Nancy, let your hair down

[venta]

So, we had a bank holiday. Yes, I know it's a while back.

I experimented with

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[venta]

Before anyone asks: yes I did remember to replace my crushed ginger nuts in the brownie recipe with crushed gluten-free biscuits! (Tesco's own gluten-free digestives, if you're interested.)

[bopeepsheep]

Mythbusting Princess Leia's hair.

[venta]

I'm not well enough up on my Star Wars to know she had multiple implausible hairstyles... having seen what hairdressers can do with patience, industrial hair gel, and lots of hair pieces I'm quite happy to believe the canonical buns are doable. Absolutely not practical if you're going on the run across the Empire, though :)

[bopeepsheep]

I managed them once with industrial amounts of hair spray and pins - they stayed intact for about 2 hours - but only by plaiting my hair first. (It was below hip length at the time, I was about 12.)

[valkyriekaren]

If you ever get the urge to do it again, hie thee to thy local Afro-Caribbean hair & beauty shop. They will be able to sell you beautiful braided buns in all sorts of styles that you just clip onto your hair, for about a fiver a pop. This kind of thing: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-PLAITED-PLAIT-CLIP-IN-ON-DOME-HAIR-BUN-PIECE-UPDO-HAIR-EXTENSION-WEDDING-/380620434281

[lathany]

I'm impressed with the hair - I've never been able to do anything to my own except stick it into a scrunchie. I think I missed Girl School too, also for cars and Lego spaceships.

[venta]

I was very surprised that it stayed up til I got home that night! It was pretty scruffy and messy (even at the beginning), though I did think that I could probably improve it a lot with practice.

Practice I'm almost certainly never going to actually put in, that is :) (Because I still have cars and Lego spaceships, and they're still better.)

[pseudomonas]

Crushed ginger nuts in brownies! You may be some kind of brownie genius. I think I might have to try making these forthwith.

[venta]

For bonus points, if using ginger nuts, use Maya gold instead of ordinary dark chocolate :)

[lnr]

Oh my!

[bateleur]

I looked like an asymmetrical, deranged Heidi

She was probably in one of the Star Wars prequels, so that'll do. And if not, never mind, because everyone game up after Phantom Menace anyway, so they won't be sure either way.

[venta]

Ah, but if you were holding a Star Wars party would you let in anyone who came dressed as a prequel-character?

(I think there was an Amidala (sp?) wandering about, but she looked under 16 so probably can't really be blamed.)