Milestone

I just chipped my last intact comb and realized I have found a bizarre new milestone.
My hair is now so long that when I put a comb down while doing my hair, I always have this annoying, sneaky little strand stuck in it. No matter how much I try to make sure it's not there, I always end up pulling it when I continue handling my hair and then *bang* goes the comb on the floor.

Weirdest milestone yet.
And now I need new combs.

Huh. I went looking for my lesser good replacement combs and found two broken ones in a drawer. Why have I kept these??

Look how identical the damage is to all the combs!
It's pretty obvious that they get tipped over the edge of a table and then drop on one side.

This is my second "destructive" milestone. I had one around the time where ponytails was the only updo I could do at all. I broke crazy many elastics! When my hair became long enough to do a self-stabilising bun it really took the strain off the poor elastics.

So I'm in the market for new combs and of course I would like some nice, hair friendly and high end ones again. But if I'm going to murder all my combs like this, it would be a huge waste of money to get some expensive ones. They don't get more resistant to being dropped on the floor just for getting pricier!

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16th: A facial buffer sponge. Hmm. Honestly I haven't purposely exfoliated my face since I got my Clarisonic brush. I might use this anyways.

17th: Vitamin E hydrating toner. After the craptastic tea tree toner I expected a skin disaster. Although COSDNA tells me it isn't that bad, I'm still not impressed. Seriously, is 10 separate ingredients for fragrance-purposes really necessary? I might actually use this though.

18th: Chamomile eye makeup remover. Eh. I might use this.

Wow. All 3 products are an unenthusiastic "Yea, I might use this." Meh.

Christmas hair

I decided to try braiding a Christmas ribbon into my hair. This time with a paranda-like start since the last one didn't look so good at the beginning.

How do people normally keep their hair detangled and smooth while they add the paranda?  Luckily my ribbons were pretty smooth, or my comb would have caught on it a lot.

I had some problems keeping the ribbons uniform on the sides of the braid. At around mid back they all suddenly switch to mostly one side and at hip to the other side. Meh.

I liked how fat it made the end feel!

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13th: A tough skin... stone? Kind of thing. Hubby eyed it with interest. I expect him to ask me how you work one of these the next time we take a bubble bath together.

14th: Nail polish. This is just not a flattering colour! In direct (Weak, winter) sunlight it had some strange neon, almost orange colour. In artificial indoor light it had a dark red, bordeaux, "lady is a vamp" kind of tone. I can't imagine this colour being flattering on anyone.

15th: Vitamin E night cream. So now I have a set?

Serious question here, you guys: Is this Christmas calendar getting into "Bitch eating cracker"-territory for me or is my lack of excitement justified?

Hair envy

The throwback Thursday-post made me think: The picture of me age 14 (ish?) must have been from right before I started experimenting with dyeing my hair.

I had a period from around 14-17 where I dyed my hair a lot. Mostly I bleached it a lot, I also had the whole mane green, I had so many different streaks, mostly green and blue.

Wait. Age 14-17, that was 17-20 years ago...

Anyways...

I honestly loved having my hair coloured like that. It was so much fun!
What I didn't love though, was that the colour always turned out puke green after two weeks. Of course back then I shampoo'ed 3 times a week and only used conditioner on my tips, so the colour (and my hair in general) didn't get the same care as I give it now.
But the biggest issue is probably that hair dye technology back then wasn't as advanced as it has become.
I see so many awesome, fun and gorgeous heads of hair in vibrant colours now!
Every single time, I feel a slight pang of envy. I miss it.

Don't get me wrong: I love my hair like it is. Otherwise I would have changed it long ago.
But I'm still allowed to be envious of  the more adventurous people out there having so much fun with the new hair dye technologies and techniques.

Rainbow hair

Sunset hair 

Or how about this one: 14 Reasons Why Rainbow Colors Look Gorgeous On Black Hair

(Can't link to individual pictures in that one)

Tie-dye

Fluid hair painting

Mermaid hair

 

 

  

24 colorful hairstyles

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10th: 15 ml Vitamin E day cream. Hm. I'll probably use this on my dry shins instead.

