The Positivity Parade

I don't know about you, but more and more I see this quagmire of negativity and hate being rained down on people on Facebook. It's becoming an ugly place where people use it as a springboard to whinge and whine about what you didn't get. What happened to me? Poor me! Boo hoo!


Seriously. What happened to you to leave a trail of demoralising comments.


It's crippling.


Someone on the other end of the interwebz is receiving your negativity - and they have to deal with it. Negativity can be crippling.


Today I'm making it the International Day of the Positivity Parade. Let your good will shine! Let it shine! Leave a trail of positive comments on Facebook today! For friends. For companies. For everyone. I'm officially sick of the hate brigade.

There is more power in the Positivity Parade.

PS - Photo? Fab things for today: pink pens make me positively perky, stripey beauty bag - perfectly punchy, Donna Hay twine - because it's precisely peppy, and the photo is me posing at a Toni&Guy launch last night. More on that later because it's perfectly good news all 'round.

YES! I Love Anne Hathaway's Hair.

She chopped it off for her role in Les Miserables, and I gotta say Anne Hathaway - I dig the hair. Short-choppy-croppy. I love how this new 'do seems to totally frame her beautiful face, her large doe eyes, aye carumba girl. I just love a gal who can embrace a short crop. It never fails to slay me. 


This new look for Anne - my oh my - I am googling like crazy to see more more more! It's a brave new world baby - I love it so. 


I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow - I'm imagining running my hands through short hair. It just feels SO good. 


Maybe...?


image via Just Jared 

And So It Is.

Clearly I must obsess over Alex Winston's hair, and the length of it.

My target?

To grow mine back to this length.

Believe it or not, it was this length, then I chopped it and looked like a North Shore mum. *GASP*

My MIL told me that, I promptly booked a hair appointment and had it all chopped off.

But Michelle Williams. Still tempted.

Come now. Hair grows back.

I remember sitting in the hairdresser's seat at 12, after saving up for yonks. It was below my shoulders and I told her to cut it all off. She asked if my Mum knew. I said no, but I was paying and it was my hair.

She cut it off into an awesome concave bob.

BOOM!

Hair fetish born.

My Very Own Hair Challenge

Since my hair has grown - I know - tres excitemente! - I've been playing with styles. It's not just the standard up and down looks, I've branched out. I am so crazy!

Alas, I am not a talented hair-smith. I struggle with anything other than a messy coif. My fingers turn into toes and I just can't wrangle that hair into the look I desire.

But this. This look appeals to me. Looks messy. A little haphazard. A little dishevelled '60s retro-tastic excitement created by Pantene's global stylist ambassador, Sam McKnight for Moschino Cheap & Chic. Me likey.  

Apparently, the key to this look is "to build up the volume and then keep it in place with a lot of hairspray" said Sam.

Hairspray is my best friend because:
a) apparently lice don't like it, and since the Doctor started school, I am paranoid about lice
and most importantly b) I always think the bigger the hair, the closer to God - so I am all about big hair.
I'm issuing myself a challenge (because no one else is) to try and recreate this do - and come back with the results later this week. I just need that team of hair stylists in the top image to come over to my place and coif me silly. You can play along too if you feel like playing hairdressers with me.

Get the look: 1. The perfect base for this look is freshly washed and conditioned hair. Pantene Pro-V Aqua Light Shampoo and Conditioner works well for a light finish as it nourishes the hair without adding weight.
1. For hair stressed by over styling (such as at Fashion Week), supplement your hair care regimen with a treatment mask such as Pantene Pro-V Aqua Light Lightweight Nourishing Treatment (for fine hair) or Pantene Pro-V 3 Minute Miracle (for normal-thick hair).
2. Apply Pantene Pro-V Body Builder Mousse to damp hair and blow dry the hair back away from
the face with a flat bristle brush.
3. Backcomb the hair at the sides, back and top of the head with a fine toothed comb for maximum volume and big impact. Spray with Pantene Pro-V Body Builder Hairspray as you go to keep the volume and height in place. (leave a section of the hair free at the front of the head to frame the face)
4. Lightly brush back the top front section of hair over to the back of the head to create a smooth layer over the backcombed section.
5. Tie the smoothed hair at the nape of the neck into a ponytail and roll the pony tail up into a dishevelled bun, and fix in to place with hair pins. Spray with Pantene Pro-V Body Builder Hairspray to hold style in place and pick out wisps of hair for a carefree look. 6. For the Moschino Cheap & Chic look finish with a pastel bow detail headband placed in the middle of the head, in front of the volumised and lifted back section.

I Gots To Love This Hair

Michelle Williams regularly appears on my blog because I love her. I love her for her talent. I love the films she chooses. I love her style. I just gosh darn love the girl. And I really love her hair. Like my love for her hair knows no bounds. I really, really love Michelle Williams and her head of hair.

Once upon a time I had short hair like this. But I got mistaken for Adriana Xenides.

Well this hair on Michelle Williams, be still my beating waif heart.

Speaking of hair, you know how I love trying new beauty products. Well with the humidity that's been bewitching my hair and making me look like I've been rubbing a balloon on my head for two hours straight (I know you know that look), I've been trying Clinicare Frizz Defying Serum-Concentrate for a few weeks. I think it's the best one I've tried - and has tamed those crazy fly-aways. If you get the frizzies like me, and haven't yet braved the chop-chop like Michelle, get it. It's a collab with Pantene and Wella (and who doesn't want to be a Wella woman?) and so far, so good my friends. Balloon-hair be gone!

image from SMH 

I Like It. But I Don't Want It.

Oooh I love Dakota Fanning's new 'do. And I like her fish-face too.

I love the pixie do. The Mia Farrow. The 'Breathless' Jean Seberg crop. The waif. Oh man, I do so love it.

But I've hit my stride. My hair's getting long. I'm liking it. I'm out of the woods. But Dakota's new 'do... Oh yes. I like it. But it doesn't mean I want it.

I want Janelle Monae's hair. And her style. I want to get her dance on. She's pretty cool and cute. Stylish and sassy. Me likey!

image via

Oh Hello Darling

Camellias are in season. I love a pretty camellia. So many hues of pink. My Mum picked these for me.

I'm having my hair cut today.
It's bitterly cold.
I'd like to be in bed.
I want to bake a cake but am too cold to move from near the heater.

But the camellias are in season, and they're one of nature's prettiest creations.

At It Again: Comic Relief

Remember when Tiny cut her hair a few months ago? She decided on a Newtown assymmetrical 'do.

Yesterday, sometime in the morning, I walked out the front door, but not before noting the golden locks all over the floor. I scooped them up, told her not to do it again, and moved on.

Last night, she refused to go to bed. Kept popping out. And foolishly, I didn't think anything of it. Until she walked out with half-short, half-long hair. Some kind of country inspired mullet. She looked like she'd been bootscooting with the best of them.

This morning her new 'do has settled. And she looks kind of cool - The Sartorialist would like it. She's so hot right now.