Tag: hair

janebrickley:

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina, ca. 1520–30
South Netherlandish (possibly made in Brussels, Belgium)

“All reliquaries derive their power from the relic they contain as well as from the beauty and intrinsic qualities of the vessel. Reliquaries in the form of busts became widespread during the High Middle Ages. This head (made of painted and gilded oak) contains the skull of Saint Balbina, an early virgin martyr of Rome. The label on the little door on top identifies the relic inside. She is richly dressed in a fashionable gown and with jewelry and an elaborate coiffure.” (metmuseum.org)

janebrickley:

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina, ca. 1520–30
South Netherlandish (possibly made in Brussels, Belgium)

“All reliquaries derive their power from the relic they contain as well as from the beauty and intrinsic qualities of the vessel. Reliquaries in the form of busts became widespread during the High Middle Ages. This head (made of painted and gilded oak) contains the skull of Saint Balbina, an early virgin martyr of Rome. The label on the little door on top identifies the relic inside. She is richly dressed in a fashionable gown and with jewelry and an elaborate coiffure.” (metmuseum.org)

janebrickley:

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina, ca. 1520–30
South Netherlandish (possibly made in Brussels, Belgium)

“All reliquaries derive their power from the relic they contain as well as from the beauty and intrinsic qualities of the vessel. Reliquaries in the form of busts became widespread during the High Middle Ages. This head (made of painted and gilded oak) contains the skull of Saint Balbina, an early virgin martyr of Rome. The label on the little door on top identifies the relic inside. She is richly dressed in a fashionable gown and with jewelry and an elaborate coiffure.” (metmuseum.org)

janebrickley:

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina, ca. 1520–30
South Netherlandish (possibly made in Brussels, Belgium)

“All reliquaries derive their power from the relic they contain as well as from the beauty and intrinsic qualities of the vessel. Reliquaries in the form of busts became widespread during the High Middle Ages. This head (made of painted and gilded oak) contains the skull of Saint Balbina, an early virgin martyr of Rome. The label on the little door on top identifies the relic inside. She is richly dressed in a fashionable gown and with jewelry and an elaborate coiffure.” (metmuseum.org)

Realised that my hair currently matches some of the fake hair I’ve got from when I was a bit more gothic. I suppose if I want to wear this dreadfall and get it to match better, I’ll have to take out the white hair and see if I’ve got any loose royal blue and turquoise left over to blend together to help it match my hair better.

damn heavy though.

Rare photo of me mid-dye. This is the reason I don’t ever stay blonde. It looks weird to me.

Bleaching time is about half an hour which got my roots from almost black to ^this colour and stripped out nearly all of the pink and all of the green. The careful balance between getting my hair as light as possible and not dissolving it completely. 

After way way way too long, my hair is finally re-dyed. Alpine green (which kiiiind of looks a bit turquoise) and rose red (which is as pink as it usually is). My hair had kind of gone pale green/white with bizarre golden bits where all the green had totally faded (the pink was still very pink).

Admittedly the last time I dyed it was back in February.