It's Time

Images: Pinterest

My hair is currently the longest it's ever been and yet I've decided it's time for a chop. I've been so stubborn about cutting my hair for the past few years but I definitely need a change. My sister is a hairdresser and has been waiting for me to tell her that I'm ready to cut my hair for quite a while now! It has just gotten to the point where I'm bored with my hair and feel a bit too plain. 

My sister sent me through a picture of Lara Bingle whose hair is a nice collar bone length (bottom left). This led to me creating a Pinterest board with hot babes with the same or similar style to Lara. It's not too short but still a bit funky.

I've never been very good with hair (my sister definitely got those skills). My idea of doing my hair in the morning is blowdrying it until it's dry enough or until I get bored and then letting mother nature do the rest. No product no nothin'. I don't even own a straightening iron, people. So in deciding to take the plunge and cut a bit off my hair, I've also decided to be less lazy with styling it in the future. Luckily I'll have my own personal stylist for the next few weeks (my sister is cutting it the night before we go to America together) and hopefully I'll pick up a few tricks so that I can do it myself in future. As my hair is pretty much dead straight I'll need to learn how to give it some more volume/a bit of curl in order to achieve the look I want. I think I'm ready!

Now my only question is - to fringe or not to fringe? I guess you will just have to follow me on Instagram to find out!

Hairspiration

Today I bring you a little bit of hair inspiration thanks to my sister, Sophie, who happens to be a hairdresser - and a very good one at that! Here are 12 of her recent styles. As you can see, she's pretty handy when it comes to balayage and loves to experiment with different colours (she is always super excited when she gets a client brave enough to try something bright and bold). She also does a mean male haircut - I may be a little biased but she's the only one that can cut Ben's hair well.

Having a hairdresser in the family is amazing, although I really haven't been too adventurous with my own hair of late. I went through a few years of dying my hair different colours then finally decided to grow it all out and let my natural colour do its thang. I was pretty stoked to discover that my natural colour is actually quite nice, so I decided to leave it be for a few years. My hair is now the healthiest and longest it's ever been, but part of me is wondering whether I should let Sophie loose on my hair sometime soon. Oh and by the way, that's Sophie with the teal coloured hair in the pics above - she can definitely pull off any colour, no matter how bright it may be! If you live in Newcastle or are ever in the area, you should definitely hit her up for a new 'do.