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How-to: BLONDE TO PASTEL BLUE HAIR

I've been asked a good few times now how I got pastel blue hair and what I do to match up my extensions, so I figured, might as well make a video out of it!

I wanted to make a proper blogpost as well, but I just didn't keep up with taking pictures, so I have to refer you all to the video unless I get some feedback on IF I should work out a proper blogpost about the process?

To achieve the perfect color I use Directions Lagoon Blue & Violet dilluted with loads of conditioner

REVIEW: L'Oreal Préférence 03 ULTRA LIGHTENING

 

I decided to try out one of the Préférence lighteners, mostly because it was on sale. I used the 10.21 STOCKHOLM back when I had white hair, and I liked the, although weak potency, ashy color.

I will start off by saying that this review does not start from zero, since I had ALREADY bleached my roots ONCE with this same bleach, so if you want to get a feeling of my natural roots, I'll refer you to this review; Naturigin EXTREME ASH BLONDE 11.2
I have also mixed both blue and violet dye into the bleach to tone, so remember this, even though the package promises an ashier blonde.

T h e  B l e a c h: Mixing is no problem and a kind I prefer due to it being more liquid, rather than creamy. For my half an inch roots the product covers my full head neatly, even with leftovers. (40ml/80ml/4.4ml Hi-Shine elixer)
I kept the product on my roots easily, despite the liquid texture and it was very easy for me to apply evenly throughout my hair (with the help of a frontal and back mirror of course)

The first bleach had lifted the color to a natural orange, my roots ARE darker than the recommended usage, so I didn't expect it to come out much lighter than this.

I applied the dye evenly on my hair, and as it did the first time, it turned into a darker dye, because of the added color, so I wouldn't expect it to do the same if it hadn't been added.
I left the dye in for about 40 minutes so I could finish my American Horror Story episode.

I rinsed out the dye and added my usual blue-toned conditioner and this was the result. It's slightly darker on the picture than it is dry, and my sides are definitely lighter in color than the top, which still has a slight hue, but otherwise is light enough to get toned out.

Taking your time with weaker bleaches, instead of ONE strong one, definitely makes a difference when it comes to the health of your hair - my roots are not dry and my hair doesn't feel as coarse as it could have.

In conclusion, the Préférence line is NOT as potent as many other when it comes to their bleaches/lighteners, but if you want to keep your hair healthier and can handle a few off-hair days/weeks, it is definitely worth your time - especially in the long run if you're growing your hair out.
it definitely has "will try again"-value

How-To: FROM BROWN TO PASTEL PINK HAIR

First of all, happy new years everyone! I hope you had an awesome transition into it and that 2014 is going to be YOUR YEAR

I had my friend Emi over for a couple of days, mainly just to be the freaks that we are in a contained space, but also to play around with her hair, since she told me that she's been DYING to get pastel pink hair and how could I not jump that horse?

And so we did! While filming it, so we could share it with all you lovelies~

"Girl with the Parasol" & New Make-Up Palette!

Over the last few weeks I've been working in cooperation with the danish National Museum on their new exhibition "The Girl with the Parasol", where I've been asked to administrate the 'living picture' part, which is - if you haven't already guessed - cosplay.
We launched the exhibition friday and opened to the public today, and I've been hostessing with a few other cosplayers, which was a very new experience, but very exciting and I enjoyed it a lot.



If you live in Denmark, or are visiting over the next 5 months, you should definitely have a look at the amazing art that is displayed, and I personally and other costume makers will be there hostessing and creating events during some weekends!

Friday after we got off, me and Mie went to get some dinner and then had a quick look-see around town, and since I really wanted to oogle some Urban Decay we went to look at make-up.
Passing through Sephora, which I've done a few times, always just rushed before, because I couldn't deal with the prices, but yesterday we took our time and I found a palette that I really really liked.

I've been itching to get some shiny eye shadows, since most of the once I own are matte, and shimmer just gives a much more alive effect when you do costume make-up (and party make-up for that matter!)

I found this "Front Cover" Hot Shades Cool Colours, and I just knew I had to take it home after I'd tried some. All the colors I could use and with just the right amount of shine to them, yeeesss.

My two favorite colors are definitely Flash and Spark, I can't wait to play with this!

The packaging itself is definitely theme based, and something I think Front Cover does a lot, I'm not really for or against it, but I do feel that the bottom layer could easily break off when opened D:

Also as you can see my hair is now a nice shade of pastel blue and I'm really really satisfied with it at the moment, it'll be hell to keep, but I do actually feel a little more mature with this - the lipstick helps too of course :P

My top 6 Favorite Haircolors

It's no secret that I'm a very vigilant dye-harder, and I've been through my share of haircolors, and thought, since I'm a good place with my haircolor, that I'd do a look-back on my all-time favorite hair colors.

