Tutorial: Time saving and curl protecting dry Pin Curl set

Hello everyone,

last time I showed you an tutorial with a hot roller set. Now you have spent all the time to make a pretty hot roller set and once you slept on it it is all destroyed? For that cases I use a dry pin curl set.

First off all: I don´t like the wet ones cause they take DAYS to dry. This is just not practicall for me. So I do a dry set - mostly after the hair has already been curled before to make it last for more days.

At the end of the day when you have enjoyed a pretty curly hair do it it quiet easy to do. Take yourself some pins like the ones I use in the picture - Bobby pins are just too slippery for me. I just use them to secure a slippery curl even more. As the hair is already curly or at least has some left over curl they technically fall into place. You take them. Roll them together to form a pincurl. Than pin.

If you are someone that likes to take showers in the evening do it just before you step into the shower. The steam with set the curls perfectly. If you don´t just moist your hands a LITTLE (!!!) and pat them on the pin curls. If you want you can also use a bit of setting lotion just in case. By the time you get up the next morning the curls are dry and you just need to take out the pins and brush through it.

Some explainations for the little set I did her the evening after the hot roller set. Click the pictures to enlarge cause the arrows turned out a little thin ;-)

I rolled them all flat towards my face (clock wise) exept for my bang which I made a standing pin curl.

Flat pin curls = curls

standing pin curls= volume

The direction you curl it is the direction it´ll fall to when you brush it out. Let´s say you want something that goes away from your face like a chignon you would want it to fall away from your face so you would curl it counter-clockwise.

Looks messy, but it works ;-)

The curls fall towards the face and I look dreadfully pale in those photos ;-)

After brushing it out the bang that was in a standing pin curl developed volume. All I did was to twist it a little and pin it into place. This is sort of an lazy day hair do. Off course I could have put it in a nice roll of put a flower in it, but we´re talking time saving and easy ;-)

Pin up Girl Hot Roller Set

Hello everyone,

this is Day4 of my vacation and as I was bored today and coloured my hair yesterday I thought "Hey, let´s make a hot roller set and snap some photos!!!". So here is a little tutorial :-)

So... For the total noobs:

Big hair rollers=volume, so I mostly use the on top of my head.

Medium rollers: wave, so most of the time I use them at the sides.

Small rollers: curl. I mostly use them at the bottom as this is also the section where my hair starts hanging out the soonest.
For protecting your hair you spray on a setting spray designed to protect your hair from heat. Before rolling it. I took a rather light one today, but there are hardcore ones around ;-) If you have naturally poker straight hair it also doesnt hurt to give your hair some overall hairspraying once everything is rolled up.

Once you unroll, it all looks rather eeeeeeek! No worries. some good brushing does the trick.

Height and Volume on top, Wavy sides, curly ends and please ignore the left over colour on my skin ;-)I put in a light streak yesterday, but Iam not sure whether I like it. Possibly I will colour over it once I have made up my mind....

Vintage Hairstyling vs. Style me Vintage - Two hairstyling books in comparision

Hello Retro Styling enthusiasts,

when I heard that a new vintage hairstyling book was about to come out I was torn. For one thing I knew that it would be hard to live up to my personal styling bible "Vintage Hairstyling" that I bought in two editions and both where worth every penny. On the other hand, the newly published "Style me Vitage" was only 10 British pound, so I thought I give it a try. So this is a review for everyone that has one or the other and wonders which one to get - or is not having any of them and considers a buy (or and addition to the X-Mas wish list).

Let´s start with the pure facts:

on top: Vintage Hairstyling - Retro styles with step by step techniques by Lauren Rennels: 34 different Stylings, Price 36,95$

below: Style me Vintage - Easy step by step techniques for creating classic hairstyles by Belinda Hay : 11 different stylings, Price 9,95 British Pounds

First thing coming to mind is that "Style me Vintage" is more handy as it is smaller and book bound. More practical to take along and lay open while the binding of "Vintage Hairstyling" is less stabile. Plus "Style me Vintage" is cheaper in price, even if you have to import both of them like I have to. However "Vintage Hairstyling" has waaaay more stylings.

If you are a styling novice a introduction of the tools you will need is crucial for you. I remember my first attempt to get curls in my hair. I had one of those curling irons with a brush head attached. NEVER BUY ONE OF THOSE UNLESS YOU HAVE VERY FINE HAIR. My hair kept getting stuck and the $%"!%!" thing was of no use. In "Vintage hairstyling" you get a thourough instruction what sort of curling iron you can use for what, all you need to know about using heated curlers, pincurls, rollers and whatever comes in mind. "Style me Vintage" gives a rather short description with not so many pictures, so it is more aimed to those that "know their stuff" than "Vintage hairstyling". If you are not a pro about hair and need details about all the things to use, including the right pins, brushes and combs for the purpose you definately need "Vintage Hairstyling".

The instructions: "Style me Vintage" asumes that you know how to do pin curls and use curling irons and hot rollers. There are written descriptions, but most styles do not have detailed photos as to where the hair is curled forwards, backwards, etc. "Vintage Hairstyling" does this before it even get to the stylings. There are (positively!!!!) pages over pages on how to do good pincurls, how to correctly curl with an curling iron and which technique has which effect. When it comes to the instructions for the actual hairstyles it has arrows in the pictures that shows you in which direction it was curled, something that is very important to archieve the wished effect. Also is has way more detailed photos for the stylings than "Style me Vintage". Don´t get me wrong some instructions in "Style me vintage" are more detailed than others, but "Vintage hairstyling" is very very detailed throughly, so there is not so much space for any doubts.

