Showing posts with label mintymix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mintymix. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Hello Kitty exhibit~
One weekend in December there was a special art exhibit that included names like Hello Kitty and Tokidoki, etc~
I went there purely to visit my love Kammie of Mintymix, who was modeling in lolita the whole weekend with Hello Kitty!
Kammie so adorable in her AP outfit ; w; with crazy braids that reminds me of Kyary (and Pippi Longstocking-- who remembers that story???) and a bunch of stuff in her hair. I always wanted to make headdresses like that~ never found the time though.
Kammie convinced me to take a picture with Kitty. I didn't really want to because I was in my work clothes and wasn't looking cute at all xD But I ended up doing what Kammie said ; w; can't resist her sweet personality
Unfortunately I was only there for about 10-15 minutes before I had to run to work... there was a lot of nice art though! If my room wasn't trash and if I wasn't saving up for my Guyana trip, I would've bought one of the paintings.
Maybe next time~
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Mori Hair Results
My long awaited moriwig post~
Like I explained in the video (end of the page), I didn't record a tutorial mainly because this was a first-run, I didn't really know what direction I was going in, plus the dark/black colors of the wig and then on top of it, I STILL haven't found my tripod (seriously, where the hell did I leave it???). So in the future I'll be getting a lighter colored wig, maybe mid-December, or even January, and hopefully by then my tripod will pop up and I can make some videos. I've been feeling for a makeup runthrough, but I can't make one when I can't even find my stand...
Anyways, instead of video I took a couple of photos of the process. Before, during/in between each process, my first "finish" and then my second "finish" since I wasn't satisfied with what I did with the top.
The first thing I did was cut layers into it. I didn't really pay attention to how short~ I just started snipping a bunch from the top, and then made my way down the wig~ leaving the bottom part uncut for length.
Then I brushed it, sectioned it, and curled it.
Every curl I did needed about 2-3 minutes maybe, and once I slid the hair off my curling iron, I did it gently so it would be tightly curled still, and then I blew on the hot curls until it cools. Rinse and repeat. This was so time consuming.
After curling the entire head, I teased the hair. Now my process might seem a little strange...
I took all the hair from the crown up, tied it in a loose bun. I pretty much sprayed and teased the center area first. Then I made my way down, and then back and to the top.
I felt this was easier because while I was working my way down, the already-done parts were flipped to the other side of the head, to help the
spray dry and the teased area to stand up better against it's weight... and then doing the top area last helps it from getting potentially smushed from me holding the wig a certain way, etc. And then WHILE I was teasing the root-area, I was also layering the curled ends with spray, to help them get stiff.
The fluffiness of the center area of the PINK side, once I was done with the bottom half of the wig.
I didn't tease the last couple of wefts from the bottom, since it was styled for length rather than volume. Once I was done with the bottom, I started sort of fingercombing it to separate some of the girls and make the hair more fluffy.
Some of the sloppy teasing I did to make the top more fuller~
When I was done with most of the curling (save maybe, 2-3 weft layers from the very top), I twisted the very back of the wig up into two twists and pinned it in place to help the beehive-type volume. There's something about the way you twist or braid hair that lets it fluff better...
Now here is my first run... when I got to the crown of the head, suddenly I started thinking like, 'what hairstyle am I trying to achieve?" "How is the top going to look?" If you look at morihair, there's so many things you can do, especially to that very top layer. Me being tired, I just curled it any old way.... it came out like this:
It wasn't too bad. What I -tried- to do was have the two colors layering evernly over the opposite side. This run didn't seem as good and I didn't really know why-- so for the sake of that day, since I had a meet to go to, and I was exhausted after 7 HOURS of hairfixing at that point, I just slapped on some Marie ears.
Now later on, I talked to my girl Shiena about it... She gave me tips on how she layers multi-toned hair and makes it look even.. which is to basically spread each color other across the bump, layer by layer. So with that in mind, I was fortunately able to re-straighten those very-top layers, and tried to curl them into very straightish curls, and layer the hair. Then, I worked on the ponytail curls, which I use mainly to make the wig look even more lengthy.
Despite it being a bit wonky, since I was only really able to do so many layers since the rest of the hair was already really teased, it came out like this:
I loved this result. I loved it and I honestly can't wait to do it again. sdjahdksdbas So definitely when I get a new wig, it's going down.
Overall, the only thing I didn't like was the bangs... since they were blunt bangs and you could do but so much with them. But I try to manage :3
This is me basically talking for 10 minutes over this hairstyle. Jeez.10 minutes of exhausted babble.
Anyways~ this was a general runthrough~ hope it made some sense. Hopefully in the near future I'll mess with the new wig and actually have video and non-confusing instructions~
Anyways, instead of video I took a couple of photos of the process. Before, during/in between each process, my first "finish" and then my second "finish" since I wasn't satisfied with what I did with the top.
