Once upon a time, you bought a ticket and you went to the school ball in your "best dress"....now a days...(boy do I sound OLD in saying that!?)...it's THE dress, THE limo, THE corsage, THE shoes, THE hair do, THE makeup, THE accessories and who has the HOTTEST date !? Go figure !
Michaela attended her year 11 ball on Friday 8th April 2011. It was a "BIG DO". Months of planning and saving went into this....with the final balance being very ...erm...expensive...I was VERY proud of Michaela who has been logging hours at Kmart and saving for her big night. She planned ahead and had decided wayyyy back in December 2010 that hiring her dress was the way to go since she would "never ever wear a dress like that again." Smart gal. She also decided that she wanted a "foofey" dress...aka a dress with tulle and "foof" as opposed to a dress that was slimline and more cocktail like...so "foofey" we did ! Her theory is that she will only get to ever wear "foofey" dresses twice in her life - ball dress and wedding dress. Sounds good to me!
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| The 2nd dress she tried on was IT ! |
We tried no less than SEVEN dresses before the big decision was made....but we found one ! YAY ! The lady at "After 5 Hire" was awesome. Once you book a dress, she writes all the details down and no one else from the school is allowed to hire the same dress. Sweet as !
The day before, we picked up the dress, matching wrap and matching tie. Michaela got waxing done- eyebrows, lip, legs - sucks being a hairy gal...and sorted last minuet makeup artist, our friend Amy...and we are almost good to go.
B day and school finished at recess time, Harvey picked Michaela up, home, lunch and a quick shower before going to the hair dressers. TWO hours, half a tin of hair spray, hair wax, mousse and 32 bobby pins later.....
Our wonderful friend Amy came over to help Michaela with her makeup....the final finished, polished and dressed up Michaela was truly BEAUTIFUL !
I'm a VERY PROUD mama bear !
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