Creating a pretty and glamorous up-do in 2 minutes or less!

I have no real flair for hair, which is why as soon as I had the chance, I* took a pair of shears to my hair and cut it all off so that I could get back to the short and sassy hair that I love, and the impact that it has had on my on a day to day basis is just astounding.
Call me vain, but it has made a difference to my life.
Having to grow my hair out for a wedding meant that for the last 6 months leading up to the big day I just came to hate my hair, I didn't feel like myself, I never knew what to do with it, washing and drying it was such a laborious task - it's cut and uniform length really made me feel very dowdy at times, now I feel like I am fueled on helium, my hair is light and moves and has such a lot of natural volume that I don't really have to do much for it to look polished.

I'm not super sassy with hair styling, or even hair care. Caring for long hair is a hell of a lot different to caring for shorter/medium length hair. So the only real problem with my hair is now that it looks pretty much the same every day (which it did when it was long, but I suppose I had the choice of hair up or hair down). It's too short to go properly into a ponytail, which is hardly the height of fashionable hairstyles anyway, so I decided that I would give it a try to essentially randomly pin up sections of my hair, twisting some into pin-like curl formations on my head.

I got better and quicker with this as I'd do it and I loved how it looked a lot more intricate than it was. So I figure this is just ideal for situations when I'm looking for something a little more dressy than 'hair down'

*it wasn't actually 'I' but a trained hairdresser, thank goodness

Holiday snaps!

I thought I'd take the opportunity to share with you all a quick peek of my holiday snaps in between me cooking you up a new video!

I just looked over them all yesterday and it makes me want to just jump right back into them and live it all again!

They had ice cream stands on every corner and I couldn't resist having a pic by a giant one!

 This was in Capri, probably the most beautiful place we went to and I think is the setting for some fancy perfume advert, I think Dior or a brand similar

I fell asleep every night mid reading a book, here I am wearing my 'beautiful' headband to stop my face touching my hair and hopefully preventing some blemishes

 Every night we'd come back from dinner to see this beautiful sight, I just can't get enough of it!

 Here I am in Pompei perhaps at the first ever 'zebra' crossing, significantly earlier than the Beatles haha

 I saw the best firework show that I had ever seen my life all around the islands of Italy!

There's a grand total of 6000 photos between us, so it was quite hard to show all of that in one blog post, but 6 is much better than 1000x that, haha!

St Lucia daydreams...

Still feeling pretty gunky but I want to keep things positive, so I've had my sister sending me pictures and messages of her exotic holiday in St Lucia all week, and I thought I would share them with you because if you like me aren't going anywhere more exotic than your back garden then we can close our eyes and pretend we are here, far away from feeling gross or ill, or maybe you feel stressed or sad.
We can focus on these pictures and jump into them and just relax in the warm sun and scent of salt water in the air and the sound of the waves soothing us to feel wonderfully peaceful and relaxed...

And here's a little something funny to end on, my sister had her hair braided (I've cropped out her face because she was pulling a funny face and wouldn't forgive me!)

...and it reminded me of that 'Friends' episode where Monica has her hair braided!

Now I really want to watch Friends and fall asleep under my duvet...

Everyone's doing 'it'!

"Everyone's doing 'it' don't 'cha know?"

Why of course I'm talking about holidays-

Everyone is going on holiday or booking them right about now

-So here's my dream holiday breakdown, and then I want to see yours:

We could refresh ourselves in the underwater hotel in Figi

Float up to the surface and through Hawaii!

Stop off for lunch in the Phillippines

Then watch the sunset in Thailand!

In our imagination- flight times, jet lag or any other boundaries are non existant!

Writing from my room, but dreaming of sand between my toes!