I love hair!

I love doing hair! I've always had a knack for it that I developed throughout Academy by doing other girls' hair for banquets (what we called dances). I would hurry and try and get myself ready first and then do as many other girls' hair as I could fit in before it was time to go. Living in a dorm made it easy for me to just shuffle all the girls' into my dorm room with their curling irons and various tools and then assign them tasks to help me out while working on one's hair at a time. Pretty funny, actually.

Anyway, I've always done my own hair for special occasions. My future sister in law (at the time) noticed my talent and asked me to do her hair. She seemed pretty happy with the result, so I think it was a success. Here's some pictures:

I thought it looked especially nice on the sides. :)

It framed her face nicely as well.

So, of course, I decided to do my own hair for my wedding. I think it took me about 3 hours to get ready for my wedding, including a quick shower, but I think I did a pretty bang up job, not to mention it saved money and the inconvenience of having to bring someone in to do it. My sister got some good pictures of how my hair looked right before the wedding:

I loved how the fresh orchids really showed off my hair as well. There's nothing like a little bit of nature to really make something look special.

Now all I've got to figure out is when I'll have another occasion to really go all out. Perhaps for the cruise coming up this summer? Lots of formal dinners there . . . should be fun!