So here they are on all of theyr glory: Homecoming 2015 pictures! As this was my last homecoming, I went to all the highs and did everything I could to make this year the beast homecoming, and I think I won!
So here's a rundown of everything
Makeup:
I did everything I could to recreate the 20's without looking too much like a costume. And if you're wondering I used both the sugar plum fairy and my new fav lipstick, cherry bomb by Wet N Wild.
Eyebrows on Fleek!
Hie: I honestly can't tell you how i did this, but just enjoy it.
It was just experimental. Lots of bobby pins!
And here is my group of friends looking beautiful! (and Handsome)
I know that all I seem to talk about is hair, but I love my hair and it is my specialty and I will talk about it as much as I want to talk about it and I find my hair therapeutic. Also I feel that Amy has not done enough hair, so I would like to fill the gap and help out those of you that might read that love hair too. And if you don;t like hair,I'm sorry, go to the makeup tag.
So as you may or may not know, I decided to dye my hair for the first time near the beginning of July using Garnier Nutrisse hair color and it did not turn out as well as I had hoped, but it was fine for a first try. That hair color also faded so fast that I looked like I had brown hair again. Oh it was horrible. I wouldn't recommend it, even if it is on sale and there's a coupon. Just don't do it.
So the next time I dyed my hair which was about 6 weeks later, I decided to use the L'Oreal Feria which I had heard nothing but good things, and let's be honest: the power reds chimerical that comes on YouTube videos was so tempting, I couldn't help myself. (Also if you find a upon in the paper for any kind of L'Oreal hair color, including the preference, it will work on Feria, so definitely look for one!) So as I have said before, my hair requires 2 boxes, so I did that and although this hair color is a bit more expensive, it is worth it.
I dyes my hair and made a mess of the red dye in my bathroom, but luckily I cleaned it all up. (2 boxes is a lot of Dye). And I can only say that I LOVE it! I get nothing but compliments and I have used this since then to touch up my roots. I did my roots first and worked it through my hair and I only had to use 1 box to touch up. So I love this stuff. I use the color Power Reds R57 Medium intense Auburn in Cherry Crush. And this is what it looks like. Just like the box and that is pretty amazing to me!
This stuff is super easy to apply and work through the hair and the smell isn't even that bad to be completely honest. The only downside I can find to this is that when you wash your hair, it bleeds. You will see red dye in the water no matter how long it has been since you dyed your hair last. And it will bleed all over towel sand the backs of shirts too. Just a warning.
Other than that, the color is very true to what you see on the box, it is easy to use and follow instructions, the conditioner is comes with is top notch, and it lasts SOOOOOO long in the hair.
I also know that in the future I want to experiment with more and so I have compiled a list of some of the colors I think I want to go. But I just don't know yet.
I really want to go purple with the power violet probably when the red I do for homecoming fades,I will go purple just for a little while. I have always wanted to go copper, and I don't really think it will look that good on me, but I think this color which is deep copper would look better on me than the brighter copper color which is power copper, even though that color is bomb. I do really like being a red head though. I do wan to go back to the color I am now eventually if nothing else seems to work. Nut if I give up on dying my hair, then I a,going to go back to that deep golden blonde shade that I found is the closest to my hair color naturally sis and I will just let it grow from there.
I think I might do a color care post later, but that's all I have to say about that.
So I know, you haven't seen me lately, but a lot has happened lately. In that list of things, school has started...Ugh. I am super busy, but still want to be able to blog for you all. So on Friday I learned that my homecoming theme this year is going to be Gatsby
Gatsby? What Gatsby?
And I am not sure if I've mentioned this, but I love everything vintage and retro, so this is straight up my alley.
So here's the plan:
Makeup:
This is one of my most favorite makeup youtubers that I actually found through this series of historically accurate makeup tutorials about a year or two ago and have been watching her religiously ever since. Now obviously she has a lot of hinged products that I don't have, but there is a makeup palette by wet and wild out now that I don't know the name of, but I plan on getting it for the eye shadow part. I also have a pair of ELF eyelashes that will do the job, I just need to get better lash glue, which will probably just get duo lash. For the lips,there is a number of colors I am thinkg about and I want some opinions, so here are the options:
Miloni Black Cherry
Wet N Wild Cherry Bomb
Revlon Black Cherry
and Wet N Wild Sugar Plum fairy
The Two Wet N Wild lipsticks will apply more matte, and the others will be shinier. I am leaning more towards sugar plum fairy, but it might be kind of hard to find, so i need to figure out which one I want to get.
