Merci // Corrine Bailey Rae

Thanks to everyone’s comments on the DIY post. I was kind of unsure about doing one (seeing other DIY bloggers work either knocks you confidence or deludes you into thinking you can do better – I experienced the former) and I’m always a bit funny nervous about showing anything I’ve done (notice how you’re yet to see my graduate collection?) but it was alright. I haven’t had the chance to make anything this week and the blade on my overlocker has gone blunt, but I still want to make the dress in the sketch, so maybe that will be next.


I’ve been a Corrine Bailey Rae fan from the moment I heard ‘Like A Star’. When she made her much anticipated return this year, I also became an even bigger fan of her hair. She’s currently one of my hair porn stars (that sounds so wrong).

I can’t wait to try this one out.

I’m arming myself with:
Flexirods

and John Frieda frizz ease and/or Fantasia ic Hair polisher


I just hope it looks half as good as hers does, however with my hair being mix of 4a & 4b curls I know it’s going to be a battle.

I Don't Normally Do This, But Erm...

I take back what I said about Solange's hair.


That definately was a bad picture that I saw initially as it did not look good at all, but she really is working the short do. Infact I think this is the prettiest she's looked in a long time.

And in other hair news:


Kim Kardashian's gone "blonde". I think I must be the only person other than Kim K that likes her 'Brazilian Glazed' locks, but then I prefer Brazilian glaze to blonde-blonde as it looks warmer. Remember Britney in her 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' days? Nice wasn't it?

WTF Solo?!

I know it's "just hair" but dayum! Well at least her and Bey are now proper opposites-or two extremes. I hope she's planning on shaping that ish up.

Pump Up the Volume

I have a slight obsession with hair, that I believe stems from the traumatic experiences I had growing up that came in the form of hair cuts, hair breakage, ugly do's etc... I love big, shiny, voluminous hair and if I weren't so scared of wearing long weaves, I would be sewing in 24" of hair a la Naomi Campbell in a heartbeat.


I was dossing* about on youtube a while ago, and came across a user-Ashley Victoria that has several dope videos on how to achieve certain looks. I particularly like them as she has done looks inspired by some of my hair inspirations (Beyonce & Kim Kardashian to name 2). Yes, I have hair inspirations, and before you laugh at me I'm sure you do to. They may not even be celeb's but you may have seen a chick out on road with a hairstyle that has inspired you to do something about your barnet.

* dossing about is UK slang wasting time/not doing anything constructive.

She makes the looks seem so easy to recreate which I love.

btw,
I saw this picture whilst googling Mariah and kinda cracked me up. This picture is old I know but with everyone (Alice Dellal, Cassie, Lala, Rihanna) going for the half baldie, I thought it was fitting for this picture to resurface

Photoshop's a bitch.

Strutt Coiffure: Curls

I've been contemplating going curly for a while now. I've been sporting side swept straight hair for years now, and I'm getting bored of it. I know that as a person in the fashion industry, you're expected to have a signature look (see: Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Giles Deacon), but that's hard for me as I get very bored very easily.

Why have I chosen curly hair? I dunno, maybe I'm fed up of all the short cuts and celebs getting razor happy (i.e Keri Hilson, Rihanna, Fefe Dobson, Keyshia Cole, Amber Rose, Cassie & Dawn Richards) and it's about time curly hair came back-I wanna see it on the runway.

Now I've been looking at and collecting images of curly hair for months now because I'm obsessive like that, and I actually think I'm going to do it. I'm mega aprehensive about doing it though because I haven't changed my hair in bloody ages, apart from the odd times when I've gone from 12" to 16" and as I am 5'2" and have a big head, I'm so scared I'm going to look like a walking,talking microphone.

I was going for bouncey curls like Lily Cole (bottom left)then decided I would do tight coils/almost fro like Emanuela de Paula but I'm so not used to it (I need to start rocking my own 'fro more). Homegirl's hair at the bottom right looks so freakin' hot (I'm sorry I don't know her name)-I'm gonna call her Ms. Major in honour of her hair but for every picture of curls I see, I always go back to the picture of Beyonce's hair. I love the way it drops. Finger's crossed it works, -and if it doesn't you bet I'll be attacking it with a pair of straighteners.

So stay tuned-I might post a picture of it if I like it.

Well If It Worked For Rihanna...

Cassie's gone from this...
To this...
I don't even know how I feel about this. I admire girls who have the confidence to pull of a buzz 1, but I can't help but feel that Cassie's new do's contrived. I mean she has got a new album (or something) coming out soon, and the new image/good girl gone bad thing worked for Rihanna, so maybe it will work for her.

But if it doesn't, then it's a waste of a good healthy (1/3) head of hair.

And remember when I did that post about shaving it off? and I said how I was sure that there wouldn't be a lot of girls running around with this look? Well I take it back. The amount of chicks I have seen sporting this look is rediculous.

Jourdan Dunn x Vogue Nippon:The Hair-The Hair

doesn't she look good?
and here are some other pictures from the beauty ed. I love them. They've got that throwback glamour look, that I feel fashion now is missing-so I say though my memory onle goes as far back as the early nineties.



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Shave it off

Short hair seems to be the in-thing at the moment, and I have been tempted to cut my hair several times over the past 4 years, but I decided against it after thinking about it for a while for a number of reasons. It has taken years for me to get my hair below my shoulders, and now that it's finally there I definately wont be chopping it off.

I used to have really long hair when I was 9, then my mum allowed the "hairdresser" (I use that word loosely, bitch didn't know how to hairdress shit) to relax my hair, and that was the start of my hair length woe's. So after years of relaxing, going natural, texturizing and going natural again I decided to lay off the chemicals and just straighten my afro whenever I wanted it straight.

Sorry, I digress.

The 'The Pob'/'The Rihanna'/'The Charlize Thereon-Aeon Flux' arrived last year (or was it the year before?) and I again contemplated cutting my hair, but before I knew it EVERY girl and their mama was rocking the 'do... I had a lucky escape.

Now there's a 80's Hip Hop/Punk/90's Grunge hair revival that I've noticed creeping its way onto the scene and I like it. It's the shaving off of one side that model Alice Dellal, singer J*Davey(though I think she's got some kinda mohawk going on) and British designer Kesh have been rocking. I would have sworn I saw singer Beth Rowley sporting this look on 'This Morning' last week-but I couldn't find any pictures of it and I'm starting to think that maybe I imagined it.

I'm pretty sure there wont be too many girls running around with this look.

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Alice Dellal's reminds me of Cyndi Lauperand my mum used to sport the short version of this with the jehri curls-Salt-n-Pepa style
You've definately gotta have a certain personality or some kinda female-swagger to make it work-which I most certainly do not have(and if I did I still wouldn't shave my hair off... I'm too chicken) and this is why it works so well on Alice, J*Davey and Kesh.

I, on the other hand will work it like this...
like a black Brooke Shields

Eva Marcelle for Phlaunt Hair

Former America's Next Top Model winner Eva Pigford Marcelle recently did a photoshoot for Phlaunt Hair. I really like these photos. It's nice to see her looking different to how she did before.