Let the hair dying commence!

I'm using Garnier Nutrísse Crème Nourishing Permanent Hair Colour in Creamy Coffee 5 1/2 Light Medium Brown. Here goes!

Product Rave: Colour B4 Hair Colour Remover

I decided that I was bored of my purple hair. Yes, I know I dyed it a few months ago, but I felt like a change. I've been toying with the idea of Ombre hair for a good while and was thinking about going to get it done at the hairdressers but considering the price will be probably around £70 or more to get it stripped, coloured, bleached and cut, I decided to have a go at the colouring myself. I'm not jumping into the ombre straight away. My idea was to strip my hair and dye over with my natural colour, leave to settle in and fade slightly and then decide from there if I want to bleach the ends of my hair.

I picked up Colour B4 hair colour remover from my local Body Care shop. It cost me under £7 (as opposed to Boots where it costs £10+, just a little tip!)

In the box you get 3 bottles marked A, B and C.

I did a skin test to make sure that I wasn't allergic to any of the substances in the remover.

This is a picture of my hair colour before the process. You can see the purple and also my natural hair colour at the roots.

Make sure you read the instructions (CAREFULLY!) This is not like a hair dye where you can skim through the instructions and get going. I suggest reading through the leaflet contained in the box at least twice and follow it to the letter. It is very important to follow the instructions carefully because if you don't, your hair could revert back to the colour you were trying to get rid of in the first place.

I applied the product to my hair and set my timer. Warning: This product smells like egg with a tinge of apple. Not the nicest smell in the world. Nose peg is advisable!

You can leave the product on for 30mins for regular, or 1 hour for hair with a lot of colour build up. I left mine on for 45 minutes.

You need to then rinse, rinse, rinse. I'm not lying when I say you have to rinse it for at least 20 minutes. By the end of my shower I had prune fingers and aching arms. My hair felt horrible, however all of the colour had been stripped out.

This is the hair colour after the process. Granted it is a lot more brassy than my natural colour, however, I was expecting this. Unfortunately I bought a permanent dye to go over my newly stripped hair, not knowing that they recommend to use a temporary dye if you are going to dye over straight away.

I decided that it wasn't too bad of a colour, so I've waited a couple of days for it to settle down and I'm going to dye it with my permanent dye within the next few days.

Overall, very happy with this product. I would recommend trying it out if you want to strip dark colour out of your hair (does not work on bleached or lightened hair). I've been dying my hair for near on 10 years and I think that it did a pretty damn good job at revealing (nearly) my natural hair colour.

Next step for me is to dye over with a natural brown. Pictures will follow.

:)

Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette - Get it early!

Hi guys,

Don't know how many of you will be reading this tonight but here is a link to purchase the Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette before it's available officially on the Debenhams website tonight at midnight. I'm guessing that this will sell out fast so you may want to purchase tonight if you're thinking of getting it - to save disappointment.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE NAKED 2 PALETTE FROM DEBENHAMS

This link is exclusively to people who 'Like' Debenhams Beauty Club on Facebook. Thought I'd share it on here for my UK followers who may be interested.

I ordered mine last night and it should arrive this week some time, hurray!

Hurry, get yours before access is live to the general public. They WILL sell out fast!

Liverpool One Haul!

With this weekend off work my boyf and I decided to go on a shopping trip to Liverpool One. We've never been there before and wanted to try something different to our usual Manchester outings. We got a relatively cheap deal on the train and took our own breakky and some fruit and magazines to keep us entertained.


We got up super early to spend the whole day out hence looking half asleep on the train :)


When we got to Liverpool we went for a quick wander down to the pub where the Beatles formed. Guess who I had my picture taken with...!


Also found a big silver Superlambanana.


And here's what I bought... I finally found some thick, good quality leggings. They are from Topshop and were £18. I've tried them on but haven't worn them for a whole day yet, so I don't know if they will go baggy, however they have ticked the boxes for none-seethrough and thick material so far! I'll let you know how they wear of you're interested.


And here is my splurge. Can't believe I actually bought one even though it was on my wish list blogpost from the other day. I've been thinking about getting one since last month and I knew that if I didn't get one in person (as apposed to ordering online) while we were in Liverpool then I would have regretted it and bought one as soon as I got home online. Most likely would have paid more for postage etc as well. So I but the bullet and got myself this little beauty. Definitely my big purchase of this year and will not be spending that amount on anything else any time soon!! I'm writing this post on him now, still trying to get the hang of it. I've named him Patrick, or Paddy for short :) Say hi Patrick!


So after I splurged on Paddy I felt super guilty and couldn't bear (or afford!) to buy anything else so we went for a little walk to Albert Docks. It was super cold so we didn't go all the way round but saw The Yellow Duck Marine boat/bus ascending from the water to solid ground :)


After another quick wander round and seeing lots of police, student protestors and girls in velour track suits and rollers, we decided to head back to the trail station to catch the train home. Yawn!


I also wanted to show you some bargains I picked up in Topshop just after Christmas. I saw some still in Liverpool Topshop so they still are available if you have a Topshop near you. I picked up these two pairs of slippers for £8 each. How cute. I may even wear them out even though they are house slippers haha.





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O.O.T.D 02/01/12 & Charity Shopping

Today's outfit of the day is one I wore for a walk along the coast with my family.

