a retreat to our apartment and had another bath instead!

Valentine's Day!

Valentine’s Day!

First off, Ansell got me a cute heart shaped rose. AWWWW!

Anyway, Valentine’s day was more of Valentine’s week due to a special sale at work so I did a Valentines theme for the entire week (excluding Saturday).

This is what my work place looked like:

Valentine’s Meal with Ansell (actually occurred on Wednesday lunchtime)

I bought some adorable heart shaped ravioli at the Eastern Market. The hearts were spinach and pine nuts. The squares were pumpkin and goat cheese.

Charla gave me a relatively easy butter basil sauce recipe to put over it...which of course I screwed up and burnt. Oh well! It still looked and tasted good!

The Look! Of Love

-My main looks were Tuesday through Thursday

Tuesday: The Main Day!

Annette, my boss, bought me some pink fake hair things so I put those in then did a ton of twisty braids and topped it of with a braid.

 

 Egyptian Treasures collection color Royal is the eyeliner. This has become one of my favorite eyeliners, it’s a gorgeous color! Merry Mayhem’s Secret Santa over most of the eye with 12 Pain’s Tree Fire on the inner corner. Glacial Grove’s Brisk was the brow highlight. 





The heart is Secret Santa and Royal.

This photo was used on the Izalia Facebook to promote our sale. I like it since it shows off my heart and nails.

Wednesday: I can’t remember at all what I used but I know it included PreNup by Geek Chic.

Thursday: This look is talked about in detail in my post about Meow Cosmetics Glacial Grove Collection.

Nails!

The previous week I had yellow nails with red hearts.

The week of Valentine’s I had different reds with heart glitter.










I'm going to end this love post with Ansell looking at a mutant monster strawberry during our Valentine meal. He's such a romantic!