When it comes to my hair, I have always been very undecided on what I want. I have changed it so many times in the past I'm surprised I still have a full head of hair if I'm honest; I've had super short bobs, long hair and everything in between. I'm also awful for dying it, at one point it was actually a bit of an addiction and I'd just dye it for the hell of it. However, last year around October I decided to leave my hair for as long as possible- this meant no dying whatsoever and only giving it the occasional trim and NOTHING else. It's now May and I've not dyed it one, not even to re-apply my beloved ombre and it has had the occasional trim but apart from that it's been going strangely well for me! I'm now getting to a point where I really need something done with it though, I have days when I really like my hair and others when I just cannot stand it at all. I don't want a dramatic change as I'm at an age where I don't really think I suit bright colours or dramatic hair anymore (that's just my opinion) so I thought I'd pick out some people with hair that I seriously crave and need in my life!



Lastly I had to go for Alexa Chung, simply because her hair just embodies perfection for me. I love the warm brown tones she goes for and I think she is the queen of a natural ombre/balayage and her hair just always has a very pretty thrown together look without looking too messy. Last year before I started growing my hair out I got extremely angry one day and needed a change; so I cut off a lot of my hair, dyed it darker and ombred the ends with Alexa Chung's hair in mind and I absolutely loved it! It's definitely a look I'd go back for although I don't overly suit short hair!

Who is your hair inspiration?
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Ever since being a little girl I have always loved hair, I think every little girl looks at long pretty hair and just wants it more than anything. As I've gotten older I've experimented more and more with my hair styles, lengths and colours and I thought this would be a good opportunity to show a few to you lovely readers! I've always been pretty indecisive with my hair; one minute I want it down to my butt and then the next I want a choppy bob. One minute I want lovely natural brown hair with a natural ombre in it, then the next I want bright red hair. I literally cannot make my mind up on what I want and then when I do eventually do it I usually really don't like it, I'm too fussy for my own good!
I was a little bit naughty and got to about 12/13 and started secretly chopping my hair because I just always hated the outcome of a real hairdresser (my mum was NOT a happy bunny) and so I stopped and just let my hair do its own thing, then go to the hair dressers and hate my hair for a while again and it just basically carried on like this. I've never had a great experience with hair dressers; fun fact for you when I was 15 me and my friend decided it would be really funny to dye my hair blonde and it was really really funny and I still laugh at it because it was so worth the time and the effort we put in, just for the laughs we get now! Anyway, my hair dresser at the time told me that it make me look like a slapper. I was speechless and so after that I decided I did want to try cutting my hair, but properly this time.
So I went and bought two different pairs of scissors; ones for thinning and ones for actually cutting the hair itself and this time I actually told my mum what I was planning on doing thank god. By the time I started to cut my own hair I think I had just started sixth form and had honestly watched about 30 you tube videos and read about 20 different techniques. I can honestly say I love cutting my own hair as it is some much easier and simpler and A LOT cheaper if you have a rough idea of what you are doing and what you want to achieve. The first time I did it, I cut myself a full fringe (I couldn't find a picture sorry!) and it actually turned out really well and after that I carried on doing it myself. So I've been cutting hair for about 2 years now.
I'm also a bit of a bugger for dying my hair a hell of a lot, I once dyed my hair about 20 times in a month and I'm not exaggerating. I soon learnt my lesson after that. I'm glad that I was always allowed to dye my hair because I felt it gave my area experiment with my looks, mainly with colour is how I'd experiment as I HATE really short hair on myself. The shortest I would go now is shoulder length/ or just under my shoulders, I think short hair makes my face look really chubby and round and that isn't a look that I can rock very much.

If you are looking at making a change to your hair and you have a fear of hair-dressers like me then in all honesty you should give it a shot! If you can handle that you might not like it or make a mistake, then grab the scissors and give it ago. I'd say my main tips would be:

• Make sure you use good products and tools: I bought proper hair dressers scissors and look after them a lot and because of this they stay sharp and I have no issues with them. Also with hair dye I have personally found that more expensive hair dyes and research different types and read reviews! My favourites are the L'oreal Recital Preference dyes, the colours are amazing and the dye is such a good quality!
• DO NOT DO IT UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE: This is so important, if you are half and half on what to do I wouldn't recommend it because if you hate it you will be so angry. Ask other people for an opinion and really consider it before you do anything about it please.
• Look after your hair: This mainly applies to if you dye your hair; because it will get damaged no matter what. I have had some horrifically dead hair in the past and there are two options I've found. You either cut it ALL off and start from scratch or you work your ass off to get the condition back. I was told I needed to cut it all off but I didn't want to, so I trimmed it myself and used a whole mountain of products and home remedies (the smell of raw egg makes me sick to this day) to make my hair healthy and eventually it did without needing to cut it off!

So that's it for now! I hope you enjoy reading this, I know it's a bit of a ramble but by now any of you that religiously read my blog are probably used to this by now. Let me know if you decide to cut your own hair and how it goes!

I've seen a few bloggers do posts like this and it always makes me laugh reading what people find difficult or what they just can't do no matter how hard they try! These are a few of the things I'm just pants at and probably always will be.

I'm absolutely terrible with basically anything eyebrows related. I seem to always over pluck one eyebrow more than the other and if not I think I've done a good job, then I'll be out the next day and noticed hundreds of hairs I've missed and I literally have absolutely no clue how I've managed it?! I can never seem to match them up and I get so frustrated that in the end I just leave them for weeks at a time and look like a cave women (sexy I know). I was always fairly crap at drawing them, when I used to attempt this in the past I always ended up looking like I had two slugs laying on my face. Thankfully I got out of the drawing habit sharpish. 

