Blue Jeans & California Dreams

 One of the most fun things about living with one of my best friends has to be embarking on little evenings like the one we had last week. We decided to do a bit of dressing up and have some fun with items I have received for review on the Little Blog Of Horrors. You guys know I am deadly honest when it comes to things like this, I just couldn’t not be! So I thought the best way to test these goodies and share the outcome was to create a little challenge for ourselves 🙂

Hot Hair headpiece (You’ll see what’s inside further down the page)

Hot Hair ‘Clip in colour’

Skin Art temporary tattoos

I used the Hot Hair Brigette 3/4 Hairpiece as the main component of my look! Katrina gave me a floral headband and white tunic to help me with my Lana-ness a bit more 🙂 Okay, I know I look nothing like her but she gives me ultimate hair envy in the video for Born to Die! This is a 3/4 wig piece because it actually combs in at the top and doesn’t have a built in fringe. You can see the idea on the website is to tie this in with your own hair pinned back over the top.

I think the con about this, is that this would be more suited to someone who doesn’t mind having their forehead exposed (which was a biggie for a fringe lover like myself) However, my own colour at the moment is not very far off this hairpiece. So I could technically wear my fringe down and use a headband to cover up the start of the headpiece (which is hidden under the flower band above) and just have it placed further back on my hair. I think that combination would look a lot more natural than a full wig with fake fringe – I think that would be slightly harder to pull off. I really do think you’d need to spend some time playing around with it to see how it works for you and how you’d wear it. But the con doesn’t even touch the overall pro – instant gorgeous locks! I’ve even put my facebook profile picture to one of me wearing it because I really don’t think it is obvious that it’s a wig. What do you think? I am actually going to get rid of my ombre next week and get my overall colour to match this headpiece, so I can wear it more often and blend it into my hair easy peasy 🙂

Having had boy short hair a couple of years ago, and been trying my hardest to grow it in, this piece is the perfect addition to keep me distracted for a while longer as I wait for my own hair to grow. At £84 it doesn’t come cheap, but if you consider how much people pay for hair extensions (Katrina actually got a proper weave in her hair last week which she adores) then I think this is a decent price for a hassle free option that doesn’t need much upkeep, and for someone like me who would probably only want to wear this at the weekend rather than to work every day. The piece I have can’t be heat styled but instructions say you can freshen up the wig by washing it in cold water and leaving it to dry, and apparently the curls will snap back into shape. So I’ll let you know if that is the case when it comes to washing it!

I then had a play about with the Skin Art temporary tattoos. I did some writing on my hand just like Lana’s, and also a little loveheart on my ring finger. As someone who has already got quite a number of tattoos, the main appeal to me was testing out on skin that I’ve maybe been thinking about getting a tattoo on, and seeing how I feel about it. I’m not too much of a fan of the side of my hand, but I would quite fancy a heart on my finger one day and this simple transfer gave me a realistic taster of what it would feel like! You can see the slight shine in them due to my flash on the camera, but in the flesh they genuinely look very convincing close up. The shiny bit is cut so close to the black of the transfer – I am 99% sure you could fool a friend or family member into thinking you’d been inked.

I wish I had taken these during the day without flash to show you how realistic they look. You can sort of see how matt the start of the ‘nothing’ appears in the above picture, that is probably quite a good indicator. These are the ones we tried on Katrina. The loveheart is something similar to what she’s been thinking of getting, along with the writing on her inner arm – which is of course where Miss Perry has a tattoo also. Katrina especially loved the transfers, she only has one other tattoo but they felt like a complete novelty to the both of us 🙂

We had far too much fun with them, and as you can see we had so many to choose from. I think they are absolutely perfect for someone who wants a quick, non committal tattoo, for a night out, festival, or even on your holiday. I would definitely recommend these to someone who was thinking about getting a tattoo, but was unsure of placement and size etc. I know the existing Skin Art designs might not have the tattoo that you are looking for, but I think they’re a great indicator to get you started. They apply just like normal temporary tattoos you’d get when you were wee, damp cloth on the back of the paper, wait 60 seconds then peel off 🙂 I think the only con is the fact that they don’t last as long as a henna tattoo for example, maybe just for a few days – but if you want it to last, go get the real deal done 😉 They are available at boots for £7.99 per pack, and each pack has a different theme. I’ve heard they also do glitter tattoos, which I would LOVE to try out for my girly holiday this summer!

Katrina also used the Hot Hair clip in colour extensions, which are heat friendly so she was able to curl and style them into her own hair. I say her own, Katrina has actually just got a weave put in and I think it looks fantastic! Katrina has had full clip in extensions in the past, and said the coloured ones were just the same as these to use. They come in a strip so you can choose the placement in your hair, and when I wear these in the future I will probably get my mum to cut them into my own hair shape a wee bit more, so that if I keep them straight they blend in well. Each strip costs £12 and they are available in 17 different colours (the smaller single strip is £8.80 and available in 9 colours) I chose the pink and blue because they reminded me of when Katy Perry had her hair like that. I find it quite hard to keep up with Katy’s hair colour these days! Has anyone seen her film yet? We went on thursday night and it was bloody brilliant. Broke my heart a wee bit though, seeing her cry such genuine tears 🙁

All in all, lots of fun to be had with these bits and pieces and some quality time with my flatmate 🙂 Now I’d like your opinion on the likes of hair extensions and tattoos. What’s hot, and what isn’t? I think the major fact is that both subjects can look awful when they are done cheap and nasty. I never thought I’d be so impressed with fake hair and fake ink. It makes me want to grow my own hair super long and get lots more real ink!

Ayden x