I'm Obsessed with 60s Mod

I love everything about the sixties right now! The makeup, the hair, the fashion. I suppose it all started with my new obsession with pixie cuts. I have been thinking about getting a pixie cut for quite some time, but decided that right after I have the baby would be the perfect time to finally take the leap and get one because it's the perfect mixture of cute, classic, edgy, and mature. A new look for the new step in my life! Anyways, while researching pixie cuts I rediscovered my love for Twiggy which led me to looking at photographs of mod 60s fashion and beauty photographs.

I'll start off by talking about the hair in the 60s mod movement. There were two looks that were most popular that I just absolutely adore. The blunt, straight across fringe and the pixie cut. As we all know I've recently cut off my bangs to be straight across (although they've grown out a lot and don't look nearly as good as they did, and I'm not sure I'm going to trim them) so this is a really easy look for me to do. Mine aren't as thick and blunt as they style that was popular. Think Zooey Deschanel if you're trying to come up with someone modern who has that style. Then the pixie cut, well we obviously know I'm in love with that style because I'm going to get one... eventually. I'm actually beyond tempted to get one now, but I'm nervous to do it while pregnant.

As for the makeup, let's just take a look at Twiggy here. The eyes are bold, bold, bold, and that works for me because I have very blue eyes. Basically high, bold brows, long lashes, cateye liner, and a nude lip is 60s mod makeup. Not to say there aren't different variations, this is just the most common. I've seen girls do some amazing things with painting lashes on, lip colors, and other things. If you just Google or Tumblr search 60s Mod Makeup you'll find a lot of cool stuff to inspire you like I have. I've saved about a million things in my inspiration folder.

Finally the style is my absolute favorite part! It's polished, edgy, and cute all at the same time. Everything is bolder than it ever has been. The eye frames are bold, the clothes are more structured, there are a million types of adorable hats to choose from. I'm planning on buying a lot more skirts and blouses for baby that are 60s mod inspired. You guys will see.

To Pixie or Not to Pixie...

I've been thinking for quite some time about chopping all of my hair off. And when I say all of it I mean cutting it like Michelle William's with her pixie once it grew out a little bit. When we found out that I was pregnant I thought that it would be best to wait and embrace my hair for a little longer since when you're pregnant hair grows like a weed and it would be nice to have a little change after baby and something that's easy to manage at that. So the plan right now is to get my hair cut like Michelle up there in January, I'm just concerned about a few things.

I'm not sure that I have the right face shape for a pixie cut and I'm also not sure that I'll be able to handle something so drastic. My thoughts are that I won't even care if it looks like crap because I'll have the little to look after 24/7 and by the time he's calmed down enough for me to give a crap it'll be grown out if it's really that horrible. However, I'm not a hair stylist and I definitely wouldn't consider hair my forte. If anything it's what I'm worst at. So I'm really not sure how this will look on me, I just love it so much! And from what I've seen pixie cuts can look good on anyone if they pick the right one and if they are happy about it. Personally I don't have such bad self esteem problems that people being rude about me looking like a boy would make me not like my haircut, though. If I like it no one else's opinion will matter.

Obviously I have a lot of time, but I would love to hear everyone's opinion. Sorry this isn't a real content post, again I'm very busy if you haven't noticed and things should calm down as soon as my boyfriend goes back to school for this last semester.

Extreme Makeover: Hair Edition

I was planning on saving this post for tomorrow, but I ever so stupidly forgot to take the pictures for my OOTD post before I got my hair done. Therefor I decided to reveal my hair today so that I could post the pictures of the outfit tomorrow. There is kind of a preview of the outfit on the right. It's very casual, cool. Also, before I start I'd like to apologize for the picture quality. They're iPhone pictures taken in my bathroom (the before) and my best friend's bathroom (the after). So not only are they kind of bad pictures, but the colors are different. My teeth aren't actually that yellow! Ah! But without any further delays...

Here it is! My hair before I got it done and after I got it done. I was really back and forth about whether or not I should get straight across bangs so I asked my stylist if I got side bangs cut if I could use clip in bangs and if they would look normal, but she said she wasn't so sure so I crossed that off. I kept thinking and thinking about it and as you can see I got bangs, but my stylist suggested I get bangs that I can style straight across and to the side which worked out perfectly for me. I absolutely love it! Although I will admit that I was really nervous at first. Luckily my sister was there because she scheduled a last minute appointment at the same time as me with a different stylist and she talked me into it.

