Hey everyone! I know it's been a long time since this year's KCA, and since all that time I've been admiring Kristen's whole look. From the cool playsuit to the amazing hair, I was blown. It just leaves an impression of youth and freedom combined with great fashion taste. Oh, and the purple smokey eyes, that the icing on the cake! I just loved it! Therefore I couldn't resist to post a great and easy hair tutorial that I've found here (click there to get more info on the products used) and plus, a makeup tutorial for her look!
Hair magician ADIR ABERGEL hooked the 22-year-old up for the night by styling her long auburn tresses in quite possibly the coolest fishtail braid I’ve ever seen. Using the Fekkai products he created this, undone, fresh and simple to recreate hairstyle. So, here is the hair tutorial (just wait a few seconds and the video will appear itself). AND NOW, THE MAKEUP...
Kristen posed for the KCA cameras giving them a smouldering ultra-violet stare courtesy of her smoky deep purple eyes. Chanel Celebrity Makeup Artist JILLIAN DEMPSEYwas inspired by both her eye color and the shade of her outfit.
Before starting, Jillian had to start with a clean palette.
I may seem to do this look a lot~ but it's one of my favorites! I love double buns because they are kind of cute, and they also frame your face from the front which is a bonus when you have long hair. It's too easy to have an elaborate view from behind, while the front looks bare and scraped back!
Here are more pictures taken a few hours after my "lob" shown in this earlier post. We are on vacation and got to spend a few days riding roller coasters~ my long bob didn't last long, so I had to switch to this high braided bun. I just left my hair in the high ponytail but braided it into two long English braids. Then I wrapped them into this high braided bun (if the pictures look a little grainy, it's because they were taken with my cell phone camera :-) Actually, this turned out to be a great roller-coaster hairdo! I have more to post later of my sister's look~ so be sure to check back or subscribe via email. Thanks!
Another week almost gone~ another week, and so many hairstyles! Here are pictures of a smooth "lob" updo similar to the one I did in this post but with braid waves.
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Here are some pictures from this past Sunday when I did a center French mohawk braid and side accent braids. I put all my hair into a middle ponytail and had that hair divided into three braids. I wrapped the braids, one around the other, into a swirly braided bun and was ready to go! These pictures were taken in the afternoon, but even though the sun was almost too bright for picture-taking you can see that this look lasts all day.
Thanks for looking! A funny pic I found on Google~
I noticed that a few of my braid wave pictures from this previous post had been deleted for some reason and weren't showing up~ so I added them back in :-)
So what to do on an ordinary Saturday night? My friend has a few costumes, so to spice things up, we pulled out two in particular:
A gorilla, and a
Banana
I was the gorilla.
My friend lives near the highway (but I live in the country so there's not too much traffic. Which is lucky, because it was hard to see very well out of the mask), so we took a little walk up to the highway and
Here are the tips and tricks to manicuring and waxing your own.
You just need some scissors, a comb, a few strips of old
cotton fabric, and some warming wax.
I bought the sensitive-skin tin tub of wax (approx $16 for the tub -- see last paragraph for how long it lasts) and the warmer (approx $25) from Sally's Beauty (or any beauty supply
I had another track meet this week. When I went to sign in for the 100 yard hurdles, the volunteer in charge of the stats, accidentally signed me up for the 100 yard dash.
I didn't know about the mix up until I heard my name being called to get in Lane 1.
I jumped to it, totally shocked. But I ran anyway, and to my surprise...I took third. Woohoo! I've never even trained for that event,
We have definitely been enjoying this beautiful spring weather.
The fam and I sat around the campfire the other night roasting hot dogs and singing any campfire tunes we could think of. Then the kids slept outside in the tent. I stayed in my nice warm bed, but my sweet husband bared the 35 degree weather with them. Luckily they were dressed warmly and had thick sleeping bags. (And they
I love projects. And I've been doing a little re-decorating on my house. I had hung a bunch of molding and needed some paint.
I took a fabric swatch of a subtle, creamy-yellow that I liked with me to the Home Depot and picked out my color of paint. When I asked them to make it, they said it would be too dark and I wouldn't like it. They encouraged me to get two shades lighter.
Maybe it's because I grew up when tube socks were all the rage (you remember the ones -- bright colors, with
white stripes along the top).
But I LOVE using socks for my hairstyles.
It's such an easy way to make it look like you have tons of thick hair, even if you don't. Or tame thick hair when you want it in a certain shape. Plus...it's free! Everyone has a sock.