11th: 60 ml Rainforest brilliant shine conditioner. This will only be enough for my ends-only treatments, but I'll probably mix it in with something else for a CO wash. Has a good, discrete scent.

12th: 60 ml Peppermint cooling foot lotion. Uh, isn't this sort of for the wrong time of the year? Hubby eyed it and commented he would have loved it this summer. It goes into storage until then.

Thursday throwback

Two old photos of me, framed at my grandmas house.

I think I'm around 14 on the left and maybe 11 on the right?

I have two thoughts on this, and in order they are:
1) Arrrrrrrrrgh OMG OMG OMFG aaaaaargh
Those bangs. Those awful, horrible, craptastic bangs!
They were so massive, and so unflattering on me! They make my cheeks look even worse than they already are. And since my hair has a tendency to get crazy amounts of volume when provoked even the slightest by wind, I looked like the 80s threw up on my forehead most of the time.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did no responsible adult ever take me aside and explain to me how unflattering they looked on me?

2) Did my hair change colour or is the left picture from a winter and the right from a summer?
The sun has a tendency to lighten that dark blonde/light brown colour hair (Called "leverpostej" in Denmark)
It could be a bit of both. I'm fairly sure I had no sign of my beloved redness before in my late 20s, so maybe my hair changes colour from time to time?

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7th: Japanese cherry blossom shower gel.
I expected this one to smell as divine and fresh as the first showergel, but it didn't. It sort of smelled perfume-y or powdery or something. Meh.

8th: Exfoliating gloves.
On one hand I'm pretty pleased with these. Even though I throw my old set in the laundry once in a while, I can't remember how old they are. They could use a replacement.
On the other hand I'm disappointed. The lid for the 8th was huge and I expected a bath salt or something like that.

9th: Organic cotton pads.
Very nice! I prefer mine a size bigger and "fancier", but I can definitely get behind them being organic. Cotton-production is one of the worst offenders when it comes to the environment, both with usage of water and chemicals, so this is awesome. Maybe I should check and see if Bodyshop have them in a bigger size and get those next time I need new ones?

This is the first time I've received 3 things I can and will use. I'm not super excited about any of them, but none of the things go to Hubby or my discard-pile.

Hubby commented: "So, do you pay extra for the surprise or something...? I don't think you're getting the moneys worth of stuff."

My reaction:

Christmas hair

It's one of those (Awesome!) days where I don't have to leave the house to work.
Usually it means me not getting out of my pajamas all day. I really felt like doing something vaguely christmassy with my hair though, so I went for a low key ribbon braided into it.
I folded a 3 meter long ribbon to loop it over a strand, but even then it was too short and I couldn't braid it on right from the beginning.
I kind of liked it.

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Still tagging this with "bathroom", even though it did contain some hair stuff this time.

4th: A tiny little brush. Like, really tiny. It confused me: Is this supposed to be a pocket brush, maybe? If you wanted a pocket brush, wouldn't you get one of those that folds up so the teeth doesn't snag on everything in your bag?
Well, points for thinking outside lip glosses and hand creams I guess.

5th: A shampoo. I use shampoo maybe once a year, so this goes to Hubby. It has a bunch of things written on it: No silicones, no sulfates, no colour, no parabens. Eco-conscious product. Community trade olive oil. Well, points for that. I'm all for this kind of slacktivism. This is right up Hubby's alley too: He's the one who has to inform me what kind of stuff we buy when it comes to laundry detergents and fish and such.

6th: A block nail buffer. Nice! I use nail buffers pretty obsessively because it's one of the easiest ways to keep my dermotillomania down. If my nails are short and smooth, it's a lot harder to get a good picking going. It's pretty good too. I'm particularly impressed with the smoothing-side.

So that's one item for the discard pile, one product for Hubby and one item for me.