beachin' beauties

a dear friend was in town this past weekend to visit, and i thought i would share some fun shots of our trip. 

in true floridian style, we headed out to the beach on an adventure abundant with great small town finds, like a local donut shop and a non-touristy section of the beach to relax on. 

the night before, we had amazing drinks at local mandarin hide, a prohibition era styled bar. 

enjoy!

 real lattes & fresh donuts on the beach 

 headed to the beach in yellow vans

 perfect beach shorts from american apparel

an uncrowded beach 

the perfect beachy top 

a "moscow mule" at mandarin hide in downtown st. pete

antler chandeliers at mandarin hide in downtown st. pete

The Wears of Weddings

First, let it be known that DHH is no rookie when it comes to weddings. In fact, we've been to nearly a dozen in the past year. 


Buttttt with each new year comes a blossom of newly weds, and this is how we started off our wedding season this year. 


What we Wore: Salt N Peplum Dress from Modcloth.com


PEPLUM. you win when its in. We normally dont risk our fate when it comes to trends but this darling peplum style was too taunting to toss. 

Hair & Makeup:

Hair: Surf Spray

Lips: TIGI Bed Head Girls just Wanna Have Fun in Serenity

Blush: MAC Frankly Scarlet

Mascara: Define A Lash

I chose a side swept look to jazz up the classic and retro appeal. I kept the makeup simple and added some pink lips for summer sass. 

Surfer Straight

Normally, my day to day hair routine involves, very little hair brushing, Bumble & Bumble's Spray de Mode, and and a few ounces of surf spray. However, today I opted to go for a big straight blow out and switch it up.


The key to getting big, straight hair is texture. Its all about texture. Now, while I can use BB surf spray to play up my waves, I also like it spray it in my damp hair and give my locks a good heated blow.  The texture makes my hair bigger and more susceptible to the florida humidity.

Heres what I used on my damp hair...


1. Bumble&Bumble Surf Spray
2. Bumble&Bumble Thickening Spray
3. Bumble&Bumble Tonic

I mixed in the product and literally blew my hair out, away from my face. I gave myself a deep side part to blow dry half of my hair, then flipped to another side part of the other side of my head to do the other section. I also flipped my hair upside sprayed it down with BB spray de mode, and flipped it back up to fix up with my fingers.

The key was to quickly run a straightener through the ends of my hair afterwards so I could still have body with a slight refined straight look.  This means, i barely used the straightener ONE time through my locks.  Let your layers do the talking...