Long hair, go or no go?

HELLO EVERYBIRDEEEEEEE!!!!! 

Noticed something different abt me??? 

All girls like to ask this! IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!! hahahahaha

ok fine... u may not notice... NAH! MAKE IT VERY OBVIOUS FOR U ALL OKAY!

(A picture of me during one of my birthday celebrationS!)

IT'S MY HAIR!!!!! It's longer now! And BLACK! hahahaha

why??? Singapore's weather is so fucking hot and all... why would I want long hair??? well there's a few reasons:

1. I ALWAYS had short hair... since I was born... my parents didn't want me to have long hair because it's quite hard to take care of it. 

2. I wanted a change. I had like medium hair length, short, and super short! but never long.

3. To irritate my project mates. They regard me as a BRO so yea this is to add on my femininity or whatever there is... haha! 

I would say that this is a good change? I kinda like it coz I look prettyyyyyy! HAHAHA! SO SHAMELESS!  

From the side! 

If you guys are wondering, HOW CAN MY HAIR GROW SO LONG SUDDENLY? duh it's hair extensions... and this is how it's braided on...

It doesn't feel uncomfortable at all.Ok probably the first few days. Once I got used to it, its actually nothing much. I wanna see how I look with long hair so I went ahead to get the hair extensions. Why don't I grow it myself? Well, my hair take ages to grow because I have natural curls.... to wait for it to grow this long, I will die first.

Come come let me answer a few questions that u guys might have with regards to hair extensions

1. can you wash it?

Duh you can! it's just more inconvenient as you have all these braided stuff... All you need is extra care and be gentle. 

2. Can you dye it?

My extensions are all natural i.e real human hair. I can dye, curl or straighten it if I want to. Basically it's like normal hair. 

3. Do you feel any discomfort?

I have low pain tolerance, so it kinda hurt when the hairdresser kept pulling my hair to braid it. Also, for the first few days, it's kinda troublesome as I'm not used to it. It's a pain to wash and comb my hair. I got so irritated I almost went to take those extensions out the next day. But I thought of the 200 dollars that I spent I just tolerated it. haha! I took 1 week to get used to this... cut me some slack as I had short hair all my life ok!!!!!!!!! oh and the thought of those extensions being some real human hair is kinda scary. like those horror movie? the hair will try to strangle you or something when you are sleeping... HAHA! sorry I'm a weirdo. Well, I just don't think about this. Use my bimbo-ness and think about how good I look instead hahaha! OH OH! And Singapore's weather is FUCKING hot. So the long hair doesn't help! 

I know that it's not easy for someone to just go and do the extensions as you might worry about alot of things. Unable to take care of it, not getting  used to the look, scared that people will judge you and those. And yes I did thought of those. Many people especially girls (those bitchy ones) always come and irritate the hell out of me by saying things like, "OMG CYNTHIA! WHY IS YOUR HAIR SUDDENLY SO LONG
? HAIR EXTENSIONS HUH! (than they go and touch it all) OMG EEEE DON'T YOU THINK IT'S DISGUSTING? just let it grow like mine la!' I didn't type this is caps as I'm agitated. I typed it in caps because they always say this kinda stuff damn loudly in public. -.- 

I gotta admit I was quite pissed off at first. If you are gonna answer your own questions than don't ask me anything. And I don't like people touching me, be it my face, my body or my hair. If you wanna touch go touch yourself and leave me alone. Anyway, coming back to the topic about people judging, the answer is to simply ignore or rather, embrace it. Come on, do you have natural brown hair? or your eyelids are naturally coloured? or your iris is fucking green? or your nails are naturally pink? So tall without your heels? Your boobs are naturally this big? Your nose is naturally sharp? (sorry this is meant for the bitches that I met... not u) All of us put on makeup and stuff to make ourselves look better. some even put on cosmetic lenses into their EYES and you say extensions are what? gross? at least I won't get any infections or go blind. The point I'm trying to put across here is, you have to feel inferior or bad at all when people try to put you down. As long as you are happy, you are fine the way you are. :)

Anyway, I did my hair at angel xin, the branch at city plaza as it's nearer to my place. (too lazy to travel hehe) this is webbie: http://www.angelxin.com.sg/ you guys can go check it out! Their service is not bad as they would match your hair colour so it will look super natural. I dyed my hair black before doing the extensions and there wasn't any match. So they actually went to dye the extensions to match my black hair without any surcharge! so awesome right! They were also super patient and nice. I would rate it 4 stars out of 5! (Minus one star as the deco of the place is horrible. There are A LOT OF ROOM for improvement for the deco of the place.)


