project: evolution of (wedding) hair (pt.2) !

much to my mother's disappointment, i will not be wearing a full length veil. i tried several on and none of them worked for me. i think if my hair was darker i may be more open to the idea, but the super blond hair + pale skin + long white veil just didn't mesh.

i have spent many, many hours looking over etsy for inspiration. for a while i thought i might try my hand at making a veil myself, but after a disastrous DIY ring bearer book project i decided to keep my crafting jobs at paper goods and kids crafts.

i talked to my hair stylist and then bought a few pieces off of etsy. it was way too hard for me to just choose one and go for it. i tried to buy items that i would wear on non-wedding days as well, so if they don't work out i can still enjoy them. or give them away to a fellow bride! i like to share.

bought from: Bungalow

i bought this cute veil first, but it was pointed out to me how a headband might hurt after a few hours. this is still in the running though! its adorable and exactly the size i was looking for!

bought from: Cultivar

i also couldn't resist these clips in our wedding colors. i LOVE the grey flower. i would wear these every day, so if they don't make it into the wedding hair they will still be put to good use, and they were very affordable.

the owner of sirens is also creating a few pieces for me to choose from using vintage materials! i can't wait to see what she comes up with. she also makes gorgeous little tophats that are so amazing! if i was a little less hippie i would totally try to pull off that look.

this chapter is closed. i will have worry free wedding hair and i can move on to my next issue: rsvp cards were due yesterday and we are still missing 26 replies!

project: evolution of (wedding) hair !

in case you haven't noticed i am not a "natural" blond, and haven't been since i was a wee little girl:

three year old me

two years old and i already love big glasses :)

somewhere around the age of seven my hair started to get darker and darker. by the time i hit 18 i was in the dirty-blond-almost-ugly-brown category. on my 18th birthday (i wasn't permitted to dye my hair before then), i died my hair black and stayed that way for many years.

i'm eighteen
and i don't know what i want

when i finally got bored of black i started experimenting. my hair has been so many colors! pink, red, REALLY red, red and black, black and white, brown-ish, stripey, etc etc etc.

this would be "really red"

maid-of-honor-gina and i in a photobooth. its hard to tell but my hair was "stripey" at this point

trying to get some sort of dark natural red going

current hair (photo: sarah yates photography)

in a perfect world i would get my hair done every five weeks. my roots start to become annoying at the five week mark, but by six weeks they really bother me. when i hit eight weeks (like i did this month), i want to pull my hair out. luckily i managed to squeeze in a couple of hours at my favorite salon, with my favorite stylist, and all is well in my world of hair.

we had a bit of extra time to play with some wedding styles. two days later, my hair is still curly! i love it... never in my life have i had anything but straight hair. apparently super bleached out hair can hold a curl much better than my natural super-fine-baby-hair.

after fifteen minutes of curling and arranging my look turned out hilariously retro and i LOVE IT! i'm not sure this is the exact look we will go for at the wedding (my hair will be, ahem, longer and fuller and more flowy with some subtle help) but it is super cute and will hopefully be styled similarly at a little photo shoot planned for next month.

freshly bleached and curled retro hair. pretend i am not looking
super tired and standing in the whole foods parking lot.

next post: evolution of (wedding) hair part II! veils and flowers and other hair-y things.