Hair of the day - loose curls

Today's hair of the day is inspired by my new found love for Gossip Girl, with 1 months free subscription to Netflix, it's a race against time to finish the series before the end of the month! Both Serena and Blair always have lovely curly hair that looks very glossy, alas mine is not glossy due to many years of hair dying but I can curl it!

To create this look I used my Babyliss barrel wand and took medium sized sections of hair and wrapped them loosely around the wand. When I had done all of my hair, I used my fingers to brush through it and make the curls drop slightly. I didn't want to use any hairspray because I wanted them to look quite natural.

What's your favourite series to watch on Netflix?

Time for a snip

I think the time has come that I need to get my haircut! The ends are dead and to be quite honest, I can snap the ends off that's how bad they are :| Due to me dying my hair so often, always straightening or curling it etc it has become quite damaged. Here is a photo of how it looks now, you can probably tell it's in really bad condition! (just to make clear... the plane poster is not mine and neither is the fish tank, I'm still in the process of swapping rooms)

After looking at photos of hairstyles on the internet I have decided I would quite like my hair like this

 I really like Mileys hair here, the cut and colour so hopefull I won't chicken out and will get mine done like this, I would love to know your opinions and if you think I would suit it, or any others you think might look better!

I would also love it if you could all take a look at Joni's blog! Joni sent me a lovely email and after some chatting I offered to do a blog design for her. I have just finished doing it, including the header and blog button and she is so lovely so It would be great if yuo all followe dher and left some lovely comments :)

(By the way I tried to change my blog name like I said but it wouldn't work and when I clicked on my blog link it had dissapeared)

Hair haul - before and after dye

Before

After

 Good morning lovelies! As you all can probably tell I go through many phases of wanting my hair either blonde or dark brown and when I finally get it the right colour I dye it the opposite colour. Back in summer I attempted to go blonde with a bleach kit and my hair went yellow, I then dyed it an ash blonde which looked fine into the colour faded in the sun and it went an awful gingery colour, so I then dyed it dark brown. I really liked that colour but my hair never keeps the colour long and soon it was a funny mousy brown colour and so I decided I was going to Ombre it in an attempt to let my roots grow out whilst it looked like it was supposed to be like that! The Ombre looked nice at firs but that also faded quite a lot and I just didn't like it once that happened (which is why I never made the blog post about it). So after seeing many photos of lovely blonde hair on Tumblr I thought 'I want blonde hair for summer!'

I bought the Loreal preference dye in shade 0.3 lightest ash blonde, I did know that my hair was never going to be as light as the picture. There was also a 3 for 2 offer on in boots on all haircare items so I bought 3 John Frieda things, A lightening shampoo, a tone correcting shampoo and deep conditioning treatment.  I left the dye on for around 45 minutes as it suggests and the rinsed it out,  used the conditioner it comes with and rinsed that off, then finally I applied the john frieda deep conditioner and left that on for 15 minutes in the hope it would save my hair from too much damage!

My hair is definitely lighter but still not as light as I would like, so I'm going to dye it lighter again but not for a while as I don't want to frazzle my hair too much. The deep conditioner definitely did wonders too my hair as it feels so much softer and it also made it smell really nice. I am yet to try the shampoos but I could do a review on them once I've used them for a bit if people would like? But I am hoping they get rid of the slight brassy tones in my hair and lighten it just a small amount if anything.

From brown to blonde

 

This is my hair before (it's an old piccy, but my hair colour was exactly the same)

 I have finally got round to dying (well bleaching) my hair. This post is long overdue as I said I would do it ages ago, but then they didn't have the dye I wanted and I just didn't get round to it. But alas... here it is! The set of pictures above is after I used 'schwarzkopf live xxl max blonde 00B' what a mouthful! I left the dye on for the allocated time and put a shower cap on (probably not the best idea) I thought that this dye would just lighten my hair a shade lighter so I thought wearing the shower cap would increase it's lightening power from the heat on my head. However when taking a look under the shower cap shortly before washing it off, I was a bit shocked to see my roots were bright yellow/ ice blonde and the rest of my hair was a gingery blonde, and despite using 2 bottles of the product because I have longish hair, it was still slightly patchy, but this is probably due to me not applying it very well. 

After drying my hair I was a bit shocked to see how bright it was, and very yellow and dry too! I could have cried, but my Mum said she would buy me some new hair dye in the morning.

(Excuse my frizzy hair but I left it to dry naturally, and don't want to use any heat on it for a while so YAH KNOW!)

Before putting this new Nice n easy dye on my hair I was really considering putting a deep brown dye on my hair to cover the mess I had made! But I had researched about brassy blonde hair, and found out that I needed to put an 'ash' shade dye on my hair to counteract the brassiness. So this time my Mum applyed the dye for me (after seeing my attempt it was for the best)! When it was on my hair I was really worrying because it looked very ginger, but lets be honest... It couldn't have looked any worse than before. So I left it on again for the allocated time, then washed it off and left my hair to air dry (no more heat on my hair until it has recovered a bit) I quite like the results, it's still a bit of a funny colour but I am hoping it will look more natural once I have washed it a few times, and I am going to use my John Frieda shampoo that reduces brassiness. So here is my new hair, a bit damaged from the bleaching but alas... it is blonde!

A little Update on me, myself and I

So sorry I haven't blogged much recently, but due to my foot operation I can't walk for 2 weeks so I am stuck in the house! Which basically means I haven't done anything worth blogging about (unless you want a blog post about the many films I have watched and how much I have slept ;) )

In the photo you can see my snazzy shoe (you know you want one), it stops me from putting any weight onto the front of my foot because if I did then the screw and bones would be dislodged and I would have to  have the operation again. It says on the leaflet that I can walk on it now, but it's best if you don't and so you should only walk on it if you really have to. But seeing as the surgery is usually used for bunions, which I don't have,  it is normally done on older people who would find it hard to hop around on crutches. But I can do this, so I just do that instead. Which also means it should hopefully fuse quicker and cause less swelling :)

Now onto the cheerier stuff, I am hoping to dye my hair blonde in a few days, my lovely friend is picking up some hair dye and a pre-lightener for me. I am a bit nervous in case it turns to orange, but I do have a bit of a john Frieda shampoo left that gets rid of brassiness. So if all goes well and I come out blonde, then let me know if you would like a blog post on how I did it. Just for the record, I have had my hair every colour under the sun, and blonde is one of them. But unfortunately I can't remember how on earth I got it blonde, other than the fact that I once used sun-in (big mistake) which did make it a gorgeous shade, but also fried it like there no tomorrow! Thankfully my hair has recovered now and I rarely use heat on it anymore so it's condition is much better. So I will leave you with some photos of my many shades of blonde, sorry for the bad quality but they were taken on my webcam.