Hi everyone,
No, not physically moving again!
But, the blog has moved.
We are now at http://countrygypsies.com
All the posts that have been on this site are now over at the new site!
I hope you like it and keep visiting us over there!
Cheers
Lisa xox
Country Gypsies
Humourous and witty view on life and living. Champagne living on a beer budget!
Sunday 13 July 2014
Saturday 12 July 2014
Bit Of A Hiccup
Hi everyone.
I owe you an apology - it seems many of my amazing, incredible and insightful images have been 'falling off' the CG blog.
I have my technical assistant (my 13 year old) working on this as we speak.
We are almost ready to go 'live' with our new more streamlined blog site and hopefully all these little hiccups will be gone!
So, here is an image of me this morning trying to get it sorted.
Please stay with me - I really appreciate your support!!!
I owe you an apology - it seems many of my amazing, incredible and insightful images have been 'falling off' the CG blog.
I have my technical assistant (my 13 year old) working on this as we speak.
We are almost ready to go 'live' with our new more streamlined blog site and hopefully all these little hiccups will be gone!
So, here is an image of me this morning trying to get it sorted.
Please stay with me - I really appreciate your support!!!
And this is where I am pretending to be! |
Thanks for your support!
Lisa x0x
Friday 11 July 2014
Fashionista Friday #5
Welcome once again to Fashionista Friday.
I'm sure you have all been on the edge of your seats in anticipation of what fashion musings I will be discussing this week.
Now some of you may be a bit too young to remember the hey day of this fashion bonanza, so maybe ask your Mum/Aunt/Grandma or a friend older than 40!
Because today Ladies and Gents we are discussing.........
THE PERM!!!!!
Oh yes, not the fashionable perm that I think may be creeping back in to society today where the beautiful bouncy waves hang loosely, like Clive Palmer's McDonalds food creeping down his chin.
No, we are talking about the perms of the eighties!
I, for one, did indulge in this sartorial display of bad hair taste, but hey, Iam was a slave to fashion. It was the done thing, back in the day!
But of course mine didn't start out with your full on perm. Mine started when Mum decided that my lank locks needed a bit of oommppphhhh so she booked me in at the localbarber salon and they proceeded to only perm my fringe and the two dangly bits near my ears.
Oh, the look ofhorror utter amazement when those curlers were taken out and that poisonous perming solution was washed off!!!!!!!!
After realizing just how gorgeous I was, I then decided to go the full hog!
Yep, the full head perm. Oh, those were the days. Having your hair wound so tightly around those little curlers then the 'solution' poured on and sitting there with tears streaming down your face, no, not because you had a premonition that you were going to look like a poodle on a bad hair day but that it really was poison stinging your eyes.
Then after 47 hours sitting in the world's most uncomfortable chair (thank goodness the hairdressers of the world fixed that issue!!!) having it washed off and dried and you did indeed look like a poodle. On a bad hair day.
The hairdresser then would exclaim just how gorgeous you were and not to wash it for 37 days because it may 'drop' and you walked out of the salon with tears in your eyes realizing that it would have been so much easier, and far less expensive, to stick your fingers in a power socket, and possibly less dangerous!!!
But after65 perms, the world of perms opened up in a big way. There wasn't just the poodle gone wrong perm, there was also the spiral perm and the 'root' perm (luckily there wasn't a brazilian perm back then - you would have walked out with no hair!!!!). Yes, I did them all.
Oh yes, those were the days of seeing just how much poisonous solution your hair could soak up before it did indeed fall out.
I always found the best days of the perm were about 2 days before your next perm when it looked like it was meant to - the beautiful bouncy curls that we can now get with a GHD (except me, I just cannot do it for the life of me).
So, as we all know, fashion is on a fairly short cycle so it must only be hours away till we walk into the hair dresser asking for a root.....perm!!!!!
Did you have a perm?
Did your hair fall out??
Do you own a poodle???
Cheers
Lisa xox
p.s. Oh, shame I couldn't find any pics of me with my perm!!!!
I'm sure you have all been on the edge of your seats in anticipation of what fashion musings I will be discussing this week.
Now some of you may be a bit too young to remember the hey day of this fashion bonanza, so maybe ask your Mum/Aunt/Grandma or a friend older than 40!
Because today Ladies and Gents we are discussing.........
THE PERM!!!!!
! |
No, we are talking about the perms of the eighties!
I, for one, did indulge in this sartorial display of bad hair taste, but hey, I
But of course mine didn't start out with your full on perm. Mine started when Mum decided that my lank locks needed a bit of oommppphhhh so she booked me in at the local
Oh, the look of
After realizing just how gorgeous I was, I then decided to go the full hog!
Perm meets mullet - the Merm? The Pullet? |
Yep, the full head perm. Oh, those were the days. Having your hair wound so tightly around those little curlers then the 'solution' poured on and sitting there with tears streaming down your face, no, not because you had a premonition that you were going to look like a poodle on a bad hair day but that it really was poison stinging your eyes.
Then after 47 hours sitting in the world's most uncomfortable chair (thank goodness the hairdressers of the world fixed that issue!!!) having it washed off and dried and you did indeed look like a poodle. On a bad hair day.
The hairdresser then would exclaim just how gorgeous you were and not to wash it for 37 days because it may 'drop' and you walked out of the salon with tears in your eyes realizing that it would have been so much easier, and far less expensive, to stick your fingers in a power socket, and possibly less dangerous!!!
But after
Oh yes, those were the days of seeing just how much poisonous solution your hair could soak up before it did indeed fall out.
I always found the best days of the perm were about 2 days before your next perm when it looked like it was meant to - the beautiful bouncy curls that we can now get with a GHD (except me, I just cannot do it for the life of me).
Did you have a perm?
Did your hair fall out??
Do you own a poodle???
Cheers
Lisa xox
p.s. Oh, shame I couldn't find any pics of me with my perm!!!!
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