I get bored of my hair SO EASILY. Like I've had brown, black, blue, blue black, red, regular ombre, purple you name it. The ombre fever was getting to me, I'd seen it on Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian and I just missed it. Therefore, I decided to buy some bleach and do it myself. I used the Jerome Russell bleach from Superdrug and it worked well on my ridiculously dark hair, lightening it up to a gingery colour which is where the irony of my story begins. I was aiming for an ash blonde that I could eventually turn lavender grey, I hated the ginger and in a late night blind panic tried to tone my hair with the smallest dot of semi permanent blue dye with TONS of conditioner. Please don't try this, although most of you would see why this is a stupid decision. This left me with patchy green hair.
Honestly I didn't hate it. It was bad but I'm really not attached to my hair so I was just rocking the patchy green and ginger hybrid - the ginger was a lot more prevalent in real life. I then used the Wella Color Fresh Silver Toner which I would actually recommend pretty highly for you blonde haired gals, it worked really well on my orangey green hair. However, the green was aggressive and did not want to get outta here. So I did what I should have done from the get go and went to a hairdressers.

They bleached my hair (adding my bleach count to four in a week) but still the green remained.
I'm not sure if you can see the traces of the pastel green but they wouldn't shift. At this point I was still striving for ash ombre. However we quickly realised it wasn't going to work so after having a chat I realised the only option was to go copper - the colour I was trying to avoid. However I'm sure a lot of you will know that red is opposite green on the colour wheel meaning they cancel each other out so I wasn't really left with many options. Like I said I'm not super attached or particularly bothered about my hair so I just said do whatever you want to!

Top: Topshop, Disco Pants: AA, Coat: River Island, Creepers: Underground X Urban Outfitters, Necklace: Nasty Gal, Bag: 'Borrowed' off my Mum

It seems that I pull fashion inspiration from the weirdest places. I've recently discovered my new favourite show, "Freak Show" and with it I've rediscovered my love for the weird and creepy. I'll admit the shows not for everyone, two headed baby in a jar or a man putting a meat hook through his nose anyone? But I really do love it, in fact I'm currently nurturing a secret desire to become a sword swallower.... Also, my FAVOURITE book for a long time was Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children which features a Victorian photograph of two young children dressed up as clowns and I just wanted to pretend to be that today.

Okay so maybe it's weird to want to dress like a Victorian sad clown child but my rediscovery of passion for the creepy and macabre has filtered into my wardrobe. We've spoke about AHS on here before and I even did an OOTD inspired by season three, so maybe this can be my season four inspired outfit?

This top I picked up for New Years Eve and haven't worn it since (I know! Need to stop buying things) and I decided that it was very circus and carnival like. I've had my disco pants for about 4 years now and thought I'd pull them on as it had been a while. Of course I had to begrudgingly throw the coat back on as it has gone cold again and obviously this mesh tshirt isn't the warmest. My shoes are the brogue creepers that were brought out in Underground and Urban Outfitters collab, I've been told that they look like clown shoes so I thought they'd be perfect to compliment this clown look.
For makeup I used Makeup Geek's Insomnia which is basically MAC's blue brown as it matches the duo chrome of the sequins and I drew a triangle of glitter under my eye to look like a traditional Harlequin clown or to look like glitter tears. Whichever floats your boat. Oh and yes, I wore this ensemble in my volunteering shift at Oxfam, they are used to it by now!

Sad clown child forever,
-Charlotte
P.S. Here's the photo I was inspired by, if you're scared of clowns maybe look away now....
I KNOW I'M SUPER WEIRD.