you can do it with your own hair! just take a piece from the bottom side of you hair and plait it then put around the top of your head and clip it to keep it in place! I know it looks really nice!

OMG! i have just wrote a whole story that has took me forever and now I find out the closing date is April! why do they still have the comp up then they should delete it! their getting people confused!

My favourite book is : Ugly' The True Story of a Loveless Childhood, By Constance Briscoe What is it all about? Ugly is the auto biographical story of Constance Briscoe's harrowing childhood in the 1960's; this book details the harsh, violent upbringing she had growing up in the Camberwell area of South London. Known as 'Clare' throughout her childhood Constance did not know her real name until she was 17 years old. 'Clare' had a horrifying time as a child, her father was not around much and she lived with her mother, step father and siblings, her relationship with her mother and step father was strained and as a result she had a problem with wetting the bed until she was in her late teens. This was the start and the main reason for her problems, her mother thought that the best way to stop her from wetting the bed was to beat her before bedtime so that she would know not to do it again, this of course had the reverse effect as poor 'Clare' was so nervous and frightened she continued to wet the bed even more. Her mother would constantly call her 'Ugly' and treat the child as though she were a slave making her clean the house for her. The beatings continued and grew worse and worse, to the point were her mother would grab and twist her nipples as tightly as possible. Her mother then decided to stop washing her sheets and bedclothes, so she had to sleep in a wet bed night after night and began to smell. Her relationship with her step father was not any better he treated her as her mother did but she found a way to stop his beatings for a year by reporting him to social services and getting an injunction on him. Her sisters and brothers never experienced the wrath of their mother; it was only 'Clare' who had to suffer. They watched on and saw everything that happened but did nothing to try and stop it for fear that they would get the same treatment. It only when 'Clare' tried to take her own life by swallowing bleach that her sisters helped her to stay alive, the one thing she didn't want. At school 'Clare' was happy, she was an intelligent child who enjoyed school work, and she also enjoyed her free school dinners and mentions throughout the book what she had to eat on a daily basis. The school did wonder about 'Clare's' home life but did little to help her as they did not wish to bring shame on the school, until one day 'Clare' refused to go home all together. 'Clare' was a lonely child with out many friends, but she was resourceful and by the age of 13 she got her first Saturday job as a shop assistant as 'Roses' clothes shop on the corner of the East Street Market, and started to earn her own money, this did not bring her the joy she had hoped as her mother soon decided to make her pay rent. Her mother and family then moved house leaving 'Clare' behind with no gas or electricity, if she was to stay in the house she would have to pay for it. My thoughts: This book is interesting to read, I can not use the words, good or enjoyable to describe it because that it is not, it is unbelievable to think what this poor child had to go through. It is an upsetting read, just as my last read 'A Child Called It' by David Peltzer was. It is disturbing to think that social services did not intervene and that her school did nothing to really help, they did not report anything about her mother's treatment. It just shows you how much these services have changed for the better over the years and how much more aware schools are nowadays.