DIY: Nourishing Repair Hair Oil

If you guys have been following my ‘Hair Woes,’ you would have known that I bleached my hair-ends on the 1^st April and ever since then, my damaged ends became worse than before!  

I’ve been searching high and low for a decent hair product to counter this vanity problem of mine – afterall, bleaching my hair was something done in my own accord and I totally deserve such a consequence! Sadly, I couldn’t find anything that would guarantee the nourishment of my hair.  Everything I read about online, had mix reviews. If only I was rich enough to try as many as I could.

Long story short, I was hunting high and low for a hair product over my mom’s dresser and I found that she has alot of ‘Olive Oil’ based hair products. She once, was an avid fan of hair dyeing and perming and would have her hair done every 3 months. Her hair was like HAY then! But now, she has really smooth hair and she credits her olive oil products.

When I was younger, my mom used to slather the strange smelling oil onto my hair as well, as much as I hated it, I had really really nice and soft hair! So I figured, ‘Hheck, I’ll make my own!’

Here are the things that you need:

• Olive Oil* (Normal/Extra Virgin)
• Vitamin E Oil
• Empty Bottle
• Fragrance Oil (optional)

*You could replace ‘Olive Oil’ with other natural oils such as Jojoba oil, Coconut Oil, Grapeseed oil, Avocado Oil, Almond Oil etc. Click here for the different hair benefits of different oils! 

Those 3 are the babies of the entire hair potion, im telling ya. I'm using:

Bertolli's Extra Light Olive Oil (yes, I add them to my salad too :), 
Fruit of the Earth Vitamin E Skin Care Oil, and
Apple Fragrance oil.

There isn't any exact measurements for this oil mixture, and you can add in any amount you prefer.

What I did:

- 5 tsp of Olive Oil
- 2 tsp of Vitamin E Oil
- 1 tsp of Fragrance Oil

And you shake it all up!

Try it and let us know how this went for your hair! It has definitely helped me in restoring the smoothness of my hair, thankfully :)

Goodluck guys!

Oh, on a sidenote: this thing is pretty oily - so I would advise you to tie up your hair into a bun/braid it whenever you apply this :D 

Update: Bight Yellow Hairy No More!

I thought I would just update the current status of my hair..

Because I had an event last week, I figured that it'd be nice to have purple hair. So I dyed streaks of it... 3 days after bleaching my hair twice - not the smartest move.


Now, I have quite- damaged ends. And I've been on this hair treatment quest to find products for my hair. It's just the tips though, since I quite heavily bleached it. The purple hair dye is semi-permanent - of which where I read online, it states that semi-perma hair dyes are actually quite beneficial to your hair due to the conditioner in it!!! I think I'm gonna dye my entire head purple now.

Here are some non-edited pictures that are fresh from the camera.

Pretty bad huh? That was 4 days ago - 8th April 2012. But the plus point will be that, it's no longer as yellow and brassy and hay looking as it was about 2 weeks ago aye? 

After a night's long of braided pigtails!

Or maybe, it was the red sweater that enhanced the yellowness in the hair. Hahahaha.

I've been slathering on a couple of nourishing products onto the ends of my hair to see if they help with frizziness. But so far, everything seems to going pretty well! Although I do realise that shampoos for blonde hair are pretty dehydrating.... =/

Will update the products that I've been using over the weekend. Meanwhile, please relish in my damage ends! 

water sports hate good hair

Hello everybody!!!! To all who love water sports, be it swimming in the pool or sea... I feel for your hair :(

As you would have experienced, when you shower after swimming, your hair feels like CRAP. Well, not like crap CRAP... Just bad... it's dry, easily tangled... even after shampoo-ing + conditioning... Chlorine in the pool water destroys your hair! And the seawater will dry and dull your hair. :( no matter what you do after the activity, your hair condition seems to be worse than before...

HATE IT DON'T YOU! I DO! I love wakeboarding! but the seawater is sooooo bad for my hair, I actually thought of not going to wakeboard anymore... :(

UNTILLLLLL MY COACH told me this: "Just apply conditioner on your hair la! It will be easier for you to shampoo afterwards!"

And I tried... OMGAWD YOU MEAN IT'S THAT EASY?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Yes ladies (and gentlemen), it's THAT easy. Just apply a generous amount of conditioner on your hair before engaging in any form of water sports. :D I'VE TRIED IT AND IT WORKS!

It reminded me of my hairdresser. He told me to replace conditioner with hair treatment cream or hair mask, because conditioner seals the cuticles of your hair. As your hair is coated with conditioner, it is difficult to absorb any hair treatment oil or whatsoever after the shower. Hence, DO NOT USE conditioner after shampoo as it's not as good for your hair!

p.s SORRY for the lack of photos... Shall upload my wakeboarding photos when i'm more PRO! teehee


XOXO,
Cynthia

Meow.

