This is my go to haircut. When I want to freshen up my ends, I use this Kristy Maccone technique. It is suitable for long, thin hair in which you want some long smooth layers. Here are the steps to create this long layered haircut. For details check Kristy’s full video.
Section your hair in 4 parts: 2 in front (the line above the ear) and 2 in the back of the head.
2. Take the back parts and section them once more, each in half.
3. In the back you have now 4 sections. Lift up each one of them, point your fingers towards the head (as seen in picture below, for that layered effect) and cut above the fingers.
4. Divide also each one of the front sections, lift them up and cut diagonally just like you did with the others.
You create two sections in the front of the face. You select the hair as showed in this picture.
2. Strech each of these sections to the shoulder and cut it where you want.
I just cut my dead ends… half an inch maybe, but it is worth it. Afterwords the hair will definitely look better.
3. Take the hair in the back, strech it down and cut it straight
Or do the “babushka” cut (in front) if you want a more curved haircut style.
4. Back to the front sections
This is a trick that I found to be extremely usefull. Tie down the bottom part of each front section and never cut it again in this session.
5. Layer cutting
If you don’t want to layer cut your hair, you can skip this part. Otherwise, you have to bring up a tiny section of hair from the back and cut it. Do this until you cut all the hair from the back.
Even if you would raise all back hair, it all should be same length.
Since these days everyone is cutting their own hair at home, I thought it might be a good ideea for me to try it too. Also, I had a lot of split ends lately and I needed to get rid of them.
I started by doing some research. I watched a lot of Youtube Videos about hair cutting. There are many girls who give advice on how to cut your own hair, but I needed to find a video that was suitable for my straight, long hair. I also wanted a more complex cut, to make sure more split ends get cut, not only the ones from the bottom.
After all the videos that I’ve watched, I definitely have a favorite one. It is created by MsRosieBea. She is from England and studied fashion design. I like her style.
So, here are the steps she follows, which I also followed and I can guarantee you that they work!
Step 1. Cut the “Babushka” in a straight line
First of all you have to have your hair washed and wet. I also used a very good hair balm that made my hair silky and very easy to comb, so I wouldn’t have any hair breakage.
Then you need to part your hair in 2 and bring the 2 halfs together under your chin. Tie them thight with a hair band.
Then cut in a straight line.
This will create slightly rounded corners on your hair, when you will wear it on your back.
Step 2. Cut the sides in a vertical, straight line
Tie some hair from the top of your head.
Part the rest of the hair in 2. Take one part, comb it and lift it diagonally, then cut it in a straight, vertical line.
This will create a slightly progressive cut that I find aesthetically pleasing and it also helps with my split ends, since more hairs that are shorter get also cut.
Step 3. Tie this hair at the back of your head
So we’re done with half of our hair. Now it must be tied on the back and then we will work with the top hair.
Step 4. Cut the “little Babushka”
Release the top hair and create a “little Babuschka” under your chin. Then cut it straight.
Now, in this video she says at the beginning that she has already trimmed her front shorter hair, so she won’t be doing it again in this video. I found the technique in another of her videos:
Step 5. Trim the front hair
Separate a tiny area on your front. That will be the hair that will look shorter and will frame your face.
Comb all of it in front of your face and cut it in a straight line.
So, there it is, MsRosieBea’s final result:
I think she is very beautiful and her hair looks stunning.
TIP: There is a little technique that helps your hair cut to look more natural. After each cut, you have to trim it just from place to place, just 1-2 mm, with the scissors placed parallel with the hair.
Hope this helps, it surely helped me.
Here you can watch the whole video. Also, you can check MsRosieBea’s other social media pages:
I always like to see in museums ancient pieces of clothing and footwear. I somehow feel they bring us closer to the ancient people, perhaps in a more intimate fashion than observing their ruins and tools. I also like to see these pieces because many times they are surprisingly similar to today’s fashion. Once again, this makes me feel closer to ancient people, considering that our mentality is not so different from theirs.
For instance, I found these ancient Egyptian sandals in Neues Musem in Berlin.
Even though we live in the Age of Internet, some things in which people aren’t very interested, are still scarce online. This is the situation with ancient pieces of clothing and footwear. While a simple Google search won’t get you many results, in almost any museum with ancient stuff you will find some interesting pieces.
Although this is true in most cases, I did find something VERY interesting on the internet. I came across these 3000 y.o. Ancient Greek terracotta boots (for burial process – they didn’t actually walk in terracotta 🙂 ) that look very modern!
In fact, I do own a pair of similar boots and similar sandals and I find it absolutely amazing that we are 5000 years apart, yet we dress the same.
Met Gala is a fund raising event that started in 1948. Celebrities meet at a themed party and have fun. The number of participants is about 700 people and a ticket costs 30.000$.
The special thing about this event is that it is arty. It is held in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each year there is a different “theme” and the participants must dress accordingly.
