ColourB4 Giveaway

Here's one giveaway I know some of you will be excited about as it's always top of my list of product recommendations.

 All hair-colour chameleons know that a change is as good as a rest, so why not see if the fair-haired lot have more fun this summer?

Going lighter in the summer months reflects what happens naturally as our hair gets lightened by the sunshine, so try a new shade this summer as light hair also looks great with a bit of a tan!  In the past going from darker hair through to blonde could take months, several trips to the hairdresser and hundreds of pounds, but now you can start the process before you even take a seat in the salon.

To be clear this will remove dark colour from light hair it will not lighten naturally dark hair and dependent on previous colours/bleaching it may not restore your colour fully. Regardless I have always advised you try this before any form of bleach as it's so gentle on your hair and can often be really effective, see below..

Apologies for the grainy photos, they're old but no less proof that this stuff works!

I've tried it enough times to know what dyes are harder to shift.. I once had a hot pink streak in near black hair and colour b4 lifted it to a strawberry blonde but the pink remained (can't find a pic) so just be aware it won't lift/remove fashion colours.

I have the whole range to give away to one lucky winner

ColourB4

B4UColour

& ColourStop

Just leave a comment telling me why you'd like to win and follow the T&Cs below.

You can find the brand on Facebook and Twitter and buy their products at Boots online here

For more info on the products and directions for use check out 

www.colourb4.com

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T&Cs

Entrants must be over 16, able to provide a UK delivery address and a follower of this blog via GFC or my YouTube channel. All winners (for giveaway week) will be announced 01/05.

Come back tomorrow for another chance to win!

 

Miss BB

A Hair Raising Plan

I look at this picture of Elizabeth Olsen and think, 'she's pale like me! Maybe I could pull off that blonde.. but the picture below tells a different story. I look paper white! I'm sure I'm not quite so ghostly in real life but you may have noticed my new hair colour. You can see the shade I was here. I used ColourB4 to take out as much of the dark colour as possible. It left me with warm brown tones. I have an appointment at the salon tomorrow and my intention is to have about an inch chopped off the bottom, all of my layers trimmed and... as many highlights as they can cram on my head!

I've been brunette for more than a year now which someone pointed out to me is probably the first time in a decade and I'm bored! I've been contemplating a change for a while and I thought, why not in time for our honeymoon in Vegas? I love experimenting with new makeup when I change my hair colour but it takes a while to find the right combos so I wanted a little while to get used to it before we go away. They also say that there's only 2 weeks between a bad haircut and a good one.. well we fly 2 weeks on Sunday so fingers crossed I'm loving my new honey coloured mane by then!

I wanted to share my plan ahead of the appointment to prepare you for the 'reveal' post and inevitable YouTube video that will follow. Annoyingly I did just buy a new set of chocolate brown hair extensions which I mentioned in another post. I never showed you them because they weren't a perfect match and now they obviously won't be. I'm sure I will be brunette again at some point so I will keep them until then. If you want to see them I uploaded a video wearing them (link)

Until tomorrow...

Miss BB

Home Hair Extensions - How To

I've thought about doing this a lot since I chopped my hair off in February. I used to use glue-in hair extensions all the time a few years ago before I discovered clip-ins and decided they were the be all and end all. The problem with clip-ins for me is that I can never be bothered to put them in and when I do they feel loose or tug my hair and more than anything else they feel bulky on my head. Being pregnant there's not a lot you can do to make you feel more attractive as you get heavier so I guess that had something to do with why I finally bit the bullet today. I know I'll probably regret it.. I remember the nights of picking glue out my hair but I couldn't help myself. I did buy the weaker glue (not the liquid gold I used to buy) and some remover so I'm keeping everything crossed it's got easier in the last few years.

They took less than an hour to put in.. more like 40mins actually, so it will really depend on how easy they are to remove and how long they last as to whether this will be a regular thing.. we'll see. I love the extra length. I didn't want them too long so I went for 14" and I think they blend quite well.

I knew I wouldn't be able to let this change go without explanation and anticipated lots of "how do I?" questions so figured I'd take some pictures by way of tutorial. 

I bought 4 strips (£6 each) , I bought 2 different shades in the hope it would look more natural as my hair isn't one block colour.  You can see below on the left how they look wrapped up and on the right each width unravelled. I alternated the two shades when I applied them to my hair.

Here's my before... 

When I sectioned my hair nobody was more surprised than me at the colour of it.. since I used Colour B4 last week I thought it had lightened up overall but turns out the layers underneath lifted a lot more...Disappointing to see my roots though.. I haven't bleached my hair since February.. I don't think that's much growth for 7months! Anyway... so I sectioned my hair with a tail comb...

I applied a thick line of glue to the "root" of one strip of hair and left it a couple of minutes to go tacky..

Hopefully you can see from the picture below but in a nutshell I attached it as close as I could get to the roots of my own hair. You may well need help (I did... Lee did most of the work if I'm honest)

One thing to make sure of is not to get any glue on the upper hair you've sectioned away!!!

Repeat for as many layers as you feel necessary to get a believable thickness. I think I could have done with a couple more but hey ho... next time! Forgive my badly straightened hair below but this was just after application. Add some waves and serum and the extensions are barely detectable. I'm really pleased with them! You can be sure I will rue this day when I come to remove them but I will be blogging that experience too so watch this space.

How many of you have tried DIY glue-in extensions?

