No words for a change, all pictures…..
Glossybox January 2012
No words for a change, all pictures…..
Hello Lovelies,
I recently entered a bit of a competition over on the Immediate PR blog in order to win backstage passes to Craig Lawrence’s LFW show. How exciting is that eh?!
I made it through to the first stage of the comp and for part 2, we had to predict a style that will be trend during A/W 2012.
I took my inspiration from Craig’s body of work, along with masses of brainstorming to come up with my completed style board. I decided not to style this one out on myself as I wanted to show lots of variations of the style and what better way to do it than with a style mood board.
When I think of knitwear, which Craig Lawrence is famed for, I think of softly delicate strands intertwined with each other to produce beautifully soft items.
This instantly made me think of curled, soft hair pinned up in a textured bun updo . An elegant, dishevelled ballerina but retaining it’s form and shape. Hair coming back from the face with body, bounce and curl rather than slicked back sleek. Perfect for naturally curly ladies or straight haired girls using appliances.
I’m going to name this trend the Urban Ballerina. Traditional yet edgy and effortless.
With the weather being tricky to predict in A/W a pretty up do can be every womans failsafe go to style. Keeps your hair off your face in those muggy September days and protects your tresses from the window, rain and snow in the depths of winter.
Picture wearing a super soft, snuggly delicate knitted jumper or dress with this hair and I think it would be an easy look to recreate if you’re both naturally curly or need to tong.
The key to this look, in my opinion, is super conditioned hair and loose, effortless curls and to achieve this i’d use my number 1 favourite conditioner, which is actually the Rescue Treatment, to make hair super resilient and glossy.
I have naturally curly hair so i’d define my curls by using Twist Curl Cream to prep and groom the hair before drying and styling. For those ladies with enviable straight hair, a heat protectant is a must before tonging, or you could use Curlformers to set hair overnight without heat or stress.
A perfect messy bun comes from lots of volume and to save the hair from back coming damage, I’d use Thicken Elixir in the ends to plump hair up. Root lift around the crown would boost the volume even more so a good dusting of Powder Punch would really give your hair some OOMPH!
Now when the dark mornings arrive this Autumn, you know you can pull of a perfect, quick and easy up do to stay on trend AND save extra time under that lovely duvet!
Hope you all like my submission. I know I have had a lot of fun researching both Craigs work and some beautiful hair styles… as well as playing around with my own hair too!
Hello Lovelies,
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I am a bit of a bugger when it comes to using things for their intended purposes. I like to find new and inventive ways to use things, just to be a bit different and get the very best results. I like to use a thin angled foundation brush to apply setting powder under my eyes and along my brow bones rather than to apply foundation!
The brush itself is marketed as an eye shadow crease brush, from the shorter handled travel line.
You can see from the shape of the brush that it is bulleted and not like most other concealer brushes…. That is what I love.
This brush can handle just about any kind of concealer you throw at it, liquid, gel, stick forms, the lot. I find the finer point perfect for really dabbing on small amounts of cover on to small areas and then conversely the angled sides give great application to larger areas.
I find the pointed tip of the brush also gives great reach and application to areas such as around the nostrils and in the inner corner of my eyes. It’s the perfect multi fit shape.
The brush is so versatile I always then run the tip in to my MAC MSFN to then set the concealer.
The brush quality itself is also really good. The ferrule is nice and strong and well glued, the bristles are tightly packed and feel lovely against the skin with no shedding. The handle, with it being classed as a short handled travel brush, is nice and thick yet compact. It is perfectly usable on a daily basis, none of that pathetically small useless tiny brush size here!
You can buy the Japonesque travel range in Boots and John Lewis. This brush is £12.75 in Boots and on offer, if you buy 1, you get the 2nd brush half price – brilliant!!