Palty Pure Natural

Woooh. This post is waaaaaaaay overdue. I want to share anyway =P So it's about my February hair dye experience using Palty Pure Natural. I forgot to take a picture of the box so I just took one off of Google Image!

So, here's before pictures. Three months after my experience with Orange Biscuit.

I left it on for around 45 minutes and here are some after pictures after I woke up the next day. Sorry I don't have any immediate pictures. I got lazy ^_^;;

I tried my hardest to make the pictures look as similar to each other lighting-wise so you guys can get an idea of the change and colour.





















The colour may not look that different but there is a slight difference. Pure Natural is more brown and less orange. I think that's about it =P I chose Pure Natural instead of Orange Biscuit because Palty has bleach in it and if I chose Orange Biscuit once again, my hair would become an even more gross orange colour. I don't have much pictures since I don't have much confidence in the ones I took. Sorry!

I have to do one of these again soon since I recently dyed my hair again a few days ago so keep an eye for it!

HAIR 1

"Hair" series? Lol =X

So a few days ago, I dyed my hair with Palty's Orange Biscuit. I've had this box for quite some time now, almost a year if I think about it, and decided to finally use it. I only used one box since my hair is thin and really layered. As a matter of fact, my mom said that there was more than enough O:! Anyway, here's the box and the contents:

Here's the before picture in flash with bathroom lighting. I dyed my hair from a darkish brown to a brown black in November and the roots have been growing out for a while now.

We left it on for 65 + 20 = 85 = almost 1.5hrs!








That's REALLY long I know, but my mom who helped me kinda fell asleep + we got lazy. And now..

Ta-da!

Same lighting as the one before.

And now, more BEFORE pictures:

And more AFTER pictures. Sorry there's no sunlight lighting.

I kinda fell asleep through most of the day when the sun shone today xD;;

Yeah, the colour is really nice. It's not too light but it's light enough that there's a change. It's not that orange and more of a caramel-y, honey-ish brown colour with a tint of orange and red (I think). It's nice. I really like it!

My hair was pretty soft after washing it out that same night. I washed it two days later and it was a bit dry but not too bad. I'll be using some Vitresse Hair Repair serum, Garnier colour care conditioner (that comes with the hair dye boxes that they have) and Palmolive Long and Soft shampoo. I hope it'll go back to being soft soon and grow longer!

XXVIII

So it's that time of month again!

November 28, 2009 @ 11:00PM (*bust all the way down are in inches)

weight : 116 lbs (EVEN AFTER BBALL PRACTICE AND BBALL GAMES?! D: )
bust : 35 - 34B (still the same...DANGIT)
waist : 28.25 (when my dinner gets digested xD)
area between waist and hips : 31 (look above)
hips : 34 (I don't think this ever changes)
upper thighs : 21
knee-area thighs : 15
calves : 15
upper arm : 11.5
longest layers of hair : 10


Okay so some notes to remember...

CONTROL EATING D: Like yeah, I should seriously stop doing what I do and eat less. This past week, every time right after a game or after practice, I would just shovel food into my mouth. So I definitely got to stop that @_@;

Can't really help boob growth and hip changing o_O At least not that I can think of.

I made some improvement =D Knee-area thighs lost half an inch!! My hair grew 1.5 inches ^_^ And my upper arm lost .25 inches hahaha.

Technically, I gained in the waist and area between waist and hips but that's just cause I ate a fat dinner tonight =( By tomorrow, it will be gone so yeah.

So...
CONTROL EATING
KEEP EXERCISING
TAKE CARE OF HAIR


My friend's debut is in seven days. @_@ I'm so excited for her! Her theme is Lovers in Paris with yellow and purple colours (or so she says. purple definitely but I'm not feeling the yellow right now) and her mom wants pink. Anyway, I bought a yellow bubble dress. It's over the knee and is the same yellow as you can see on my blog, except deeper and more richer in colour. It has a cute small bow on the left side of the waist and you can accentuate the waist with a belt-type thing that you can tie at the back. I'll show pics someday or something x)

I'm not sure how to do my hair that night but definitely simple for make-up and half false lashes and my Pure Brown lenses =)

Sleeping over my friend's house was fun last night. As soon as everyone left, we went up to her room, changed and slept. LOL. Yep. Fun x) And I'm not being sarcastic. It was really refreshing to just sleep xD;

XXVII

Second basketball game today! It was against Bodwell High School and their students are mainly international students. Anyway...

we rocked =) 58-18 for us. MUAHHAHA XD;

I fouled someone, got fouled but didn't get any of my free throws in =( But it's cool! I played for almost a whole quarter! Not straight but all my minutes added up and stuff. ^_^ So cool.

