Pink Haired Princess

Some of you may know I've been contemplating a new hair colour for some time now and I finally took the plunge last week. I say 'plunge' but actually when it comes to colouring or cutting my hair, I am surprisingly nonchalant about the whole thing. I'm not someone who will cry for days over a botched fringe or bad dye job. Yes I would like 'perfect' hair every day and yes I often have 'bad hair days', but it's not the end of the world, it will grow back and if it's bothering you too much, there's hats and scarves and all sorts of pretty disguises! I know you were interested in a step-by-step guide for how to go about a big change like this and what to use, so here it is. My main tips are: *if you're looking for a vivid 'unnatural' colour, it's likely you'll have to use bleach first to get the desired look unless your hair is already light blonde (colour on dark brown or black hair will just add a sheen/tint). When y...

This isn't a very informative post, but hey it's a Friday and it's been a pretty crappy, stressful day, so how about some makeup porn to brighten the evening?  As you do, I placed all my tube lipglosses on a giant board the other day to photograph them (probably when I had loads of really important stuff to do and instead found other really silly things to occupy my time) and took a giant photo of them all! This is an absolute feast for your eyes and I totally realise that no one person could ever use up this much gloss in a lifetime...ever. It's silly really.  Plus, if I'm totally honest I tend to opt for my wand glosses over these, the majority of the time anyway.  However, like I said earlier in the week, clearly I have obsessive, collector problems in life and seem to have just accumulated these over time ; ) This is all or at least most of my squeezy tube lipglosses ^ eeeek! I'm sure there are others dotted about the place and I know I have at least anoth...

Debenhams isn't the first place I'd look for jewellery but upon chance, I spotted a rather cute unicorn ring on their website-so went hunting for it instore the other week. They actually have a really big selection of jewellery and this particular ring was by Red Herring. It only came in S/M or M/L and trying it on (with the rather chunky plastic security tag), I feared the bigger one still wouldn't fit-it was pretty tight. Once home and off the card, it's actually quite roomy on my (smallest) ring finger. It's really weighty and much bigger than it looked online-I know I have mega loads of animal and horse/unicorn rings, but I loooove this one. I can't remember how much I paid for it, it was originally £6 but there was an event on and I got quite a bit off that. In my search for the unicorn, I also found some amazing sparkly rings at the Jon Richard counter. They are all adjustable and I had a hard time picking out my favourites. I could not leave wi...

I've been tidying my tip of a bedroom bit by bit this year and the more I do, the more hopeless it seems. I am a collector (if you hadn't already guessed) and have a rather obsessive nature which I've discovered is genetic (we found over 100 pairs of scissors when we cleared out my Granny's house-random I know and she still had her mind!). Basically I own too many things. The shoes alone take up the majority of my bedroom, then there's the dolls I've collected for the past 30 years, the huge amount of cosmetics I own, the large jewellery collection, the hundreds of dresses...I could go on all day. I'm a 'keeper' (prefer that term to 'hoarder'!), I'm not big on throwing stuff out especially if it's got some sort of meaning and I tend to grow attached to all my belongings! With my typical Gemini split-personality though, I do get a huge sense of satisfaction when I throw out a big bag of rubbish, I do love cleaning (not so big on...