New hair colour :-)

Hello you gorgeous cupcakes :-)

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend.

A couple of days ago I had a bad hair day and I was faced with the question I ask sometimes 'To chop or not to chop, that is the question' I came across a hairstyle I thought would look good on me, and I obsessed over for three days. The only snag was, it would have been a drastic change to the length of my hair, a change I just couldn't take lightly. After obsessing for a few days, I decided to just have a trim (sissy). I mentioned I wanted to try something new to my hairdresser and put the scares on to me so I decided to have change of hair colour instead. 

Here's the dye I chose

I have had this colour before, in fact I spent a whole year dying my hair this colour so I knew what to expect in terms of colour. I left it on for an extra 5 minutes and it took really well. It's very dark but it does like just like it does on the box, which you don't always find with box dyes.

Here is my hair, I put some waves in with my hair waver (review to follow)

I love it, it's so dark and gorgeous. I know you can't see the plummy shades because it was raining and the lighting was bad. But I have taken some better pictures for my next post

Thanks for reading and I'm curious what hair dyes are you loving right now? All in the name of research

Peace, love and cupcakes :-)

Hair Tag: 21 Questions

Hello my loves

I love talking about hair, I don't just obsess over makeup I'm versatile lol. When I saw this tag I thought it would be perfect for me to do, because it's questions about my hair. I borrowed it from the lovely Cas from Hair and Beautylicious


1. Why did you start taking better care of your hair? 

I've always been good to my hair (ok so I don't condition it but that's just because it makes my hair greasy and weighs it down) I did use to use tons of heat on it, which I stopped doing a few years ago. I dye it but I am better at that now to, last year I actually spent most of the year not dying it.

2. What are your 2 favorite products?

Just a generic shampoo and my macadamia nut hair mask.

3. Who's hair did you admire as a child? 

This is going to sound strange, there was this woman who used to see on the bus everyday coming home from school, she had gorgeous long brown hair and it always looked so soft and shiny I once 'accidentally' touched it haha. I always wanted hair like Britney Spears, until she went cookoo and shaved it.

4. What is your ultimate goal length? 

I would love to have hair down to my lower back.

5. How are you going to celebrate when you reach it?

Knowing me cut it off, lol. I don't know, maybe do a dance?

6. Two styles you want to try at your goal length?

I want an extra long fishtail plait (I'm obsessed with fishtail plaits) and I'm not sure about the other.

7. Which do you prefer: Health or length? 

Health, if your hair is healthy it will lead to length

8. Which do you prefer: Hair ties with no metal parts, or butterfly clips? 

Hair ties, sometimes I get so hot and need to get my hair off of my neck

9. What products do you prefer: salon brands, organic brands, BSS brands or drugstore brands? 

Drugstore, I don't believe in spending lots of money on shampoos.

10. Which product/technique do you think is over-rated? 

Back combing.

11. Which product/technique do you think is under-rated? 

I'm not sure if this is the right answer, but, I think trimming your hair. I know you think if "I keep trimming it it won't grow" but believe me it really does work, it gets rid of the damaged ends which makes it healthier. If you go for a trim every 8weeks you don't have to have inches off just tell the hairdresser you want the ends tidying. You'll notice a change.

12. What is your favorite part of your hair regimen? 

I like doing hair masks, I put it on and then I have about 8minutes of dancing and singing in the shower. It's fun

13. What is the most annoying part of your hair regimen?

I don't think there's anything I don't like. My routine isn't hard to do. I wash it, use my hair mask and then leave it to towel/air dry, simples

14. Oils or butters?

I think butters, my hair has enough of it's own oils

15. Bun or ponytail? 

A messy bun

16. Wig or weave (or neither)?

Erm, neither.

17. What is your opinion on growth aids? 

I doubt they work, if the hair follicle is damaged it just won't grow. I think it's just something that makes people feel better about themselves.

18. What length do you consider long? 

Passed the collarbone

19. When was the last time you went to a salon? 

Today

20. What do you like to surf the most: youtube channels, personal blogs or hair forums? 

I used to be obsessed with YouTube, but I think blogger has stolen my heart.

