My Favourite Nail Polish!

Just a quick post about my favourite nail polish! I love love love this, the formula, the color and how long it lasts!

It's Russian Roulette by Essie!

Oily Skin Care Tip No.1 : Using a Toner

I have combination skin which means I have an oily t zone and normal to dry  cheeks.

A tip I picked up from a Beauty Therapist is to use a toner after cleansing, it helps remove any cleanser left on your skin, any dirt, make up and helps clean out pores and prevent pimples. 

It also will strip away your skins natural oils. Using a regular toner can be a problem for people with oily skin because when you strip away the natural oils and feel that tight skin feeling your skin goes into overdrive to replace the oils that are no longer there which means your skins get even oiler!

The way to avoid this is to use a toner that has no alcohol in it, the alcohol is what strips the natural oils. I use the Nivea Visage Young Stay Clear Purifying Toner. It's alcohol free and I have really noticed the difference between using a alcohol toner and an alcohol free toner.

To use this take a cotton swab and pour a small amount of toner onto the swaband wipe it over your skin avoiding your eyes.

Jayde

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The Hair Treatment that saved my Hair

BaByliss Pro Argan Oil.

On the back!

I prefer to use this on wet hair, If I do use it on dry hair I have to be careful not to overload my hair. The bottle says it doesn't leave a oily residue and it doesn't ... when used correctly, don't go overboard on this baby. A little goes a long way.

The reason I got this product in the first place is, I did terrible terrible things to my hair. My hairdresser was surprised I had hair left after this. But thanks to alot of care my hair survived. It was high maintenance but well worth it.

This is the terrible thing I did to my hair:

On a whim one day when I was dying one of my friends hair, we decided to dye my hair pink! I had the colour as I was using it to tint my hair. While I am naturally dark blonde I had been dying my hair a dark brown for several years. So I had to go from a dark brown to as light as I could get it. I'm not really proud of what I did to my hair, if I remember correctly I bleached my hair (yes BLEACHED) my hair a total of 4 times in 2 weeks. By the time I had done that my scalp was bright red and my hair was white at the roots and light orange at the ends.

Because I was using a red toned colour I didn't use a toner. The colour I used was Alfaparf Milano Jeans Color in Magenta. I love this colour. I really really do, I tried others but always went back to this. It's vibrant and long lasting, the colour would hold up for ages and I would only re do it because my regrowth was showing!

My hair is naturally frizzy and wavy, but nothing like the photo above, I fried my hair it felt like straw, If i brushed it when it was wet hair would come out onto my comb. I had to change my somewhat lazy hair care routine. I went from shampoo and conditioner and dying my hair to, deep conditioning twice a week using a salon shampoo and conditioner. Still it was not enough!

I went into Hair House Ware House (in Australia) and was browsing the aisles I had heard great things about Morrocan oil and picked this one up because I got more for the same price as another brand. The checkout girl was like be careful not to use to much as it can make your hair look greasy, then taking one look at my hair said although your hair will probably soak it up. And it did! 

This helped my hair so much, it cut down frizz, I added this to my hair dye to my deep condtioner pretty much anything I put on my hair I added this product too.

This product made it possible for me to do this to my hair

Special Effects Hair Dye in Cupcake.

La Riche Directions Semi Permanent Hair Color Dye in Atlantic Blue and Lilac 

Jayde

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NOTD: Caribbean Coral & Disco Ball

I am waiting for spring, Winter while nice at first is waaay too long. Bring on spring!!

This NOTD reminds me of spring. Any coral colour does! This one is the Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Caribbean Coral. This was my first time using this particular colour and I was quite impressed, I only used one coat and got opaque colour and it dried quite quickly as well!

The glitter polish is also a Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Disco Ball. This is my current favourite glitter polish, its very versatile and I can wear it with almost every colour. Wearing glitter polish seems to keep my nail polish on longer without chipping.

I used my Quo by Orly Strongbond (base coat) and Polish Keeper (top coat).

Another thing! My nails are currently quite short because I am dealing with some peeling issues, which I never normally have but about 2 months ago I used those Sally Hansen strips thingos and they seem to have ruined my nails! Which makes me so sad cause they are so pretty!

Jayde

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