donderdag 27 september 2012

Color advise

I took an online course on color advise, I'm not convinced because the pictures they used in the course were pretty rubbish but I don't want to keep it from you so here is what I've learned:

They divided the colors in four types to have a clear view about them, you can be:

- A wintertype
- A summer type
- A springtype
- A fall type

A wintertype has deep contrasting eyes, they are dark brown or grey-bleu.
The hair is usually very dark: dark brown or black, also grey or silver-gray is possible.
The skin is grey/beige, pink-colored, olive-colored, deep and dark tones (Spanish-Italian types) or exotic brown.

If you recognize yourself in this then your best colors are dark, cool and clear.



Good combination-colors are:

* Black and cobalt-bleu
* Black and bright-red
* Black and fuchsia
* Dark-grey and purple
* Navy-bleu and white
* Dark-brown (very dark) and grey-beige

A summer type is a soft and light type.
Hair color, eyes and skin are in harmony.
The eyes are bleu, grey-bleu, grey-green.
The hair is light (white) blond, grey-brown, ash-color.
And has a clear pink skin, pale, transparent with light summer freckles.

If you recognize yourself in this then your best colors are light, cool and soft.



Your combinations are the best when they are from the same color in different tones (ton-sur-ton).

Good combinations are:

* Heavenly-bleu and soft-bleu
* Light-grey and bleu-grey
* Soft-purple and lila
* Grey-green and grey-brown
* Mouse-grey and light-yellow
* Jeans-bleu and broken-white
* Lila and pink
* Aubergine and grey-pink

A fall type is a soft and dark type.
The eyes are gold-brown, hazel, brown-green or light-green.
The hair is dark-brown, golden-brown, red-brown or coper.
Your skin should be dark-beige, gold-beige or gold-brown often with freckles.

If this sounds like you then your best colors are dark, warm and muted.


Good color-combinations for you are:

* Moss-green and ocher-yellow
* Bordeaux and old-pink
* Petrol-bleu and orange
* Rusty-brown and olive-green
* Stone-brown and ecru
* Brown and khaki

A spring type is a contrasting light type.
Hair-color, eyes and skin are contrasting.
The eyes are bright-green, bleu, light-brown.
Your hair is light-blond, golden-blond or golden-brown.
Your skin is creamy, yellow-beige, peach-color or golden-beige.

If this sounds like you then your best colors are light, warm and contrasting.


Good combination-colors for you are:

* Orange-red and kanarie-yellow
* Turquoise and lime-green
* Chocolate-brown and salmon-pink
* Purple in different bright tones
* Red and ecru
* Rusty-brown and yellow-orange
* Grass-green and heavenly-bleu

According to this I should be a summer-type and my husband should be a spring-type but we both feel that it is incorrect... How is yours? Let me know your thoughts please.

maandag 17 september 2012

Day out

A few pictures from a day out with the kids this weekend:


Me making friends


The kids making friends



Feeling rich with this view





dinsdag 11 september 2012

Fashiondisaster

I have been getting a few compliments about my style and even my hair, and people often ask me why I call myself a "fashion disaster" because they think that I look very well.
Off course I am very flattered with this kind of compliments and I feel like I ow everybody a bit of explaining about why I chose the name "fashiondisaster".
When I was younger I dressed very boyish and I always chose things that nobody else was wearing.
I remember that I was begging my father in a shop to buy me a men's shirt (striped in red, bleu and white) but he thought I was crazy, it was a men's shirt, too big and he hated the colors. I loved it and a friendly gent (who was fitting clothes next to us) stood up for me. He told my dad that it was absolutely cool for a young girl, a big shirt and that he should let me have it. I was very grateful for his interruption because it got me the shirt.

