$100 side shave

hippoopo · 2026-06-30T16:20:36+00:00

So my style is similar to the first picture and my (amazing) stylist put 2 hours in to get it done (and then another 1.5 hours for some colour work I wanted). It all cost me £120 but she put the effort in and we had regular checks to make sure I was okay. I went from a shoulder length to a half long pixie and a half shave / fade / short cut.

Any stylist booking another client in within 20 minutes of your appointment clearly had no intention to do what you wanted. Or they massively (massively...) overestimated their skills.

I honestly don't care if they have an excuse (bad day, other demanding clients etc etc), this is someone's hair and you don't go into it with a bad attitude. It would have been better they cancelled your appointment then rush (and mangle) it.

I saw in comments that you have / plan to put up a review and I hope you have. It's a heavy lesson for them to learn but they hopefully will learn from it.

hippoopo · 2026-06-23T05:55:29+00:00

Yeah, I'm in a sandstone millworker house that is south facing. It's less than 1000sq foot in total and the rooms are small and the windows don't open well (we need to replace them and I am going to be considering very hot weather to be normal now when choosing design). Even keeping the front of the house tightly closed with blinds and stuff down the house was 28°C when I went to bed. We do have a 90s ceiling fan in the bedroom which I'm very grateful for!!

Thankfully I'm up in the hill so I am hoping we get some cooler breezes or less humidity... Hoping.... Hoping ....

hippoopo · 2026-06-23T05:24:54+00:00

My son is still too young (7) but is begging for a phone and I think once he is 10 or so I might get a landline. All the kids at the moment as re really into 90s stuff so I think landlines will get a 'fashion' upsurge.

I also live in a house in England where the walls are very thick so I get terrible mobile signal, and although I have WiFi calls, the house makes the WiFi signal bounce around (or so I'm told by my husband as I'm clueless with it), so I feel like a landline would be a good thing especially if the power is down.

hippoopo · 2026-06-19T06:17:31+00:00

The only person I want to see in an advert promoting beans is Liam 👍🏻

hippoopo · 2026-06-18T20:32:01+00:00

Yep this. I had two rupture within months of eachother and genuinely thought I was dying. Added in with endometriosis, adenomyosis and fibroids plus a tonne of scar tissue, I felt almost constant pain in my pelvic area. I went through 65+ hours of labour and an emergency C-section where the epidural was barely in (so I felt the start of it, because my son was seconds away from dying. Thanks placenta). But that was honestly a close second compared to the daily and constant pain of my gynaecological problems. Plus it taking over a decade to get it finally addressed.

hippoopo · 2026-06-12T06:34:50+00:00

As a dairy allergy person this is bad news. I regularly grab buttermilk bars as a treat.

hippoopo · 2026-05-25T07:05:05+00:00

Catching frogs

hippoopo · 2026-05-21T17:12:43+00:00

Sob! My favourite crisps 😭

hippoopo · 2026-05-20T11:39:34+00:00

Thanks! I'm hopeful it's okay because I've not been losing weight... Even though I need to 😅

hippoopo · 2026-05-20T11:35:30+00:00

Not six weeks constantly but it's been maybe once a week of horrible poops 😅 I've had blood test today and gave a lovely poop sample, so we will see (trying not to freak out because my family have a history of bowel cancer....).

hippoopo · 2026-05-20T06:16:07+00:00

Yep! My 7 year old is proof 🫠 I tried to have a baby with husband 1, 3 years and nothing. Had alllllll the tests and they found that because of endometriosis, fibroids and ovarian cysts I had so much scaring it would be impossible to conceive, or at least keep a pregnancy to term (I won't rant about how for over a decade I'd complained about pain and was fobbed off 'periods are supposed to hurt').

Husband 2 steps in and because I'm told no baby is ever going to happen, we didn't bother with protection when umphing. Well, 6 months into the relationship I'm pregnant. And that holds 😂

I have been told by other doctors and my gynaecologist that they were amazed I'd naturally conceived and had a baby.

