To the Moon and Back: hair and make-up

We just had our ball and it was pretty, it's theme was 'the secret garden'. Although it was missing a boy in a wheelchair like the book. There were fairy lights, strings of ivy and candles strung up around the beautiful old hotel room it was hosted in that had chandeliers and wooden floors to dance on. Myself and Kate took our time getting ready as it could be our last ball ever, and it turned out Chloe is a bit of a professional hair stylist in her spare time and curled my hair very skillfully.. though i then pinned it all over to one side of my head because 'why not'. Apparently it resembled Florence Welch from Florence and the machine's style when i added dark lips, a resemblance i'm quite happy with though i am not a red head <3 I do enjoy her music

We had quite some fun dancing all night and then out into town with the girls afterward, everywhere was fullest I'd ever seen it in town. We went to fever to dance on the lit up floor, someone grabbed me on the way out of there and attempted to perform a strange handshake with me involving spinning me around, knuckles and a slide-away handshake. Then we went to urban followed by metro where we danced to old music before the hungry ones took us through McDonald on the way home

Our RAs :)

Live band, they were pretty good

'bubbles' upon arrival

King and queen

Should have known that the biggest event of the entire year would be the one where i was figuring out how to stick on the party feet gels in the car, and then after that that they have a peel off side and are stick on so my feet shouldn't slide. Forgot my pearl drop necklace which was grrreeeaaaatttt having gotten sore feet in the search for it, Alex was a babe and a half in his suit and was even better at being formal that i was, as i wasn't particularly concerned and still wasn't worried until the walked down the stairs came

thud

thud

thud

boomboom

thud

Yeah, that's my heartbeat being like... oh you, you nutter, having your dress too long for your heels, congrats... *front of line* oh... WHY. WHAT THE. SARAH! DON'T YOU DARE GET THE REVERENDS NAME WRONG. OH NO, BISHOP, NOT THAT, WHICH IS IT? TIM OR TOM?
Then i realised i wasn't really all that fussed and just strode my way over that stage in my huge platforms (fuck yeah, was so tall)
Useless story in all. So I'll distract you with the only picture dad took of me :)

Never had my hair curled before so i did some selfies as I guessed dad would forget his camera, such pretty like hair

There we have it, my first time of being 'done up' and it was very... different
So ball stories? The food was amazing, Organised with Angus for suit lazer force which might be entertaining.. lazer force in suits. The dress and weird stick on bra gave me pointy boob syndrome and it kept slipping down which was sad, Alex made a point that it was as distracting as if he were hoisting up his pants constantly :p They played 'old people songs' which was fun and meant more of the parents and grandparents were dancing than us, there was a legendary granddad who was doing some sort of a jig.

It's strange being on holiday, having so much free time - last night I spent 4 hours taking up a dress
It's a beautiful one too, and eating blueberries

It's cloudy and will be for the next two weeks apparently, me and Alex put up my Christmas tree the other day, that was fun! Getting into the Christmas cheer. I wish I could find more Christmas lights, they make me so happy. When I live in a flat with Kate I hope we can decorate it like mad, with paper snowflakes, fairy lights and such.