New hair.

It was time for a change. My roots were getting very noticeable, and I'd got a little bored of being bright blonde. I've thought about going back to my natural colour for a long time, but after a bit of a tough time recently, I thought 'sod it, time for a change'. I've been backwards and forwards between brown and blonde over the last few years, so I didn't want to go back fully brown as I'm paranoid about getting those dreaded orange tones again! I went back to the same hairdresser as last time (Beth at Toni&Guy Mosley st, Manchester) who is amazing, and is easily the best hairdresser I've ever been to. I had a chat with her about what I wanted, showed her about 20 pictures of Alexa Chung, and we decided on a balayage colour with a dark blonde very similar to my own shade. My hair was pre-coloured to prevent any orange fading, and then was coloured using a mixture of dark blonde and an ashy light brown.
I'm really pleased with my new hair, and it's such a big change (it looks more brown in real life), and hopefully I'll be able to get my hair in better condition now that there isn't as much bleach in it! I'm also really happy that it looks a lot more natural.
My cut is pretty simple, it's all one length as my hair is naturally curly/wavy so layers just don't work for me, and then I have some shaping around the front, with two 'fringe bits' to cover my baby hairs that annoy me!
So I'm back to the dark side (well, darker side of blonde).

New hair.

I should have probably used the cliche title: Short hair. Don't care. But the thing is, I do care about my hair, a lot.

I've been debating going shorter on and off for over a year now, and I keep chickening out and keeping it long. I loved my long hair, but I found it so difficult to style as my hair is very thick, course and is hard to style generally. This is the shortest I've had my hair in a long time, I had a bob when I was a lot younger, but I wanted more of a long bob that still gave me plenty of styling options, including a messy bun for those days when I just haven't got time.

I went to a new hairdressers after much thinking and reading reviews I went to Toni&Guy on Mosley street (Manchester). My hairdresser was Beth and she was brilliant, she did both my colour and cut and I couldn't be more pleased with it. I'd taken loads of pictures of cuts, colours and styles and she did exactly what I asked for. I normally come out of a salon thinking 'It's okay' but not this time, I was really pleased with my hair, and didn't feel like I needed to re-do it, or anything like I usually do. If you're in Manchester, I'd highly recommend Beth and the Mosley st salon.

I've curled it a little bit in these photos as it had dropped a little overnight. I used my Lee Stafford wave wand just to create some messy waves.

My cut is all one length, but the ends have been chopped in a little so that the ends aren't too blunt. My colour is all over highlights done with a bleach, and a natural blonde shade (very similar to my natural colour). The highlights are very fine, and I have them all over. I've also had a toner on it to give it that ashy look, that I've wanted for so long!

I couldn't be more pleased with my hair, which is definitely a first for me!

What do you think of my new hair? x

#TrendsIllustrated Blogger Event & Warehouse Urban Garden Party at Manchester Arndale

On Saturday I had the amazing opportunity to attend the #TrendsIllustrated event at Manchester Arndale. The amazingly talented Dom (from Dom n Ink) had designed an array of images and texts that were being printed onto t-shirts throughout the weekend. At the blogger event we had the opportunity to design our own tshirt using the designs, and the possibilities were endless. There were loads of different combinations to choose from, but of course I couldn't resist the unicorns and reindeers, as of course I'm an animal obsessive! I then went for a mint green background and the #ootd text, swirled my images around (that was a really cool feature) and my design was done! Then all you had to do was click done, and it was printed there and then! 

The tshirts are amazing quality, you can't tell that they're printed, the design is so seamlessly blended into the fabric, not sticky or cheap feeling at all. It was an absolutely amazing experience, and the best part is that no-one else has exactly the same tshirt! 

After the #TrendsIllustrated event, we headed upstairs to the Warehouse Urban Garden Party, where I got my hair braided by Toni & Guy in this amazing crown braid, and we took some selfies on the floral selfie wall! There was an amazing goody bag too, which you can see the contents of in my video below! I also had a 20% discount at Warehouse during the event, which I of course made use of, and after that I did a bit more shopping, so if you want to know what I bought, just watch the video below!

I also managed to get a quick snap of my OOTD. I was wearing Topshop joni jeans, Zara tshirt, Jack Wills rain coat, Nike trainers, Karl Lagerfeld bag, Urban Outfitters necklace, The Great Frog rings, Michael Kors watch, and my usual rings and earrings. (I wanted to wear my white converse and a lovely new jacket that I had, but sadly it was chucking it down with rain!)

It was an absolutely amazing day, a wonderful chance to meet new people, and see friends that I met at the last Manchester Arndale event. Thank you to everyone that made it such a wonderful day! x

*The t-shirt was provided for free at the event. All opinions are my own, and this is not a sponsored post.