I probably won't be doing the while cupid's now lip shape thing because i don't want to look costume. This is homecoming of my senior year, it has to look really good this year! As well as thee way I apply blush and my eyebrow filler, I don't want to look crazy.
Hair:
Now, if you don't know, I have extremely long and extremely red hair at the moment.I plan on redying my hair with my FAVORITE hair dye(R57 Cherry Crush by L'Oreal Feria power reds)
SO now that you know what my hair looks like, I would like to take a second to explain how opposite the trends were in the 1920s.
In the 1920s, hair was revolutionary in the way that women were now cutting their hair super short instead of veing traditional and keeping it as long as mine is now or possibly even longer.So the challenge for me is, I want to make my hair fit into the time period without giving myself a costumeish faux-bob type look.
So I'm thinking this
I did this for a dance a few years ago that I had a 20's vibe for, but this was different, so I couldn't look as sultry as I wan tot go this time. So I want to do this hairstyle oer with the same feather jeweled headband and instead of making it looked polished and pretty, I want to make it loser and curlier allover the sides and the tops of the head. (Also I apologize for the poor makeup application in this picture. Oh the eyebrows are so bad!!!!!!)
I also found some inspiration from these pictures online too
Dress:
Even before i knew the theme, I decided I would be wearing the dress I wore my freshman year to homecoming Simpy because I hate most of the dresses in the stores this year and I have so many, there is no need to buy another one. So let's look at little Allison for the dress
Accessories:
Instead of the shrug I am wearing in the picture on the left is not god enough is it, no it isn't little 14 year old Allison. So I am going to borrow a little mess beaded shawl with tassels that looks very sensual and classic, without being too costumeish.
As far as shoes go,I originally wore some sparkly silver heels with this dress, but this time I am wearing the satin shoes with silver sparkly jewel details on them that I wore with my first 20s dress. I don't have a picture of them, but they are four inch heels with straps that buckle on the side. They aren't super 20s, but they will work and make the outfit look a bit more modern.
I have a retro clutch that I borrow from my mom every time I need a black clutch for homecomings/dances.
I am planning on going to Charming Charli to get some kind of long necklace to wear to complete the look. I might get new earrings as well, but if not, I can wear the earrings I borrowed from my mom pictured in the picture of my hair from the first 20s outfit.
Thta took a long time to write,did I miss anything?
If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment and tell me your thoughts especiallyon hair and makeup because I am kind of not really 100% on it all yet.
Against my sometimes better judgement, at two in the morning last night, I decided that I wanted to actually dye my hair. Red.
So here are my original color and the current color:
Before
After
I know I didn't do the best job at dying, but for a first shot, it sn't horrible. I still have a crap ton of brown in it, but the red looks good nect to the red which is mosyly just streaked throughout. I think next time since I have so much hair it will actually take two packs, so for future reference, that is my one biggest mistake. Make sure your hair is basically dripping with color.
So until te end of Huly when I get senior portraits taken, I will be a red head. I think I'm going to dye it back to brown before portraits.
I used the Garnier Nutrusse dye in True Red 66. It was super easy instructions and since I had helped a friend dye her hair with the same kind of color,I pretty much knew what to do. I do like how it worked out, I think it was mostly user error of not using enough dye to cover all ofm hair. So I think that next ime I will just ffix that and go on with my normal process.
But overall, I love the red. I kind of look like a combination of rose, Lucy, and Jessica Rabit. I love red.
Me being me, I love hair and anything having to do with it so therefore havevery long hair. But soetimes I find myself in a situation where short hair is more acceptable than long and I really don't want to cut my hair, so this is what I came up with.
So here you can kind of get an idea of the actual length of my hair
Here is my hair pinned up after I curled it with my skinny rob curlers which hold in my curls best. Any kind of curl will do for this look as long as the pins have something to hold onto.
Her is the style when my hair is just naturally down and wavy. This style is not as sturdy b will still give you the effect if it is worked on ad styled properly.