Here we go!

No. 1 - Wine Red

My all time favorite is definitely my dark red hair, I almost NEVER dreamt about other colors. Even though it was a slight bitch to maintain, it inspired me the most, and I felt very confident in this.

No. 2 - Matthew "Dumbo" Nguyen inspi - Black/Red

I imidiately fell in love with Dumbo's variation of this hair, and I felt very awesome having it, since I'm just the biggest sucker for obvious two-tone hair. I didn't have it for too long, but never ONCE hated having this dye.

No. 3 - White Hair

My current hair, it's on my list of 'most want'-haircolors, and even though it's a pain to maintain, and it takes a toll on your hair and it's very easy to mess up, which gives me down days. But it's just, ugh. I feel young, but grown-up and just right, I'm so happy that I made the transition from darker hair to this. So far I've not had any dreams of changing.

No. 4 - Purple~Red

A color I got while in Japan, and it was the biggest bitch EVER to maintain, like dying my hair every 4th day. But ugh, I thought it looked so bad ass when it was newly dyed. (My white shirts didn't though)

No. 5 - Black

Easy, breezy, black. My hair almost always felt healthy and I think solid black hair is extremely gorgeous, but it's definitely a back-up color of mine, since I get bored of it easily.

No. 6 - Orange

Not many are into this color, especially when it's not natural, but heck. I feel awesome whenever I have orange hair, it's an unusual color to have, when you got my hairtexture, so every time I stumble into it, I do have a few weeks of awesome feels.
Though now I don't know if I'll ever go back to it willingly, because it is stepping over some boundaries, even for me

Review: Naturigin EXTREME ASH BLONDE 11.2

Just a tiny update, since it was time for me to dye my roots, and since the Naturigin was 50% off, I decided it was time for me to try out THIS over the counter bleach.

As a product, it has everything I love, or rather the lack of things I hate. Though because of this, I did prepare for this dye to not be strong enough to bleach my roots completely.

The Bleach: Mixing it is easy as any over the counter, and I felt like it was a decent amount (50ml/50ml).
The consistency though, made it very hard to apply and keep on my head, since it's VERY liquid, which is very rare for bleaches, but on the other hand it made it much easier to move around and actually cover evenly.
I actually, on a venture, blended it into the lengths of my hair as well, since I had some patchy yellow pieces I  wanted lifted.

 

I kept the dye in for the recommended 30 minutes, and to my surprise, the bleach actually turned blue, which I LOVED, very nice surprise, for a girl like me who wants very light hair.
I washed it out and added a violet conditioner, to counter the orange tone of my roots.

*My natural roots are slightly darker, but oh iPhone

I could DEFINITELY feel the difference in my hair, it didn't feel as dried out as it does with the stronger bleaches, and my lengths hasn't taking as much damage as it could've.

BUT it still didn't bleach my roots enough at all, this might be due to the fact that I have VERY strong hair that doesn't lighten easily. IT did lift and tone my yellow patches brilliantly though!
You know your hair best, this might work really good for you guys with thinner hair.

And then have some selca's to get a better idea of the color of my hair
Hope this helps you with your own hair adventures!

*no edit except watermark

Selca + Outfits

Just figured I should post some "Look I'm out, about, alive and wearing clothes", so here you go~

 T-shirt: Monki | Tights: Primark (gift from a couple of nice friends <3 b="">Necklace:

Forever 21

Tried some Takarazuka Revue inspired make-up, so much highlight and contour, holy christ.

Scarf: New Yorker | Top: H&M

Starting to use my extensions more, and using my new waver.

Shirt: Gina Tricot

Top: H&M | Leggings: ROMWE

Dress: Vero Moda | Necklace: New Yorker

I've been a little sick for a while, but got declared healthy this monday, and to celebrate it, my mom got me my first maxi-dress. I've been wanted one for a while, but all the ones I've found I felt uncomfortable in, but this one I love wearing.

 Top: H&M | Dress: Vero Moda

So that's it from this time around, if you want to see more of MY FACE, you should really follow my tumblr and instagram, stuff happens much more often on there :P

Dat hair + Dat Look: Burger Bun and Elephant

I have wanted to get some blonde extensions for a while, but didn't want to buy them before I could sell off another set, because  let me tell you... you CAN have too much hair.
Luckily my longest set matched my favorite mustacheers hair perfectly (like, I'm still amazed by how perfect), and she was glad to take them off my hands, and so I ordered a new pair from Hair Trade.