Old pic-- "before"
The first thing I did was cut layers into it. I didn't really pay attention to how short~ I just started snipping a bunch from the top, and then made my way down the wig~ leaving the bottom part uncut for length.
Then I brushed it, sectioned it, and curled it.
Every curl I did needed about 2-3 minutes maybe, and once I slid the hair off my curling iron, I did it gently so it would be tightly curled still, and then I blew on the hot curls until it cools. Rinse and repeat. This was so time consuming.
After curling the entire head, I teased the hair. Now my process might seem a little strange...
I took all the hair from the crown up, tied it in a loose bun. I pretty much sprayed and teased the center area first. Then I made my way down, and then back and to the top.
Pre-teasing
Tease. tease. tease~
The fluffiness of the center area of the PINK side, once I was done with the bottom half of the wig.
I didn't tease the last couple of wefts from the bottom, since it was styled for length rather than volume. Once I was done with the bottom, I started sort of fingercombing it to separate some of the girls and make the hair more fluffy.
Some of the sloppy teasing I did to make the top more fuller~
When I was done with most of the curling (save maybe, 2-3 weft layers from the very top), I twisted the very back of the wig up into two twists and pinned it in place to help the beehive-type volume. There's something about the way you twist or braid hair that lets it fluff better...
Super teased, loads of curls, with no direction xD
Now here is my first run... when I got to the crown of the head, suddenly I started thinking like, 'what hairstyle am I trying to achieve?" "How is the top going to look?" If you look at morihair, there's so many things you can do, especially to that very top layer. Me being tired, I just curled it any old way.... it came out like this:
It wasn't too bad. What I -tried- to do was have the two colors layering evernly over the opposite side. This run didn't seem as good and I didn't really know why-- so for the sake of that day, since I had a meet to go to, and I was exhausted after 7 HOURS of hairfixing at that point, I just slapped on some Marie ears.
Despite it being a bit wonky, since I was only really able to do so many layers since the rest of the hair was already really teased, it came out like this:
Overall, the only thing I didn't like was the bangs... since they were blunt bangs and you could do but so much with them. But I try to manage :3
This is me basically talking for 10 minutes over this hairstyle. Jeez.10 minutes of exhausted babble.
Anyways~ this was a general runthrough~ hope it made some sense. Hopefully in the near future I'll mess with the new wig and actually have video and non-confusing instructions~
Monday, October 29, 2012
MintyMix split wig VIDEO review
Right now I'm sitting here waiting for this Hurricane Sandy to supposedly wreak havoc in my area... the winds are slowly picking up, though the worst is supposed to be around the afternoon. Ugh.
My power's been flickering in and out, so I tried to just upload this review that I finally put together! It's just a review on my Mintymix Deep Pink x Black split wavy wig. Like I said before, I wanted to start doing this so other darker skinned girls would be able to sort of get an idea of how unnatural colored wigs look on them. Hopefully soon I'll be making another one in the coming weeks~
I'm hoping my power won't get cut, but in the case that it does, I guess I will talk to people later e_e ugh
My power's been flickering in and out, so I tried to just upload this review that I finally put together! It's just a review on my Mintymix Deep Pink x Black split wavy wig. Like I said before, I wanted to start doing this so other darker skinned girls would be able to sort of get an idea of how unnatural colored wigs look on them. Hopefully soon I'll be making another one in the coming weeks~
I'm hoping my power won't get cut, but in the case that it does, I guess I will talk to people later e_e ugh
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Entered the Kawaii International contest..
This time was a "hime" theme, or at least was originally a "himegyaru" theme.
I was actually really dissatisfied with my outfit. I don't know. A part of me wanted to do some D.I.A.-type stuff but that wouldn't have been all that princessy... I also have things from MAR*S but I don't know, I didn't want to dress up in it. Maybe I should have ; w;
So I went with my lolita dress instead.
It was way too simple. ._____. I don't know...
I was still sick so I'll just blame my lethargy on that.
(My God, I have to post about those heels though. Seriously)
What I -did- like though, was the hair that I managed to do * w*
I basically started playing around with some of my hairpieces... since I barely used the ponytails that went with my brownxpink fade wig from Mintymix, I chopped them up and tried to layer them a bit~
I was playing with them and then I realized hey~ this actually matches the brown on my brownxtan short wig xDD I went through the process of straightening the ponytails, and then curling them again to how I wanted them.. and then I took one, put it on my short wig, and started playing around with the matching wire pieces to the split wig... and finally, tried to sort of pin the side up without it looking too jacked. And this was the result!
It was so cute, high-five for creating this 3-toned look xD
I plan to make a video for it soon! I just need to try and touch up the messy points and try to get it looking more correct~
Not expecting myself to win unfortunately, I felt that I could've done so much more outfit and makeup-wise, but hot damn, this hair * w* I cannot
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