Hair Dyeing & German Visits!!

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It's FRIDAY!!!! Or should I say FriYAY!?!

For those of you who work in retail or restaurant or health care that don't necessarily get a 'Friday', I'm sorry. I've been there. I've done that. I get it.

The only reason I'm super excited today is because I get a 3 day weekend this week. I actually booked this weekend off work because there's a friend of the family visiting from Tennessee (she's actually from Germany) this weekend. When my sister was in high school, she was in a student exchange program. So she came to live with us for a few months, and afterwards, my sister went to live in Germany for a few months. So it's been around 13/14 years since we've seen her. I'm pretty excited. My parents are picking her up from the airport tonight, and we have a full day of activities planned for tomorrow.

If you want to see the activities for the weekend, follow me on Snapchat! I'll be snapping all day!! My username is 'sgalamb9'. I'll be sure to take plenty of photos as well and blog about everything. :)

I'm dyeing my hair this morning! This is what it looked like before I mixed the dye and put it on my head. 

I like to use Joico products. I've been accustomed to them ever since my sister worked for the company. My usual colour for about a year and a half has been the 6FR - Crimson Red, but I'm thinking I want to incorporate a little more purple into the mix, so this morning I'm using 5RM - Red Mahogany with INRV - Red Violet Intensifier mixed in. No, I'm not a professional. I just have a passion for all things beauty, and a friend with a Cosmoprof card.

This extremely bright bubblegum pink scared the shit out of me when I saw what it was turning out to be while mixing it, but it darkened up a lot. And this is what I currently look like while I type this blog. I hope it turns out like what I have pictures in my head. We'll see in a little while I guess. 

I'm actually dyeing my aunt's hair in a little while, too. I dye hair for about 8 or 9 people now (mainly family). It keeps me busy on my days off. Sometimes to my dismay. But my family does a lot for me, so it's a tiny price to pay to keep them looking fabulous. Not to mention, some actually pay me. For the products AND for my time. So yay!

That's all for now! Happy Friday and don't forget to follow me on Snapchat this weekend!! 

Bye Bye!!

Dewy Summer Dreaming Makeup!

Hi hi hi!!

During the blizzard Windsor is currently experiencing, I'm thanking myself for booking this weekend off of work so I don't have to drive in this garbage. Unfortunately, it's Thursday, and I still have to go to work today. But that's only one trip of back and forth. And the roads I usually take should be cleared by the time I have to leave my house.

With all this glowing white shit falling from the skies, I decided to try to match my face to be on par with the glow. It's damn near impossible because snow is white and I don't want to look like a ghost, but for today's makeup, I went with a super dewy, super glowy 'natural'-ish look. I just wish it were the sun reflecting my glow instead of snow. But Southwestern Ontario is not that kind to me.

These are the products I used to create said dewy look. I went a little ham on the highlight, but whatever. For my shadow, I used the Physician's Formula Butter Bronzer. I also have lashes on, but I didn't take a picture of them before putting them on my face. They are the Stilazzi lashes in the style 962. I got them at IMATS September 2015 for $1!! They retail for $3 on the website, and they're reusable for a few times; if you take care of them properly.

I originally used 2 Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipsticks; in the shades Patina and Bellissima, but I have discovered that I actually hate the formula of them. They're extremely drying and settle into the fine lines of my lips and actually flake within a few minutes of setting. Granted, I don't really exfoliate my lips, but I think in general, I just prefer the feeling of a lipgloss or a satin finish lipstick to something so dry in finish. I press my lips together so often in a day that I can't afford to have to worry about the matte liquid lipstick transferring or flaking off.

And that's it!! It didn't take me as long as it normally does to do my makeup because there's nothing super intricate about it. I was actually inspired because I was watching YouTube videos (as I do every morning when I'm getting ready) of Katy (Lustrelux) during her trip to Hawaii with Tarte Cosmetics (#trippinwithtarte), and the glow on all the beautiful people that were lucky enough to go was divine. Really made me want to go on a trip. Like now. Especially because I'm sitting by the window watching the snow fall as I type this. Bah!

Thanks for reading!!
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I'm Baaaaaaacccccckkkkkkkk!!!

Yep. It's been a while again. Is there a use in apologizing? Because I feel like I've been doing that quite a bit in my blogging lately because I'M A HORRIBLE BLOGGER!!! And I'm not afraid to admit it.

Yes, I've been working almost 50 hours a week. No, I haven't had a whole hell of a lot of time to go shopping for makeup or to do product reviews. My days off are spent doing things I put off for the week so my weekends are usually jam packed with stupid adult things like grocery shopping and cleaning the house and laundry and all that garbage. I just want to play with makeup and express my views of everything and lay in bed with my cats.

But alas, I need to pay bills, so I need to work. But sometimes I have extra money, and I of course spend it on makeup. That obsession hasn't dwindled in the LEAST.

I moved on to my YouTube channel for a while, but I feel like my sister-in-law has gotten super annoyed with my going over once a month to use their iMac to edit my videos. So I haven't uploaded anything in at least 3 weeks, and I can't see another chance any time soon for me to have access to a Mac in order to continue editing. So I have decided that since I still want to share my love of all things beauty, I need to start blogging again. Especially if I want to consider myself a beauty blogger still. So until I save enough money to get my OWN iMac or MacBook, I have decided to return to actually typing about beauty products instead of just talking about them.

So get ready people! I'm back! :)

Talk to you soon!