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15 July 2011

have you ever thrown a fistful of glitter in the air

until about March I had only coloured my hair twice.. both times i had bleach highlights and high lift. I had this done again in March and as much of a difference as it made I wasn't fully happy with the results. so when i had enough root to irritate me i bought a packet of hair dye (fully aware of the mess my hair could potentially turn into) and so I chose L'oreal Casting Creme Gloss in light frosted blonde. It promised a cool toned blonde several shades lighter than my current hair colour. Alas this was not the case. I was about a shade lighter and the difference was hardly noticeable. all that happened was my roots werent quite as obvious. Un happy with the outcome again I was looking for a blonde hair dye strong enough to give me light blonde hair without using plain bleach.. just to avoid the dullness. And so i found garnier belle colour in the lightest shade. I believe it contains hydrogen peroxide.. however it doesnt give you that same one colour look you get with plain old bleach. Obviously this product wasnt going to get 5 stars because its a packet of hair dye... my roots have a gingerish tinge to them however i am happy with the results.. I just need two packets next time as unfortunately one packet wasnt quite enough. I will be using this product again when i need to re do my hair (unless it is this i have had a reaction to!) my hair is now a light golden colour with a few tones in to give it that slightly more natural feel.

SO heres a picture of my hair at the moment. .. excuse the fact my hair looks white.. its the only way to take a decent picture using this webcam!

until next time... Laura xx

14 June 2011

a heart plus a heart...

When I died my hair a few weeks back I decided to buy a deep conditioner to revive it from the dye and also from all the heat I use to tame my hair. I stumbled across Pantene Pro-V Colour Protect 2 Min Damage Rescue Treatment. This product claims to be "protection and vibrancy for all coloured or highlighted hair" I was definitely expecting to have soft silky hair.. which is definitely what I am left with, however I'm not sure this does much for the colour.. but I am also using Paul Smith Blonde shampoo.. overall I will say its definitely good for bringing your hair back to life, mine feels super soft and silky and my split ends seem to have dissapeared on the most part. This is definitely a product I recomend for hair that isn't too damaged. If you have tried this product on super damaged hair please comment your results!

When I use this product I take a scoop out with my fingers and put that on the ends then focus the rest on the roots and use any extra if I need to. I use it on My roots because its supposed to help my colour vibrancy and to read my fringe because that is definitely one of the most damaged parts of my hair from those straighteners. I also tend to leave it on for between 2-5 minutes instead of the 2 it says just to help make my hair extra soft. I use this every Sunday night then mid-week I use the Paul Smith condition to match the blonde shampoo I'm currently using just to improve the condition of my hair. This is because I'm trying to grow my hair back to length it was about this time last year so am not going to the hairdressers.. because that always results in me wanting to do something drastic.

Until next time,

Laura x

2 May 2011

the dreams that you dare you dream really do come true.

I have decided that every month I am going to do a blog post on the things that if i had the money right now, I would of bought. I hope you enjoy :)

1. FoxyLocks Extensions - These have had such amazing reviews and after deciding not to grow my hair much longer to keep it looking healthy, I decided i would save up for some decent hair extensions for those days where I'm missing my long hair.

2. A 1 Inch Hair Curling Iron. - I know these arent really that expensive, but being in school and not having a job means this is another thing to go on my wishlist. I really want something to help me achieve loosely curled hair and have done for ages now, but when i got my hair cut to my shoulders and had the money to buy one, it wasnt on my mind!

3. MAC face and body foundation - I have heard such good reviews about this product, and as far as MAC products go it is such good value for money.. I think it works out as cheaper than buying the amount of average priced drugstore foundation needed to fill the bottle. It is also a water based foundation which means its going to be better for my skin!

4.Sigma 12 brush brush set - I currently do not own any MAC or SIGMA make up brushes, and the set i have my eye on here has all the brushes I can see myself needing!

Like I said I hope you enjoyed reading this post, I'm sorry for the lack of pictures, I dont like using other peoples pictures in my posts :) I dont think I will be in possesion of these unless I get a job anytime soon ... but a girl can dream.

5 April 2011

I feel half of my blog posts are apologies for being a lazy cow and not posting.. but this time I genuinley had no laptop! So from now I am going to be more of a blogger and aim to get my followers up to 100 within the month.. difficult task but I will try, so please broadcast this on twitter, tell your friends (follow me @09lauraspain) because I would love to do a giveaway at 100 followers. this probably sounds so desperate . sorry!
So this isn't a useless blog post you all read and thought urgh what a waste of time! i thought i would include a small update!

1. Hair - anyone who follows me on twitter (@09lauraspain) will be aware that I have had my hair 'dyed' .. its now much much lighter thanks to bleach highlights and a high-lift (hairdressers please tell me what this is exactly?) so here is a picture of my new blonde hair :)

does anyone know of any light packet hair dyes hat arent bleach that i can use to maintain this kind of light blonde because I can't afford to fork out for hairdessers every few weeks?

2. School: I am only a 16 year old girl, studying for my AS exams... and in only a matter of weeks will be sitting them! so i have lots of revision to fit in.. but thankfully with the easter holidays not even a week away im sure i will be able to fit in some blog posts.. so don't lose hope on me just yet!

3. Money: i still have no money.. in fact i currently have 6p to my name... and so haven't done much shopping lately however my lovely mum has taken me out a couple of times and so i do have a couple of things to show you that will feature in another post.

apart from matters of my life which I'm sure none of you are too fussed about.. thats about it of my boring life right now... will put another post up tomorrow!

Laura x

22 January 2011

SHOPPING TRIP!

Today I went on a nice shopping trip from about 10-'til-5. unfortunately there wasn't much that stood out in the shops but bought a few basics and have given into a couple of bags.. which are both quite similar... but oh well!

Primark:

Black and Navy Cardigans - £6 each, navy not in picture