My dad always told me that I was weird in my fashion and at school I also got a lot of bullying because I dressed differently.
One day I went to school with a long vest that looked just like an Indian one, with a hood and all, when I arrived at my class, half the group started laughing.
I always acted like I didn't care but it was hard, I didn't fit in and spent a lot of time with the "geeks" from the class.
They were always more mature, they read books, told interesting things about computers and Syfy things and I felt more at home there.
There was a guy who still wore t-shirts from The Simpsons (we were 14) and he really got teased about it but it looked pretty cool because it was so contrary.
He was a total computer nerd and his way of thinking was very different from other people.
My best girlfriend at that time wore orange and purple pants, she was very hippie-like and smart. Nobody liked her (she was chubby as well and got teased for that a lot) because she was considered to be weird.
My favorite jacket at that time was a black one and completely hairy, everybody hated it, except my grandmother who helped me in my clothes and being different. She didn't mind when I wore pants with elephant pipes or one that was made out of pieces of different jeans. When family complained about the clothes she stood up for me and told them that they shouldn't be so negative.

My father was the most negative of all and he never liked anything of what I wore.
It was frustrating to never get a compliment and it made me have a low self-esteem and a quit attitude where I minded my own business and kept myself happy with reading, writing, listening to music and drawing.

I started to rebel (like most teenagers) but it had a bad effect on me because I didn't take care of myself anymore and so I never learned how to do my make-up, I didn't even know what conditioner was...
When I met my husband I slowly learned what all the beauty products were for.
I must confess that I didn't have a mother anymore, since I was eight, and normally she teaches you a lot of this stuff but I didn't have that. My father's girlfriend never made any effort and I grew up between men and what did they know about it? Exactly, nothing.

So, that's the reason that I chose to call myself a "Fashiondisaster" and actually I wear that name with pride because I hope that one day this blog can be a light in the darkness for other girls, girls who have trouble with curling their hair (like me) or who still wonder what the difference is between a day cream and a night cream.
There are are still a lot of things that I don't know about and I want to write down everything I find, learn and read, even when it goes wrong (like orange hair) so every girl can feel good about herself and that she can be proud of who she is, always.

zaterdag 8 september 2012

Make it worth fighting for




We went to Antwerp today and the weather was so nice and this scenery screamed for a picture.
I was wearing a long skirt from Mexx, an H&M top and Sandals from Zenkali.
The bracelets are also from H&M and the earrings were a gift from my grandmother.

You can clearly see here that my hair hasn't changed much after my visit to the hairdresser... Such a shame because hairdressers aren't cheap and I was in there for 6 (!) hours, my children had a haircut as well and it is a salon where they don't work on appointment, so they didn't spent 6 hours on only me (I think it was about 2,5), but still, it was tiring.


We also came across this and I thought it was so cute and inspiring that I wanted to share.
Don't ask me what it is exactly, I'm guessing a little house but why it was there or what the purpose was... Beats me.

woensdag 5 september 2012

Hairdresser


A few days ago I went to my hairdresser again, to get a second try to get my hair fixed (still very orange), weirdly enough I have been getting a lot of compliments about it (before I went to the hairdresser again) but I still can't see it. I mostly feel like a carrot.

Turned out my "luck" still hasn't changed, as in "I haven't got any" when it comes to hairdressers... I got a student. A bad student. Everybody deserves a fair chance but my hair looks like I have an outgrowth from a month (!) and some spots are not colored at all (my right side). I decided I should do something and complained, I confess, very quietly, when it was done but when I got home it really bugged me and I decided, after a day, to call the boss from the salon (she did my hair the first time) and told her that I wasn't very happy with it... But she didn't want to admit the mistake that her student made. She was quit defensive and made the argument that they have to stay away from your scalp because the color can run out and then you end up with a big blond spot on top of your head. I'm sure that it happens, bur staying away 3 centimeters from your scalp..?

I hate this kind of situations because she was really good but I'm convinced that you should always stick up for your customers and try to keep them happy. Your staff is very important but if they don't do their job right, you should be able to admit it.

So, here I am. Again. Not happy with my hair.
The next one I think I'm going to try is around our corner and they have cut my hair before but never colored, I have to wait a bit tough because my hair is damaged enough already and I really want it to grow again (am I the only one who always regrets cutting it off even when it seemed such a good idea at the time?) and hairdressers just aren't cheap...

I'll keep you all informed, please keep your fingers crossed for me!