 Unfortunately I didn't get to get all of my hair back to the natural color yet, just highlights which lightened it up a lot. I'm happy with the way that it turned out, it just isn't want I imagined. It's so close to my natural color I can't even complain. Next time it'll be completely back to normal, but I don't think I'll go back until November. Or October at the earliest. She thought the smell of the dye would bother me too much if I got it done completely today being pregnant and she was 150% correct! I got sick just from the highlights and I was holding a towel over my face. It was horrible. Once it was done though I almost cried I was so excited (dang, hormones!).

As far as the cut goes I didn't do anything but get layers and have it trimmed. I didn't want it to be too much shorter because I want my hair to grow out, but it was driving me crazy that I didn't have any dimension to my hair at all. It was just brown and flat and cut straight because of the way I got it cut when I had it cut short. Now it's a lot better and once it grows out for a week or two it'll be absolutely amazing.

What do you guys think of my new hair? Does it work for me or should I style it differently? How do you want to get your hair cut?

Should I Get Straight-Across Fringe?

I've had this same exact hairstyle for a year and I am getting sick of it. I don't know about you guys, but I like changing my hair a lot and if I can't get it cut a lot I get boxes and boxes of hair dye and dye my hair like crazy. Or at least I have in the past. In the last few months being pregnant has opened my eyes about how badly I treated my hair before because I started having to pay for it. I couldn't dye my hair every month like I used to and I had to start working on getting it back to my natural dirty blonde (you can see it at the roots) so I wouldn't have to mess with my hair anymore.

Well on Tuesday I am going to the salon for a hair makeover! I'm getting my hair all the way back to my natural color, that is if I have the guts because I absolutely hate the color, and I was thinking while I was there I may get my hair cut a little bit. If I do I was considering getting straight across fringe because the look is so chic and classic. It's not going out of style any time soon! I'm a bit scared to though, because my sister thinks it's going to make me look even younger than I already do or that it will just look weird on my face shape. I absolutely adore the look, though. Help me!

Do you think I should get it done? Do you think side bangs will look better? Do you like the look or do you think that it's overdone?

P.S. If you didn't notice I started some renovations to the blog! A whole new layout right now. I'll be making more updates in the coming week, so stick around. Also I'm sorry that this post was posted so late in the day. I was busy shopping and pricing items all day. I'm learning how to coupon and use rewards cards at different stores to save money.

Feeling Patriotic Outfits for Fourth of July

 

Feeling patriotic this week? Independence day is just around the corner and I know most of us, living in the United States at least, probably have big plans that involve being out  in the heat all day and night. I put together some easy outfits to wear for the holiday for almost any occasion you can think of.

First of all I would like to apologize for the poor quality of these photos. We're currently renovating the house (mostly for the baby) and that means that a lot of my stuff is away in storage, including my good camera. I decided that I would just do this anyways and substitute in my webcam, but the results weren't as satisfying as I'd hoped.

Also, just a quick update, I thought I would let you guys know that once I get up to 100 followers on Bloglovin I will be doing a special giveaway! So let your friends know! Now, onto the outfits.

Twisty Hair Summer Trend

I've noticed recently that something that is catching on in different ways than before is twisting your hair! Finding different ways to twist your hair and make it look cool is actually pretty easy. I used to wear a style where I twisted strands on both sides and pinned them in the back, then I pinned the rest of the hair left hanging in the back on top if it. Sounds simple, right? It's a cool way to add just a little something to your beauty look for any occasion.

Solange Knowles has recently been working a style called havana twists, and although I can't tell you how to do this or how easy/difficult it is I can tell you that it's chic and cool. However, if you would like to learn how there are plenty of tutorials on Youtube. Just go and search "havana twists" and I'm sure you will be able to find something that way. If this was the texture of hair that I had I would do this in a heartbeat, because I am absolutely in love with how this looks. On top of her awesome hair look at those perfect red lips. I just... I can't. Too beautiful.

Miley Cyrus tried out a new way to work her short haircut at the Myspace relaunch party using twists underneath the long layers. From what it looks like all that was done was twisting the last half inch or so of the long layers upward towards the rest of the hair on both sides and putting a small rubberband in the back to connect the two and hold it together. I would imagine a lot of hairspray/product was needed to make the twist look and stay looking this sleek, but it's worth it because it's so fresh and cute. Miley gets too much crap!

Khloe Kardashian Odem also recently showed off her version of a twisted style, though hers seems the most simple of them all it's still adorable and obviously totally doable. It looks like all she did was twist the first inch or so of her hair back on the side that most of her hair is on (if you have side bangs just do it with your bangs) and then she took a strand and wrapped it around the twist tightly to give it a different look. I could be wrong because I haven't tried this yet, but I'll get back to you. Don't forget hairspray and pins to hold!

What do you think of these looks? Would you try them? Which ones? Do you want to see my version of a twisted look? Maybe a tutorial? Let me know! xx