Hello!

Sorry we took forever to appear on the blog! I was half hesitating to disappear into the thin air, till I saw Cynthia's posts and couldn't stop giggling to myself. Her posts are always so energetic! I shall aspire to be like her!!

Sorry. 9Gag has officially taken over my life as a form of outlet to relief some stress - besides eating junk food.

A couple of useless updates:

1. I have failed on my diet plan for the 869856th time.

2. I'm ending year 1 zomg.

3. Sem 2 was horrible BECAUSE of all the group work. But I flipped at my groupmates at the end of it.

4. I feel so fat because I am fat.

5. I tried bleaching my hair because I wanted to dipdye my hair and now i have yellow hair *help!*

So here are some pictures of my hair :( sobzsobz. I bleached the ends twice.. and it's a little dry and frizzy now (basically I fried my hair). It's leaning towards yellow, and something in my mind keeps telling me that one more bleach and you'll achieve your desired hair color for a light purple hair. But I think I'll give it awhile. Just yesterday, I went around my area buying all possible hair care products for my hair.

- L'Oréal Professionnel Série Expert Shine Blonde Conditioner,
- RPR Brighten My Blonde Shampoo and Conditioner.

strandez.com

rprhaircare.com

 It's all purple in color (including the product itself!), because apparently purple helps to remove the yellow brassiness of your hair. I'll keep updating the status of my hair.... :( I really want lavender tipped hair though. Oh well. Oh the plus point is that, my natural hair is probably enjoying all these benefits and my hair smells really nice all the time :)

Day 1 from bleaching!

My homework is calling me, and I'll be back.

PROBLEM: Y I NO DOUBLE EYELID?!?!?!?!

Tired of using double eyelid stickers ALL THE TIME??????? Or unsightly stickers spoiling your wonderful eye makeup??? OR DO U JUST HATE TO PASTE THAT THING ON YOUR EYELID THAT'S TELLING EVERYBODY THAT YOU NO HAVE DOUBLE EYELIDS??!?!?!?!?!?!?!For me, it's all of the above... As you can see, my eyes are WEIRD! one of them has double eyelid, the other has something else... no its not single eye lid... it fucking HIDDEN double eyelid like WTF?!?!?!?!?! (imagine jacky chan meme! haha)

SOOOOOO, I thought of something awesome! and its.... drumroll please......

FAKE EYELASH GLUE! (oh my... I really do look stupid hahaha!)

It's seriously REAL SIMPLE! just apply a MINIMAL amount... like really little on the lid of your eye, indicated in the picture below!

And than... place an object that is flat and blunt, on the center of that red line which is the line for your double eyelid. Look up.... and put that object back to where it belongs... (if you put ALOT of glue, that object is gonna be stuck with your eye!)

TA-DA! you have a double eye lid now... to remove, just use eye makeup remover....

XOXO
Cynthia

Survival of the fittest!

THIS UPDATE IS DAMN FAST RIGHTTTTT! :D

As you may seen from the last post, I bought the maybelline eyeliner! previously I have been using this eyeliner called KissMe Heroine eye liner... Well, it's damn popular in Japan. This eyeliner is superb. It's thick, waterproof and long lasting! However, it takes quite sometime to set. Not suitable for impatient people like MOI! haha! Also after 6 months of usage, it started to smudge :( so I gotta get a new liner.Guess no liners can last long :(

I stumbled upon the maybelline liner and I think it's awesome! not only does it dries almost instantly, the tip is ultra thin! Although it means less room for errors, in turn you can get an ultra natural look :) (So we don't look so WELL DONE everyday) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

As you can see from the peektures above, the line above belongs to kissme heroine and below belongs to maybelline ultra thin! JUST AWESOME

XOXO
Cynthia

Cynthia's recent haul ;)

Hello ALL!!!!!! long time no blog! Sorry, was super busy with projects and all.. BLEAH! Now that my projects ARE OVER~ I'm more free to blog! technically it's my study break, have 3 weeks to study and prepare for exams... WTF RIGHTTT! anyways... Ever since I dyed my hair blonde, it has became super dry and all... :( so I decided to cut off MOST of my hair. Went to cut and curl located at the building beside Paya Lebar MRT, cut + treatment! I must say that I didn't know what hairstyles I wanted, and the hairstylist did a damn great job at it.

SOOOOOOOO! I went for a little spree~

Left to right: ME! With bed head... hahaha! 1. Loreal gentle eye and lip make-up remover, 2. Maybelline lip gloss p33

Left to right: 1. Majolica Lash King Mascara 2. Maybelline the Magnum Volume Express with ultra comb waterproof and 3. Maybelline hyperSharp Liner

Well... and a few other stuff like shampoo and facial scrub but I couldn't wait to use it... take photo of it next time! hahaha! LOOK OUT FOR THE REVIEWS PEOPLE!