As expected, I was slightly hangover today, but I had a ticket to California Discord fest today. It's a two-day festival with some cool crust punk and grindcore bands, so was looking forward to checking out the hardcore scene, and just how underground it was. I was in for the weirdest festival ever. I got to the venue after a 40 minute bus ride, as it's on the other side of Downtown LA, and there isn't really much going on in that area. 'The Vortex' was more l...

UPDATE: Well, last night, I walked to the Novel for a couple only to discover that it was packed solid with no chance of me getting a beer, so I decided to try and find somewhere else. Whilst walking back the scenic route, I saw a huge sign which said 'Beer Belly'… it was as if by magic it appeared. It's a bar that focusses on selling home-brews, mainly ales. You even get to try them before you order them. I got chatting to the bar staff, who suggested I co...

The last day of learning how to do hair had come, meaning there was only one day until the finals, meaning I'd never have to style hair, or apply beauty make-up again… if I didn't want to. In all honesty, despite dreading this section of the course and moaning about having to wear make-up a lot, it's given me good grounds to work up from. I'm much better at blending colours and figuring out face shapes and good design ideas. I've even got better at sketching...

Today was very similar to yesterday in that we learnt some styles in the morning, then had a quickfire round of doing different styles in the afternoon. This morning was based on period hairstyles, but done in a modern way. One of them was supposed to be based on some woman called Janelle Monae...? (http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/6905_up-monae_lrg.jpg) I've only just googled her, and now I can understand a bit more what we were aiming for. Unfortun...

So after having yesterday off, I knew today was going to be tough, trying to catch up on everything the rest of the class learnt yesterday, and it doesn't help that again, girls tend to do more stuff with, and to, their hair. I haven't had my 'hair did' in years (apart from those two drunken night's round Greg's where he'd kindly given me an undercut) (oh, and the Danb'n/scissors incident at the pub where I almost got it all cut off, but got away with just a l...