Easy peasy hairstyles

Hi

I've decided to write about some things you can do with your hair when it needs a wash and you can't be bothered or when its getting in your face and annoying you (that's every other second for me!)

Medium Length hair: It gets really annoying and hot wearing it down sometimes but if you
just keep the front bits tied back then you get all the glory of its longeness (is that a word?!!)
and it doesn't get in the way! Just take a small section from the side of your head near the front,
and tie this with a bunch. Repeat on the other side. Tighten them sort of backwards so they're not sticking straight out the side (that would look really cute on a four year old, but not really on the age I was aiming at!).This style is quite fun so if you were looking for something a bit more sensible (that word is not in my dictionary!) you could try just pulling the entire front section of your hair back
into a bunch at the back of your head or plaiting the side sections back and pinning instead of bunching them! If the hair that's down is still annoying you just bundle it all up into a messy ponytail. Some say its easiest to do this with your head upside down to get it right on the top of your head but I find it easier to be the right way up when I do mine! I guess it depends on your hair.

Long hair: You can do everything I put down for Medium length hair with long hair, in fact
some of the styles work better with long hair like the bunches one.
You can also do braids over the top of your head which looks quite cute!

Bobbed hair: You can't really tie up bobbed hair but you can pin it back in various different ways.
Option 1. Take a piece of hair at the very front of your head in the centre and twist it backwards. Pin.
Option 2. Take a small section from the side of your head and plait it. Pin this back and do the same
on the other side.
Option 3. Do the same as in option 2 but twist instead of plait.
Two plaits also looks very cute in bobbed hair, French, Dutch or normal.

Short hair: I don't know about short hair, but I'm guessing you don't really need to get it out the way because its already out of the way if you get what I mean?!
If its long, short hair (?) you can do any of the options for bobbed hair.

Remember: you don't just have to do the styles in your category you can mix and match and adapt
them all to fit your hair.

Mariano Fortuny and the Delphos dress

Its 1907 and the fashion world is about to change dramatically for the first time in decades.

The 36 year old Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo has rebelled against the strict lines that have dominated the scene for as long as anyone can remember. He has created the Delphos dress.

An older Mariano Fortuny

Fortuny was born to a very artistic family in 1871 Granada, Spain, his father was the painter

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal and his mother was the daughter of another famous painter Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta. It came clear to see at a young age that Fortuny was a very talented artist showing not only great promise as a painter but an apparent interest in textiles. His father died when he was three and his mother moved the family to Paris. There Fortuny's artistic side was fueled greatly. As a young man Fortuny traveled finding out artists he admired and broadening his skills to include inventing, painting, photography, sculpting, architecture, etching and stage lighting. In 1889 he moved to Venice staying there for the rest of his life.

Mariano Fortuny took inspiration for the Delphos dress from the loose clothing Greek people wore.

The Delphos dress was a shift made from finely hand pleated silk weighed down by glass beads.

It came in many vibrant colours, hand dyed with pigments Fortuny himself had made using ancient methods.

No one has ever been able to recreate pleating as fine as his.