Thin Lizzy mineral foundation!

Hi guys!
So I haven't posted a blog in a while, my hair is now brown as you will see in the pictures I post below, much easier to maintain than the red!
Today I'm going to be reviewing "Thin Lizzy's Mineral Face Power and Spot Concealer". Now if you live in Australia or New Zealand you will know that this stuff is advertised everywhere!!!! So the claims to reduce redness, get rid of dark under eyes, cover acne, uneven skin tone and make you bright and radiant! Now keep in mind this isn't the 6 in 1 powder I am reviewing today. So I'm going to post some before and afters below ( excuse my no made up face haha ) so you can see the difference on my skin. It's extremely light and the coverage is great!! I'm wearing the shade "duchess" with the "oriental doll" concealer on under the eyes and to hide marks on my nose. It's great! I couldn't be happier! The price is fabulous and it looks like I'm wearing a full face of make up when infact this isn't the case! Haha see photos below!
First two is left: no make up right: mineral powder and concealer only
Second two is left: mineral powder concealer and usual bronzer and blush right: normal full face.

Let me know what you thought if you have tried this product!!

Dilemma!

I thought this month instead of having to pay $80 plus every time to color my hair why not buy the color and do it myself at home? Smart right! Wrong. Especially when you are trying to lighten and or if your hair is multicolored. Dyed my hair at home with a friend and it pretty much turned out black!! ( will post photos below ) I was so annoyed ( as you can see in the photo ) I had put all this time and money into fixing my hair and lightening it just for a bad dye job to send it back to black!!!! Grrr. So I had heard this theory that head and shoulders shampoo can help strip out color? Well I am booked in to have my hair fixed once more next Thursday but I figure why not try and get some of the color out now! Before the appointment?! So I brought the standard 2 in 1 shampoo.. I haven't used a 2 in 1 since I was a child I cringed as I poured it into my hand and onto my head. Lathered up in the mirror and went and sat infront of the tv for 20 mins came back washed it out ( substantial color was coming out in the water ) so I repeated! This time I let it soak for 60 mins, stimulating the hair again every 15 mins or so, re lathered with more in the shower and washed out. Then after an extremely hard brush of my hair I dried it off with the hair dryer and the results are listed below! I think it's lifted the front quite a bit! I know diff lighting etc but it's better than nothing! So in conclusion I can confirm that head and shoulders helps strip out color. Over a long period of time Im sure it would do a great job! I have uploaded during and before and after photos below!

A Decision Pending

Good morning cyber space! How is everyone today?

So off I go to priceline last night, after conning my friend into helping me with my hair over some wine and junk food we had come to an agreeance that we would attack my hair on Sunday night before the big race on Tuesday! ( Not that I am doing anything anyway!! )

The product is sitting their on the shelf, however its only the regular strength not the max! The regular is for mid to light tones, which my hair is definetly not!! ARGH! so I ring around to other pharmacies around the area and every one that DOES stock the max strength has run out! Just my luck. So after going backwards and forward with my friend about should we just bleach it etc etc etc we decide to go into a different hairdresser to last time and see what they say.

SO in we go into *premise will remain unnamed* hairdresser and they look at my hair and are of course appalled by how it looks! So I ask them if they can fix it, and they agree to "do their best" needless to say that doesnt sound to promising to me! But my friend was like "stay positive!" "they might actually get it right!" so I am booked in to have my hair attacked professionally next Sunday! ( after the big race ) Like anyone else would when they are changing their hair colour i spent numerous hours going through photos of people with red hair trying to pick a shade! I havent even though about cut I dont think i could cope with that ASWELL at the moment, so hopefully this time next week i will be getting more excited about having my hair done. Fingers cross it doesnt break off. Or i could be ending up with a very short hair cut aswell. Eh.

So i decided on this shade... There is a difference!! Let me know what you think!

The Hair Dye Predicament.

This is my first blog so go easy on me, however I needed semi creative writing outlet since its been 4 years since I left school. So please enjoy my first blog entitled The Hair Dye Predicament.

So I have been consistently dying my hair black since I was the age of 15. Now, being 21, I decided that the black was way to harsh on my pale Anglo Saxon skin so off I go to the hairdresser to get out as much as possible. After being disgruntled many a time about the cost of trying to get black hair dye out of my hair ($150 plus) I booked in an appointment with a local hair dresser who quoted me $150 to strip out most of the black in my hair. When one strips out black hair dye from their hair it generally turns a gingery red colour as that is the common undertone in most black hair dyes. SO after sitting in the hairdressers chair for 60 + minutes they inform me that its not moving as much as they thought it would. PANIC!

After reassuring myself they wont let me walk out of the salon with it looking horrible I take a deep breath as I return to the salon seat. I glance at my hair and about an inch of my hair is as expected! Ginger and fluorescent as previously anticipated, however the rest of my hair doesn't look like its budged at all!! My heart sinks, I knew this was going to happen!! So they dry it off and it has shifted a little, but definitely not a lot. The women tries to reassure me that it will lift as I wash my hair and applies a red colour ( quite lovely on the model, was a little scared but I thought why not?!? ). 45 minutes later the red is complete and I notice as she is drying my hair off that some of the longer strands at the back of my hair have shifted a little but are still orange!! Not red!! Never the less by this point I'm to emotionally annoyed so she cuts my hair, I pay the $150 and go home.

Its now been 2 months since that initial "stripping of my hair" and the colour is none the lighter. So I have decided to take matters into my own hands!! As of this weekend I will be investing in a home colour remover product from Priceline and will attack accordingly.

I will post another blog this weekend once I have purchased the product and will also post before and after photos of how black my hair was previously, what it looks like now, and what it looks like after! Hopefully a little better than what it does now!! I'll keep you posted! :)