Green Hair Challenge: Life with no shampoo

So what does my hair mean to me? It used to be pretty much a source of self confident. I never actually cared about the length of my hair until I met my ex-boyfriend. In fact, I have always prefer short hair because I think it shows my personality. Ever since I had met my ex-boyfriend, I decided to let my hair grow out. My hair was extremely long and beautiful for the 3 years that we were dating, until I decided to cut it in a short bob, then a pixie after a rough breakup with him.

Many may think that having a pixie haircut may be the easiest hair style to manage. SO WRONG! My hair would go crazy in the morning because of the way that I sleep, which led me to wash my hair at least twice a day (even 3,4 times in summer) to keep it looking nice.

Fast forward, not only my heart had been through a war, my hair too but just a war with all the chemicals in shampoos. Now my hair gets extremely greasy within a few hours after a wash and it's driving me crazy. So I decided to take on this green hair challenge, hoping that my hair will be less greasy and healthier.

I don't think I can ever go completely without shampoo, so my goal is really to cut down on the shampooing and using substitutes, such as watering washing, conditioner washing, dry shampoo, etc,  as alternatives.

• Day 1: Washed hair once with conditioner
• Not too bad; hair is very soft after the wash
  
•  Day 2: Washed hair once with conditioner
• Specially spent extra time in massaging scalp to make sure hair is clean; did not notice any excessive oil building
  
• Day 3: Washed hair once with conditioner, and followed by dry shampoo
• Oil is starting to build up noticeably ever after washing and drying hair, so I had to apply dry shampoo to get rid of the excessive oil (especially my bang) so I didn't look ridiculous when I headed out
   
• Day 4: Washed hair once with shampoo in the morning
• Since it's a work day, so I decided to wash my hair with shampoo in the morning; I wonder how long will it take for my hair's health to return..?

Will continue to update my progress and outcome!

A week of my life

To conclude the things that I did in my past week, I met up with my bestie, hung out with friends, drank and ate a lot, and lastly worked a lot as well.

Oh, I also got a new phone. Bye iPhone hello Google phone.

January 2013 ipsy glambag

This month's glambag theme is "a true star will always shine". I expected a cute makeup bag to switch out my current one, but was quite disappointed when I saw the plain black bag.

This month includes the following items:

•soho eyeliner brush
•josie maran 100% pure argan oil
•sexyhair big sexy hair spray
•nailtini nail polish in bloody Mary
•pacifica tusan blood orange body butter

My favorite product this month has to be the nailtini polish. I have been so busy recently, my nails have been bare for a few good months already. I'm so excited to use this new polish and knowing the quality of my previous nailtini polish, I just know I'm going to love this one as well.

Can't believe its almost 3 weeks in the new year already! Definitely need to step up and work on the plans that I have for 2013!

Ciao!

January Ipsy Glambag

pacifica tusan blood orange body butter: smells amazing

josie maran 100% pure argan oil

soho eyeliner brush: I like the quality of these soho brushes but I always think they are too big for me. This eyeliner brush does not create a line that is as good as my other eyeliner brush, but this is good for an angled shadow look.

sexyhair big sexy hair spray: it holds my hair up... for like 30 minutes, before my hair gets weight down by the grease from excessively washing, haha. Not the spray's fault tho!

nailtini nail polish in bloody Mary: Love love love this! Such a beautiful red color! Just perfect for Chinese New Year. I will post up a picture of this polish on my nails.

A week of my life

Back at work and fresh off a new year. Things have been going great! I need to lose some weight tho, I'm afraid to step on the scale.

Happy 2013!

Talk to you never, 2012! You were so damn tough to get though but you have also made me stronger!

New Year Resolutions:
•Live healthy, eat healthy
•Start painting and drawing again
•Build a new art portfolio
•Spend less, save more, earn more
•Start a new passion
•Travel more, read more, watch more movies
•Live on my own; live by myself

I won't let 2013 go down like 2012 did! Work hard party harder, sista!

Love you all!

Xmas for real!

I had a very tough year, a really tough one. Call me whining or whatsoever, but all I focused in 2012 was how to get pass days, a day by a day. All the scars and fears that left over from 2011 did not treat me well. I spent one year cleaning up the mess of my life. One full year full of tears.

Now that it's almost the end of 2012, I'm proud to say I have gotten a lot better. I happened to caught up on time to clean up most of the crisis that has been lingering. 2013 seems like it's going to be a pretty fresh year. God decides to give me all these good friends who are willing to spend time with the most pathetic girl during holidays and time-offs so I wouldn't be by myself, and most importantly, they make sure I'm not crying alone. I'm grateful. It's always the end of a year that makes us think, huh?

I'm finally able to call us a blessing instead of a regret.

Merry Xmas!

Love y'all.

Merry Xmas 2012!

Merry Xmas! It's only Christmas eve today. I didn't have much to do since I'm still sick, so I played around with makeup attempting a Xmas look!

Majority of the colors on my eyes are light green, dark green, dark blue. Used black eyeliner on top eyelids and green and silver eyeliner on bottom.

Picture came out blurring all the color but meh, I had fun!