I choose a weft with 130gram in lightest blonde, but my hair is way lighter, so had to do some dying and toning. Which is risky business, since new extensions get stained really easily.

 I sew the set together myself, so I was sure that everything sat right and had the proper length. (Something I suggest everyone doing if they have the patience, it's a VERY long process, just sewing took me 4-5 hours)

With my, if I can say so, dumb-luck - I managed with ease to match the color perfectly.
In the front it's tedious but doable to make the hair look natural, but the hair on the back of my head, is still a little too short.
And also added some cobalt blue extensions, just to make it a little more fun. (and lolol it looks like I only have 3 eyelashes XD)

And just a summer-ish outfit from the other day, I actually bought a tank-top and I feel pretty comfortable wearing it and the print is just... I love it, haha. And my favorite beanie to hide the back of my head 8D

You can't hide forever

Since I've 'come out' on tumblr, I should do it here too, now shouldn't I?

So a little over a week ago, I decided I was again bored with my hair. Even though I actually really loved the purple sheen, aand how clear my skin actually looked with it /not that I have major issues in that area, not gonna complain.
I felt that it was way too dark for me, in terms of clothing. I don't know how it happen, but I ended up buying mostly black clothes in Japan, and having dark hair made it waaay too much ... darkness?

Anycase, I admit that there wasn't much thought to what was going to happen, I found a leftover bleach in my moving boxes and decided to just go ahead, and see what I'd end up with.

This wasn't the actual result of the first bleach, I do admit that. BUT it was pretty damn close - I expected to have a lot of brassy tones, since purple and red is the two colors that are most pigmented and are prone to stain hair.
But alas, my trusted bleach did a great job and I ended up with an overall honey blonde with some yellow tones, which I've slowly been toning away, and this here is the newest picture I have to share, though I have toned it since and it's going very well so far.
I'm hoping to reach some form of platinum blonde so far, the rest is unsure! :D

The products I've used are:
L'Oreal Paris - Perfect Blonde Creme [MAXIMUM] - This is my favorite over the counter bleach, contrary to most in-store bleaches, this one has the added blue pigment that is needed to give the best bleach. /the bottle is also a 120 ml, instead of the regular 60 ml
Directions Lagoon Blue hairdye + cheap shampoo and conditioner - For mixing my own toner.
Purple conditioner (from old package) - For toning and canceling out the green tones from the blue toner.

There's still a lot to be said and shown, but I am working on a video to show you the actual process and final result, and I'm hoping to be able to publish it soon!

So school almost burned down.

Nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Guys... What happen? I used to be SOOO good at updating my blog.
Oh well, it's not like my life is crazy interesting, but still... I will do my best! And if you haven't noticed, I've actually uploaded two videos to youtube, so I haven't been THAT lazy, now have I? Also got rid of the anno 2009 username, finally.

I haven't taken that many pictures, but I still have stuff to share.
Like the origins of the 'Y U NO' meme face, from the Gantz manga, I was stupidly excited about this, because it's like one of my few wins in life 8D

Oh yeah, it was my birthday the 7th, and I turned 22, whoop whoop, now I'm planning to not get older, since it's my lucky number and all. Think I'll stay like this a couple of years, and then people might start believing, I'm not 17.
But anycase, this is how my mom hid my gift. . . . . . . . . it was a suitcase xD

My everyday life is school school and school, but we have fall break coming up, and I'll be visiting some friends, so very excited about that!

If you haven't watched my newest vlog, then you haven't seen I dyed some of my hair blue, and I tried out a braided hairstyle, and might do just... the simplest and easiest tutorial on this sometime, because I think it's pretty neat. Dosen't go well with sensitive scalps though xD

As most of you know, Halloween is coming up, and I've yet to find a party to attend, might actually celebrate with my class, if none of my friends get their act together. FEARLESS.
SO yeah, I'm doing 2D, because I'm an adult, and I do as I please. But oh gosh, do I want schlera's so bad right now, ngh~

I also got a carepackage, from my loveliest, and, omg... just... so good <3 a="a" and="and" as="as" br="br" cute="cute" note="note" really="really" well.="well.">AND AND AND AND BIG NEWS! I'm visiting her over Christmas and New Years, and I promise I'll do my very best to get pictures and video for the blog!

And ending with some foodporn, because I make delicious food and those apples look uhmazing! + Birthday cake, that tasted sorta weird, but it's all good!