And although this may look hard, it is actually really simple to do. All I do is take here sections of my hair: each side and the back and then take bobby pins and pin it to the hair underneath ad make sure it is secure. The longer your hair is, the longer it will be, unless you curl it, then it will become shorter. Also the tighter the curl is, the shorter the style will be and the better it will hold when you are doing things. Finish with hairspray and done! Now you have short hair and gake people out, which happens every time I do this!
My baby sister turned sweet sixteen yesterday but Saturday night she had her big birthday party. When we had originally asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday this year, she was kind of undecided but a few days later, she told us she wanted a USO themed party and, boy, did we make that happen.
I created the invitations using InDesign and some pretty nifty scrapbook paper we found (they cost less than $2 total to make!) and hit the Dollar Tree. Luckily, her birthday falls right after Memorial Day and a month before July 4th so patriotic decorations are in full bloom. We bought literally all of them.
However, the most important part was preparing our outfits. We asked everyone to dress in a 1940's inspired outfit and everyone seemed to have a good time picking out exactly what they were going to wear. (Me included!)
Here's the final product:
She did her own hair, because she is awesome at styling hair, but I did her makeup. I was upset that the Revlon BB Cream I used on her wasn't quite the right shade but otherwise, it turned out pretty well. It's also very hard to apply lipstick on someone else, especially when it's cheap NYC lipstick (guys... just spring for NYX... NYC lipstick is pretty much garbage, as I learned yesterday) that does not go on smoothly. I made her apply the lipstick and I evened out the edges with a lip brush and we also lined her lips before with my ELF clear lip liner to help prevent feathering. I still wouldn't want to take a close-up of it but she still looked fabulous.
I decided to go as Rosie the Riviter because this blue dress was too perfect for it. I probably should've worn wedges but I was also in charge of teaching nearly 10 teenage girls some basic swing dance moves at the party plus helping our mom behind the scenes with food, driving to pick up photos we had printed of all the girls, etc. My new Steve Madden sandals did the job.
I used my Revlon Colorstay lipstick and it performed magically. After eating, drinking, talking, and swinging all night, I only had to retouch once (before I went to the store, of course). I would definitely re-buy.
Ack! My baby sister is turning sweet sixteen today. She's making me so old! She also didn't tell me anything she wanted for her birthday besides a dog, a curling wand, and a set of bendy curlers (which her best friend already got for her). She said she wanted a 2" flat iron but later changed her mind and said she didn't want it anymore. Basically. I had no idea what to get the girl.
She's not nearly into makeup as much as I am so I didn't want to get her makeup. However, she's really into learning to style her hair and can spend hours on YouTube looking at tutorials and experimenting. So in the name of hair, I put together a gift full of fun hair stuff. Nothing entirely practical but who cares? It's a gift. Gifts are supposed to be fun.
I recently bought new jars with lids to hold my cotton balls and q-tips on my vanity so I retired my mason jars and decided they would be the perfect way to package up her gift. They turned out super cute! Don't you think?
However, I am not a smart girl and totally didn't even think about posting pictures of what I put into the jars so I'll just list it off.
I went to the dollar store first to pick up some basics:
A pack of glittery snap clips
A pack of colorful hair bands
A headband with a big gold bow on it because I just can't even help myself
A fold up purse brush
Travel size John Frieda Hair Repair Shampoo & Conditioner
A 4-pack of claw clips (we break these ALL the time using them to hold back sections of hair to style so they were a must have!)
Then I went to Ulta where I realized I had made a very un-budget friendly decision. I did not find any cool hair accessories there that weren't over priced. I had intended to go to Big Lots because they have interesting stuff there but passed by Five Below on my way and decided to stop there instead. Excellent decision on my part. All the things!
A set of bobby pins with fabric flowers on them
A travel size of Not Your Mother's Clean Freak Refreshing Dry Shampoo
A bun maker mesh thing that she'd been eyeing
A glittery wrap headband
A blue leopard print wrap headband
Pink hair mascara because WHUT
I also bought myself some things... I am powerless to a good deal and actually had to pull myself away from 2 for $5 lip crayons and textured nail polish.
I then had to come home and figure out how to put all of this stuff into TWO mason jars. ACK! It was a challenge but I did it. Kind of. I could only fit one claw clip into the jars without breaking the plastic so I chose to sew one claw clip on top of the fabric I used to seal the jars as a stand in for a bow. How cute is that?
Anyway, I thought I'd share the sweet sixteen present I threw together. I thought it turned out pretty well!
