This month's survey comes a bit late...but here it finally is! Party season is coming, so let's share our party hair secrets.

1. How do you like to wear your hair to formal special occassions?

2. And how would you wear your hair to less formal occassions like parties or a night out?

3. What are your favorite party hair accessories?

4. What is the main difference between your casual and special occassion styles?

5. Do you use any products to achieve a party look? If yes, what products?

6. How do you deal with people who smoke and the smell of smoke?

7.How do you make your hairstyle last the whole evening?

8. Is there any special occassion for which you'd like to have your hair styled by a professional? If yes, what occassion and what kind of style would you have?


My answers:

1. I haven't had formal events since I stopped going to a stylist. Maybe an elaborate bun or twist, decorated with pretty hairtoys.

2. I've worn buns with cheap sticks, but next time I might wear my hair down.

3. Hairsticks, clips, floating jewels...possibly all at once  The only restriction is that I'm too paranoid to wear my expensive hairsticks in a bar.

4. I wear same toys, the difference is in the style itself.

5. I have a "sparkle" spray that looks like gold dust in hair. And if I really needed to, I could use mousse or hairspray to a formal updo. But I try to survive with aloe vera gel and Amish pins as far as possible.

6. Avoiding them is my primary strategy. If I can't avoid them and the occassion allows, I wear a scarf bun. If I can't do even that, I suffer and wash the hair right when I get home.

7. Aloe vera gel (in my handbag too!), Amish hair pins and hairspray if needed. I try to secure my hair with pins instead of "gluing" it in place with hairspray, and tame whispies with aloe vera gel.

8. No! I've had my share of stylists. But I'd love to have my hair braided by a professional braider. Unfortunately, none live here...

1. How do you like to wear your hair to formal special occassions?

I would wear it up in a bun or french roll

2. And how would you wear your hair to less formal occassions like parties or a night out?

Down or maybe half up

3. What are your favorite party hair accessories?

My japanese hair sticks

4. What is the main difference between your casual and special occassion styles?

Special occassion styles are a lot more fancy with more ornaments

5. Do you use any products to achieve a party look? If yes, what products?

If I want my hair to shine, I dampen it and put camillia oil in to achive a nice shine with no chemicals

6. How do you deal with people who smoke and the smell of smoke?

Since most people smoke outside there houses and there's no smoking in public buildings it easy to get away from the problem

7.How do you make your hairstyle last the whole evening?
Lots of hair pins! and carry a mirror to check it.

8. Is there any special occassion for which you'd like to have your hair styled by a professional? If yes, what occassion and what kind of style would you have?

I would love to have a stylist do my hair in a Japanese updo of a Maiko for New years

1. How do you like to wear your hair to formal special occassions?
I like old-fashioned updo's. Victorian/Gibson styles, mostly.

2. And how would you wear your hair to less formal occassions like parties or a night out?
It depends on how much time I have left after getting dressed, putting on makeup and jewelry, etc. It also depends on what my hair is (and isn't) willing to do that night. I might put it up with pretty hair toys...or I might just part it on the side and leave it down. My hair is very straight and sleek, and has a natural side part. So it works.

3. What are your favorite party hair accessories?
The ones that I make myself. They usually start out as ordinary hairties, clips, etc. but I'll decorate them "tragically" with black or "dried" silk flowers, dark ribbons, strips of black lace, etc.

4. What is the main difference between your casual and special occassion styles?
There's a world of difference. My casual "style" is just to tie my hair back with a scrunchie to get it out of the way. For special occasions, there's some actual thought and effort (and often money) that goes into it. The more formal the occasion, the more complex the style.

5. Do you use any products to achieve a party look? If yes, what products?
Parties and special occasions are the rare instances when I regretfully must use a styling product. My drug of choice is Pantene's Flexible Hold Classic Hairspray.

6. How do you deal with people who smoke and the smell of smoke?
Man...I could write you a book on dealing with smokers - I live with one!  Blasphemy, I know, considering I have always opposed smoking and have myself led a very clean life. My boyfriend never smokes in our apartment and never brings it around me, but that doesn't spare me entirely.
  Everyone he knows smokes as well, so when they light up, I usually flee the scene. No one's company is worth putting myself in harm's way.
  As for my bf, he's quitting (or so he says). 

7.How do you make your hairstyle last the whole evening?
My hairspray usually does the trick. If I have my hair styled professionally (heaven forbid!), it usually lasts all night.

8. Is there any special occassion for which you'd like to have your hair styled by a professional? If yes, what occassion and what kind of style would you have?
I actually have a wedding to attend this Saturday for which I plan to have my hair professionally styled. My dress is in the style of the later 19th century...so you can bet that my hairstyle will match! 

1. How do you like to wear your hair to formal special occassions?
I like to show off my curls, so an updo is my favorite.

2. And how would you wear your hair to less formal occassions like parties or a night out? I like doing braids and then rapping them around in a bun or letting them hang in cool looking ways .

3. What are your favorite party hair accessories? small hair clips and BOBBY PINS!!

4. What is the main difference between your casual and special occassion styles? I usually wear my hair down and not really styled. For special occations, I put more effort into my hair.

5. Do you use any products to achieve a party look? If yes, what products? I use gel and mousse (not at the same time) to prevent frizzies and to help the hair hold its shape, but not to shalack it down.

6. How do you deal with people who smoke and the smell of smoke? I don't go places were people would be smoking.

7.How do you make your hairstyle last the whole evening? Bring bobby pins and hope for the best.

8. Is there any special occassion for which you'd like to have your hair styled by a professional? If yes, what occassion and what kind of style would you have? I would have a professional do my hair for my wedding. Then I don't need to stress and it's a fun outing to pamper myself with. I would want it down, but styled in such a way that my curls are pretty and attractive.

1. How do you like to wear your hair to formal special occassions?  I like wearing a Modified Gibson.  It looks dressy and holds well.

2. And how would you wear your hair to less formal occassions like parties or a night out?  It depends.  Anything from a simple bun to the M.G.

3. What are your favorite party hair accessories?  Hairsticks!  Shiny, sparkly hairsticks with little rubber bands on them so no-one can pull them out without my knowledge.   8)

4. What is the main difference between your casual and special occassion styles?  Not a whole lot, really.

5. Do you use any products to achieve a party look? If yes, what products?  I'll use some hairspray to keep the front of my hair behaving; I usually don't bother.

6. How do you deal with people who smoke and the smell of smoke?  Avoidance.  Smoke triggers my migraines.

7.How do you make your hairstyle last the whole evening?  Most of my updos last without any problems.  There's always the occasional bad hair day or new hairstyle failure, but I stick with a tried-and-true for special occasions so I don't fiddle with my hair the whole time.

8. Is there any special occassion for which you'd like to have your hair styled by a professional? If yes, what occassion and what kind of style would you have?  I'd like to have a crown braid for any occasion.  I've tried to do one on myself without success.  Yet.