Bad Hair, part 2

Happy Wednesday,peeps! I found a few more old photos of things that might save a bad hair day, as well as a couple from last weekend when I tried that scarf/know thing I posted a pic of on Friday.

The kitchen clock broke but I saved the part that had been the "numbers", in this case forks and spoons. To be used in a number, I´m sure :)

A blurry picture of me and my vintage hat found at Helsinki Vintage a few years ago. Very "Little house on the prairie", right?

The look I had last Saturday, from the side. The fringe turned out pretty nice, three rolls.

This hat can be seen on stage in Tampere this Saturday. Amazing work by Pepper Sparkles!

Bad Hair Day

Friday! 

Tonight I´m not going anywhere except the post office and zumba :) I have been a proper housefrau, cleaning and doing laundry and it´s pretty nice sometimes just to do "the regular stuff". Tomorrow we have a house warming party of good friends and on Sunday it´s the Burlesque Fleamarket at Raspberry Fields so the weekend will be stuffed as it is. I thought I´d share with you some pointers in how to save a Bad Hair Day...since, at least I seem to have them on a somewhat regular basis. First thing that I´ve noticed (works for my fine and flowy hair at least): don´t go to bed with wet hair. Or if you do, roll it up. A good comb is a must, as is hair spray. I´m such a rookie at hairdo´s and try to learn from tutorials etc but so far I´ve learned that on a Bad Hair Day :

My friend brought this picture to my attention. Scarves will save your butt any given Sunday.

Try fake bangs. Helps to have proper hair spray, bobby pins and patience.

Put on a hat. Any kind. This one re-modeled from an 80´s hat that used to belong to my mother by Fiona Timantti.

Hang out with good looking friends :) . Also bright colors in hair cheer up.

Add feathers!

Take pictures that won´t show the hair.

Use rollers!!! ROLLERS. Any kind. I like hot rollers.

Victory rolls. Or something.

After feeling under the weather for a while it was good fun to roll up my hair and put on some lipstick again. I have been trying different versions of victory rolls, seriously - can´t remember how many tutorials I´ve watched on youtube :) That Vintage hairdo-book helps as well. But still they somehow always end up funny. Usually the one on the right hand side is fine, being right handed might have something to do with that. My hair also is pretty darn long right now so that makes the rolling a hazzle. Mental note: call my hairdresser. 

I didn´t use hot rollers here as I usually do, trying to be nice to my hair... Soft, spongy cold rollers work really good if you have time but here I just dried it with some hair mousse, teased it a bit at rolled up. A rat-tail comb and some extra hard core hairspray are must´s if you want to try any kind of vintage hairdo! Any kind of flowers to disguise a hair mis-haps are also a good idea to have in stock :)

The necklace was given to me the morning after our wedding by hubster. It´s specially made for me, black pearls and in between each pearl there´s white golden barb wire :) - for the old punk rock chick!

Fake bangs

Today I tried to do faux Bettie Page-style bangs on myself for the first time. Well, not really *the first* time, but since I had NO idea what I was doing the LAST time I tried it doesn´t count :) Olivia ROuge gave me a quick tutorial at Ofelia market when she did my hair so I kept that in mind today...This really is something you learn-by-doing so gather up patience! The hair came out ...ok-ish. I´ve tried to find hair "rats" aka soft spongy cushions one can use to puff up the hair in e.g victory rolls and these kind of bangs but all I´ve got my hands on so far is a roll that´s made out of a very light material, so it´s pretty hard to cover up when in my hair (which is, in case you haven´t seen: red :D

So I had to make a emergency victory roll to cover one side and added some flowers (always a great way to cover cock-up´s in hair-do´s by the way). I was only on my way for family lunch so I didn´t want it to be too glam, just a regular ponytail in the back. There are a lot of different tutorials on youtube about a lot of different hair- and make up-styles, here´s one: Faux PinUp Bangs. It´s pretty clear but the difference is, she has enough hair not to have to put in a rat. I find it easier and get a better result using one. I finally managed to find some brown rats online from the States, so I hope I get them soon! 

Now I shall vegetate in front of the tv for a while, Boardwalk Empire has it´s premiere in Finland and I just luuuv Steve Buscemi <3 Go check out their homepage in case this show is new for you here !