Busy life and Hair regimen update

Hi ladies,

I know I've been silent for a while. It's hard when you have a busy life: work, family, personal ambitions etc. I have to manage my time well. So I admit I have not done that so far. But I'm working on it.
I'm still doing my hair regimen even though it's becoming really hard. I have to stay up late at night to do my hair. Now this is what my hair regimen look like
- deep conditioning once a week
That is it, really bad isn't it? But at least I'm doing it.
Although being busy has played a part in the change of regimen, I have to say is mostly because of the regrow. I'm now 6 months post relaxer. So you can imagine how hard it is to co-wash and deep condition my hair twice a week. Detangling is a nightmare and the shedding is just worse. So less hair manipulation is my new philosophy. I deep condition and finger comb my hair. Yes that is right, I comb my hair with my fingers. and I detangle/comb once a month.
There is something you girls have to know: I had my hair out with no weave or braids for a year and one month now. I just needed my scalp to rest a bit as it was becoming really tender.
The good news is, I thinking of weaving again next week. Yeah!!! Can't wait, it's been a year and one month.

Anyway, this is all the update I have for you.
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xoxoxo

What do Jewellery say about us

Hello Ladies,

Wow, I can't believe I've been away this long. I'm sorry, I didn't blogged but I had other things in my life that needed taking care off. Now that is done, I'm back.
Today I want to talk about what do jewellery say about us and why is important to accessories our outfits.
I love jewellery and accessories and can go without. If you were a dress, it's nice but if you add a bracelet and a necklace(assuming it's a short sleeves or sleeveless dress)to it then the outfit is great. It's important to know how to accessories. What is the point of wearing a designer outfit if you are not going to accessories it right? You can wear a hight street dress or outfit and accessories right and have the designers or celebrities looks.
I learn to accessories myself almost everyday by reading fashion and trends magazines.
Costume Jewelleries are the lasted tends.

Or going for something more settle and still get the look.

Pictures from www.marilau.co.uk

HAIR REGIMEN

First of all I will like to say sorry for not blogging for a week or more. I've been really busy at work and personal life.
Anyway, started a hair regimen 3 weeks ago and I can see the changes. Actually I saw the changes the first week. So the regimen is as follow:
-Co-wash my hair 2-3 times a week
-Deep conditioning once a week with a soft protein conditionner
-Protein traitment.
-Shampoo once a month
-Moisturise and seal every night

List of products that I use:
- Organic root stimulator replenishing conditioner
-Organic root stimulator moisturizing hair lotion
-Herbal essence beautiful ends leave in
-Herbal essence conditioner Hello Hydration
-coconut oil
-Avocado oil
-Aphogee two step protein treatment

Fraulein38 order is here!!

So, my fraulein 38 palettes arrived and I'm so exicted to try them ALL. I reallyt need all of these because I ran out of eye shadows and it was easier and cheaper to just buy a palette. It took roughly 10 days from the day I ordered to when I actually received them.
1-The 88 eye shadow palette. Just look at this! The colours are amazing.

2-The 24 Neutral palette

3-The concealer palette

4-The 19 pieces brushes set. Girls! If you like your make-up like myself, then you need to get some brushes. NOT necessarily from fraulein38. You can find all sort on ebay. But instead of buying them individually I'll advice you to buy the set as you'll be saving yourselves some money.

I just can wait to start playing around with these. I will surely put some pictures up.
Cheers. xoxo

Primers For Oily Faces

Most of us have problems with oily face. I mean, you take time to do your make-up and an hour later your T-zone is shinier than ever. I've always wondered what do other women do to have a matte and nice make-up all day long. I used to actually envy their non oily skin until my make-up artist on my wedding day mentioned PRIMERS. ALLELUYA, there are some products out there to help get ride of the shine. Having done some researches, I found the Mary kay primer, the Body shop Primer and the MAC primer among others. The Mary kay primer seen to have a pretty good review. However, I'm not really a Mary kay person. So I went for the Body shop primer, tried it more than three times but my face was shiny just 3 hours after using it. So now I bought the Mac oil control Lotion. Tried it last Sunday and my make-up was still good after 5 hours.

