Beauty Archives - Pretty Tall Style

So let me tell you about my new favorite nail polish color China Glaze For Audrey. I don’t think I’ve shared with you all that I am a big Audrey Hepburn fan. I adore her amazing iconic style and absolutely love her movies. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is my all time favorite movie, well I take that back, it’s an actual tie with Mahogany starring Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. Anyway before I start to ramble, I was perusing Pinterest one day when I happened upon a pin for this beautiful Tiffany Blue nail polish. When I clicked on the image I found out it was China Glaze For Audrey. First seeing the amazing color and then the name, I knew I had to own this polish. So off to the only Sally Beauty Supply on the island I went and to my delight the China Glaze polish was on sale for $4.99. As I perused the rows of colors and names I came to an empty row, and you guessed it, they were all sold out. So I left empty-handed. When I arrived home I went online to order it. When I went to check out, I received a notice stating that they were unable to ship (blah, blah, blah, hazardous, blah) materials to Hawaii and Alaska… I’m like what the heck it’s just nail polish people! I wanted this nail polish bad and I had no clue where else to find it on the island. I went to the nail salon with my bestie and they didn’t carry the color. So about a few days passed and I went back to Sally’s to see if maybe, just maybe they had restocked and they had. Luckily for me the polish was still on sale as well. So my friends, I present to you in case you haven’t already seen it for yourselves my new nail polish crush… China Glaze For Audrey. 🙂

The Big Chop

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If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook then you know that I did another big chop yesterday. Back on July 4th I cut all of my hair off and had the hubby shave it off to about 3/8″ in length. I had really jacked my hair up by bleaching it and coloring it about 6 times in a one month period. I was attempting to get my hair a medium to dark brown color with caramel highlights. Big time fail. My hubby told me I should go to a salon but I told I could do it I’ve been doing my own hair for so long. Well I had to eat my words this time, because he was right I should have went to a salon. But I didn’t, so now I am here. Yesterday I had my husband shave my head again to get rid of the rest of the damaged/colored ends. It is a fresh start and another natural hair journey begins for me. Yesterday I ventured out to Costco and Target with my guys, without a wig. I was scared at first, thinking everyone would be staring at me and then I thought to myself well that isn’t any different than any other day because people already stare at me because of my height…lol Now I don’t know whether they are staring at me because I am tall, bald or both…lol

Learning to Love Your Natural Beauty

I can’t wait to get my hands on the May issue of Essence Magazine. Essence boasts three fabulous covers featuring Ledisi, Solange Knowles, and Erykah Badu. I am very interested in reading these lovely ladies thoughts, “On Learning to Love Your Natural Beauty.” As you all know within the last year I myself have decided to embrace my natural hair and give up the relaxer. This is my 3rd attempt and the reason behind my last two “failures” have been due to vanity, and feeling that I wasn’t as pretty with my natural hair, as I was with my long and relaxed hair. The reason I feel that this 3rd time is a charm, is because I really have learned to love my natural hair. I twist my hair or put it in braids with extensions and I take it down immediately or after a few days because I miss my hair. Same with my wigs, I just don’t feel my best me. But when my own hair is out in its perfectly imperfect kinks, curls, waves and coils, (yes it really is a combination of all of the above…lol) I feel like the best version of me. I don’t know if it’s age or maturity or the combination of the two, but I’m loving who I am these days and especially my hair. Totally random I know, but I think as with being tall sometimes it takes us until a later time in life to learn to appreciate and to love it. I know when I was a teen I did not like being tall at all and wished I was shorter. But once I became older and started to embrace my height and the positives that come with it, I learned to love my height. So as with my hair, where I once hated the texture, I have grown to embrace it and the positives that come with it where I can where it kinky/curly in its natural state or straight when I take a blow dryer and flat iron to it. I love the texture and can’t help playing in it, twisting the coils and curls and feeling the bumps of the kinks. Now I can’t say that everyday is a love affair…lol but in the last month or so I can honestly say it’s been a 98% love and 2% hate when it doesn’t want to cooperate and I have to brush it back into a bun. 🙂