I physically cannot do a french plait, although I say that... I can't really do any type of plait; french, fishtail or just your normal braid. This kind of proves that I can't do braids and have no knowledge of them because I know there are more than 3 but I can't remember any others. When I attempt to try and do one of the 3 that I know of, I end up angry and wanting to cut all my hair off, I just can't get my hands to work and then I end up with some matted mess on my head that is just painful to look at. I'm eighteen years old and if I want any type of braid I still have to ask my mum to do it for me, I've been taught many times and each time it goes horribly wrong.

A photo off of my IG

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In the past I have had hair that is in horrific condition, I dyed, bleached and styled it without any thought for my poor little mane. I eventually managed to get it back to pretty good condition again, however every so often I like to just give it a bit of a boost just to make it feel a little healthier and nice. So when I was walking through ASDA the other day and spotted this little beauty on sale for £3, what did I have to loose? So I quickly snatched it and I am so glad I did!

When it comes to eyebrows, I have had them all. Natural huge and bushy, tiny and stick thin, short and thick, drawn on (thankfully not for long!) and now I'm finally at a stage where I'm basically happy with my brows. As a pre-teen I was always very self conscious of brows and this is actually why I wore a big swooping fringe as I felt they made me look very unattractive, then one summer I decided it was a fabulous idea to let a close friend dye my hair blonde. To this day I still have no idea why, but with this I thought 'screw it' and let her pluck my eyebrows and I think she honestly did it for about an hour. This was the beginning of a long line of different brows, it probably wasn't my best decision and I do still laugh and cringe when I look back at old photos...

Its not overly clear, but in the 3rd photo my brows are drawn on VERY thickly and darkly.

 I'm finally comfortable with how my eyebrows look, although I'm currently trying to grow them a tad longer and the ends and slightly thicker. I think then I will truly be at peace with my brows, but I've become less crazy with my tweezers at the moment. Everyone does it, they say they want their eyebrows to grow but then crack out the tweezers as soon as a few hairs sprout. I am also very guilty for this, but recently I'm trying my best to let them grow naturally. This is honestly the best tip I can give to anyone; try your best not to pluck them because then you really won't get anywhere!
When doing my make-up I actually shape and colour my brows slightly darker to add more definition, so what I've been doing recently is shaping them a bit larger than they are just to cover up and stray hairs and it works really well and makes me feel less twitchy about plucking them!

The name of this post is 'eyebrows are sisters, not twins' because it's so true, don't panic if your brows don't match completely as in all honesty if there is only a slight difference then its not the end of the world and I'm only now learning this myself. Only a select few notice that one of my eyebrows is shorter than the other and so it really isn't a problem!
Do any of you have any tips on growing your eyebrows back quicker? Are you happy or hating on your brows?

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Since starting this blog I've been constantly trying to think of different and interesting things to write about. I think until I've done a few more posts I'm still going to get the occasional 'writers block' and I really want to try and do some reviews and hauls all the typical blogger things that made me want to start my blog in the first place! So as soon as I have some time to get into town that is my plan of action.

However, until then I didn't really want to just leave my blog with no recent(ish) posts. So I sat and began to think of all of the different things I could post about that would possibly interest any of the readers that I have, I then decided why not do a post on ombre?

If you are somehow still in the dark about what ombre-ing is, it is when the hair gradually fades from dark to light or vice-versa. Most typically the ends are blonde, but you can go for absolutely any colour and look effortlessly cool!


Around this time last year I got EXTREMELY bored with my hair, I'm the type of person that when it comes to my hair; it is my baby and I love it. This is why I learnt to cut and colour my own hair instead of going to the hair dressers as it always resulted in me coming out of the salon crying about looking like a boy, so a few years back I decided to teach myself how to do it. Apart from the occasional issue (last month I ended up with half at my eyebrows and the other half very short) I would say I do a pretty good job and even cut other peoples hair for them. So when I get very bored I tend to turn to my hair and think of what I can do with it, around this time though my hair had just gotten back into good condition after dying it ever week for about 2 months when I was 15. Due to this I didn't want to do anything too damaging to my hair, but I wanted a change and this is when I started to notice a lot of bloggers had begun to get ombre and I instantly fell in love! Luckily the box set had been brought out and I used that and just adored the messy, textured look it gave to my hair. I ended up just waking up and leaving it simply because I loved how it looked on my hair and I ended up keeping this look for longer than I usually do with any hair colour, but alas... I got bored again
So I went back to brown and grew my hair out and forgot about my love affair with ombre, but this year around about late August, after a rough few months I was feeling very down in the dumps and quite poo. So I decided that in a spur of the moment I was going to cut off A LOT of my hair, dye it a darker brown and ombre the ends again (I was actually sat on skype at the time and I thought I was going to pass out which I think my friend found highly hilarious). I'm so glad I did it though because I instantly fell in love with it again, it just looks for effortless and grungy? I'd say that because the brown this time round is a tad darker that when I last did my hair I actually prefer it a lot more because it just looks more dramatic and I think that's the look that I was going for at the time?

I honestly believe that absolutely ANYONE can pull of this look as it works well for any hair type, it all just depends on the colours that you want to ombre. If you aren't sure on whether you want to take the plunge then start off by researching ombre and looking at different colours and what-not to see if there is anything that really appeals to you. Then perhaps have a hairdresser you know very well and can trust with your beautiful mane show you a few colours and give you there honest opinion, BUT REMEMBER it's your hair and if they disagree with you it doesnt mean you shouldn't give it ago! In the worst case scenario, if you are a hair dresser-phobe like me then go DIY either using a box dye or the professional ombre kits that have been released into supermarkets as the do work wonders!

I hope this has been helpful for any of you ombre-virgins! Have you ever had ombre and do you think anyone can pull it off?

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