I tried it! (Pinterest trials)

Yesterday I decided that I would finally try hair chalking. I am have medium dark brown hair that is a little bit past my shoulders. It used to be farther than halfway down my back and I miss it! However, I am glad that I chopped my hair off last summer to right above my shoulders. It was the shortest it had ever been!

Here are a few pictures from then!

The first picture is from when I first got it cut (just saying I do not know what is up with my chest in this  picture it is definitely not usually that large looking lol)

 

 

 

This is an after styled and curled picture of my hair then from Instagram. I loved my hair curled when it was short. 

Here is a picture of my hair with the chalking in it. I did not do anything special to my hair this day and just blow dried it. I found out that the green color showed in my hair a lot better than the other colors. Even though surprisingly the yellow/gold showed up pretty well too.

It was a lot of fun and my mom called me rainbow bright because I just used every color in the box to see how it would look. If you are looking for long lasting color I am going to say this is not for you. It literally washed out for the most part this morning. There is a little bit of color left but not really enough for anyone but me to tell.

Color Palettes!

I made these palettes the other day from photos that I took last summer at a farmers market! I can not wait until the weather is nice all the time. It seems to be constantly changing right now. Yesterday we had amazing weather and I almost wore denim shorts. Then tornadoes tore through where I live. Thankfully all of my family is safe and that no damage was done. There were a lot of people who were less lucky. The weather today is so much cooler.

I hope you enjoy my pictures! 

Emily

Loafer Love!

I love the new loafers that I keep seeing around on Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People!

I am absolutely in love with these by Sam Edelman! I have never been a huge stud fan but I want these.

These are another good choice from Jeffrey Campbell! Around the same price. 

These are the minty green ones from Jeffrey Campbell also! Minty green is one of my favorite colors! 

For those that are not a fan of the studs here are some simple patent caramel colored loafers from J.Crew.

Half moon nails!

   I did half moon nails yesterday! It was my 2nd attempt of the day. I first did it with minty green upper and purple moons. I love the combination but I made some critical mistakes. Too many coats of polish and when I took my stickers off it peeled the polish underneath. I took the polish off and went and worked on some other things around the house and came back to it. I decided to use 2 polishes that are very close in color so if it was off then it would be harder to tell. This worked pretty well!

Far Left: Sunset Orange, Middle: Jack Pot, Far Right: Top Coat

• Polishes used: 
• Jack Pot from Pure Ice (Top coat)
• Sunset Orange from Rimmel London (Under coat = half moons)
• Sally Hansen Advanced Hard as Nails Strengthening top coat
 

 

•  I also used page reinforces to get my guide! 
• After I finished my nails I found out that your supposed to peel the stickers off when the nail polish is still wet! Part of my problem was that I was waiting till it was dry.

 I think it turned out alright. I think that I will try it again. Although I would like to get it done professionally one day. But as a broke college student that has to wait.

Base Coat

Finished nails, already chipped. It did not last long but hopefully next time it will!

Art History

I just watched a show on PBS about a Howard Chandler Christy watercolor. It inspired me to look up more images of his. He was amazing. I love how he represents the female body.