My hair journey

I decided that this summer I would set myself a goal to achieve much healthier and stronger hair. All the heat damage and dead ends and cheap products have left my hair really dry, frizzy, broken and it seems to be falling out way to much. I havent been treating it very well, coloring it at home way to much and leaving it up in buns with elastics that seem to always snag my hair. Its probably in the worst shape that its ever been in. So now its time for action! I decided my hair routine definetly needed an overhaul since it obviously wasnt doing the job.

So first things first shampoo! The last few times I got my hair cut the hairdressers kept questionning my choice of shampoo. They seemed to think that my shampoo had more to do with my dry brittle hair then my conditonner. Now being a conditionner lover I was pretty confused thinking that the conditionner was suppose to be the thing to help my hair's dryness. So I went out and purchased two new shampoo's, both of wich are sulfate free. First one is the blow replenishing shampoo.

And the next is the bain de terre keratin protein phyto protein shampoo!

I got two shampoo's since I read that its good to switch up your shampoo so that your hair doesnt get too ''used'' to a certain one and therefore not clean it aswell. I got both of these at winners. 

Step two was conditionner. Since it seems that most fortyfing shampoo's dont have the most attractive smell I decided to compensante for that with my conditionner. Latly I have been loving the bath and body works mango moisture conditionner. This smells amazing and is currently getting discontinued so its at an awesome price! 

Now step three is deep conditionner or some sort of treatment. I have tried many of these but not to many of them have impressed me. So when I was at winners I decided to pick up this eva unbreakable hair mask. It smells very nice and have read a few good things online.

Now for leave in products that I have been using latly. First things first I apply this new leave in treatment I got from redken. Its the anti snap Leave in treatment that is sais to gently smoothes the cuticle, reduces friction from brushing and helps fortify hair that's prone to breaking, splitting or snapping off.

Now as for leave in conditionners I havent really found one that suits my fancy yet. I am debating between trying out the One 'n Only Brazilian Tech Keratin Leave-In Treatment or the big healthy hair soy tri-wheat leave in conditionner.

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I am also currently using a split end mender by hair rescue that I got at sally's that seems to be discontinued. Its a tiny bottle and I definetly would not repurchase even if it was still available. So now I am on the look out for a good split end product. I have seen this one here at sally's but it only seems ok.
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Now the last hair product I tend to use everyday is either the chi Silk infusion or the macadamia oil.

And now for the last hair thing I use is the the phyto hair supplements. Now this I definetly wouldnt buy again since it is soo expensive and you can find way cheaper hair and nails vitamins at health stores.

How to achieve my goal:

Now other then keeping up with these products everyday I am gonna try and attempt to drink more water since I dont drink nearly enough and get trims more regularly. I am also not gonna dye my hair for the whole summer and I am gonna try and survive a heatless hair summer. That means not using any form of heat on my hair until september. Its already been three weeks with no heat and I am still going strong! So this is gonna hopefully be the routine I stick to with diligence all summer. I will attempt to update you all if I change or add or try out any products.


 

The new job

Today I decided to feature two outfits in one post since they both revolve around the same subject: my new job. I just got a position as a cashier at my local rexall pharma plus! I am soo excited!

This first outfit here is what I wore when I dropped off my resume. I paired my minty cardigan with my favorite shoes: the same edalman rose gold spiky flats.

This next ensemble is what I wore to the interview. I wore these new flats from Giant Tiger that are very missoni esque.

Galaxy diy + oodt

Here is another quick diy project you guys can accomplish for a low low price. All you need is a plain shirt ( no white), a small spray bottle, a stencil and bleach.

So the first thing your gonna wanna do is print out a an image of your choice and cut it out to create a stencil. I chose to use a stencil of a cross. Once your stencil is created tape it to your shirt.

Next you are gonna want to fill up a small spray bottle full of bleach.

Then you will  spray your shirt, very carefully as to not spray outside of the stencil.

Once the bleach has lightened your shirt enough you will want to wash and dry it. and voila!

 With some left over bleach I decided to spray some black cut off shorts I had.

And now for an outfit of the day rocking my galaxy creation hope you enjoy!!!

Cardigan: gifted, top: diy, Jeans: Pacsun, Shoes: giant tiger, Belt: salvation army



The challenge

Hello everyone! I have thought up of an idea, a little challenge per say that I will attempt to accomplish often enough. The challenge will be to recreat outfits I find in magazines, on weheartit, other blogs etc with items that I find at the thrift store only! The only thing that I can not promise is that my shoes will always be thrifted seeing as I find it very hard to find my size of shoes at thrift stores... Hopefully me doing these little challenge's will help you guys see the potential in your own thrift stores and make you see that you can find very trendy pieces for a fraction of the retail price. So the first outfit I will recreat is this one I found on Weheartit.

And now for my version! I got this Tiger print top at value village (apparently this is store is called savers in the states) for 6 dollars. I realize the girl in the image above has a cheetah print shirt but I feel that the color, print and material were similar enough. I got these dark boot cut jeans, by bongo, at the bibles for mission thrift store for 4 dollars. My simple black belt with gold hardware that I got at goodwill for 3 dollars. I chose to wear these little slip on sandals that I got at giant tiger, I chose these since they werent very expensive soo I thought they would still work well in this thrifted outfit. I also wore this gold watch I purchased at goodwill for 2 dollars. I woulda worn shades but it was very rainy out today.

I wore this out to dinner for my boyfriend 19 birthday. We went out to this really cool restaurant where you pick out your own items, sorta like a buffet but the food is uncooked and somewhat unseasoned and you choose your own combanation of sauce and the chef cooks it infront of you. It was a pretty good time.

dye day

Today was the first beautiful day in quite some time so I decided that it was time to do some dyeing projects I have been wanting to do. I was inspired by these distressed dyed studded shorts I have been seeing everywhere online! I knew I could easily diy these instead of paying the ridiculous price these companies ask for. Soo here it is :) Hope you guys enjoy!

My inspiration:

My interpretation:

Step 1: Find some denim shorts that you dont mind maybe messing up. I just cut up some old jeans that I did not wear anymore. You can distress them as much or as little as you like.

Step 2: Take an elastic band and separate the shorts into two sections, this will separate where the two colors go.

Step 2:  Mix up your dye and dip on section of shorts into it. You can follow the package instruction for the amount of time they sugest or you can just eyeball it.

Step 3: Once you finish one side, mix the other dye and repeat the exact same step on the other side.

Step 4: This is the final dye result.

Step 5: Add studs where you please. I studded one pair with some star studs and the other pair with pyramid studs I had left over from other projects.