An Easy Vintage Retro Pin Up Hair Style- Step by Step!

(This is kind of messy and needs a wash- but you get the idea.)

This is a tutorial on an easy way to pin up hair and it is not a video! There are tonnes of video out there, but here is all the details written down in case you are truly old school!

You will need:

• Kirby grips
• A brush with black bristles (the kind you don't want to step on)
• Hairspray
• A curler (a hot one, big or small barrelled)
• A straightener
• Clean hair, unlike me. :)

1. Flip your head forward. Grab the top section of hair closest to your forehead and bobble it up.

2. The rest of the hair (as you are still bent over_ needs to be grabbed in inch sections and back combed. So grab the strand and in a 1-2-3 motion, rub the brush up against it.

3. Spray the root and blend the spray upwards to add texture. Repeat for the crown of your head.

4. Flip hair upwards. Blimey – you have a bush of hair. It’s cool, I promise. Don’t leave the house yet though!

5. Now. Take half the nest and clip it up. I like to straighten the remaining bits of hair to make it longer and sleeker. Do this, just start half way down the length.

6. Release the clips. 

7. Now to create a quiff. Take a portion of the mad hair (an inch or two) from the peaks of your eyebrows upwards using your fingers. This is quiff fodder.

8. Now, get your curling iron on. Hold the hair up and away from your head. *arm strain*

9. I recommend 200 degree heat – nuke that quiff!

10. Now, go under the hair and press the barrel into the hair from below. Move the barrel forward and back to make a hot bump.

  11. Get smoothing. Take your hand and some wax, oil, hairspray or nothing, and flatten the hair slightly.

12. Now time to pin. Holding your bumped up quiff, twist it, then quickly push it forward. Slide it across your head to make a big quiff. Check it from the side.

13. If it’s cool, add in two pins, criss crossing. Ta-daaa! Quiff!

14. Now, go from your ear line (where your ear meets you face ) and with your finger draw a line straight upwards. This is your next section. Twist this the opposite way to your face so it sticks out. Pin it up. Repeat on the other side.

15. Take your curling iron and curl sections of your hair.

16. Done! A vintage look quiff in minutes. Add lipgloss, big eyes and killer leopard print heels. Enjoy. <3 font="font">

Etsy - Art for Everyone?

I have recently got into Etsy.

I find it quite enjoyable as a website – and here's why!

1. Taste test

You go through, being shown images like Freud himself would, asking to pick your favourite. I find this really narrows down your taste, and also provokes interesting , life changing questions such as ‘Am I a wooden vase or a glass egg sort of person?’ Pin ups, pola dots, knitted cakes, proper art, with oils and landscapes and everything, Etsy has something for everyone.

2. The gift idea

You link it up with facebook and all of a sudden- boom- instant gift ideas based on your friends tastes that they put in facebook. Remember they put they like Starbucks? Hey look, here's some earrings shaped like coffee cups! Remember they liked the band Madness? Look- Pictures of scream or yelling sock puppets. It’s a mixed bag, but great for offbeat gifts and a fabulous idea to get people looking around the site.

3.Paying is easy

Got Paypal? You can pay on Etsy. Easy, done and done. It’s the stopping that’s the problem...

4. You meet people.

I got this bit of work done at the top of the page.

It’s an illustration of me by the amazing Danger S. Jones.

( You can check her out here or here for personalised work at very reasonable prices.)

The point is, to get this thing on my wall from California involved talking, texting, photos and work. In turn, I think I’ve made a great new friend with similar interests to me.

And that’s it really! There is something for everyone at Etsy, from making it (You won’t catch me knitting) to buying it (that’s more like it) get involved.

Have you bought any art from Etsy online? Or a gift? Who do you think it suits?

Elaine