Fade Into You

I've just compiled and published a new playlist on my 8tracks account for Valentine's Day! It's a collection of mellow-ish, romantic songs perfect for Valentine's, mood music for make-outs, or when you're just in one of those moods. Have a look see and let me know what you think!

Fade Into You from anna.wittygirl on 8tracks Radio.

Cheers,

Anna xx

Hey Tow-head

As I may have mentioned earlier, I am a natural blonde. While my current hair colour is dyed a dark coppery blonde, I was born a tow-head. Yes, a tow-head. While blondes have often been put on a pedestal and envied for their flaxen locks, it is not easy being blonde. 
As other blonde kids will know, in most of our baby pictures we look like albinos.  That paper white skin, garishly pale hair and inevitable redeye still makes me cringe as I go through old photos and think, "Hot damn! Was I locked in the basement as a child, devoid of any Vitamin D?!". Unfortunately the answer is "no", I'm just lackin' in melanin.

"Why don't I have more melanin?!"

Like most blonde kids, my hair and skin (who I am kidding about the skin?) did darken gradually as I got older; so now my hair is a dark golden blonde, and my skin is . . . well, slightly less pale. But of course, I am still told constantly, "Woah, dude. You're pale. You should really get a tan (pause) like really get a tan." Little do they know that with this pasty complexion, I avoid natural sunlight like the plague. And when I do venture out in the summer sun, I am wearing an inch thick layer of SPF 100. I consider my summer a success not if I managed a "wicked tan", but if the only thing that darkened were my freckles and I managed some sunkissed highlights in my golden mane.
After years of protecting and babying my blonde hair, I decided to dye it auburn. Luckily, blondes can easily transition into red because our colouring is so similar, and I'm able to pull off my copper hair pretty well. But after having auburn and coppery blonde hair for nearly two years on and off, I'm starting to miss my blonde locks. So while I'm trying to let the copper blonde grow out, my natural colour in my part looks grey in comparison to the auburn. I've seen this with so many girls who are naturally blonde and have dyed their hair either red or brown; our roots look grey! What the hell? I'm only 18, but my roots scream that I am eligible for the seniors' special. I know that this is just because I'm in the transition phase, and that once the roots are a bit longer and the dyed hair fades gradually, my blonde hair will blend into my dyed copper blonde. But as of now, I feel like I'm ageing prematurely.

A glimpse of
my own natural
 blonde hair!
(And pale skin)

Now, of course, with blonde hair comes blonde eyelashes and eyebrows. While my hair has darkened, and so too have my eyelashes and eyebrows, they're still fair. Without applying black mascara, my eyelashes look virtually non-existent. So never will I ever leave the house without at least a coat of brown mascara so I bear some semblance to a normal human. And now for my rant on eyebrows. I like the shape of my eyebrows; I like the thickness of my eyebrows; I like the length of my eyebrows; yet I HATE my eyebrows. Since I won the genetic lottery (can you tell I'm being sarcastic?) and have fair hair, my eyebrows are only a normal (visible) shade in the densest areas, and all of the rest of them are light, quite nearly white, blonde. This means that if I have not filled in my eyebrows with the appropriate shade, they are patchy and thin. But when I do use a tinted brow gel, or fill them in along the natural shape and over the brow hairs, my eyebrows look lovely. Why, why did my father's recessive genes have to win out! 
While I have complained about being blonde for most of this post, I actually do love having blonde hair. Despite the pale eyebrows and grey roots, I really love my flaxen hair and pale skin. Of course I do still envy copper hues and chestnut manes, I embrace being blonde.

Do any other tow-heads out there share some of my sentiments? I'd love to hear some other anecdotes or witticisms about being blonde, or about any other hair colour for that matter! 
Cheers!

Anna  xx

It's Not PMS, I'm Just Angsty

I am a 90's girl through and through. Born in the early 90's and raised by an alt rock/grunge father, I feel that I had the best 90's childhood a girl could ask for. Even as the millennium came and passed, I never really grew out of the 90's. 

So, to stop the nostalgic rambling: I have found some amazing 90's playlists on 8tracks recently that I am in love with. I have come upon at least three uber cool  angsty (hence the blog post name), female band playlists with songs from Veruca Salt, Elastica, Hole, Letters to Cleo, etc. So if you too have a love for "riot grrrl" music, go check out my profile on 8tracks and find some of the playlists that I am in love with. Here's just one of them!

Grrrl Germs from stupidxgrrrl on 8tracks Radio.

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Cheers,
                  Anna xx

Red Hair and Freckles

One thing that I've been dreaming about since I was a child, is red hair and freckles. Since my parents took me to see "The Parent Trap" in 1998, I have been green with envy. Lindsay Lohan had the most beautiful red hair, and the sweetest smattering of freckles. 

