Keep Your Hair On!

It’s been a while since I’ve discussed fancy dress on my blog so this Sunday I’d like to go back to my roots (excuse the pun) and talk about wigs! I started this blog when I first opened my Cassiefairy fancy dress shop in Preston, Lancashire and it ran alongside my website to share ideas for unique fancy dress costumes. Here are some of my very early blog posts about my tutu business:

• Cassiefairy – in the beginning
• Cassiefairy has always been Cassiefairy
• The next chapter of Cassiefairy

So really, this blog post goes way back  to my fancy dress origins and I just can’t shake off how much I love getting dressed up in costumes and wigs

 I think that it’s the idea that you can become someone else when you’re in fancy dress – you’re playing the role of a character really – and I used to love acting in drama class at school, so I suppose it’s a throw-back to that. All throughout my student days my friends and I would look out for student nights with a fancy dress theme and spend hours planning our outfits and getting ready for big nights out. And the nights when we went out in fancy dress were definitely the most crazy!

And now that I’m technically a ‘grown-up’ the opportunities for dressing up are getting fewer, which is a shame because  I still work in that industry and I always like to behave childishly whenever I can! I occasionally pop on a pair of fairy wings when I’m working and often ‘have to’ try on tutus but I’ve noticed that I’ve been looking into wigs and hair accessories a lot more recently and I think that the way that my fancy dress obsession will come out in the future is via hair pieces!

Photos courtesy of Pauls-Hair-World.co.uk/

I’ve got a great long list of wigs I’m looking at online and I really want to buy one, even though I have no reason to own a wig and have nowhere to wear it. I just kind of want to see what my hair would look like if it was pink! Or long platinum blonde. Or bright ruby red. I’m not brave enough to dye my hair all the colours of the rainbow any more (another thing I used to do as a student – friday mornings would be for skipping art class and dying our hair purple, red and blue!) plus I know that hair colouring often goes wrong and can cost a lot to correct. I’ve almost been seduced by the concept of hair chalking but I tried it out on some hair extensions that I’ve previously bought rather than my own hair to see how it reacted and I quickly realised that I’d just averted disaster because when I washed out the pink hair chalk, it had dyed the blonde hair orange! Phew!

I think that clip-in hair pieces such as buns and plaits can be a very easy way to get the latest style, as long as the quality of the hair is good and a clip-in fringe is a good way to see if it will suit before going for the chop! So I’ve been online shopping here and have spent many hours drooling over the gorgeous hair – it’s just so appealing to have perfect hair instantly without any styling effort! Even Jessica Simpson is getting in on the act and selling her own line of half-wigs, clip in fringes and hair extensions. Anyway, I think I’m going to treat myself to a pink wig, if only to sit around admiring myself in the mirror and to save me from ever getting my hair dyed that color and ending up with an orange tinge! So what hair style or color would you like to try? Leave me a comment below