Monday, March 14, 2011

Life is not a looking glass, don't get tangled in your past.

While at the beach, how should one wear her hair?
Classy yet fun, but only if she can dare.

LIE: French twists cannot be altered to have a fun flare.
LACE:(The beautiful, yet delicate truth to the typical hair myths that girls often buy into) French twists, like any hair style, can be tweaked to have a completely different statement.
Keep the front simple if adding a snazzy accessory.
To maintain the simple look without seeming plain, one can sweep the pulled back hair to the side to achieve flawless elegance.
And then the funk! Spice up the simple updo by making the back very detailed.
Easiest to do when your hair is wet, sweep the front sections to the top of your head, securing it with bobby pins.
Adding hair from which ever side the front pieces are closest to, twist hair under.
Add more sections from the opposite side from which you started.
Continue your twist, adding sections at a time.
Once you reach the farthest part of your head that you want to reach, twist your hair tighter to bring it around naturally to where you can make a bun.
All hair should be twisted in by now, no sections left down.
Continue twisting your hair until all of it is twisted.
Secure the loose twist with bobby pins or a pretty clip of some sort.

Here, more specifically, I started twisting the original section over instead of under.
This made a small twist go out to the right and then I began to add more sections to create the twist you see, hiding the small original twist.
The small twist allowed me to start my bigger twist, then go to the left, up, to the right, down, and then twist my hair under the beginning of the spiral.
I secured the bun under the origin of the twist.
Tips: Leave your hair partially wet, but let it dry a bit so that you get the sectioned off look of individual strands of hair.
Don't pull your hair too tight, it will take away from the purposeful messiness of the look. (It will also probably hurt your head!)
From afar, the overall effect of the style.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

I have dreams. When I'm awake. When I'm asleep.

LIE: Odd things, the space look, for example, cannot be adaptable to modern cuteness.
LACE:(The beautiful, yet delicate truth to the typical hair myths that girls often buy into) Most, if not every look, is adaptable to the present time period... some looks just may be a bit more difficult to pull off successfully.
In honor of my last space post, speaking of which, was light years ago, I threw together my own rendition of a spacey look. Although maybe a bit more modern of an adaptation, I made sure to keep the main concepts.
Of course my hair had to fit with my dress, so this is the whole look.
These two pictures are in honor of Mckenzie being a temporary creeper, check out her blog!
http://galwithcurves.blogspot.com/
The main concepts I made sure to incorporate:
Teased
Puffy sleeves
Colored tunic
Hair accessory
Ultra straight locks

dazzling bobby pins from China Town
Earrings from Francesca's
head band from target

I have dreams. When I'm awake. When I'm asleep.

LIE: Odd things, the space look, for example, cannot be adaptable to modern cuteness.
LACE:(The beautiful, yet delicate truth to the typical hair myths that girls often buy into) Most, if not every look, is adaptable to the present time period... some looks just may be a bit more difficult to pull off successfully.
In honor of my last space post, speaking of which, was light years ago, I threw together my own rendition of a spacey look. Although maybe a bit more modern of an adaptation, I made sure to keep the main concepts.
Of course my hair had to fit with my dress, so this is the whole look.
These two pictures are in honor of Mckenzie being a temporary creeper, check out her blog!
http://galwithcurves.blogspot.com/
The main concepts I made sure to incorporate:
Teased
Puffy sleeves
Colored tunic
Hair accessory
Ultra straight locks

dazzling bobby pins from China Town
Earrings from Francesca's
head band from target

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Shake Weight. oh! Vote for Miles.


Recently, several of my friends and I have held a very drawn out Star Wars Marathon. While watching the first episode I decided to blog about all the very odd, yet fun hair styles.
This has a very 40s classic feel. Spaced up by the center part and green hood.
I adore the curls they styled Natalie Portman's hair with during the whole movie. Her long elegant locks look fantastic even with the spacey accessories. Most of the dos were ones I would enjoy adapting to my everyday style.

The classic, of course.
Once looking at Star Wars hair, my mind wandered to other space themes. Though less popular, I thought of other space movies I had seen. Two in particular came to mind.
Star Trek... this is from the original obviously, from which I have not seen much of at all.
The remake version. This time hair is Space Straight, yet still unusually long extensions, like Star Wars.
Zenon! Disney Channel's movie from quite a few years ago.
"Zoom Zoom Zoom.
Make my heart go boom boom, my super nova girl."
Spacey and weird.
What I love about this is that despite the high, tall, pig tail-buns, she has straight across bangs which keeps coming back in style through the decades.
On a seperate note: who cares about style or what's "in".
Wear what you want, fix your hair how you want, and (to a certain extent) do what you want.
Life is only lived once, don't waste your youth because you are young.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Classification: The Way I Pay

Fantastic Facial Hair!
(For men, of course!)
LIE: Purple Laced Lies is only about women's hair.
LACE: (The beautiful, yet delicate truth to the typical hair myths that girls often buy into) Purple Laced Lies consists of both men and women's hair. Women are just the subject a majority of the time.
This is for my brother-in-law, Walt, who said he would follow my blog, "Except he isn't a girl."
John Stamos
We have the stubble...

