October 04, 2018

L'oreal Elvive Extraordinary Clay Dry Shampoo Review

I've been bleaching my hair for over 10 years now, so without any doubt, my hair is damaged and dry. Dry shampoo is essential to me as a good hair treatment because 1) I don't want to further dry out my hair from frequent washing and 2) I travel a lot! In Asia it's super humid so your hair gets greasy and sweaty every day. During my Hong Kong adventures, I bought along with me the L'oreal Elvive Extraordinary Clay dry shampoo and it been a pleasure!

Boots £3.99

At first, I was turned off by the scent because it has like a "clean ocean" scent, I personally prefer floral ones. Besides the scent, I absolutely adore this product and have been using it religiously for a good month. At the moment this is my favourite dry shampoo because it does a really good job of absorbing the oils without leaving my hair feeling super dry! Some dry shampoos absorb the oils in the mid-end section as well, which I'm not a fan of because it leaves my hair feeling crunchy, ew!

I just exposed my extension track for this review lol but I wanted to try show you guys how fine it sprays out. The fine powder is lightweight, doesn't leave gritty residue and there's no a grey cast on my black roots. Which I loveeee!

However, since the powder is so fine you do need to spray out little more compared to other ones like Batiste.

It makes my hair happy, clean and volumised~

Pros:

The small can is great for travelling
No residue
No white case
No crunchy/straw-like texture after
Clean and volumised results

Cons:

I don't like the scent! Please make another variation :c
You need to spray more compared to other ones

September 17, 2018

MORPHE IS COMING TO BIRMINGHAM UK! | NEW STORE

So we all probably know by now Morphe Brushes has officially left BeautyBay! While the break up may seem like it came out of nowhere, earlier July we received the news that Morphe will be opening up their first store in the UK. It's going to be opening October in Westfield Stratford City to be exact. Buttt Morphe isn't stopping at London, THEY'RE OPENING A STORE IN BIRMINGHAM TOO! The store is located in the Bullring shopping mall, on the second floor and opening Autumn 2018, so I'm guessing October or November.

We can expect Morphe to be hitting other major cities too, Manchester maybe you're next!

This is so exciting as a Brum Blogger because often brands tend to forget about other UK cities and everything is normally only in London. We can finally get to try the products in person and hopefully we'll get some of Jeffree Star products stocked too. I need to swatch them palettes to make sure I don't purchase a faulty one *cough at them Jaclyn hill vault palettes* I was unlucky and received a faulty Dark Magic palette, I'll have a post of that coming up soon!

They're also hiring for roles on their website:

And it's been announced it on their Instagram story too!

ARE YOU EXCITED AND WHICH MORPHE CODE ARE YOU GOING TO BE USING?

I'm going for sister James' code of course!

I will be beyond devastated if I can't use any codes in store after all that influencer marketing.

September 12, 2018

OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE - Hong Kong Night Photoshoot | E-Man Photography

During my Hong Kong vacay I met up with my good old friend Ernest. It was supposed to be a casual chill and catch-up but we ended up doing a spontaneous photoshoot when exploring Tsim Sha Tsui. Dammit, I would have made myself look more presentable and extra if I knew in advance! I'm still not comfortable with someone else taking my pictures yet since I'm so used to taking them on my own. No one knows you better than yourself right? Like I know my own angles, poses and settings. Trying different poses definitely did push me out of my comfort zone. I can see that in the photos because I look awkward and i'm not giving off them yasss bitchhh you slaying kinda vibes lol. Ahhh I need to practice more and be more confident! ><

If you like the outcome of the photos, you can check out more of Ernest's photography on his Viewbug. I promise his work is amazing, especially the scenery ones! ^^

www.viewbug.com/member/E-Manphotography

Have you ever done a photoshoot? How do you feel about them? :')

July 22, 2018

Project Pan 101: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW AND HOW TO GET STARTED!

2018 so far has been filled with constant makeup launches every week, it's not only overwhelming to keep up with releases, it also empties our pockets! You may start coming across the two words Project Pan more in the future, so what is it?

July 15, 2018

Schwarzkopf LIVE Colour Urban Metallic Sliver Review

Superdrug £5.49

Silver is the one colour I have a love-hate relationship with, I don't think I've ever managed to have silver hair longer than one month because it gets brassy so quickly!

I've already dyed my hair before with Schwarzkopf's Metallic Silver when it first launched onto the market. I decided to test it out again because the first time I used it, the silver had a blue tint to it, so I want to make sure I didn't a get a faulty or off dye before I blog it. In the picture above you can see the old and new packaging together, the dye's formula is still the same.

Product Info:

The box contains everything in a standard box dye:

Developer
Colour cream
After Treatment
Instruction Leaflet + Gloves

Application:

To use the dye, I simply mixed the developer and colour cream together, then applied the mixture onto clean dry hair for 25 minutes and rinsed it off.

Results: Hair Before Dying

My hair was already bleached platinum blonde, so it's the perfect clean canvas for silver.

Hair After Dying

The colour looks amazing in pictures, it comes off as a neutral silvery-white like the model on the box. However, the colour in real life doesn't match the box 100%. In person, the silver has a blue tint to it, which is very unflattering against my yellow undertone skin. I have to wear a lighter foundation to pull the colour off. The blue does fade after a few washes so you get a nice white silver. After a few more washes, brassiness starts to peak through and makes my hair look greenish! :(

My boyfriend wanted silver hair as well, so I dyed his hair with the leftover silver. He also noticed the blue tint and didn't like the colour until it faded to a neutral silver. Again the colour looks good in pictures though.

A post shared by Nick (@drumachine) on May 26, 2018 at 3:19am PDT

Overall:

If you've read any of my Schwarzkopf dye reviews before you would know I have rateded majority of them pretty positively. The Metallic Silver dye sadly has to be to worst dye I've tried from Schwarzkopf so far. I wish I wasn't so busy with work so that I would have the time to record a video to show you guys the results better.

The colour fades fast, there's not much shine (like it advertised) and the silver has a blue undertone. The dye doesn't damage your hair so kudos to that. I think I'm disappointed because I've haven't experienced weird blue tints and fading to greenish blondes with silver dyes before. You can see what I talking about in this picture.

It happened to both of us, so it's definitely the dye. So sadly I'm going to give this dye a low rating and personally will not recommend it.

Rating: 1.5/5

Have you ever had any weird or disappointing experiences with silver dyes?