I recently noticed that I've had this WordPress blog for 10 years. A full decade of moaning about my hair on my little development website and it seemed like a good time to reflect and post something. The main purpose of this website was to give me a place to test things out and practice new skills. I build websites for a living so it's important that I keep up to date. Obviously I can't try things out on client sites and I'm notoriously bad at making the time to build pretend websites, so … [Read more...] about A DECADE OF THE SUBURBAN AFRO
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FAREWELL, PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW – SAYING GOODBYE TO YOUR HAIR EXTENSIONS
No matter how happy you were, the day your stylist put them in, eventually you reach a stage where it's time to remove your hair extensions. If you are one of those well behaved types this will be at the appropriate time, as suggested by your hairdresser. Many of you will have taken a small detour via the delay zone and then there are some of you, whose hair extensions have been there so long that they've been taken hostage by your own hair! I'm not going to judge, you know who you are and I'm … [Read more...] about FAREWELL, PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW – SAYING GOODBYE TO YOUR HAIR EXTENSIONS
SEEING DOUBLE. THE CURSE OF THE DOUBLE HAIRDO
There are lots of ways to have hair extensions. Quite often my go to solution is to bury my natural hair under my shop bought hair. There are various methods, but the end result is that you only see my new (and allegedly improved) hair. This period of equilibrium exists for a brief time until eventually we witness the return of the original hair, peeking out from under the shop bought hair, giving rise to the dreaded Double Hair Do The good news is that for a while I'm the only person who … [Read more...] about SEEING DOUBLE. THE CURSE OF THE DOUBLE HAIRDO
I SHOULD BE GORGEOUS BY NOW
I'm average looking. That's not a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a thing. Most people are average looking, it is quite unusual to meet people who are either truly beautiful or hideously ugly. The trick is to make the best of what you have. I looked my best when I was 25/26. I was young and slim. I was old enough to know what suited me and I was earning enough money to buy the clothes, products and hairdo's that flattered me most. I had my first management position and was driving around … [Read more...] about I SHOULD BE GORGEOUS BY NOW
WEB DEVELOPMENT STUFF
As I hope I've made fairly clear, this blog isn't designed to offer you a host of life changing hair and beauty tips. I build websites for a living. I offer other digital services too, but the majority of the day job is building websites for people. I retrained as a mature student a few years ago and quickly discovered that learning web development is a process that never ends. You don't start with a list of things and when you've learnt them all you're done. The things on the list change and … [Read more...] about WEB DEVELOPMENT STUFF