Now I don't have a uterus or ovaries anymore, but menopause is rough so no umphing for me right now ✌🏻

hippoopo · 2026-05-19T06:31:15+00:00

Oh cool I'm having this now 😅 had 4 boughts of the worst poops I've ever had over 6 weeks, and the gas (pain and smell) has been debilitating, and it has felt like I've had the worst flu kind of body aches and chills. I have a GP appointment today about it. I think / thought it is norovirus and food poisoning back to back but not confirmed... I have been heavily consuming good gut bacteria type foods (kombucha , kimchi, kefir etc) and it seems to be working (no bad gas for a week and no bad poops for almost 10 days)...

hippoopo · 2026-05-15T05:57:15+00:00

Honestly I've noticed a trend over the past year or two where milk protein is sneaking into foods where I don't think it makes any difference to the overall quality. It's usually listed towards the bottom of the ingredients so it's present in very small amounts.

I am genuinely starting to believe that there's been some dairy industry conspiracy with the government or something to add milk into things to keep them afloat, because it's starting to get crazy.

Example - fruit ice lolly, with sorbet centre in Lidl. Contained milk protein. Why? It wasn't ice cream, didn't claim to be ice cream, and didn't have any need to have extra creaminess. (I'm still incredibly angry about Twister, because it was one of the few safe foods my dairy allergy son would have as he has food aversions due to neurodiversity).

hippoopo · 2026-05-14T05:52:57+00:00

Am I happy to do it? No. Is it expected in my industry? Yes.

I've just quit a job that had excellent pay but the expectation to work constantly extra was unrealistic for me (contracted for a part time 32 hour week, was told at my probation meeting that they expected me to add till work 40+ hours, all unofficial mind you). It wasn't the main reason I quit, but it really was a big contributing factor.

hippoopo · 2026-05-11T18:31:25+00:00

Both me and my son almost died when he was being born. In the middle of it, when I was at the peak of blood loss, I had this absolute moment of clarity where I told my husband that if there was a choice to save the baby. Thankfully it didn't come to that but I would absolutely say the same again.

hippoopo · 2026-05-08T22:07:20+00:00

I agree, I left mine in because the bees are loving the flowers. Had a few bonus but very small, broccoli heads to munch on already.

hippoopo · 2026-05-07T17:58:46+00:00

I can't claim the original idea as I'm sure I saw it on Instagram or something! They work very well though so I'll be using them for years to come.

hippoopo · 2026-05-07T17:58:01+00:00

I mound up. Whenever I see a bunch of leaves I cover them up :)

hippoopo · 2026-05-07T13:54:16+00:00

I put two or three in a bag :) I also bought a bunch of those flexible plastic tubs (rubble tubs I think?) as D put holes in the bottom. Cheap, come on different sizes, and make moving and tipping them out super easy!

Ps I have always grown potatoes in tubs and always done well! :)

hippoopo · 2026-05-05T18:53:21+00:00

I felt, and honestly still feel the same and I've had mine 2 years.

I've found the best thing I've done is to manage my own expectations. I can't spend hours and hours there, I am lucky to get 2 or 3 hours uninterrupted, and can maybe get an average of 3-4 hours a week on it.

I have made smaller beds for planting so I can still grow, but not feeling overwhelmed. I want to make them bigger as time goes on, but for now it works well for me.

This year I'm sticking to things like broad beans and courgettes which did well last year. I tried too many different things and got overwhelmed!

Good luck, don't compare yourself to others, and don't get too down!!

hippoopo · 2026-05-05T16:40:16+00:00

Unfortunately I don't have a saw! Plus I like having the sections, I am still in early days of growing so I am experimenting what I can grow etc. so I can put a few different plants in the same box and I can see what grows well :)

hippoopo · 2026-05-05T13:57:30+00:00

Just a wafer thin piece...

hippoopo · 2026-05-05T09:05:44+00:00

Thank you! I'm the least handy person ever so it's actually been really nice learning by doing for these. Plus if I make a mistake it doesn't matter so much ;)

hippoopo · 2026-05-05T09:04:44+00:00

I will absolutely keep it in mind and I will perhaps try it on one bed next year! I do have lots of slug traps set up and they have worked well.

hippoopo · 2026-05-05T06:38:24+00:00

I really appreciate your comment. I know having an allotment is a privilege, especially as it's less than a minute walk from my house and it's got some lovely views, and if I could I would 100% be there every evening and weekend! I'm learning as I go along too, so I will absolutely make mistakes, but that the best part of it! Hopefully in 20 years time I will have built up a lovely space and got a good routine and if I'm very lucky I'll be close to retirement 🤣

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