Outfit Month #23

*What I'm Wearing*

Jumper - H&M

Leggings - Topshop Maternity

Boots - Next

Earrings - Handmade (not by me)

Silver Ring - eBay

Nails - Party in My Cabana by OPI

You may have noticed my hair is lighter. I used ColourB4 last night and I'm really pleased with the result.. very Autumn! I will need to use something to even it out as my roots are considerably lighter than my lengths but I am loving it lighter!

I just can't DYE!

For those of you that follow my Baby Blog you will have already seen this picture and have an idea of what this post will be about. Since I fell pregnant my hair has behaved more than a little strangely. It all fell out and broke off when I bleached it (yes I was damaging my hair but it is usually very resilliant) It is getting greasy so much faster and my virgin hair at my roots dont appear to be retaining any colour when I use a home hair dye.

This has left me with this unattractive regrowth that I really not loving. You can't really tell unless you're in the right light and you're really looking at my roots but I know it's there and I need to do something. I'm not sure there's much point in colouring again because I don't think much will happen so my plan is this..

You know I have been a firm fan of ColourB4 in the past and I thought that this was as good a time as any to give it another whirl. I'm hoping it will lighten up enough to then dye a closer colour to my roots so my regrowth wont be as noticeable and my hair colour will require less maintenance for the remainder of my pregnancy and while I'm busy with the new baby.

I am popping out now to pick up a bottle so wish me luck and I will of course report my results.

If you've had any similar experiences with your hair I would love to hear from you, leave me a comment!

24hrs in BLEACH

Here is the video I made whilst dying my hair...

...And my big "reveal" video...

Ok so it's fairly safe to say I've ruined my hair :/

Why I do it I don't know but I think this time I've learnt my lesson.

Over the past few days I've used colourb4 taking my dark brown/black hair to a lovely auburn red shade... not for me, I dyed it a "light brown" which proved to be darker than it had been BEFORE the colourb4 so ... back to square one. Then I decided to bleach my hair... then again... then I dyed it a dark blonde because it wasn't lifting and I had yellow roots and ginger lengths... this dye evened it all out pretty well but by day it looked pretty terrible on me so something had to be done. I of course (less than 24 hours later) bleached my hair TWICE more and then toned it... by this time the bottom 3 inches were like chewing gum and impossible to comb/brush, but my hair was still very yellow/orange/uneven from the bleach... so what did I do?

Dye it of course! So for the final time I used a medium ash blonde and it seemed to eradicate most of the yellow tones and leave me with a pale gold blonde... rather flattering and I can live with it ... GOOD NEWS! 

Of course my hair was trashed, I mentioned before that I had a hair appt and I intended to have a long bob cut but in all honesty I couldn't face a hairdressers judgement so... I cut it myself (with a little help in the back from Lee) ... I must be absolutely CRAZY! 

I actually really love the cut and the colour is nice, I will probably use a toner again to lift the remaining yellow tones but otherwise I think I'm done, my hair needs a serious rest. The last time I did anything remotely as reckless I had to have a pixie cut (I cannot pull that look off) so I was off my head to do this but I am what they call a beauty addict... this is my addiction...

I have joined a program and put down the bottled blonde

Hopefully my mistakes will help someone else and my hair isn't beyond repair.. oh and my journey has made for good TV lol..

Either way, it's done now, I'm off to have fun... I've heard that's what blondes do :P

Back 2 Blonde

Ok Ok so I know I said I wouldn't... but I did!

I didn't bleach or even use a colour.. check the video for more information on the product I used called "COLOURB4" it works absolute miracles!

You can see my before hair in the video and I'll post some after pictures below... the difference is astounding and my hair feels strong and soft.. I'm beyond pleased with the result...

here's the video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipm44H661Y

After Pictures...

                 

What do you think?

xoxo

miss bb

colour control freak?

"Cher lives to do makeovers, it gives her a sense of control in a world full of chaos"

Never have truer words been spoken.

I was pondering today my hair colour addiction and the conclusion I came to was that the rest of my life is so out of my control, my personal appearance (especially my hair) is the one thing I can change on a whim.

I am in that phase again, my colour is fading, the ends are in bad condition and it's at an awkward length.. the shortest layers are WAY too short. The condition means the natural wave looks like I've not brushed it in weeks and I'm avoiding straightening to hopefully improve that but in the mean time I'm left with BAD HAIR!?!?

I want to colour it because the roots and red and the ends are light brown. My options are dye dark again (and face this same problem in 2 weeks when it fades) or go lighter... my plan of attack with this would be to use ColourB4. If you didn't already catch my video on this the last time I went lighter here is the link for you now.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV9OBmLT14

I loved the effect it had.. it was amazing! it lightens so well.. I did go a ginger colour but I had a lot of colour build up and I was very dark... my hair is a lot lighter now.. I'm thinking if I did that I might be able to colour over a light brown and minimise the damage done by repeated dyeing and and the fading.

*unrelated side note*

I'm currently re-watching the proposal and ahhh Ryan Reynolds in dreamy!

*anyway...*

So I'm torn... my hair is quite literally doing my head in.

I know myself well enough to do something to in in the next week... if not day. If I had my car today, on my day off I would have surely driven to the local shop this morning to buy supplies.. probably best I don't.

now I'm going to make a cup of tea and eat the rest of these mini muffins that have been staring at me.. and continue to look for celeb hair-spiration on google images until 3.15 when I pick up the baby from school.

Have a great snow day y'all

xoxo

miss bb