21. And finally, what piece of advice would you give to someone just starting out their hair journey? 

Be good to it, don't wash it everyday try and leave it a couple of days between, if it gets greasy use dry shampoo. Do not brush it whilst wet. Have regular trims. Don't use heat all the time, you can achieve cute curls by plaiting your hair while wet. It's all common sense really, use heat a protector just be kind to it and you'll be fine.

I hope you enjoyed 

Peace, love and gorgeous locks :-)

The haircare files

Hello Girlies,

I hope you're all doing well.

I am still at war with my hair. I suppose on one hand I shouldn't complain because it is growing nicely and it seems to be healthy. It's still the colour I am unhappy with, I had the great idea of going back to  brunette just before my birthday. After making the plunge I realised, I'm really not going to be happy with my hair being just brunette, I spent 16years as a brunette and I'm just not ready to go back yet. There's just so many colours on the market and I want to try them all, why wouldn't I want to experiment? My motto is 'if I cut it and I don't like it, it'll be back by winter' and if I dye it and it doesn't turn out the colour I want it, I can go darker problem solved.

Anyway, the reason for this post isn't to have a moan about my hair, well I guess in some ways it is. I'm going to talk about a couple of my fav shampoos today. I'm not fancy and do not use expensive shampoos, I don't want to spend a ton of money on fancy shampoos that my hair simply will not like? I've had these locks for 26 years and I know that my hair get's on better with cheaper shampoos. The other reason for using cheaper shampoos is that you have to keep switching up your shampoos, because like your skin our hair get's used to products and they stop working.

This stuff is a miracle in a bottle, I wash my hair with it and once it's fully rinsed and no signs of residue I squirt a little bit more into the palm of my hand and shampoo again, my hair is left shiny and so soft.

The first time I tried this I wasn't impressed, it left my hair greasy didn't lather up properly and I had to use an awful amount of product to get my smoothed and clean. But, I'm living by the rules of 'procrastinate' now, if it doesn't work the first time walk away and try it again. And now I love it. I can't smell it but I do get a strong banana taste in my mouth when I use it, so it must be good ;-)

I have used Herbal Essences in the past when my mum lived at home and I didn't like it, it made my hair greasy and I just hated it. Last year when Boots were doing a massive sale, I decided to give this a try and I was so happy with the results. I use the shampoo and then the mask, from the second I slather it onto my locks I feel my hair soften instantly. It makes me want to 'whip my hair back and fourth'

I always buy Aussie shampoos in samples. I love them a lot, they're a good price and make my hair feel so soft. However, I do not recommend using it everytime you wash your locks. I once used it everytime I washed solidly for three weeks and my ends started to feel like straw, I couldn't use my brush it was that bad. So just be careful of this.

What do you guys use? I'd be really interested to try some new things if you would care to share with me?

Peace, love and cupcakes :-)

An unhealthy obsession

Hello my lovelies, 

I hope you're all doing well.

I just finished reading Rachel's blogpost she's come up with an awesome idea. 

Recently I've been wondering what to do with my blog, I was going to have a long break from it but I gained some new followers last week and I didn't really want to take a break, my other thought was deleting my blog. I'd come down with a major case of writers block, then this post came to my rescue. I set off upstairs with a box and started to rummage through my makeup, it didn't come as much of a surprise to me when the box quickly became full to the brim. I knew I'd need more space but I didn't want to have boxes and boxes cluttering up the place, it then struck me I should utilize my storage unit, this way I can see what I have and keep pulling bits out to use. 

Here is the draw, there is a tiny overspill. I am not impressed with myself that I have this much stuff going to waste in my draw.

To be fair to myself, I haven't bought that much makeup recently, I'm going to try and stop buying new stuff, this could be a disaster. The reason I love this idea is because I don't have the money to buy new stuff, I want to use what I have. Anyhow, I have enough stuff to review now to last me at least 6 months.

Why don't you lovelies try this, instead of spending money on makeup why don't you save it and splurge once you've gone through some of your unused products.

