HAIR; a 2014 revolution.

It's mad when I think about how much my hair reflects my personality. If i'm feeling blue and quit frankly a bit shit, I keep it scraped up in a hideous top knot which i then hide under a hat. This is then shortly followed by the next stage which is crazy lion hair mode, my OH says it's adorable, but quite frankly i know i look like a total fruit loop!
Then there is my work hair, tied up, neat, often put in a certain way (fringe out of my way biaaaatch!) so that I can work hard without getting flustered by hair.
Finally, my sculpted curly hair, due to my own hair thickness, I fidn it extremely difficult to fully curl my hair, half the time non heat methods work better than narrow curlers, however it does hold it's volume well & matched with smokey eyes and red lips I can pull myself off as a bit of a knockout.

However, my hair colour changes haven't been as vast or wild as all of my friends. My natural colour is a very very dark chestnut brown. Honestly, I miss it so much sometimes. However as I got older, I began craving the blonde attitude so after 3 hefty expenditures on highlight, SHAZAM. I was a blonde goddess (pfft.).

This lasted until I disappeared off to University, I got bored on a weekend alone and dyed my hair bright red, sorry it was two years after the rhianna red craze, and I loved my red hair, just not the upkeep that comes with it. No matter what trick of the trade or highstreet shampoo and enhancing conditioner I bought, nothing is nice about being a faded organutan orange.

Which leads me onto now.
I am in a happy place (finally) in my life, and this has been reflected in my hair. I've tortured it with bleach and toner for the last two months and finally, one nice and easy kit later (honey ash blonde if you must know) I am back to being a golden goddess. At least... thats what I tell myself.

I've been through hell and back emotionally and physically in the last few years, but now I'm happy. I have a lovely man, a lovely group of friends, a lovely bank balance and FINALLY lovely hair.

This has been utterly pointless, I PROMISE I WILL CREATE SOMETHING OF VALUE SOON. :)

G x

Society's Flaws. (This is not because I'm not a size 8)

Since I was a young girl, I have always been happy. I like food, I enjoy the amazing things it can do, the sense of accomplishment you get when you've cooked an amazing meal. I also know that the culture I have been raised into has shown the biggest increase in people eating fast food, and showing the ever expanding waistlines, especially in the UK and our cousins across the pond.

I'm more than happy to admit that I am 'over weight' and this isn't some fat girl crying about being thin, I believe that girls who are naturally very skinny deal wight he same anger at wanting to achieve this 'Perfect' Body.  So i just want to state that again, THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON SKINNY/LARGER/MEDIUM/ANY TYPE of girl. Or guy.

I was scrolling through my Facebook this morning and I came across a video called Instagrams Most Famous Butt. And it actually made me feel really sad, this woman stated about how she felt that she was trying to make the world healthy, that it 'touched' her that she saw girls went to the gym every day for a mont just to look like her. This made me feel physically ill, she's an attractive lady, no doubt a very lovely person, however what i am not down with is how they explained she got to the place she has.

Jen works out every morning/day for a hard work out, including eating loads of small meals a day to keep her metabolism up. 

 Not everyone can do that, some of us have other commitments be it 9-5 jobs, apprenticeships, university, or even home commitments, most of us can't afford the gym every single day or afford to do the type of shopping for food which allows women like her to get like that. Though honestly, the thing that upset me the most is that Rihanna is one of her followers. She's practically endorsing this sort of body image which led many men in the video to say Why can't there be more woman like her?

Maybe its my very small feminist voice shouting, or maybe I'm moaning about nothing, but every woman should be seen as beautiful, granted, we all have preferences to what we want in our eventual life partners, however it is wrong to suggest that everyone should look the same.

Finally. She got her fame through posting pictures of her bum, to me... thats not exactly a dignified way to shoot towards stardom.

G