Haul....of sorts ;)

My Boots order came!! I really impressed actually as I only ordered it on Saturday and they said the expected delivery was Thursday. So that's brilliant, thank you Boots.com!!


As I mentioned before I am going back to being a proper blondie!! So I've ordered my hair colourants and the bits I usually use to take care of my blonde hair. 

Here we go!!! We have Jerome Russell BBlonde Hair lightener for medium to dark brown hair, Nice n Easy in extra light beige blonde, Lee Stafford Bleach Blondes shampoo, Lee Stafford Poker Straight Flat Irons spray and Lee Stafford Poker Straight intensive conditioning treatment. 

Last time I dyed my hair this blonde I did go for more of an ashy colour, so hopefully this one wont look too bad!! I always always use a lightener first, I do have a lot of red in my hair and this takes care of it so my end result isn't gingery or bright yellow. 

I know they tell you not to dye your hair straight after lightening, but I always do and don't have any problems, however if you have sensitive scalp or anything I wouldn't recommend it. It's just something I do. I'll also say the condition of my hair isn't brilliant (I had a major mishap with two bleaches in November...like the plonker I am...I thought my usual method would work in getting my hair blonde again...what I failed to remember is the previous month I'd been to the hairdresser to have it dyed a shocking red....which WILL NOT come out with bleach...colour stripper however did a wonderful job...just wish I'd realised before doing a double bleaching...eeek) so I use an intensive conditioner every time I wash my hair and hot oils every week. 

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I was lucky that Lee Stafford were 3 for 2 in boots. I swear by the bleach blonde shampoo, it really evens the tone of your hair so you don't get those horrible yellowy brassy tones. It does sometimes leave your hair a little dry but nothing a conditioner cant fix. I chose the poker straight conditioner as I straighten my hair a lot and need all the help I can get. And as you all know when using hot tools on your hair you MUST MUST MUST use a protective spray. I ran out awhile ago and haven't used it a few times and it's dreadful, its like i hear my hair screaming in protest when I run the straighteners over it!! I really love Lee Stafford products and they are the only thing I will use when I've got blonde hair. They make it look fabulous!!!



So you can probably guess what I'll be doing later. Although I may not have time tonight so I might have to wait until tomorrow....which is annoying as I'm really impatient!



But hopefully it will all run smoothly and I'll be able to show you my new super blonde hair!!!

Snow Update :)

This is a photo from later on last night...still snowing...my lovely husband to be using my bum sledge thingy to shovel snow from the car and then throw at me!!


So naturally this started a mini snowball fight....I lost.



This morning the snow had started to melt away..but luckily there is still enough that I get to take my little one out to build her first snowman later :)


Thanks to having a face full of snow heating and then a blasting the central, my skin is really dry and patchy today, my normal moisturiser just wont cut it so I'm going to have to invest in a better one during this bout of weather.

Does anyone have any suggestions? My skin is normally quite dry anyway and sensitive


Despite the effect it has on skin (hair and nails) I do love the winter time, all the extra layers of clothing....accessorising with hats, scarfs, gloves and my all time favourite...EARMUFFS!! 


And as I got given lots of these items from Christmas its been great to test them out in this lovely cold weather!!



Toodle Pips



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The MANY changing styles and colours of my hair!

I'm a little bored this evening and scouring River Island.com is just not having the affect I was hoping for (as I'm broke :( pants) so I rummaged through some old and new photos and saw that I have changed my hair A LOT in the last few years. I then decided hmmm I think the readers of my blog should be able to have a look too and see which they think is best for me haha. 

Now I've been dying my hair since I was 14...so I'm unsure of what my natural colour is...as sometimes people...your eyebrows don't match (strange but true!) 
When I was very little my hair was white blonde, as I grew older it darken to a more golden colour...and then I decided to dye it dark chocolate brown and thus the dye addiction began. 

I'd also like to point out my hair is naturally curly...not wavy (to achieve this i first straighten then curl slightly with straighteners) full on ringlet curly. 

People often say I'm extremely lucky to have such curly hair. They are wrong. It goes fuzzy in any sort of weather, if you sleep on it or wear a hat...you cant have short styles because you look like little orphan Annie. Basically I am less than thrilled at times (not all the time....sometimes I do embrace the curl...) to have curly hair. Which is why ceramic straighteners, especially GHDs, were a godsend. 
I did have some babyliss heat and steam ones eons ago but they were pointless...they just fuzzed my hair even more...and I've always been rubbish at blow drying it straight. So when at 16 my mum bought me my first pair of ceramic straighteners by fudge I became a straightening addict and finely braved having my hair cut short like I had wanted to do for years. 

I must remember to use heat defence spray though....

so here they are...my last few years in hair cuts and colours!!

short and red, pretty recent

Short, curly dark red...don't like this much!

Chocolate brown bob (2007, yes I'm skinny was a size 6 before having my daughter! Now 10-12)

 

short and blonde, my birthday last year

long, wavy, brown.. my 21st!

an experiment with extensions

one of my favourites, choc brown bob with flashes of gold in fringe, although cant see that well in the pic

golden/strawberry blonde, wavy again

long,straight, brown, the day time of my21st

 

So I hope I haven't bored you too much!!


Toodle pip!


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