Ablutions 2

Ok, today imma talk beauty. If you read my skincare post a while back, you'll remember that I really battle with my skin - I suffer from mild acne, super enlarged pores, dryness and sensitivity. For the record, I don't use Clinique skincare any more - I was finding it too harsh.

Here's a breakdown of my regime for anybody who's interested:

AM:

Cleanse with Dermalogica Special Cleansing Gel
Clarins Toning Lotion for Oily Skin
Zineryt Topical Acne Treatment (prescription only)
Lush Vanishing Cream
Clinique Super City Block SPF 40

PM:

Cleanse with Lush Herbalism
Apply moisturiser where needed - I'll use a fair few, depending on how I feel.
Apply Retin A gel (prescription only)

I'm aware that this is a hefty routine - I'm constantly trying new things to try and get on top of my skin - but this routine has done wonders for the overall appearence of my skin, however I do still suffer from spots. I've also started to notice a huge correlation between my diet and my skin (that I'd never really paid attention to before) - especially with alcohol and dairy, so I'm really trying to avoid these!

I also try to use facemasks/concentrated treatments regularly - though I often forget... I may do a post on this at another time.

I hope this was helpful to somebody!

22.4.12

Okayyyyy, crazy pictures; mad hair in one, and mad face in another.

This T shirt was only £2!

Also, my hair's suffering so much from the bleach/backcombing/bowdrying - it's all starting to break off/fall out again :'(

But I love the colour so much, so I'm just going to try and be careful with it...

Peroxide

 Before I go further, let me just apologize for the way I look below. Terrible. Terrible skin too, sorry about that- I couldn't be bothered with the retouch tool. 

I decided to bleach my hair blonde again - I love having it and missed it, but the health of my hair prohibited me from doing it again. BUT, it's back. So, how did I do it? Well. 

I already had lightened ends, so I started by bleaching all my hair up to that point (so no bleach on the ends). I used a blue powder bleach with 20vol developer for all this by the way. After 1 bleach, my hair was orange. I'd expected this, but it was still quite a shock. I quite liked it though! 

I then bleached my whole head (apart from the shaved bits - I left those bits dark), for about 30 minutes. 

By this point, my hair was pretty light (the roots were basically white), but there were still a few bits of orange/yellow. I got rid of these by doing a further 2 'selective' bleaches on just those bits, for no longer than 30 minutes each time. If i had been using a stronger developer I wouldn't have needed to do this (or if I had, my hair would have melted by now), but I prefer using weaker stuff so I have more control over the end result.

Now it was pretty light, so ready for the toner. I used L'oreal Luocolor P01, with 20vol developer, for 15 minutes, which whacked out alot of the yellow and left it a nice ashy platinum!

I missed this hair colour. :')

My hair's totally fried now btw - lots of protein treatments are in order!