help me with hair to go with this dress please ladies!

[~landgirl~]

How did it go, it was last night wsn't it? I only just read this message!

 

[book_lover]

aw thanks so much Landgirl for asking, I had a fab time, my friend helped me with my hair (backcombing it a bit on top too) and it looked great (unfortunately in the photos you can see how my annoying floppy bit kept coming down at the side - will have to pin that next time). Apparently my hair got "eyed up" in one pub, and my friend Mike (who likes all things vintage but not Golden Era specifically) said "nice, wow" and things like that when he saw it - he seemed thouroughly surprised at me My friends all kept saying I looked nice BUT THEN I SAW THE PICTURES.

Now I don't QUITE know why I'm posting a picture (I like to humiliate myself perhaps??) but here you go. Note how I just DO NOT suit red lipstick and grey eyeshadow - my eyes are the wrong colour for it so in future I'm going to stick to colours that suit me regardless of how "authentic" they might not be...... and the dress, which I have been loving, makes me look SO washed out in these pics. Not sure if it's the camera or just need a bit of fake tan - sigh. And I KNOW I'm slimmer than this - sigh again. The dress is a UK 12 so why does it make me look so much larger in the pics?

Maybe I should just not ever LOOK at pictures after a night out!

eta excuse also the red eyes and the stamp on my hand! these are the very best pics of many - some are absolutely horrendous!

 

[~landgirl~]

I love your hair!!!! and I love the dress even more now I see it complete! You are right though, you are very fair - like me so maybe a touch of fake tan would have done the trick but I wouldn't say you looked 'washed out' at all. And you look 'curvy' which is the shape of women had back in the day so don't put yourself down!

Thanks for the pics! It's great to see people on here. I think everyone should post pics of themselves on night outs - that way we can get tips on colours etc. Just a thought!

 

[RetroModelSari]

I think you look georgous (and I adore what you did with your hair!). Don´t be so worried about looking large. i think you look great and keep in mind that it is just a snapshoot. Snapshoots rarely catch the way you really look!

 

[book_lover]

thanks girls! I appreciate your thoughts, and don't feel SO bad now (although the diet re-starts today, and my Mum has just promised me an extra birthday pressie if I get to my target - 7lb in a month should be doable).

Sari your website is amazing! Maybe you can offer me some advice on how to pose for the camera? I always feel so stupid and can't hold a natural smile for all that long and end up looking silly.

Cheers girls.

 

[~landgirl~]

I'd be interested in some tips also Sari, my face is far from symetrical (not that I look like the geezer from the goonies or anything!! haha) but it my nose is slighty over on one side and it makes my face look quite wonky in some photographs!

 

[RetroModelSari]

Ok, on your request I give out some tips.

The best perspective to be photographed is when pictures are taken at least(!!!) in a distance of two meters. If the one taking the photo is going to a low angle it will give you georgous long legs (people often wonder that I´m just a 5´6 when they meet me in person). And I can never say it enough - put your stomach in and your chest out. And last but not least straighten your back.

book-lover: the position is good. You just need to lift your shoulder put chest out, stomach in.

landgirl: Feel free to send me a photo so I have an idea what you mean. I have the suspicion that your face-photos are taken from a distance of less than 2 m (cause that can really make one look weird and different).

 

[~landgirl~]

Ok I am going to get my other half to take a photograph of me on Wednesday evening as we are going to see Buddy the musical so I will be wearing a nice dress! I will do as you say, at least 2 meters away and post in here!

 

[book_lover]

thanks! I'll remember those tips. I mostly feel very self conscious about my mouth though - smile - with teeth, or without? [huh] and then I end up flitting between the two while the person taking the pic gets themselves sorted and look stupid in the end result!

 

[~landgirl~]

thanks! I'll remember those tips. I mostly feel very self conscious about my mouth though - smile - with teeth, or without? [huh] and then I end up flitting between the two while the person taking the pic gets themselves sorted and look stupid in the end result!

It depends if you have good teeth or not! If you do then I would go for the full cheesecake grin and show them off My mouth isn;t shaped well to show my teeth so I always look like this in photographs!!

 

[RetroModelSari]

Too many people are insecure about their teeth. My ones aren´t perfect either. But give a biiiig smile with teeth a try.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Book Lover, I just got back from my trip so I have missed a week of this thread: your hair looked great in your pics. Everything looked lovely. Glad the hairnet worked.