I'm not excluding the body shop primer just yet. I will use it again and again just to give it a chance and I will come back to with the result.
My next make-up investment will be the MAC fix+lavender. I hear wonders about this product. Hope it will keep up to its reputation.

My new make-up

In the past 4 years I've been using Bobby brown cosmetic and I like it. But after reading so many good reviews on M-A-C Cosmetics, I decided it was about time I try it. When to selfridges I got myself this lovely lot.

I also bought NARS EXHIBIT A blush.

and the Urband Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

I can't wait to try them. I also ordered some make-up brushes, 88 eyeshadow palette, 15 pieces concealer palette and a 28 neutral eyeshadow palette from Fraulein38. Can't wait to see them... I'll keep you updated.

VERY DRY AND DAMAGED HAIR!

Being a black woman, my hair is very coarse and hard to handle. You can either relax your hair or keep it natural. In the past I used to wear weave on. It was difficult for someone to see my real hair. When my hair started falling out and baldness appearing, I decided it was time to take care of my hair. Well by going to the hairdresser every week didn’t help.
In my opinion, most hair dresser don’t listen to the client need and do what they think is good and in many cases like mine, you’ll end up with less hair. My hair dresser will comb my wet hair with fine comb. Oh god!!! I could see my hair coming out. That is the worse someone can do to your hair.

Anyway, for my wedding I had to relax my hair and (wasn’t too happy about it) have extension glued on my scalp. It’s called bonding...I didn’t keep the extension for 3 days and took it out. WOW! Removing it was a total nightmare and the state of my hair now is unbelievable.
I’m now trying a new hair regimen. I will now add deep conditioning to my hair as I wasn’t doing it in the past. I will also co-wash my hair. I only heard of co-wash today but I’m so desperate to try it as my hair is very dry and is breaking, falling out very badly and tangles.
This blog is very new and I’m still in the process of designing it. I will post the product I use once I see some results. I will appreciate some comments and advice if you are going through the same things.

The famous Master Cleanse

If you've been trying to lose weight then you probably heard of it. It's said that celebrities such as Beyonce, Megan Fox etc, all use the Master cleanse. And I can say that it was the main reason why I decided to try it. Once in our life we want to try what celebrities do. The Master cleanse, in my opinion is used more in the US than here in the UK. That explain why I had to order the Master Cleanser book by Stanley Burroughs on Amazons from someone in the US. Now you can probably find it here in London. I looked for a cayenne pepper and found it in my local store. As the maple syrup, I also ordered it online. It was easy to find the other ingredients like lemons. I will not write about how it works as it can be found on the net.
My personal experience was that the first time I tried it I couldn't even reach day 4 as I was very weak. Some people say you will feel stronger and have more energy but it wasn't my case. Well, I ended up quitting. I'm not really a quitter but I quit this time. Having done some research online, I found out that many nutritionists where against the master cleanse. I believe you can actually lose weight by doing the master cleanse. However, how long will you do it in order to keep the weight off? Some people do it every 3 months, others once a year. But is it enough?
Since quitting, I’ve never tried it again. Maybe one day I will.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

In 2006 I was diagnosed with iron deficiency and I also lost my job. I was a student at the time and the job was part time. I started eating and sleeping a lot. I remember that there was a Tesco express just opposite the house and I’ll go there all the time to get something to eat. The only time I was going out was when I had a lecture. My belly started getting bigger and bigger. I couldn’t even take the stairs as my breathing was bad. And every time that I will tell people that I need to lose weigh they will say ‘No, you are fine as you are’ and so on. They were not the ones with the breathing problems or with a confidence issue.

One day I went shopping with my mum and I tried a size 12 skirt but it didn’t fit and I had to buy a size 14. I just wanted to cry. I couldn’t believe I let myself go this far. How did I go from a size 10 to a 14? Not a 14 jean but a 14 skirt. That day I bought a denim skirt in a size 10 and I promised myself to do whatever it takes to fit in that skirt. So that is when I decided to do something about my weight. I spent nights and days doing some researches (I’m now a research freak) and found the famous MASTER CLEANSE. The next post will be on the master cleanse its effects on me.