& it was all orange

Apparently, one of the first things someone notices about another person is their hair.
a lot of girls in my college get their hair cut and styled really regularly, GHD it every day, colour it every month blah blah blah.
When I was younger i always HATED HATED HATED my hair- i was bullied for being ginger a lot, and i died it a couple of times and it looked awful.
Now i've "come to terms" (oh gosh, it sounds like the most SERIOUS thing in the world...) with my hair colour, and my hair is my favorite feature.
I've been playing with it recently, with heidi plaits but wasn't too sure about wearing it out.
This morning i saw this picture, and decided to shamelessly copy it

I think the model has a prefect shaped face for the style, and although it didn't look half as good on me, i liked having it done slightly differently.



it's so easy to do- just do a side parting and take the front section of hair, start plaiting and pin wherever you want (:

(and, thank you so much to anyone who's complimented me on my hair...you've bought the self-indulgent hair related posts on yourselves :P
and, you've also made me really chuffed (: )

the invasion.

My personal space is being invaded.
I have three french boys, aged 14-16 in my house.
I don't want them in my house!
They scare me! Get out!

I feel mean now, but my mum keeps trying to get me to talk to them, and i don't remember any french, and they are creepy and one of them went in my room and picked up one of my bras.
i did not find that particularly amusing.

Grr.
Anyway.

i thought it was going to be sunny today, so i wore this dress i got from Tescos supermarket (oh yeah...) last year. I took it up because it was too long, but now the...pleats, if that\s what you would call them, never lie flat. grr.



dress: tesco
tights: topshop
cardigan: new look
hoody: h&m

fortunately, the exam went pretty well, so i won't complain to you about that!

In my A Level art class, there was this awesome girl, who had henna'd, dreaded hair and did wonderful things with a sewing machine.
She based the WHOLE of her self-directed project around this film, The Science of Sleep.
It was on sale for £3 at HMV so i got it, and watched it last night with my boyf and his sister.

It's a WEIRD film. I need to watch it again, because i didn't quite get all of it, but it's really bizzare, but dreamy and soft and...i thought it was really beautiful.

The female protagonist is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is my new heroine.
I think she's beautiful, but in a tired way. Like...she looks worn down, but her long limbs and swinging hair and graceful hands just work.




I've just found out the film was filmed in 2006- a big suprise, as there's none of the high-tech special effects that there was huge scope for (although if there had been, it would have ruined the softness).
It's a french film, and about half of it is spoken in french (subtitled) with a tiny bit of spanish, and the rest is english.

Anyway. some pretty pictures of Charlotte.




(vogue paris)

she also has a beautiful voice.

yes, she is my new girl-crush. replacing Scarlet Johansson in (and only in) Lost in Translation.
I love that film.
I REALLY love that film.

desperate times...

I have an exam on monday.
the exam is world development.
i hate the lesson of world development.
i think our teacher is a nob.
he gives us mountains of paper. on monday evening i am taking it to the recylcing point so that the trees of the amazon are no longer cut down for shitty hand outs, and the ingieonous people are no longer being driven from their homes into floor plains yadda yadda.

anyway.
i do not want to revise for this exam.
so i played with my hair.
and then made some videos on my mac of my trying to straighten my hair.

oh, photobooth. what what i do without you...

i secretly wish my name was Heidi and i lived in some mountains. with sheep.




wardobe, hi.

trying to look about eight..

clothes i wore.






have a nice day.

Iron Man

my boyfriend and I went to see Iron Man at the cinema today. it was a pretty good film- entertaining, even if it's not the most...highbrow of films!
i was very impressedat Gwyneth Paltrow's ability to run in what looked like five inch heels, whilst being chased by a huge, even lump of metal!
unfortunately, this is the only image i can find of her...

[stolen from IMDB...]

speaking of films that i've seen in cinemas (yeah, really specific there, Annah...) I remember liking the outfits in Cloverfields...



this girl, Marlena had a really cool "i don't give a crap" attitude. especially when she got bitten and then exploded.

this actress is SO skinny. she spent most of it in pajamas, covered in blood from a piece of metal that went through her chest...yum..


I think a bit of blood, fear and rubble dust adds to them...

a wing.

I was having such a bad photograph day today.
this is the best i managed- looking very broad, and with a falling off cardigan!
i wear this to death- i had to sew it up last night as it was falling apart.

blah blah blah anyway
beloved cardigan- new look, £15. best buy ever.
dress- new look
tights- topshop sale. £1!
shoes- debenhams

dumped.

i've just realised how many cool places there are to take photographs in my garden!
Anyway, here is a nice bin, with some lovely shoes I got yesterday!
[please excuse the horrible vampire bites on my feet- these are the handy work of these]



brown peep-toe sling backs from qube.
crazy...for only £5!
there was a grey pair i really really loved, and they fit really well, but there was one shoe on display, and the other was no where to be found ):




wooden heel sandals from Debenhams- they had a 20% off sale on, so mum got me these (: i really like them! although they make such a noise..

I'm not used to wearing heels to college, so i felt a little over dressed, in a weird way
the rest of my outfit was:



jeans- dorothy perkins
cardigan- new look
top- miss selfridge
bracelets- dorothy perkins & markets
shoes- debenhams