I bought a yellow dress today for 52$. Pretty good. I hope the quality is just as! And I also bought a tube of Clinique Pore Minimizer Refining Lotion. I hope to minimize these craters on my face soon =_=

Pretty much stopped using Bio-Oil. Not sure what happened with that haha but I almost finished the bottle. I don't know where it is right now but yeah. =p

Lots of practicing this weekend. My friend is having her debut on the 5th and our Youth is performing + we're dancing too. @_@; Crazy! So now, I'm off to pack since I'm sleeping over her house tomorrow night. n_n

XVIII

Cleaning room. ... ... AGAIN. It's SO messy. I don't know where to start. Fuck.

I have seven months to go down to 100 lbs, lose upper arm flab, lose calf fat, lose thigh cellulite, lose stomach blubber, shrink a waist, gain a butt, grow boobs, grow my hair out and achieve porcelain (or at least close to) skin. Allllll for the sake of my 18th birthday party. Weewooooo. Let's do some measuring shall we n_n

October 28, 2009 @ 11:00PM (*bust all the way down are in inches)

weight : 114 lbs
bust : 35 - 34B (only cause bigger cup = comfortable..not cause my actual boobs are that big)
waist : 28.75
area between waist and hips : 31.5 (fattest area of stomach)
hips : 34
upper thighs : 21
knee-area thighs : 15.5
calves : 14.75
upper arm : 11.75
longest layers of hair : 8.5

My action plan is to try really hard in basketball, weight-lift, control my eating and diet. :D

XIII

Okay so I tried out the daily mask schedule thingy but it was a baaaaaaaaad idea. I broke out like crazy!! I didn't even bother taking pictures cause I forgot ^^;; Haha sorry. But yeah. DON'T DO WHAT I DID. Using stuff on your face almost every single day is VERY bad. Like...SO bad T_T; I wanted to cry cause of what I was doing to my face. So I stopped and my face went back to normal :D Yay! Now, I only stick to my Aspirin and Honey Mask every Tuesday and my Egg White Mask alternating with this Pineapple Peeling Gel from Skinfood every Thursday. Then I exfoliate on Saturday nights on the weeks where I used the Egg White Mask. Exfoliate 2-3 times a week ladies! Especially if you have alot of dead skin cells.

So a small skin update. Mm...ever since I started caring for it in September/October, it's gotten better. And by better I mean smoother and softer feeling. However, it doesn't look that way since I have scars all over my face and like T_T; I can't help but pick at it!! Grawrgh. So in short, it feels smooth and soft but looks totally deranged =( And I keep breaking out at my jawline. It's reallly bad. Nonetheless, my trip back to the Philippines will cure it all (hopefully) !!


And on another note, I have my own (kind-of) circle lens selling business. Here's the link to the Facebook group:

All the information is there and on the discussion boards, along with some photos. Scroll down a bit and you will see =) If I had the power to control the outline of my group, stuff would be on the side too. BAHH. They took out that feature =( So anyway, order from me! Free shipping worldwide and comes with a free lens case. And if you order one of our new lenses, you'll get a free travel kit ^~


In other news...I dyed my hair. *sigh* My parents told me that I had to since I'm going back to the Philippines. My bleached hair won't work for them. Spam pictures before Friday! ^^

XII

So to cross off some stuff. Here's my GEO Nudy Brown and Nudy Gray review + pictures =)

GEO NUDY GRAY

So here's a picture with sunlight.


And the only time I could get a halo =/ Sunlight yet again with some flash


This picture proves that light coloured eyes go well with pale skin and dark coloured hair =p


Colour: 7/10
I wish it came out lighter on me. I REALLY wanted a light light light gray but I guess my true eye colour is too dark =[

Comfort: 4/10
I could that it was there and it dried out my eyes really easily. I had to take them out in the middle of a movie ><; And just over-all, it wasn't good. Slid out and stuff.

Enlargement: 5/10
Compared to my dark lenses, these ones didn't seem to enlarge as much for me. Plus, I didn't get a halo.

Overall: 5/10
This pair is just not for me. It disappointed me on so many levels ><; I thought I'd like it alot but it turned out the complete opposite. I had to throw it out cause it hurt my eyes alot this one time so I didn't want to risk it and threw the pair away.


