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Congratulations Esz and thank you to everyone who voted and entered! Kichi is very happy with her new name and I’ll be decoing her soon so she’s all dressed up!
I’ve contacted Esz via email so you’ll all just have to wait to see what she’s going to request for the tutorial, I think it’s going to be great! I’ll see you all later today to kick off my week of awesome posts!
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Hello!
I’m so glad you made it over to the new site ^_^ I do hope you’ll keep coming back!
So why the move you’re probably wondering? Well after using Blogger for a year I found that I was outgrowing it, I wanted to do more cool things for you guys and I wanted to customize a lot of things that I wasn’t able to in Blogger. I’d been meaning to do this for a while and meeting so many other awesome bloggers at the Asia Pacific Blog Awards made me get my act together ^_^ So here I am with my own brand spanking new website!
I imagine that you’re probably wondering what to expect from now on? Well it’s still just me talking about pretty things. There will be nail art, hime gyaru, tutorials, reviews, outfit posts, baking, deco and other shiny things just like the old blog. I’ll be doing more videos and more of your requests so check out the new contact page. The only things that will be different is the address you type in to get here 😉
One difference between this blog and the last is that there are pages up the top, feel free to have an explore and let me know what you think! What do you love and what do you hate? Is there anything you miss from the old blog? I’m going to be tweaking things over the next few weeks so let me know!
To celebrate the grand opening of this blog I’m going to be holding a week of creative cute fun. Starting from Monday I’ll post something every single day for 7 days that you guys have been asking for! I will also be holding a competition for all of you that make the switch here so update your bookmarks and stay tuned 😀
Today is the last day you can vote to name my new camera so head on over to the side bar and cast your vote~
I thought this ACEO was quite fitting for today as I feel a little bit like Alice running around everywhere *_*
It’s a little strange, this is going to be my last post in this blog! For the next post (on Monday) I’m officially moving over to:
Exciting! I think you guys will really like it in my new home, there is a new layout and it’s going to be more fun and interactive 😀 I’ve still got Google Friend Connect active so those of you who “follow” me here just need to add yourselves using the sidebar on the new site again. Everyone else just update your browsers!
To give you a bit of an incentive to move over to my new address I’ll be posting something awesome every day for the first week (starting on Monday)! I’m going to have things you guys have been asking for like the video tutorial on how to make the leopard nails, craft tutorials and heaps more. There is even going to be a very cool competition… I don’t want to give it away yet because it’s not quite finished but it involves deco!
So come on over to the new site and let me know what you think of everything ^_^
Love you all and I hope to see you at www.VioletLeBeaux.com!
As always click the image to be taken to the ACEO etsy store.
I think that’s probably because I’ve been so crazy busy with moving house and everything else I just haven’t had time to do anything fun and time consuming like that. Now that we’re all settled in I’ve finally had a chance to have a little relax and do something for myself ^_^
Yep leopard print! I’ve been a little bit obsessed with leopard print lately!
While I was doing this I videoed everything so if anyone’s interested I’ll make a tutorial. It’s a lot easier than it looks!
Everything was done freehand, I think that the black tips and orange jewels really make it pop, and it looks amazing in the sunlight!
Also I want to give everyone the heads up that I’ll be moving to my own domain soon so you’ll all have to update your RSS readers and favorites etc. Don’t worry I’m going to make it worth your while though… The week that I move over I’m going to post something cool every single day of the week that you guys have been requesting. Lots of tutorials and things and a competition. It’s not quite ready just yet but I hope you’ll all still visit me in my new home 😀
Also don’t forget to vote for my new camera’s name on the side bar! It’s neck and neck at the moment ^_^ Hope you enjoyed the nail art in the mean time!
When I posted my make up tutorial Victoria Suzanne from Lolita Charm asked:
“I’d love to know about the roses in your hair – did you make them and how are they in such a cute little band? “
Here is a screen shot of my hair from the tutorial (the best one I could find anyway!)
So I thought today that I would talk a little bit about hair and show you how you can turn pretty much anything into a hair clip ^_^
So let’s make the hair clips first. These are my favorite types of roses. They are actually made from styrofoam which sounds strange but they are very soft, durable and realistic. I got mine from Spotlight but I imagine most craft stores carry them.
So what you need is flowers (or whatever you want to make into a hair clip), a hot glue gun and some bobby pins.
Now I have an army of butterfly hair clippies!
They are going to look super cute!
So now that you’ve made your clips it’s time to decorate your hair! How you arrange them greatly depends on the look you want. For me I want a hime style look but my other motivation is to cover my re-growth of non-blonde hair so I can wait longer between dyes and damage my hair less. So this is what I start out with:
So to do the style I did in the video you need to start with a base head band. I like to use one which is similar colour to the flowers and has something interesting on it like a bow.
Everything about the style I’m making is lopsided so make sure you pick your best side for the bow!
Now get your flowers, it’s nice to use a few different types or shapes of flowers to make the style more interesting.
So grab one of your flowers (I’m starting with the light pink ones) and attach it. You should slide the flower under the headband because the band will hide the metal bit. You really don’t actually need to get much hair to hold it in, just a tiny bit. I get a tiny bit of my fringe in to it then push the whole way into my pouf.
This is how it looks all the way in. See how it hides everything nicely?
Now add another one on that side above the first.
And one on the other side… For this style I work with uneven numbers of flowers to make it even more lopsided.
Now you have quite a good base to work with, start adding the other kind of flower. You can add as many or few until you like how it looks. I like a lot of flowers so this is what I ended up with 😀
No regrowth to be seen ^_^
Now here are some variations on this look, it’s very versatile…
This time instead of a head band I started with a row of flowers that I’ve glued on a comb.
So add it to the side because it’s going to be your feature piece.
This version requires more flowers if you want to cover up regrowth but still looks cute.
If you are wearing awesome earrings you can pull the bits of hair on the side backwards and pin them over the headband. Here is how it looks with a different headband.
So I hope that answers some of your questions, if you’d like ore information just leave me a comment 😀
Btw if you’re interested in Lolita fashion you should check out Victoria Suzanne‘s blog, it’s full of really interesting articles and she has some very cute hair styles of her own!!
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