Peace, love and makeup :-)

Sweetest blog award :-)

Hello my lovelies, I hope you're all doing well.

 Last night I received a tweet from the lovely Vicky telling me she had awarded me 'The Sweetest Blog' award, it's a cute post and I had to do it for myself, Thanks Vicky. In order to accept this award I must tell you these 3 things about me and pass this award on to 10 (it was originally 15 but I don't follow that many) other Bloggers.

My Favourite Colour: Pink

My Favourite Food: Cupcakes

My Favourite Place To Visit: Anywhere that has makeup :-)

I would like to pass this award on to these 10 Bloggers:

Rachel (All Things Rachy) 

Rachel (A Pretty Obsession)

Jack

 

Vicky

Cas

Leanne

Kelly

 Charli

Lorena

Bex

Peace, love and cupcakes :-)

It's all false

Hello cupcakes :-)

I hope you're all doing well.

I wanted to do a little haul, showing off my new eyelashes (that sounds so weird). I'd never given into the hype of false lashes, I thought they were  pointless but had to agree they did look pretty. For my birthday I took myself off for a makeover at MAC and decided to give lashes a go. I have to say I fell in love with them and ever since I've been craving them. It's strange because I have quite long lashes anyway, but I have longish hair and I want hair extensions so what's the difference right? Lol. My eyes and my lashes are my fav thing about myself, my eyes are super blue and my lashes are quite long, I have the eyes and lashes I'd look at someone and think 'You are a lucky cow' so to enhance what I have I thought I'd take the plunge and buy some.

Here they are in all of their glory, I'm going to review them properly in a couple of weeks.

My friend and I were talking about getting some cheap eyelashes from eBay to practice with and I saw these ones, I didn't really like that much and I have no desire to wear them outdoors but I figured for $1.99 inc shipping I should give them a try. They're hideous and the band looks like they're going to be uncomfortable to wear.

I like 2true makeup, it's good quality and cheap. Isn't the packaging just the cutest? I like black and pink together, I so hope I will like these because £1.99 for a pair of eyelashes is just what I need.

Superdrug have bought out a new line of false eyelashes and I could pass them up. They look very edgy and I cannot wait to try them. I like false lashes with a nice cat eyeliner this is what I am going to rock on my next night out. I'm hoping these guys will be a good dupe for the MAC lashes I got for my birthday.

I saw these guys in a recent Pixiwoo video and I had to have them. They're just the perfect lashes, edgy yet feminine.

Do you guys have any favourite lashes I need to try out?

Peace, love and falsies :-)

July Glossybox

Hello my loves

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend.

Last months GlossyBox didn't go down so well with my fellow makeup obsessed girls, a lot of bad were reviews written because the box didn't live up to the first GlossyBox. I even wrote a unhappy review myself. 

When I opened this months box, I was excited but I was nowhere near as excited as I was last month. However, when I opened it I let a little yelp of excitement out. I'm not going to lie, there are some bits in there that I cannot use, you will see them in the pictures below.

This is the first impression, can you see what I am so excited about?

This is what made me yelp with excitement. I've never tried Illamasqua before and I was so excited to see this. Review to follow :-)

I'm really enjoying orange nail polish at the moment, I was overjoyed to see this in there to make my nails look extra summery. The bottle looks really chick with the little bow and square bottle, and I'm interested in finding out if it does as it says on the label "Long lasting full coverage nail enamel"

This is where it took a turn for the worse with me, they sent me self tanner in dark. I couldn't use this because I am so pale I wouldn't look right.

I've never tried a body oil before, putting oil all myself doesn't sound like something I'd like to do. The bottle looks like something you get when you buy medicine for a cough etc.

And last but not least, I got two perfume samples. I was made aware that the last perfume samples in the GlossyBox smelt really badly.

Overall, I am happy with two of the five samples, but the rest of the stuff I won't use. I don't know if I'll keep my subscription if I'm honest, I'm happy to have received the Illamasqua and nail polish but do I really want to keep paying for stuff that I won't use? 

What did you lovelies get in your GlossyBox? Were you happy?

Peace, love and GlossyBox