Hair Dye Misshap

Good Morning!

I know I said I wouldn't be posting anything for a while but I wasn't anticipating my hair dye to come along so quickly and I planned doing a thread about it on BeeUnique forum but something odd happened so I thought that I would make a post about as it kind of relates to arty things? I don't know I'll post on my general blog  link is under personal blog to the right) too. So for almost a year now I've been dying my hair blue, at first I used multiple colours and tried all sorts. In August the sun bleached my hair and the dye faded to point where it was barely blue and I died all of my Crazy Colour Capri Blue. 

The colour looks as if it's going to be almost navy blue but I discovered that after rinsing it out it becomes much lighter and is the exact colour I want. 

I'm on the right, first day of new roots between sept-oct

Near base blonde before CC Capri Blue

The green I used

When I died it was almost on a blonde base so there wasn't much resistance between my hair and the colour, the dye lasted for 2 months with perfect colour, the roots just needed touching up and the rest of my hair just didn't seem to fade, it was brilliant blue permanently! I've been doing this up until last month where I decided to touch my roots up with green instead of blue and it looked lovely.

The green- blue mix.

 I went on holiday to sunny California so my hair faded rather quickly, including some blue that had been there for months. 

Me(left) Jude, my sister (centre) and my mum (right) and this was only 5 days fade!

So, the other day, after about 4 more weeks of fade I died the top half of my head blue and the bottom half green. I was expecting the dye to turn out the way it always has but instead after the first wash it went a more teal colour. The stupid pose photo was taken on the first day at night and the second just now, yes I am wearing the same shirt, it's my rub-off shirt, the back neck is very blue. 

Supermodel Pose!!

I like it but I'm confused, did they change the ingredients for the dye? was it because there wasn't a near permanent blue base? was it the faded green? I'm not sure. 

Do you have any experiences with this? Please comment below and tell me. 

See you soon

Rainiepie

Busy

Hello,
I'm sorry I haven't put much up since the last post. It's nearly the end of the year so while A-level students revise for exams I have to hurry up and finish tonnes of coursework that needs to be redone or just done. Because of this i'm going to be very busy for a while so I can't post much. You can though, expect a Harry Potter page wall post, a sculpture post, part two of dragon painting and much more once I'm free of work.
Rainiepie

Watercolour Dragon

Hello Readers,
I
 haven't painted anything with watercolour for a really long time and I hadn't used my travelling watercolour set for a while either so I wanted to use it. Yesterday I decided to play around with it. I knew I wanted to do a dragon but had no real plan. My first initial idea was to put watery splotches of different colours on the canvas, use a straw and just see if I could make a shape. I got carried away withe the green however and painted the whole canvas. I tried drawing a rough shape from there, I tried  drawing a long dragon, a sleeping dragon and I tried lots of different times to get something I could settle with.

One of the great things about water colour is that when you draw lightly on top of a wet canvas just adding water over the pencil and blending with a paintbrush rubs the pencil away, don't press to hard though or it'll show when it dries. Unfortunately I pressed to hard and some lines are still seen.

There are also a few cat hairs from Tinkerbell stuck to the canvas, i'll have to try and peel them of. I plan on using water colour pencils over the top to add detail, in the wings, eyes, maybe add some scales and make the dragon stand out from the background. I won't use too much water though.

I'll post more when I finish it. I would love any tips and advice, so if you have any, please tell me in the comments or you can email me at rain@fairytree.co.uk, thank you

Rainiepie

I'm Just Clowning Around

Hello Readers,
Make up is something I think is absolutely wonderful. You can change your whole look and identity with just a few strokes of colour here and there. I'm not someone who wears make up on a regular bases, partly because i'm lazy and partly because I don't want my make up to run out too quickly because I'm very cheap, though it's mostly laziness. I still enjoy putting it on my face and others' though.

In the last month I transformed myself in to a clown twice, once with friends and once when I was going to be a dark fairy before getting carried away. I just thought I'd show you the results.


The first clown make up I did was with my friends and we just said lets be clowns and went with it. Laura (left) had a really cool one eye thing and Emily (centre) did a point above the eye without going around the eyes thing that I loved. My make up (right) didn't come out well but I did like the diamond on my nose.

The second time I tried I didn't start of wanting to be a clown so it's not extreme clownish but I liked it, I'm smiling here so the lines a bit crooked. I also stole the point idea from Emily because they were so good. I ran out of white face powder when I was doing make up with friends so that's why there isn't any here.

                                                      Of course I also did a silly pose

(Ugh my roots really need doing)

I've always loved the circus look and vibe but my love was re-awakened last year when I finally got round to reading The Night Circus and my boyfriend introduced me to an amazing film called The Devil's Carnival and then I got into Emilie Autumn after years of my friend persuading me and I saw Captain Maggot and I loved her instantly. So since last year I have just loved the clown look. I've always loved the thought of being in the circus because I did poi when I was little and did a mini trapeze lesson at Glastonbury Festival, I also bought a hoop and practiced with that. It wasn't until last year when my love for clowns grew.

So i'm sorry the pictures aren't very good and I know I'm not the best to look at but I wanted to keep a record of my clown inspired make up. Tell me what you think of the clown look, do you like it? is it too outlandish? comment bellow :)

Thanks for reading,
Rainiepie

Exciting News

Good day Readers,
Just as I was picking the name of this blog, my Mum called me and my sister out of our rooms to tell us something. Now, my family were very lucky with this house because when we got it, it had a cellar which had been converted to an apartment so our 500 year old house had been done up with rooms (too modern in my opinion but we can't have everything) that were liveable and not dark and damp. The smallest room was turned in to my Dad's office and the two other rooms were turned into a "cinema room" and a "games room" the games room had a dart board, a chalkboard wall, table tennis/ pool table in it. It hasn't been used much lately other than extra storage and a place to put overnight guests because when we have party's people are more interested in the room with a big screen.











So my Dad decided to move into that room to use as his study, he is unfortunately painting over the gorgeous pink that took 6 coats and the chalkboard with another colour. Anyway, back to what my Mum told me and Jude, they were giving the room to us as an activity room. Basically we are putting my sewing machine down there and I can move all of my fabrics in the room down there. I've literally just been told and it will take a while for the move to happen so it won't happen for a while yet. This blog is going to be about everything arty and crafty I do and I was given a room to do just that in, seconds after creating the blog, it must be a good omen!