I began to look at my blonde hair and blank face and wonder why I couldn't look like her. As I grew up, I admired crimson locks and speckled faces, but when I turned sixteen the envy all came back to me. Part of this infatuation with red hair and freckles is due to my mother; she is blessed with warm auburn hair and a full face of freckles. Maybe it wasn't Lindsay Lohan's look that I was lusting after; maybe it was my mother's. But no matter what caused my lifelong obsession, it was there. So when I was sixteen I died my hair light auburn - one half of my dream was accomplished. Luckily I am pale and have the right undertone and eye colour, so I was able to pull off the auburn (people everywhere asked me if it was my natural colour). I suddenly felt more confident with my new fiery hair than I ever had with my dark golden blonde. The colour made my eyes appear more blue, and gave my skin a glow - or at least that's what I saw. 

They're really faint, but they are there!

Summer soon rolled around, and while I usually spend my days hiding from the sun, I started to notice faint, little speckles along my cheekbone and across the bridge of my nose. Could it be that I, the once pasty faced blonde, was morphing into a freckled ginger like I had dreamed of? Yes! Ok, so not really, but I did start to get some freckles and my hair was  lovely shade of copper blonde. So, to get to my point: if there's something that you want to try, be it your hair or wardrobe, or anything else, just go for it! It could be a disaster that you laugh about in later years, or it could make you feel incredible about yourself. 
Cheers,
                 Anna xx

The Little Things

I've come to realize that those annoying positive people - you know the ones - were right when they said, "it's the little things that count". Some of the things that give me the greatest happiness are the smallest, silliest things. For one, watching Law and Order SVU with my mum. I know that that sounds rather funny, but my mum and I have been watching that show together since I was ten, and all throughout highschool while I did my homework, we would sit together with a cup of tea and watch Olivia and Elliot solve crimes. One of the hardest parts about living away from home is missing our small routines and our strange idiosyncrasies. 

Billy Corgan's Dreamy

Another thing that makes me immensely happy is listening to The Smashing Pumpkins. My older sister and I have a strange obsession with 90s Alt Rock, so we always bond over listening to the 'Pumpkins', as we affectionately call them. 
On another music related note, I love listening to folksy, calm songs. I have one specific playlist (you can find it on my 8tracks account) that I listen to all of the time, and whenever I hear the songs I instantly feel happy and at ease. 

Soaking in the Tub from anna.wittygirl on 8tracks Radio.

Reading has always been my salvation. As soon as I learned to read, I haven't been able to stop. My mother is also an avid reader; just one of the many traits she passed on to me. There's no greater escape from reality than reading a book. Some of my all time favourites that I always reread and return to are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby; Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and The Outlander Series. I guess it's rather fitting that I'm an English major!
One of my biggest (and secretive) obsessions is with the film Practical Magic. I watch this movie, oh I don't know . . . . maybe once a week? Ok, I know that sounds rather bad, but I am instantly comforted when I watch that movie. I put it on in the background while I read, or I'm doing homework. To tell the truth, it's on right now while I write this. I think this obsession is fuelled by my life long fascination with Witchcraft and Wicca. Not to mention the house in that film, and Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock's hair. 
And lastly, baking with my grandmum. My grandparents have lived with me since I was born, and so I've always been extremely close to my grandmum; plus I am the spitting image of her and our personalities are identical. She's one of the most amazing women I've ever known, and I feel as though she's my second mother. Plus, she's so young and fun, people always mistake her for my mother. And so, like most grandmum's, she bakes. So on holidays or weekends we like to bake together. Some of the greatest childhood memories come from baking with my grandmum.
So that concludes my explanation of some of the little things in my life. I would love to hear some of your "little things" in the comments as well, so please comment and subscribe! 

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like . . . the Holidays

As soon as Halloween commences, and the jack-o-lanterns are thrown out, my Christmas frenzy begins. Do you know what I've been doing since November 1st? Listening to Christmas music on 8tracks and perusing Pinterest for pictures of Christmas decorations. And do you know what I will be doing tonight? Watching Christmas movies. I know that you must be thinking that I am only slightly premature on the whole Christmas spirit, but I really can't help it. "It's the most wonderful time of the year!". Truly though, the whole holiday season - starting the day after Halloween and ending after New Years - is just so cheery and warm. Hot chocolate; hats and mittens; roaring fireplaces; tobogganing; decorating the house; The Body Shop's Cranberry line (Yay!). I could go on and on but I think it would make for a very boring post. So I'm going to make this short and just suggest that you get in the Holiday mood. I know that I've been talking about Christmas, but winter and the holidays definitely have a certain mood to it; so no matter your religious holiday, get in the winter spirit! To send you on your way, I'm going to post a link to my favourite Christmas/Holiday playlist! So listen to this and get in the Holiday Spirit! Cheers from Anna xx

They Don't Make Christmas Like They Used To from missyNYC on 8tracks Radio.