George Clooney
The barely there stubble...
George Michael
Freddie Mercury
The odd combination of scruff and mustache...
Kenny Loggins
Ray LaMontagne
The normal socially accepted beard and stache in two forms...
And then the various forms of facial scruffiness!

Just a shout out to my doubtful brother-in-law who thinks he cannot support me due to his gender.
:)
Or just for laughs.

Monday, January 17, 2011

MoonGlows, Wooden Ballerinas, DragShow


LIE: When in windy weather, the hair must be put up.
LACE:(The beautiful, yet delicate truth to the typical hair myths that girls often buy into) Your hair does not have to be boring on windy days! Wind is all the more reason to get creative with your styling so that your hair looks fantastic, but stays out of your face when needed.
Here are my inventive ways to keep hair back in a stylish way.
Headband from So Good Collections
HOW TO: Here, I let the head band do the work.
I scrunched my hair before hand so that it had a bit of a natural wave with a textured look.
After putting on the head band, I pushed it a bit too far back and then pulled it forward so as not to leave my bangs with a slicked back tightness.
I combed my hair that I was going to bobby pin back to make it bumpless, then spray it.
Taking hair in one hand as if it is going into a ponytail, push hair forward.
Bobby pin and spray!
TIP: When pushing hair forward before bobby pinning it, it is typical to get bumps or spots where your hair will separate to the right or left, leaving an unwanted part.
To fix such, simply comb the bump or unwanted part until it looks as desired and spray it in place. Then proceed to push hair forward, bobby pin, and spray!

My mom is used to wearing her hair down. All the time. Except when she gets me to do it, typically on vacation days. This was a new look for her. Many gals feel like they cannot wear their hair more than one way because they cannot fix it or perhaps they just aren't used to a different style. Experiment! Try new things without making them completely new. The way I did this for my mom is by keeping her bangs down which softened the look.
HOW TO: Take hair from one side or the other and twist it toward the center of your head.
Take a section from the opposite side, pull it underneath the twist, wrapping around it, and then twist the whole new twist in the original way, toward the center of your head.
Continue this, adding sections from alternating sides until you've added all your hair.
Then, continue twisting all your hair until it starts to turn.
At this point you can either tuck the hair, like I did here on my mom's hair, or you can continue twisting it until you have made a bun.
TIP: Longer hair will work better being twisted into a bun, especially if you have thick hair like mine. In that case, there is no way your hair will simply tuck under without lots of work!
I tucked my mom's hair on the right side of her twist and bobby pinned it.
Thoroughly spray!
Finish by fixing your bangs how you want them and then spray once more all over!

This is a horrid picture of me, but I adore it of my mother.
It also shows how her bangs look in the front.
Head band from Target dollar section!
Here, my mom asked me to do her hair the same as I had the night before because she liked the look so much.
But, I am sporting a bit of a different way of keeping your hair back.
It is the same general concept as before, but no bobby pins.
My bangs gave my hair the body it has, starting after the head band.
For those with longer bangs or no bangs to give body when pushed back like this, take a thin layer of your hair that will be on top and behind the headband and tease it lightly or depending on how your hair holds, just spray it up a bit.
Push it up (just with your hand flat on your head), and spray again.
TIP: Make sure not to use too much spray or else your hair will have no body because it is too heavy. How much is too much? For thin hair it is so easy to spray too much, be extremely careful! Thicker hair can withstand almost as much spray as your lungs can.

Hat from Miami FL, SouthBeach street fair
One more easy way to keep the untamed hair under locks is a hat! Any style, any wear, any way!
Happy styling!
A Special Thanks to Chris Davenport for the Photography in most of this!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

H2O berry tart


In honor of how much I miss Oklahoma, since my first and thus far last trip, I am posting a memory inspired blog.
"It was a one eyed, one horned, flying, purple, people-eater!
One eyed, one horned, flying, purple, people-eater!"
Hannah, this one is for you! : )

An absolutely adorable movie made after the song was written.
The movie starts slow, but is so worth the end!

Purple himself and his magical horn that places music
In honor of Purple, the fuchsia hair spreads!