It was very windy and extremely cold. Here's what I wore, managing to keep quite warm until I took my hands out of my pockets!

I have on my Penfield Gillman Coat which is an absolute saviour in the cold weather. The scarf I have on is from Next and was featured in my last post.

You can just see my checkered shirt from Topshop underneath my coat. The black (faded to grey) skinny jeans are from Topshop, too.

Bag is Cambridge Satchel Company 11" Classic in Black.

Boots are "Tundra" by ASH.

While we were out, we stopped for a pub lunch and visited a few shops along the high street. I couldn't pass up this vintage Moschino handbag I saw in British Heat Foundation Charity shop. It's most likely fake, but it's in lovely condition and good quality leather and looks cool as hell. :)

I'm currently sat by the radiator with several layers of pyjamas on to try and thaw out!

Hope you all had a lovely bank holiday.

x

Wishlist: 01/01/12

So, it's the new year and I've been online sale browsing (of course!) and I've pretty much made a mental list as long as my arm of things I would quite happily purchase if I had all of the money in the world. Unfortunately, I don't, and unfortunately I accidently started browsing things that weren't in the sale as well...

Here's a few things that are on top of my list.

1. Ipad 2 in black. The ultimate unnecessary luxury. Why do I need one? Obviously I have thousands of reasons. Can I think of them all at this moment in time? Not quite. However, I reaaaaaaallly want one. This has all sprung from playing on by brother's iPad this Christmas and me becoming insanely jealous and wanting one for myself.

2. Shu Uemura eyelash curlers. Or to be more precise, Shu Uemura eyelash curler refill pads. I wish to God that they sold the refills separately as I despise thinking about spending around £20 on a new pair when I have a perfectly good pair in my makeup bag. All I need is the refill! And what's worse is that I KNOW that I have one more refill somewhere in my room. I kept it safe in the box but somehow lost it, a few months ago I found it again and put it safely on my desk, and now it has completely disappeared! I can't fathom where on earth it has gone, but all I know is that it's not where I left it. So now I'm stuck contemplating buying a brand new curler (because they're bloody good) just because they refuse to sell the insert pads separately!

3. Tight, black, colourfast skinny jeans. Pictured are Cheap Monday skinny jeans. I really need to go try on before I buy though, no online purchases of jeans for me because it's just too risky to try and get your right size. My skinny jeans from Topshop have faded into a murky grey colour and they are generally quite crappy quality (although comfy as anything, so I'm still going to wear them to death!) Will have to try some on on my next shopping trip to a big city as they don't sell anything good in my town.

4. Something I really need is some good quality leggings. I need none-seethrough, none-sag, colourfast black leggings made from a good, sturdy material. I cannot stand leggings where you can see what you had for breakfast the day before. So far I have failed to find any up to the quality that I want. Topshop leggings are crap, Miss Selfridge are worse and as for Primark.. If anyone has any good suggestions as to what brand I should try next, please let me know in the comments! The leggings pictured below are from American Apparel, has anyone tried these out?

5. I'd also quite like a slouchy blazer, just for something different. I don't own a blazer, but if I got my skinny jeans/leggings sorted out, I'd like to pair it with one similar to the picture below, perhaps with a nice striped black and white t-shirt. I'm also after a slouchy white (none seethrough) vest top/tee which is long enough to wear with leggings, with a deep v or deep round neck. I've been searching for this item for literally years and am yet to find one that I like. I came close with a Forever 21 vest, but still a bit too seethrough for my liking! Any suggestions, again, would be much appreciated!

What's on your wishlist for the new year?

Christmas Gifts & Sale Shopping!

I got the bargain of the century this weekend in the Christmas sales. I visited my local Next Outlet store and picked up this little beauty.

It is a lovely quality perforated suede in a tealy-grey colour. I grabbed it off the rail as soon as I saw it and decided to try it on even though size 12's are normally too big for me. It does fit a little loose but I couldn't pass up this bargain...

...was originally £140 reduced to £15! Kerching!

The perforated suede and shoulder details, as well as the silvery-gold hardware, are to die for. Super chuffed!

While I was shopping I also popped into a store called "Bags etc" and snagged these two vanity cases on a Buy One Get One Free offer. £10 for the both of them. I've been needing some sturdy cases for a long while and loved the bold pattern on these.

I've used the bigger of the two to store my nail varnishes, and the smaller one to store my every day makeup.

From Next I also found this infinity faux fur scarf for a whopping £1! Saw a similar one in the Topshop sale the other day for at least £8 and I nearly bought that at the time. So I patted myself on the back for finding such a bargain with this one!

I was lucky enough to get these Jeffrey Campbell "Pencil Me In" flats for Christmas. They have been unavailable for years and I randomly received an email from ModCloth.com telling me that they had come back in stock back in mid November so took the opportunity to purchase them. I'd read a lot of reviews saying they run small so you should buy one size up. The full size up from my foot size was sold out so I decided to go for the half size up and they're still a bit tight. I'm currently trying to break them in to make them more wearable. I've been walking round in excruciating pain with thick socks on to try to stretch the leather slightly. It has worked to a fashion but still needs a bit more work. Any ideas on how to stretch leather shoes with proven results!?

Did you pick up any bargains in the Christmas sales?