Dear diary: I FINALLY got a new phone!

So I finally got another phone literally 2 days ago and I love it so much.

 When my phone broke I was using this really bad replacement where the battery would die every time I made a phone call and yeah if you go back to see when I blogged about when my phone broke, that’s how long it’s been with this thing.

I’m not going to lie though, it was pretty funny when I went out for my friend’s birthday dinner and she was cutting the cake and everyone took their phones out and I swear it was either an iphone or a galaxy or some sort of touch screen and I pulled out my Nokia 6610 and said Oh yeah I’m going to take a photo too, with this! and everybody just started laughing. (If you don’t know, it doesn’t even have a camera.) But it didn’t bother me, I love making people laugh, I was laughing too because I still couldn’t believe I hadn’t bought a new phone yet.

If you’re wondering I got myself the Nokia Asha 200 which is fine for me, I’m not really into all this technology business. Apps just give me a headache. I’m so old school for my age, I love it. As long as I can text, call and if I’m really in trouble/stuck somewhere internet access is great.

The one thing that kind of got to me was when a friend of mine said something along the lines of why don’t you get a smart phone, don’t be so old school and lame which really sucked because if they really knew me, they’d understand that I hate touch screens despite the fact that my galaxy tab is one but you know as friends I just didn’t feel like I had to justify myself which really just got me thinking, how much do your friends really listen to you and are they just nodding their heads to not be rude but they’re really thinking about their own issues.

Anyways I’m so tired, have a great night everyone!

Short hair VS Long hair

I think no matter who you are, there will be a time in your life where you are going to want something you don't have. Think about it, if you have dead straight hair, you want curly hair, if you have short lashes you want longer lashes, lighter skin you want to get a tan. Sometimes I think the world is just full of opposites and wanting to change things.

Bringing me to the topic of today or what's annoying me right now... short hair vs long hair. I've had it all, those do it yourself home hair cuts that were super short and made me look like a boy, the very thin at the bottom crazy layered hair that apparently everybody should have to the medium length hair that just sat there with no volume, so flat and so boring.

My hair grows out pretty quick but if any of you can relate, that'd be great. When you go from having long hair to short hair, it feels so weightless and it has so much volume to it or maybe its just me because I cheated and got a perm. However when hair grows out, there is a stage in hair growth that I like to call the ugly stage.

The ugly stage: This is where your hair has grown to a length that it is just impossible to work with.It frustrates you because you seem to be having a bad hair day almost everyday. It tends to go wild and frizz up at times, it feels dry, it looks unhealthy and no matter what you do to style it, it's just not working and most of the time it's gathered into some sort of top knot trying your best to hide all the imperfections and make it look as stylish as you possibly can at this stage. It gets all in your face especially when that wind blows and you feel like you just want to shave it all off.

At this very moment my hair is exactly at that stage and I just want to shave it all off because it is so crazy frizzy from this perm I got and it is just at a length where it doesn't look good. So I thought, genius me why not write down some pros and cons of short hair vs long hair.

Short hair: 

Pros..

- Great for  hot summer days where you might tend to sweat, it feels great not to have any hair up in your face or the back of your neck, sweat away ladies and gents.

- Drys so quickly after you have a shower whether it be the natural way or using a blow dryer, which saves electricity as well, added bonus.

- I like to call this the ready to wear hair, wake up, I mean come on short hair, how much time do you really need to style it?

- It's manageable, less dead and split ends because it always looks healthy.

Cons..

- It doesn't have that nice bounce to it when you walk, sometimes it lacks volume

- Limited styling looks, it's not like you can plait short hair or try out a crazy style

-  People might mistake you for a boy!

- It's one of those haircuts that just don't suit everybody

Long hair

Pros...

- Style it anyway you want, try out different looks, imagination just goes wild

- You can play around with it more

- There are so many styling products you can get for long hair

- Add some cute little feather extensions in, or some hair accessories just look better on long hair IMO.

Cons..

- It can be hard to maintain with all those products

- You're just asking for split and dead ends

- You kind of malt more I think

- It just gets so annoying when it is being stubborn and won't sit in the right place

The best solution for hair at the ugly stage would be the top knot or a messy bun or even a claw clip just so it's back, off the face and because you won't see it as much, your brain tricks you into thinking that it's growing out faster, but sometimes it lies.

Have a great day everyone! 

