Hair Color

I really can't stand the cold weather. My feet and hand get especially cold and I hate it. I have my electric blanket plugged and warm, on 24/7. According to my mother, she once cold hands and feet but they started to get warm once she got pregnant. So the solution for my cold hands and feet, according to mom, is pregnancy. Yea... Not going to happen.

I mentioned earlier about dying my hair with this squid ink dye, but didn't have the balls to do it then. A month ago, I got really bored and decided to do it. Now, you can search for the pictures from before, but look at it now. No flash in a room with no natural sunlight. It just seems a tad bit redder with no visible difference. However in the sun, my hair looks like its orange red.

The picture came out quite dark, but I assure you that it is indeed flaming. I am used to American dying products, because if I pick a dark red color, my hair turns out just tinted red and not as pictured. But with this one, I got exactly what the box pictured.

I wouldn't get this again only because the coloring is in consistent and my hair feels like crap afterwards. For instance, my hair always was rough in the back end base of my scalp, because it would get tangled. Now, I have tangles starting from the mid length portion of my hair everywhere. Not good.

My sister also did this, and we have the same texture and put it on for the same thime, but Oh Dear Lord. Her hair is tomato red, on fire, ultra bright. It's sad to say that I got off easy with the color. Luckily my hair grows fast, supposedly because I have perverted thoughts, so hopefully I can grow this hair color out because it doesn't look like its fading anytime soon.

Pixi Palettes

Whenever I visit Target and look through the cosmetics aisle, I always dismiss Pixi for being too expensive and never really pick anything up. Around Christmas time I noticed that these two palettes were on sale for around $5 each and pick it up to try. They are the Pixi's Softly Smoking Eyes and the Sensual Smoking Eyes. Wasn't too impressed at first, but after trying them for a bit, I love them.
The colors on each palette range from wearable to dramatic. Except for one matte black, all of them are shimmery and fairly pigmented. They can get a bit chalky but that really isn't too distracting.

The swatching came out a bit weird so bear with me. First off is the Sensual Smoky palette (the green boxed one). All of these were done without a primer and swatched on my arm with my finger with flash. For me, this wasn't my favorite range of colors and didn't really match with each other. All the colors here have some sort of glitter that you really can't catch. The flash really didn't capture the shimmer in each of the colors.

For instance, can you see the red shimmer in the dark blue? Not really. The darker colors were harder to blend and work with but were still pretty.

After swatching the second bunch and getting the colors all over my arm, I decided to get smart and stack the swatches. This is the second palette (the blue one) photographed with all of the same conditions listed above. For me, this palette works, blends and matches much better that the one above. There are a great mix of colors, and I would only need this one palette when going on vacation.

The only downside to this palette is the packaging. The colors are housed in a cardboard with only a magnetic closing on the lids. So this can open by itself and get damaged easily. What I usually do is tie a rubber band around this so that it won't accidentally open. I also don't know if you can still get this around Target though. However, if I do see some Pixi stuff on sale, I won't hesitate to buy some. I still wouldn't get anything from the line at full price though. Maybe I'm a bit biased about purchasing expensive, makeup at a drugstore and I almost never buy drugstore makeup until it goes on sale. I have to start changing that habit.

Etude House Baking Soda Scrub

My acne has been out of control for the past couple of months and its finally settling down. I've been toiling away trying to find a remedy for it while hitting rock bottom of my concealer trying to cover them up. I heard that Etude House's Baking Soda Scrub would help, since I've heard whisperings around the Internet that this stuff is magic. I didn't want a full size because, well I have a lot of scrubs and didn't want one if it didn't work. Luckily I won the sample lottery when buying from Etude House because I managed to get a small sized sample of this.

It is a crunch pore scrub... a crunchy pore scrub.. I don't know why they would put the crunch in there. The smell is light but has a little hint of citrus but didn't bother me. This scrub came out a wet white mixture, but when rubbed into the skin, it quickly went dry making it hard to spread around my face.

If you look closely you can see the baking soda crystals in there. It was a bit harsh, but if you want a good scrubbing, its not bad. But here's the part that would stop me from repurchasing this. After washing my face, my skin felt like it had a thin film of oil on top. For a girl with really oily skin like mine, this was a no no. I always had to rewash my face with a cleanser, when I normally don't do that after using other scrubs.

Unfortunately, this is ok, but not something I would repurchase. Luckily I only got a sample of this and didn't buy a full tub.

Sorry if the review seems a bit off. I'm still trying to get back into doing this again and hopefully do better next time.

Hello...?

Tap. Tap. Is this thing on? Yeah. I totally haven't had the time or patience to keep writing, so I went on hiatus. Does this mean that I'm back. Not necessarily. I am pretty busy, but I have a feeling that thing will just get worse. Just a quick update, I found out that etude house has an american website. Can you believe it? A legit website that I ordered from that came in three days. No more ebay for me. One down side is that there aren't a lot of products, but there is a fairly good amount of products that you can peruse.

I would like to get thing blog back on track, so a new camera charger was ordered, my camera is fixed, my stash is lined up and I am ready to go. Now its time to wait. Brb.