Hairdos and Don'ts

Today Maid of Honor Maili and I went for a test run of our hairstyles. I am lucky to have an aunt who is a professional hairstylist, and who offered to style hair for both of us for the wedding! Especially as I am quite the challenge when it comes to hairdressing. I have fine, thin, do-nothing hair. It's awful. I usually keep it in a short bob, because that's about the only thing you can do with it. But I decided, as this was a special occasion, that I would grow it out a bit to give myself some options. For the past three months I’ve been gritting my teeth against fine, limp, scraggly growing out layers of awful hair. So while I have visions of this kind of thing:

It is very unlikely that anything close to that can be achieved, considering the raw materials.

My aunt has worked miracles with my hair in the past. Several years ago I was invited to a 1940s themed wedding, and she did my hair for that, with results that I didn’t even think were possible:

We arrived at the salon, prepared for experimentation. Round 1:

I had brought my veil, a 20s appropriate birdcage, so that we could see how that would attach. My previous attempts had ended with the veil falling out of my hair and onto the floor. I was pretty sure we could do better than that.

With a lot of love and product, we managed to coax my hair into a somewhat stationary position. I think it might just work.

Maili, on the other hand, had much more hair to work with. My aunt filled her head with rollers, then arranged the curls into a beautiful chignon.

I’ve talked to my seamstress about augmenting the veil a bit, maybe adding some feathers and rosettes, so hopefully I can make up in plumage what I lack in tresses!