Is good skin genetic?

Sorry I've not done a post in forever!

So I thought I'd talk about skin & whether it's all in your genes.

This is a photo of my nan on her birthday on Sunday. I don't know if I'm biased but I think her skin is just completely amazing.

I don't think she looks a day over 70 when in fact she is 86! Madness or what?!

She had a massive stroke about 3 years ago & even though she's now blind & can't use her left arm she always makes sure she puts her make up on in the morning. Her make up is always flawless, I suppose that's 70 years of application practice for you.
There was an incident where she accidentally put lip liner on her eyebrows but we laugh about that now!

I'm 25 & although my skin isn't as good as hers but there's no way I look my age. So I'm hoping that I've got the youthful looking skin from her. My mum is 57 & also has radiant young looking skin.

If I even look half as good as my nan when I'm 86 I'll be bloody chuffed!

xxx

Hair History

Hey everyone, sorry for jumping on the bandagon but I thought I'd share my hair history! Sorry for the poor quality on the first few, I took photos of the photos!

It's been hilarious doing this & it sort of explains why my poor hair doesn't really grow & is in such bad condition!

So, where to start... well 16 seems a good start. Here I am with bright red short hair, I promise it was the bees knees at the time.
Explains why I didn't have a boyfriend!

So from 16-18 I had short hair & it was either very short, this length & brown or red.
Then came the dreaded growing out stage. This is the main reason I won't have short hair. Luckily the GHDs were invented about the same time!
Then I went to do a ski season so literally left my hair alone for 6 months & it looked like this:

Then I went to work in Greece for the summer so again, no intervention from hairdressers!

By the end of the summer it was quite a horrible colour, bleached in the sun & looking slightly orange!

The I went to Uni but has an urge to do something different so decided to be a hair model! This is me in a catwalk show. The hair was actually lovely, plum coloured with white bits!

Then I had various different asymmetrical styles:
This is the worst, there is literally no excuse for this! I was 19ish, what can I say!

So then I persevered with growing it & having just a normal colour & got to this:

Then I got extensions, can't really tell on this picture but they were AMAZING & I loved them but being young & at uni I didn't look after them :(

Then I went really dark, as in black

Then had it stripped & it went a lovely reddish
Then this is me now with blonde hair!

So after 10 years of hair abuse, no wonder it won't get any longer!

So what is your favourite look??

xxx

Random Photo Tag

This is my photo, it's of me at my friend Beth's house in North Wales. We'd been out walking the dogs & I was freezing so her mum told me to put my feet in the aga! Ha, I love it.
It's probably one of the least flattering photos of me but it's funny & reminds me of fun times with the girls in North Wales!