Both books have in common that the photos are beautifull and the layouts are both very nice!!!

What is left to say is what is intended for who?

"Vintage Hairstyling" is a book for everybody: The Styling novice that has no idea where to start to the expert that still wants to learn a trick or two. It costs more but it is worth every penny. There is a wide range of styles and a lot of instruction how to archieve which effect. In any case it is a must have for your bookshelf. I´d even say: Get both editions as there are different ones in edition 1 and 2. Both books feature easy and more sophisticated styles.

"Style me Vintage" is more for those that are experts. There is no instruction on how to do pincurls, to handle a curling iron, what to use when etc. If you already know your stuff and just want a book with a few basic styles this is for you. I could imagine that stylists working for tv or movies get a good use for reference out of it. Not for absolute novices. The styles are more basic.

Burlesque - Miss Evi´s Company

Hi everyone,

experienced readers know: It takes an hell of an event to actually tickle me and make me go out. When I first saw the posters for "Burlesque - Miss Evi´s Company" I knew that this is one of those events.

Truth be told I have only been to one Burlesque Show before and that was 2 years ago in Sweden. There is just no Burlesque here in NRW! Or no one informs me if there is!

So you wonder whether you should visit that show?! Hell yes! I know 39 € for a good seat is quiete some money BUT... it is worth it! We got 2,5 hours of wonderfull performances. Striptease, acrobatic, comedy, music and it was in a wonderfull venue to match. Kudos to the wonderfullfantastictalented artists! There was not one weak performance. I did not feel bored at any time! Even if you have a longer distance to drive (we just had 2 tram stations) you totally should while they are still in town.

I didn´t take photos of the event because I wasn´t aware that this is actually allowed!!! But here you can click through a gallery: http://www.google.de/images?hl=de&q=Miss+Evi%C2%B4s+Company&rlz=1W1ACPW_deDE322DE322&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=Ae2gTLy0BNDBswah_bDmDg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQsAQwBA

I decided to wear my leopard dress from http://www.buy-unlike.com/ , cause it seemed the perfect ocassion. John was scared that he might be underdressed in his Jeans and a black shirt with a naked girl on it ;-) Truth be told I was the most dolled up person in the audience :-D Oh well, I´m used to that. I´m really proud how pretty my hair turned out! Never mind the chaos in the background. Iam happy that John was willing to take photos of me at all. Iam a happy boobie-dwarf. At least I look like that from this angle. :-D

No chin, but I´m very happy how my hair turned out! This is what I look like when I giggle hard while the boyfriend takes candids

Yes and I tested another set of my 47 Cents eye lashes. It lasted very well actually!

I feel I should use the "kiss the head" idea in an actual shooting. Plus find what´s wrong in this photos?

If you didn´t notice it my cleavage sucessfully distracted you from the tv and the thingie with that I change the channels :-D

Sari in Wonderland

Hi everyone,

today I went to see Alice in Wonderland in 3 D. Spectacular!

There is one scene where the mad hatter makes hats for the red queen which really makes me fall for all those pretty excentric hats. I spotted a heart-shaped veil hat that especially made me uhhhh and awwwww. Back home I figured that while I can´t have the hats I can at least play with make up and do a kick-ass red queen inspired styling on myself... I ended up looking like the love-child of the red queen and Paloma Faith (hey, that´s pretty good. I said before that I wanted to archieve a similar hairdo as Paloma anyway and I managed it even without a hair-piece)

The funny thing is that minus the extreme lips I would actually totally go outside in that attire!

How to go for that look? Off course turqouise eye-shadow. For the fun of it I added fake-lashes with rhinestones. I first covered my lips completely with concealer, than with foundation and drew the heart on with a lip-liner. I put my hair in rolls and clipped them with hair-pins. The cardi is by H & M, the headdress is something I made myself out of actual playing cards, glue and glitter. (It was supposed to be for a showgirl shooting that never happened in the end)

Have a fab Sunday!

Sari

New pics with my new hair

Lightning and haircuts

Hi everyone!

Finally I´m HEALTHY again!!! Head to toe without the slightest hint of pain or the slightest bit of nose-running left!!!! You don´t value your health unless you become ill! And once yoú´re healthy again you forget about how horrid it can be! So enjoy life cause even if all things go wrong you are at least healthy!

I´ve been reading about lightning for photos and also for videos (I highly recommend "Bernard of Hollywood: Guide to pin up photography) and talked to Tom Eitnier from Koolgirliestuff (If you don´t know him google him up cause his photographs are really worth a look. I´d describe it as authentic pin up meets edgy fetish. He´s the best and we know each other since I started doing pin ups - we never met in person yet, though.). So now I´m on the look out for lightning stuff and than I can start with videos and with snappin my own pix. I got my modern Rago Lacette and it´s just yummy! Can´t wait to snap some pics! :-)

I think about getting a new haircut: http://www.miss-vintage.com/archive/1950s/hair/15-hairdos.htm that one in a a bit longer version would be neat and easy and perfect while in the look out for a new job!

Hugs to everyone!
Sari