This year’s theme was this:
Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019)
Camp… oh, sweet camp. Do you remember Pink Flamingos, the movie? This is the epitome of camp.
Camp is defined as “an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value”. Camp is a very interesting part of aesthetics. It is not kitsch though. Kitsch wants you to make believe that it gives you something beautiful and of good quality, while camp really tells it in your face that… well, “eat sh*t”.
I really thought this year’s theme was funny, interesting and very open. You could literally wear anything, as long as it is bad taste that wants to be bad taste and feels good in being bad taste.
The problem with modern celebrities is that most of the time they seem to wear something of bad taste, but they don’t actually intend to be bad taste, in fact, quite the opposite. In Pink Flamingos, Divine, the main character, feels good about herself. She is proud about who she is. You are camp only if you’re really proud because of your eccentricity and, ultimately, bad taste.
Today, my Instagram feed got assaulted by photos from the Met Gala 2019. Girls were wearing various dresses and I truly couldn’t find a connection between them.
For instance, Madelaine Petsch posted this photo with her dress for the camp theme:
Source: https://www.instagram.com/madelame/?hl=en
If the theme was “tinkerbell”, then the dress would have been apropiate. But for camp? Gosh.
Let’s take a look at another Riverdale actress: Lili Reinhart.
She even wrote “Went ~camping~ last night”. Funny-ish, but… Hm.
Well, both Lily and Madelaine are very young and they have plenty of time to figure things out. On the other hand, there were these old-school celebrities… :
Kim Kardashian West posted 2 dresses. She wore one of them at the afterparty. Here they are:
Even though her dresses aren’t really bad taste and in fact the idea behind them is amazing – as if she is standing in rain and there are droplets of water pouring down on her – I think she nailed (almost) it.
There was a big fuzz about Lady Gaga’s dress (wait, is she still a thing?). She made an “entrance” that lasted 16 long and lame minutes.
Sorry, Lady Gaga, but this is not camp, it is pure lameness. We can see that you are uncomfortable in your skin. Once again, camp is supposed to feel confortable and proud, not hysterical and attention seeker.
Dua Lipa is one of the few who seemed to enjoy her (almost camp) outfit:
Source: https://www.instagram.com/dualipa/
Gwen Stefani was one of the few who looked camp.
https://www.instagram.com/gwenstefani/
Some people put on some feathers, one actually cited something about camp and feathers… People, stop copying each other, get your own ideas!
There was zero originality at this event. It had so much potential… I really hoped I would see some fashion stylized camp, but instead there were only lame attempts for attention and lots of kitsch. Meh.
This one is actually a DIY Halloween ideea. I find it very cute. It would be a little bit complicated to actually wear something like this in rain because the plush cats and dogs would soak. And it would be difficult to carry it around. But if you are a really funny person who would go to extreme… maybe you could use for real this kind of umbrella… I know I would LOL
Ugh… Every time I go shopping for socks I must spend my time searching for the right materials. About 95% of the socks I find on the market, ranging from random hypermarkets to expensive brands, contain a certain amount of polyester.
I understand that polyester is cheaper, but in my opinion it is absolutely wrong to wear polyester socks. They are completely useless. They cause rashes to the skin, suffocate the skin and doesn’t let it breathe, making it sweat and are useless during winter because they don’t keep warm.
Polyester socks are good if you need something really cheap, for a really short time. But that’s it. If you are looking for socks to wear all day, there is absolutely no possibility to actually wear and feel good in polyester socks.
So, when I buy socks, I want them to be good quality and I am willing to pay more. So I go to look directly at the more expensive socks, but to my surprise they always contain around 25% – 30% polyester.
And the most annoying thing is that most of these socks are marketed as “cotton socks” but if you read closely the cotton amount doesn’t exceed 75%.
Happily, I still find 100% cotton socks. But they are increasingly rare…
People should be more aware about the fact that they are buying polyester, not cotton, and they actually shouldn’t be wearing polyester because it is bad and unhealthy.
Every year, during Christmas time, I like to have some Christmas themed nails. Of course, if you search on the internet, there are thousands of Christmas nails ideas, very very nice ideas with amazing nails, but since I have zero talent in doing my nails I like to do something simple and cute. These are my Christmas nails:
I just painted my nails in red and then I applied white glitter and that’s all. The effect is really nice and very Christmasy.
I really like them and the good thing about the glitter is that it acts like a really good top coat. Zero chips for about one week. That’s good 😀
Since today is Halloween, I thought I should write something about clothing. Nothing scary, only cute stuff 🙂
Over time, I came across some peculiar dresses that I would like to wear sometime. Most of them are funny and strange and aren’t really fashionable. They are just funny :). Here they are:
Queen of the forest
People might think I have something to do with fairies, but who am I to shatter their beliefs? Let them think so…
Modern work of art dress
Since I am a big fan of painting and art in general, this would be a perfect dress for me. I definitely have to wear something like this at some point in my life… at least for Halloween 🙂
