A life in photo's

When ever there is moment wether it special or not I always seem to have some sort of camera around. Photos are a life long memory of times,places,people, moments and history you can never get back. 

I lost my dad at 19 and I wish I had more photos of us together, my first pregnancy I have 2 photos because I hated having my photo taken. Both of these are moments and parts of my life that I will never have back. 

So I decided that I would capture pretty much my life in photos so that when my children grow up they have a story in photos and have there memories there that might otherwise be forgotten about. 

People have asked don't I get bored of taking photos? Answer is simply "no." 

I started doing this in 2008 when I had my 21st birthday party and since then I don't think I have missed many times from when we have gone out, celebrated stuff, hair cuts, holidays etc and I love looking back now especially with Ellie on all the fun times we have had together. People may get bored off looking but I am not doing it for them. I do it for my children and me. 

Photos are wonderful memories of your life that you will never relive again. 

Family day out.

 Holiday to Turkey

 Summer 2011

Rag curls

I was at a friends when I tried to do her daughters hair with curlers, within a few hours these curls had come out, so I decided there must be a way that you can do curls and them stay in. 

I looked on you tube for videos on how to do things as, it's always easier to follow a video rather than directions when it comes to doing hair. 

Rag curls are very easy to do but you have to be prepared they do take a while to do 

Firstly get an old t-shirt /tea towel infact any old bits of material. 

Wash you hair and do the following whilst it is wet for best results.

Cut the shirt into strips long enough for each one to be folder as if you was doing the start of a bow.

Next  you section off a piece of hair start at the bottom lay the hair on a piece of rag now twist up to the root ( whilst the hair is twisting around the rag. 

Once at the root tie both end of the rag as if you was starting  bow or knot. 

Repeat for your whole head

Once you have a groovy looking hair style spray with water.

For maximum results sleep on it, if you can't do that hair dryer it for at least 30-45 mins or leave naturally to dry for at least 2-3 hrs

Under the rag and then slowly pull the rag away from you hair 

Once all out run your fingers through each tight curl giving you an amazing look.

Spray with very firm hold hair spray or setting lotion. 

These photos show how rag curls turn out I will be adding some photos of the step by step

Process when I do this on my girls again. 

Straw Curls

Straw curls are just as good as rag curls and it's basically the same process but the curls come out a lot smaller and tighter.

You will need water in a spray bottle, straws, setting lotion or hair spray 

Firstly wash you hair as it works better on wet/damp hair

Section a small piece of the hair off, start at the bottom of the hair and wind the straw up to the scalp.

Then tie up as in the beginning of a bow or shoe lace. 

Repeat for your whole head until it looks like the above photo. 

Spray whole head with water.

No my personal preference is to do this at night and sleep on them as it has longer to dry but  if you can't sleep on them or don't want to wait that long dry with. Hair dryer for 30-45mins on a cooler heat setting or leave to dry naturally for about 3 hours. 

Please note just because the top parts feel dry after an hour or so the bits in the knot area of the straw won't be this is why I say it's best to sleep on it.

Undo whole head of straws first so it looks like photo above 

Run fingers through each ringlet. 

Spray with setting lotion or hair spray.

Such an easy way to make curls and these do stay in a lot longer than curlers or heated rollers. 

 

2015 - Some more curls that I did for my niece and friends daughter

 

 

Tin foil curls

What you will need : hair brush, heat protection spray, hair straighteners, roll of tin foil and setting lotion. 

Time : depends on hair length and if you want thick or thin curls, each tin foil takes around 10 seconds.

I saw this post on Facebook a few weeks ago about how to do hair styles, which got me thinking, I wonder if there is any ways of doing my daughters hair different. So I googled it and I come across tin foil curls, now I have tried curling tongs and straw curls but these are so much simpler. Plus not on aslong so not harming the hair. 

To take precautions always use heat protection spray. 

You get a small strand of hair ( or a large piece depending on if you want think or thick curls) start at the top, by the root of your hair and wind around the end of your finger. Get a rectangle piece of tin foil around 10cm's put under your finger which has the hair wrapped around it. 

Slide the hair off so it's still in "o" shapes fold the tin foil covering all pieces of hair you had wrapped around your finger. Hold hair straighteners on for 5 seconds . Do not touch the foil repeat till all hair is done. The other way to do this is foil all your hair then hold straighteners on after. Depends on what you prefer to do. Unwrap and hey presto beautiful curls. I always spray with setting lotion which I mix 50/50 with water into a spray bottle as it will hold the curls a lot longer.

Simple quick and easy to do.

 This photo shows one thick and one think hair curl.

This took me 5 mins to do a quick layer on top of my daughters hair