XOXO
Cynthia

one of the times

You know how us, girls, tends to buy things because they look so pretty? because the packaging is so adorable! Or it's so PINK! yea it sounds familiar doesn't it?


This is what I ended up with... liese juicy shower, its some hair mist. It's so pink omg I can't help myself! and IT SMELL SO NICE! (it's like the nature republic remover all over again) This product does nothing to improve on my hair :( HAIS! SAD TRUTH!!!!!! used it for like 2 weeks? and I gave up -.-


And I dug out a zillion other hair products! ^.^ shall do another review soon! Now that I'm so free hehe!

Review: Palmer's Olive Oil Formulae Smoothing Shampoo and Replenishing Conditioner

I'm sure most of you know of the benefits of Olive Oil in our daily lives. I have been using Olive Oil since I was a kid. My mom would always pour a bucketful of Olive Oil on my head, and massage them into my skull. I guess that was one of the few reasons why I had really thick and smooth hair when I was younger.

These are a couple of other stuff that I use Olive Oil for:

1. Hair Nourishing. 
2. Make up remover (I use Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
3. Eczema Spots
4. Cuticle care
5. SALADS!!!

Of course there are other stuff such as facial/body scrubs (I'll get to this in the next few posts). However, one would have to have an acquired taste for its smell, because it does not smell universally pleasing. I would smother my head with olive oil - only if I know I'm gonna stay at home the whole day, or I'm gonna head to the pool. But definitely not, if I'm heading to town for some shopping! 

Anyway, recently, I found a nice-smelling Olive Oil Shampoo while getting my toiletries restocked for the month. The shampoo smells abit musky - a scent that most people generally are okay with. It leaves my hair really soft after every shampoo and I absolutely look forward to every shower session with my long hair. (I know, I'm quite gross when I'm tired. Lol)

It was retailing at watsons for $9.90 each. Yep, same price for both! s

As you guys would have known, I bleached my hair right? After using this, plus the intense application of my DIY Hair Nourishing Olive Oil, my hair was on the right track back to its  health. BUT, I just had to bleach it again because it was looking brown too soon. The good thing was that, with the constant exposure to Olive Oil and all hair care products I've been using, my hair has been really manageable despite the bleaching + dyeing! So yay to that! 

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.

how to maintain blonde hair

Having troubles with your blonde hair???

Don't worry! CYNTHIA to the rescue! :D

Problem 1: Yellowing of hair

People, blone is a shade of yellow. BELIEVE IT. After dying your hair a certain period, you will notice that your hair is more yellow compared to before. To maintain the colour you dyed in the salon, you can't just use normal shampoo for coloured hair. You have to use BLONDE shampoo. Yes, there are such things.

Shampooing our hair opens our hair cuticle. this is how it looks like! If you ONLY shampoo your hair, after drying you can feel that your hair will be more rough and less tame.

To close the cuticles, we can use conditioner or hair treatment. Personally, I prefer to use treatment as conditioner weighs down my hair making it flat. :(

So here's a picture of my shampoo and hair treatment! :) Purple somemore! <3

This shampoo and treatment are damn effective! It managed to solve the yellowing problem! And it kept my hair soft, even after 4x bleaching... omg!

Problem 2: Roots

DAMNNN THE GROWING ROOTS. Its a problem that everyone face (obviously other than those who don't dye their hair). Unfortunately, only the hair salon can solve this problem for you. BUT! I have a temporary solution! :D

AND it is to wear a cap/hat or whatever you can find to cover them. HAHAHA! sounds lame right? BUTTTT think of it. If you were to go to an amusement park (Photo of me taken in the amusement park), you can't possibly wear necklaces and tons of bangles. Accessories are to be kept to a minimum if you were to go to such places. SOOOO, a cap in this scenario sounds good RIGHTTT! To summarize it all, there is a cap/hat in every occasion.