If you live in Australia enjoy this winter heatwave, because I definitely am not.

Dear diary: Customer service is just so bad!

Yesterday I went out, I decided to go to the shops to buy a couple of gifts for my friend for her birthday this weekend. I wanted to create a little gift box for her, if you guys don’t know, I love making gifts and making it personal and just getting all artsy crafty, if that makes sense. Here’s a link of a gift idea I came up with if you want to check it out. http://lalalinee.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/nifty-gift-idea.html

I mean okay, I’m prepared to deal with rude people, like I know not everybody out there is going to be nice or treat customers or people in general the way they should be treated, maybe because they’ve had previous bad experiences with other customers but can I just say, not every customer is going to be rude. I mean, I feel like I blog about retailing all the time because I’m just so shocked with how bad customer service is. I get that you have a job to do but it takes 2 seconds to say hello when somebody walks into the store, you don’t even have to ask if I need help with anything but just greet me and then you can get back to doing whatever you have to do.

I think in retail it’s so important to be nice and not to judge, I mean at the end of the day, you’re trying to make a sale and trust me I walked out of so many stores yesterday because customer service was just that bad, I was all ready to pay for what I wanted, too bad they took too long talking to each other about their hair.

For me, it does bother me that people can just be so rude, but worse for them because I will never walk into those stores again and it just creates a bad image for them.

Too bad, so sad is all I can say.

I'd love to know is it just me or is customer service pretty bad?

FEEL: Lucas' papaw ointment review

August august august, guys it's august already! I feel like july just flew by.

Today I want to talk about Lucas' papaw ointment.

Lucas papaw ointment

I'm going to include a little link for all of you if you want to check it out and see why so many people rave about this product, which I'll include at the end of this blog.

My story..

This product has been around for a while and was crazy popular when I was in high school, I am not kidding one day I was like my lips are so dry at the moment and my friends would literally whip out their papaw ointment and say you should use this, it's really good.

Being stubborn, I never really jumped on the ban dwagon of papaw ointment because I wanted to be different and not have what everybody else had, I don't know, it's hard to explain. People would rave and rave about this product and I wouldn't really care to much about it.

The other day my fingers swelled up and it was so red and itchy that I had no idea what was going on with my fingers, I later figured that okay an ant bite or many because it felt so inflamed, swollen, red, itchy and just overall ugly and if any of you have ever had an ant bite, you get it right? And talk about biting in an awkward place too, if it bit me on my leg I don't think I'd care too much but fingers? Really ants?

The swelling went down because I rubbed a wedge of lemon over it but I still got left with some rough skin and skin that looked deflated if that made sense, it's hard to describe. A loss of elasticity I'm going to call it. I decided because it was there in my bathroom I'd try it out on the ant bites because at that point nothing was working and to me, using that, there would be no harm. Within a couple of hours, it looked so much better, almost completely healed now, the skin is looking normal and no dry or flaky areas. My thoughts, love it and it works!

My mum actually had a skin  reaction the other day to a sunscreen and her cheeks were so inflamed and red she was complaining that it was burning her and that it hurt. Immediately I was like, wash your face and cold compress, which helped and overnight she applied the papaw ointment and the next day it was amazing, it wasn't completely healed, but the swelling went down, the redness reduced, it's crazy when products really work sometimes.

What you use it on...

This product has so many benefits and it's not only an ointment that relieves but also cleanses the problem area. You name it, cuts, minor burns, chafing, splinters, cracked skin, nappy rash, insect bites (me), splinters, thorns I could go on.

My love for it..

What I really love is that, it's not only a product that works but it's inexpensive. You get so many crazy creams and ointments out there that are pricey and you're not even sure if it's going to do the job, with this ointment even  if it doesn't work, you've only spent at minimum $4.95 (that's how much I paid) 

The sizes and packaging..

You've got 3 sizes, the 25g which comes in a tube form, which is just great to pop in your handbag. Talk about convenience. You have the 75g tub and also one that comes in 200g, if you use a lot of it.

I don't normally talk about packaging with products but with this one, it's simple and in a vibrant red colour, you just can't miss it.

Links and last few words..

If you guys want to read a bit more, head on over to their website and check it out for yourself. All I can say is I've got the little 25g tube in my bag everywhere I go now.

http://www.lucaspapaw.com.au/

Till next blog, have an amazing day everybody!