Dear diary: Bad hair day? Try a bad hair weekend

Okay here we go…

Over the weekend I decided to chop off my long straight hair to what you would call a sort of bob styled hair cut, I suppose.

Silly me because my normal hairdresser was really busy, he couldn’t cut it for me so I decided to go somewhere else because I was desperate for that hair cut. It SUCKS! By the way if you were wondering.

Not going to lie, it’s not the worst hair cut I’ve ever had but sort of kind of not really what I wanted. The way he cut my bangs, it was just too short for my liking, the front part, lovely, really nice, I liked it and the back, weirdest styled hair cut of my life. Not the worst but the most, I’m trying not to be mean so let’s just say one of the most inventive haircuts I’ve had, in a weird kind of way.

I went home and styled it the way I wanted, wavy, some parts straight and it did look nice, it actually made me look a lot mature and professional looking especially because I was wearing a navy blue jumpsuit with a blazer on. So I thought okay well if it looks nice kind of wavy in some parts I’m going to go get a perm then because my hair just cannot take curls, they just end up falling flat as soon as it’s done.

Soooooooooooo I went to get my perm, a wavy perm, costed me $100, sat there for 3 hours, 2 days later one side of my hair is curlier than the other. OH MY GOSH! Seriously can this bad hair weekend get any worse? The perm itself wasn’t too disappointing well that would be a lie, I actually regret getting a perm and I think it was just because of the initial hair cut I wasn’t happy and I seriously thought perming it would be a quick fix solution.

Lesson learnt: perms do not suit me and I’m going back to my initial thinking of when I go get m hair cut don’t expect it to look good.

Hope you all had a great weekend unlike me.

Talk about a hairy situation. Literally.

FEEL: Out the door topcoat review

Forgive me my last product review was on nail polish, and yes you guessed it, it’s going to be another nail polish review, soon enough I’ll be talking about my nails just as much as my hair posts, but I mean I’m sure you all love doing your nails so this review is going to be a goodie.

Alright so I shop a lot so most of these blogs start off with I went to my beauty supplier, because I literally see her every week because I work near there okay and like I said in my Look at all this stuff blog I’m going to stop spending so much but only on the things I already have.  I can still buy other stuff. Hehehe.

I originally wanted to get some OPI top coat because they sell it for a good enough price I suppose. The thing was she ran out of OPI nail polish well the top coat and I was like but whyyyyyyy (obviously because people bought it) no I mean why as in why when I want to get it, they don’t have it, but she introduced me to this other top coat called…

Out the Door

Out the door topcoat

OMG would it be bad for me to say that it’s almost as good as OPI but maybe even better?

Let me give you guys some reasons..

1. It dries SUPER FAST! Think superman fast when he’s flying or whatever. 45 seconds and it’s dry, second coat? Go for it!
2. Durable like you wouldn’t believe, day 5 showed my friend my nails and she’s like wow did you get them done and I’m like no I did them myself and what a compliment, it looked so good that she thought a professional did it. That and it’s only started chipping on my pointer finger on my left hand.
3. And of course with any top coat there’s that high shine that we all love, and yes it so does that as well.

Will definitely be buying this and rebuying it, it’s that good.  Oh and did I mention it only costed me $7.95.

By the way let me explain the picture, unfortunately she didn't have the actual little bottles to sell, only the massive ones, so she transferred it into an empty nail polish bottle, I mean they are a wholesaler/retailer after all.

Dear diary: Compliments go a long way

I think no matter who you are, compliments go a long way.  You could be the most confident person out there or even the shyest, but we all love receiving that little bit of attention which can make you just feel great about yourself.

It doesn’t matter what they compliment you on, it could be what you’re wearing or your makeup or your new hairdo, it gives you that instant pick me up and makes you feel great about yourself.

So I think ladies, give someone a compliment every day it could just be your mum or sister, a friend, a stranger if you’re working in retail like me, little things like that can really make a difference to somebody.

You never know.

Dedicated to my beautiful friend who’s been dealing with depression. Just know that things will get better.

Look at all this stuff!

Okay that’s it ladies and gents. I officially have too many beauty products. And don’t be like you can never have enough beauty products, but uhh I think you can.

I have no idea what’s gotten into me lately maybe it’s called growing up, but I’ve started to really think about the money I spend and what I spend it on and if I really need something, sooooooooo what I’m trying to say is I need to stop being such an impulse buyer.

Okay yeah so what I work in retail and you would think that you would know the tactics on how they sell a product but I just can’t say no sometimes and just buy something because I really want it and don’t NEED it. I don’t like making people feel sad that they didn’t get a sale out of me. I could be their only sale that day, think about it like that. (not likely the case, but you never know) I’m a you never know kind of person, you know? Alright this is getting confusing even for me and I’m writing this.

So as part of becoming a smart buyer instead of an impulse one, I am going to finish all these beauty products before I invest in another beauty product.

Impulse buyer like me? Let me know what one product you have way too much of.

Alright so, here I have like a million trillion creams and lotions that I currently own (some have been untouched, some are almost finished.)

I am not kidding you these are all mine. This was when it hit me that I had too many products because I had nowhere to store these on my makeup table.

the creams and lotions for soft skin like a baby's bottom.

So here I have:

  - Kenkay skin relief sorbolene cream  (1kg of that, but i don't care best product ever)
- Escada marine groove body lotion

- Sudocrem
- Palmer's cocoa body butter

- Palmer's cocoa butter formula

- nutrimetics botanicals green tea body lotion

- Solace mineral spa body butter
-Solace mineral spa body lotion

- Vaseline intensive care lotion in aloe vera

                                                                                                
  I wasn't kidding when I say I  use A LOT of different brands.

Next up we have the day and night creams:

The day and night creams

- Nivea creme

- Nivea soft

- Aveeno positively radiant daily moisturiser

- Aveenooooooo positively radiant tinted moisturiser

- Garnier miracle skin perfector BB creme

Then over here we have my facial cleansers, yes I use more than one,  I want to give every beauty product out there a chance

The daily cleansers

- Formula 10.0.6 Best face forward daily foaming cleanser

- Clean & Clear essentials self-foaming facial wash

-  Shiseido The skincare rinse off cleansing gel

- QV gentle wash

Lip care, who doesn't own some sort of lip balm, no matter how tom boyish you are.

And because our lips need some loving too, I stocked up on more than a couple of these

- Vaseline white petroleum jelly style

- Ultraceuticals professional ultra lip protect

- Nivea lip care in cherry (my favourite of all time and it's almost finished)

- Blistex silk & shine

- Lip smacker in gum ball galaxy ( taking it back old school to when these were the coolest)

- Chapstick ( I just love the name for this brand) I have a slogan for it, want to hear it?  Chapped lips? Have no fear chapstick is here.

I vow that I will do my very best at using up all these products before I purchase any new ones, but no promises.

And don't even get me started on the makeup products.