GEO NUDY BROWN

Flash + bright light


Normal flash


Comfort: 8/10
One eye felt like nothing was there. The other eye bothered me abit =( I checked it and it had a hole in it ><;;

Colour: 3/10
Yet again, it's disappointing. I wanted a brown-y gold-ish orange-type colour but all I got was a mix of forest greens and brown mud except uglier. I absolutely hated the colour. I bought it cause I thought it'd match my orange-ish hair but it did not. Highly disappointing.

Enlargement: 5/10
Same as GEO Nudy Gray

Overall: 5/10
The comfort brought it up but the colour kept it down. I threw it out cause of the tear. Not like I would've worn it alot anyway since the colour is so ugly =(


So there you have it. My GEO Nudy Gray and Brown review. I guess these lenses just are not for me. I don't get a halo and my eyes are naturally too dark. *sigh* Oh well. I'll find the pair that's right for me.

On another note, get ready for a photo-spam of myself as a blue-eyed blonde since tonight is my last night as Fireball =P


Went to the Richmond Night Market tonight with my nii-nii and auntie. All I did was eat and walk around xD;; I couldn't find anything that I wanted =/ Plus, I didn't have any money so I had to borrow some from my aunt x_x; Well, tis all!


P.S. I SAW KENN TONIGHT. HAHAHAHA XD; Yummy Papaya Salad dude =) Good job! And the fact that I didn't cause a scene (since I usually do [well, in my opinion at least. I think I'll look back to this night and think "Hmm...I didn't do anything that will scar Kenn or I for life. Awesome possum!!"] and I *think* I didn't. hopefully Kenn didn't either =X) makes me feel proud of myself :D

P.P.S. or is it P.S.S.? ANYWAY. Uhm, I bought me-self a Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliner in Black Ink. It's really nice. Goes on easily but kind of hard to put on at times since it kinda smudges abit during the application process. But maybe that's cause my brush sucks XD; Probably why. Anyway, it's REALLY hard to take off. As in, homg. But then my mom's Estee Lauder Gentle Eye Makeup Remover is really really good. Unfortunately, I knocked it down a few months ago and wasted half of what was left T___T; But yeah. BUY BOBBI BROWN GEL EYELINER LADIES. It's REALLY good. Price is less than 30$ but more than $25 cause of taxes. Rather pricy but really good. It'll take me a long time before I run out. =p

XI

So...I've never gotten around to those reviews XD; Sorry. Been REALLY busy lately. Anyway, just to let y'all know, I'm STILL alive =)

I got me-self a twitter so follow me at: http://twitter.com/izmeister15

So here's my to-do list for this blog:
-->new hair pictures (cause it's 3-toned now LOL)
-->Hard Candy lip glosses review
-->GEO Nudy Gray/Brown experience (very short ones too boooooo) *DONE*
-->Bio-Oil update *DONE*
-->that daily mask schedule thing I had going on *DONE*
-->circle lenses business *DONE*
-->whatever else comes to mind

Support my friend! He's awesome, talented and dare I say it - hot. Well, by my standards at least. And it's over-all that makes him hot x) teehee. Subscribe to him at: http://www.youtube.com/user/carvyluceno

So that's pretty much it for now =)

BTW, YAAAAAAA LAKERS. PWNED MAGIC >)

X

Yay! 10th post ^_^ I bought two Hard Candy lip glosses the other day. I'll post them up tomorrow and do a review with pictures.

@_@ OMGosh. So I'm just really obsessed with getting rid of my acne ): I'm so desperate right now that I'm planning to do a homemade mask almost every night. I made a chart to sum it all up. =)


Credits to: foodsubs.com, Disney, celebrations.com, tuxpaint.org, curlycutie.com, celebritiesforhealth.com and St. Ives for the pictures.

Eep! The quality sucks T_T;; but I hope it isn't that bad. Yeah, I gotta stay dedicated for this to work ><

I'll post up the recipes that I used for each mask and I'll do a mini-journal thingy with pictures. I'll just use the pictures I took for the Bio-Oil and do a massive update talking about what worked and what didn't then. Which should be in two weeks. Or maybe y'know what, I'll just take pictures now and update seperately =)


In other news, the playoff teams that I've been following for the past week and a half (numbers correspond with the placing of the team name) :

LA Lakers vs Utah Jazz: 1-0
Vancouver Canucks vs St. Louis Blues: 3-0
New Orleans Hornets vs Denver Nuggets: 0-1

I'm rooting for LA (pretty obvious. Kobe-time and Trevor Ariza!), Vancouver (I'm a Vancouverite :3) and New Orleans (CP3 baby!!).