Problem 3: Dry hair

Sadly, bleaching your hair causes A WHOLE DAMN LOT of damage to your locks. What I did at first was to visit the salon weekly to do hair treatments. As I got busier with school, it was impossible to visit the salon that frequently. Luckily for me, I found this!

The credits are NOT solely due to the 3 bottles shown in the picture above. They are complements to a new treatment known as keratherapy. Its a keratin infused treatment that is supposed to strengthen your hair, enhance the hair colour and to make it smoother. AND THE BEST THING IS the treatment lasts for WEEKS. It lasted about 8-9 weeks for me? I alternate the blonde shampoo and keratherapy shampoo between days.

Problem 4: unnatural look

The unnatural look is mostly due to a mismatch of eyebrows. Eyebrows are important! It can sharpen up your looks or make you look sloppy. Trimming it is DAMN important! but that is not the point here. If you are not a natural blonde, you will not have blonde eyebrows or anything close. And it's damn weird to have blonde hair matched with dark eyebrows. I'm not saying to dye your eyebrows blonde, in most cases people can't accept the look. Just dye it to a brown that super light? like light chestnut? you can DIY, or go to beauty salons to do it. It shouldn't be expensive. I did my brows once in brow house and it caused me like 20 bucks. Well, acceptable! :) For DIY REFER TO THE TUTORIAL IN THE BLOG!

Well, these are the problems that I faced. hope it can be help to you all! :D
p.s. Sadly, I'm gonna change my hair colour soon. no more blonde :(

XOXO
Cynthia

Matchy Matchy

Since I'm blonde now.... There's only 1 problem.... my BLACK eyebrows... :/

Eye brow tint to the rescue!!!!!

(How's my impersonation???? ^.^) sooo, I bought it in watsons its some facial hair dye by sally hanson! AND it's real cheap! only $9.90 omgggggg

It's really easy to use... just mix the 2 solution given....

and apply it to your eyebrow... wait for 5-10 minutes.... (do check the hair every mintue or so to look out for the shade desired)

And TA_DA!!!!! Tinted eyebrow... the colour is not very obvious here due to my lousy camera :( My eyebrow colour is really light now (as i left it on for quite some time) and I love it! :D promise to change my camera soon hehehe :)

This tint is not bad! I dont feel itch or pain during the application nor anything much after that... I think it's quite user friendly also, pretty much idiot-proof :) so girls and boys! GO AHEAD :D

XOXO
Cynthia

Thinking of going blonde????

Thinking of it...

should I??? Because I've wanted to dye blonde since I was younger as I really like light coloured hair.... It looks super fun and happening....




but... Its so loud... will I be able to pull it off? Will I be judged by everyone? hais...










but seriously... I dont give a shit... hahahahaha! SO I WENT BLONDE!

hahahahaha

From the black haired girl next door...

TO FAILED BLONDE DONE BY D.A Hairdressing at pomo...

To awesome kick ass blondeeeeeee done at great world city...

to super cute blonde with bangs and very bery good treatment at artistic touch located somewhere at serangoon....

Good job hair... you have managed to survive god knows how many bleaches... :)

So, back to the main topic, me going blonde. I just wanted to dye it, hmm... it's something like a craving for a certain food and you will not rest till you get it. Well, for me it's a craving for going blonde :) I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE it... :) Of course, being blonde, many will crack blonde jokes on you. Also, many judge you for doing it. For me, it's kinda like a lesson for not letting others affect you. It's MY life anyway. Well, at least I have the balls to do it. hahahaha! I rather do it and regret it later than to regret not doing it in future. I will have to say bye bye to student life in 1.5 years time, so yes, if I wanna do anything crazeee (like going blonde), I should do NOW as I will not get the chance to do it in future... do I make sense? I don't know :/ so fucking tired from my school work gahhhh!

p.s I GOT BLONDE SHAMPOO. HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!!!!!