Feeling Festive and a hair change!

Christmas is just over a week away and I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm fully prepared. The tree has been purchased, is up and fully decorated. This year I didn't have a particular theme or colour scheme, I just went with the flow and I have to say I like it.

Last year I was feeling reds, pinks and purples, the year before that it was powder blue and silver, I'm usually into colour co-ordination but not this Christmas.

I love buying Christmas decorations, there are some amazingly pretty and different ones in the shops at the moment. I love all the crystal and jewel like ones, they makes a nice change from the traditional shiny baubles to adorn your tree.

Here are a few of my favourite:
I love this pale yellow/gold crystal, I bought them this year in all different shapes and sizes. The nice thing about decorations like these is you don't just have to use them over the festive period, they look great all year round in your house.

I have some hanging from my wardrobe handles and on lights. Surprisingly I found these in B&Q for 49p while looking for a Christmas tree.

This gold teardrop bauble is so cute, it has a pretty reindeer on it in velvet. I have four of these two with Christmas love birds and two reindeer's. These were also a mere 49p from B&Q, what a bargain.

This decoration is probably my favourite, I love the fuchsia colour, the tassels, gold beads and pretty crystal. It looks so chic, glamorous and non christmassy!

I think this was a few pounds from another home ware store but I bought it a few years ago so can't quite remember.
This was also from the same shop, I just love them both!

I really have got Christmas all wrapped up this year (haha), unusually for me all my presents are bought and ready to go.

I'm usually a leave it to the last minute kind of girl and don't get round to wrapping my presents till Christmas Eve but last night I sat for over 3 hours and finished the lot.

So proud, phew!

On a completely separate note I made a subtle change to my hair last week and I'm loving it. I'm so much happier with this style than the previous one, I can't wait to go for Christmas cocktails now.

I know it sounds silly but when you don't feel right about your hair you don't feel like partying or being confident, well I didn't anyway. So last week I booked a hair appointment at a new salon I'd never been to.

I usually go to a L'Oreal salon but I wanted to try something new and went to a TIGI one instead.

I told them how unhappy I was with my recent cut and that it felt too severe and heavy so this is what the stylist came up with and I love it.

The colour is a little darker with more of a caramel undertone which I think is perfect for Christmas and the cut is so much better. She created a heavier side fringe and added layers all the way round to add shape.

It feels so much thicker and bouncier, I love it. The cut isn't the best bit either the price is, usually I pay over £100 for a colour,cut and finish but this cost just £53 pounds, half the price, wow!

So what did I do with the extra £50 in my pocket, went shopping of course!!

How are your Christmas preparations going? Are you last minute or an early bird?
xx