How to tame wavy hair
I think from a young age I’ve always felt like I was born in the wrong era. I love 80s music anything from Fleetwood Mac to Whitney Huston and the fashion that came with it! My obsession with the 80s and early 90s comes from my mum, with Whitney always playing when I was young, my mum was the original big hair and big earrings girl. With her naturally thick curly hair she always had to tame her curls and most of my childhood memories of her are big rollers and hairspray : ) every time I smell hair spray I’m 5 again helping her get ready and sitting still while she finally gives in and puts lipstick on me and sprays me with perfume! To me my mum is the most glamorous person I know, she always wore amazing clothes and had endless pairs of shoes. My favourite thing to do when her and my dad went out of a weekend was to sneak a peak in her jewellery box, bangles and shiny rings galore and earrings the size of my fist. I think most of her bangles are in my collection now after years of me sneaking them out of her room into mine.
I love to go to town with her shopping because even now she know exactly what to wear and can pick out an outfit that I wouldn’t dream of putting together and somehow look amazing in them? I always though daughters were supposed to be the advisers when it came to fashion but for me there is no one I trust more when it comes to fashion than my mum.
I have inevitably inherited her hair and as my dad has straight hair I ended up somewhere in the middle with thick waves. After years of ghd straightening it I’m starting to go back to the natural way of hair spray and mouse. I love to watch Pretty Woman and see Julia Roberts with her long wavy hair and I somehow feel at home.
So naturally I have tried a few different products along the way and found these to be the best at separating the waves from the frizz:
VO5 Give Me Texture Tousled Style Spray = £3.36 from Boots
VO5 Mega Hold Gel Spray = £2.85 from Boots
I wouldn’t waste your money on expensive products like Frizz Ease as most of the time I felt it made my hair go a little greasy and lifeless.
Here are some celebs who have embraced their waves:
Kate Hudson, Jessie J and Jennifer Aniston have all opted for the natural look here.
FayeMay Launch
When you work a 9 to 5 job in the back room of a small charity you very rarely have a chance to show your fashion style to the world……hence my idea for this blog!
Fashion is unavoidable, everyday we are surrounded by advertising on billboards, buses and beyond. The temptation from shop window displays, glossy magazines when you are buying your morning coffee and even the super stylish girl you seem to share a lift with every morning on your way to your office! There is no escape, and for someone who is not really interested in escaping it all becomes an obsession.
The 6 year old inside me who watched in awe as her mum put on her make up and carefully curl her hair each Saturday night loves it all! The polish, the gloss, the attention to each small detail. Women all over the world wake up each day and begin this ritual, but why? Human nature to love the need to do it maybe?
I don’t feel this way every morning, some days the nearest thing next to me seems to end up my outfit of choice for that day. I sit on the back of public transport and put on my make up! But then there are those days when I am back to being 6 all over again but this time I am the girl putting on the gloss, I am the girl painting my nails shocking pink (even when I know I have that meeting with my boss who will inevitably raise an eye brow at my choice of colour!) I do it because every beauty or fashion choice I make is a reflection of me. I look back on pictures and cringe at the reflections of me I was making in 1999 or on my 18th birthday but also feel a small smile at that outfit I just had to have or that hat I never took off.
I think it’s safe to say I will look back at pictures of today or tomorrow and laugh at them in 10 and 20 years to come because that’s the thing with fashion it has a sneaky way of bringing out the real you, whether you want it to or not….. x