Tiph’s Hair day: retro hair

 

 

Bored again with my hair, I switched styles and this time I wanted something that looked fairly retro, for no particular reason except that it caught my interest when I saw one in my aunt’s old album. The weave I chose to use is a particularly obedient one – the Mini Mireilli by X-pression. Reason? It just stays how you put it, and is thoroughly flexible when styling - you really can do anything with it. It’s also really light on the head, and doesn’t itch at all, and is ridiculously cheap – I actually laughed when I was told the price for a pack. I’m calling it retro because that was the inspiration for the style. It’d have to be a lot bigger to qualify. Enjoy!

 

 

I don’t get why some pictures get ridiculously shiny once they get on the blog, like the one just above.

 

 

See you soon.
Ciao!!!

 

 

Tipharah Nails: Bling Bling

 

 

I did my friend A.B.’s toe nails the other day and I thought it good to share in the blingy goodness. They’re really cute, and are her natural nails. I just placed rhinestones in random colours in the pattern I wanted

 

Hope you like. Sorry, photos aren't clearer.

 

Ciao!!!

 

Tipharah FOTD: Barely-There Makeup

 

In an earlier post I briefly mentioned a ‘barely there’ makeup I did a while back. This means that this isn’t a literal FOTD; it’s more of a featured FOTD, because I didn’t do it today. The inspiration for this makeup is a 2minute video I watched on YouTube titled ‘Dare to Wear Barely-There Makeup’ by Sephora in their Truth or Bare series (I think it was a series?) with makeup artist Tyron Machhausen. He’s just great, and created some really lovely nude-themed looks.

The first was themed ‘Naturally Flushed’ featuring bronze skin and pink cheeks, and looked sooo lovely. He used bronze and gold highlighters all over the model’s face, shimmer lotion on her eyelids and lashes, and nude lips finished with gold gloss. The only vivid colour was the pink blush.

The second was themed ‘Starry Eyed.’ For the look he created dewey glowing skin, and the focus colour-wise was her lips which looked peachy (not sure what colour he used). He used white eyeshadow on her eyelids to create a bright backdrop for her lashes. Her face was contoured and highlighted with shimmer, and after all of that everything still looked nude and natural, like the model had naturally dewey glowing skin and was just wearing lip-gloss.

The third look was themed ‘Soft and Smoky’ and was done on a really dark skinned AfrAm model. This was my absolute favorite, and not just because I’m dark skinned. This look featured violet eyes and nude lips, but you don’t see the violet in it (it was just in the crease anyways, and not so much of it), just a soft smokey glazed look, and superb skin! This look is the reason I wear nude lips today, because though I loved them, for some reason I thought I’d look weird in it. But she was dark and was rocking it!

So, my look is based off the third theme because I’m as dark as the model, and because I have a colour very similar to what he used on her eyelids. His was called Lipton. I used my FM Dark Skin Foundation in Mocha brown for the look because the gold highlight in it gives that glowing finish to the skin in photos (not to the naked eye though). For eyeshadows I used a light application to get the results I wanted.

Watch the video here:

 

Get the look:

Face:

Mary Kay oil mattefier, Mary Kay concealer in bronze 2, FM Dark Skin foundation in mocha brown, Mary Kay mineral pressed powder in bronze 2

 

Eyes:

Mary Kay concealer in bronze2;

Shadow Worx eyeshadow primer;

Opia eyeshadow quad - the silvery brown (eyelid & tear duct);

Clinique eyeshadow trio – the dark brown (crease & lower lash line);

L’Oreal single eyeshadow in 902 Lush Raven (an off black/dark grey, for outer corner & outer third of lower lash line);

Coastal Scents 88 palette, second colour on the lowest row, brow bone);

Air Woman dark brown brow pencil in #44,

Jordana black retractable eyeliner,

Mary Kay mascara

 

Cheeks:

Iman blush in Sable (reddish-brown), and

Bourjois blush in 85 Sienne

Lips:

Absolute! lip conditioner,

Air Woman lip liner in #18, 

Ushas pink & gold lip-gloss

 

Tiph’s Hair Day: The Double Bun

I saw this very lovely casual double bun in this picture on the internet last year…

I think it was done for the run way. It's super easy to do (3 minutes tops), and can be replicated on a weave, even when you have no leave outs (that's your own hair that you leave out in the part, and/or around the perimeter of your head). These are my renditions of the double bun on a full weave

Try it if you haven't; see if you like it. Comb the hair through, section off the top, smoothen and wrap it into a bun, securing the bun with bobbi pins (which must not show!). Do same for the bottom, and you're done!

Ciao!!!

Tipharah’s FOTD: NEUTRALS

In my humble opinion, I look really nice in matte colours. They do me well, so I like them and do them a lot, especially neutral colours. Question though: does it have to be brown to pass for a neutral? Hmm. Gold and bronze, and even cranberry will do for a really lovely neutral makeup on a dark skinned person. I did a ‘barely there’ makeup on myself a while back using golds and browns on my lips, eyes and cheeks, and it was lovely, but that’s for another day. Today’s makeup is brown themed. I love brown, and for some reason some of my friends think it odd. Green is my best colour, and brown is first runner up. Others follow behind. And I really don’t like pink except fuchsia or something close to fuchsia, else it just has this vibe that puts me off, and I have no idea why.

The choice of colour in my hair was an accident. I would never have deliberately sought out a colour 30 for any reason because I’m scared of colour in my hair, but this was the result of deceptive lighting at the store. I took it out the evening of the very day I put it in, fixed something else, and bought another pack in colour 1 (black) to mix it with, and that was a month later. This is the mix in the photo. Still don’t think I‘ll ever do a ‘30’ again.

 
Face:
Mary Kay liquid foundation in #708 and 808, concealer in bronze 2, oil mattefier, and mineral pressed powder bronze 2
Iman blush in Sable

Eyes:
Mary Kay concealer in bronze 2
Shadow Worxs eyeshadow primer (the shimmer one)
88 palette (matte/pearlescent); lid, outer corner and brow bone
Clinique eyeshadow trio–the dark brown (crease & lower lash line);

Lips:

Air Woman #18 pencil,

Island Beauty Honey lipstick,

a browny-pink lip gloss (name’s faded)

 

See you soon,

Ciao! 

 

Tiph’s Hair Day: The Switch

Hi everyone!

I almost always make my hair myself, especially when it comes to weaves, and I started quiet by accident back at school. I’d made my hair at a salon, but I did not like the crown section so when I got back to my room I loosed that part and redid it, and it came out better, and was surprisingly easy to do. So there on, I started making my hair myself so I could save some money, and also for bragging rights: “...oh, thanks. I made it myself...” Now, I do it because I quickly get bored with styles and want to try something else. So, every hairstyle I’m wearing on this blog I made myself, and I’ll say if I didn’t.

This was one of such...

 

...but I got bored within a week, because I’d been doing a lot of side parts lately. I place my part close to the centre to narrow out my really wide face. The side view was cute, but otherwise it was boring - same old thing, different weave. I wanted something that would not be in my face. The weave by the way is the thoroughly synthetic Rose Deep by X-Pression in colour 1/33.

 

 

So, soon as I got the chance, I took out the crown area and changed the style to this:

 

 

It doesn’t tangle if you use an oil spray lightly before combing through. Also, comb from the tips up. I’ll try to go another three weeks before changing it, so help me God.

 

See you soonest...

Ciao!