IX

I was logged on this MMORPG that I play and I sent a message on guild chat. This guy that I really-really-really-absolutely-so-much-unbelievably-huge-amount-really like was on but he didn't reply the first time I said something so I thought he wasn't there. Thinking that he was asleep, I started typing out a snippet of my feelings:

"ne...
i could have booked my ticket on the 24th of june
but i kept it at the 3rd of july cause
i wanted some time to chill with you after school ends"

(or something like that)

and he said

"you don't have to postpone your trip for me
i didn't ask you to do that"

Funny thing is that some hours before that...around 5 or something before I took a nap, I was thinking that he would say that. Then I started having imaginary conversations that go like so:

"hey look, i gotta go. i have tutor"
"tutor? for what?"
"chem and bio 12"
"oh. why dont you just ask me?"
"well, i'm somewhat of a visual learner so i need someone to show me how things work and stuff"
"i could show you. why didn't you just ask me?"
"it's too far for both of us"
"does your tutor go to your place or do you go to his or do you meet somewhere?"
"oh, we meet somewhere"
"... where?"
"vancouver"
"then how is it any different from asking me?"
"i dont know. anyway, i gotta head out. i'm going to be late"
"fine. whatever"

Then he'd get mad and then we'd fight then I'd end up telling him that I think that he doesn't want to see me. Then all this drama and whatnot. Nonetheless, it's not like it will happen. Anyway, I made myself promise myself to never ask him to hang out anymore.

Moving on, after he told me that, I started crying and crying and it just really hurt. Then later on, he called me and I told him how when I go back to the Philippines, I wanted to get a nose job and reduce some fat in some areas. After 5 minutes or so of allowing him to think about it, he said that it was fine. I'm not sure if he said that because he actually thinks that it's okay or because he doesn't want to stop me from doing something that I want to do. Either way, I felt offended because now I think that he thinks I'm ugly. BAHHHH.

I guess I understand where he's coming from since my mind changes alot. I used to think that my nose was okay but then I'm starting to think that maybe it isn't to my liking. Now I'm having second thoughts yet again. AHHHHHHH.

EDIT: After much careful consideration and thought, I decided that my nose is what makes me Filipino and that I wouldn't do anything to change it. You can hold me to that :D

Oh and the answer came to me. I'm sticking to Guy A since the probability of seeing Guy B isn't very high and he said that he was going through a phase where he wants a Vietnamese girl for a girlfriend so...yeah.

Listening to acoustic sad songs doesn't help either. It just increases the paaaaaaaaain.

VII

Okay it's been two days since my alleged "tomorrow" and here it is! I decided to omit the facetrading cause it doesn't seem all that interesting anyway. @@;

It's a white blouse with a really long collar thingy that ties into a bow! It's really really cute x) I bought it for 23$CAD online. The bad thing about it is that it's tight around the chest and shoulder area. As in..REALLY tight. I have small boobs but frick. This blouse makes it seem like I have double D's. @_@ My aunt had to move the buttons over and even then it's still too tight. The sleeves are abit short but I don't mind. I could always fold them up anyway. So here are the pictures:

I have a whole body picture to model how long it was on me. Not that long actually, just a bit past my waist. (I'm 5".5' btw. REALLY short, I know.) Don't mind the pudgy legs and the kilt. I wore it to school today and that's the standard uniform.


And then a close-up.


And just cause I'm a cam-whore, another close-up with flash!



Beauty Regimen:

Every Tuesday, I MUST do the Aspirin Mask and clean out my pores using that pore cleaner thing =) Every Thursday, I MUST do the Egg White Mask to close up my pores even more. =) Everyday, I MUST wash my face twice, tone it twice, use Bio-Oil twice, moisturize twice and use sunscreen once. Every other day, I MUST use Extra Virgin Olive Oil on my eyelashes to make them longer and thicker.

I noticed that the smoother your skin becomes, the less Bio-Oil you will need to apply. At the beginning of my Bio-Oil adventure, I used three drops and it just about covered my whole face and part of my neck. Now, three drops is too much O_O Well, smoother = less surface area compared to a bumpy and uneven complexion. Awesomeness! It's working x)


Moving on to other things; I've been looking through another online store and they're having a 50% OFF EVERYTHING SALE and I'm immediately sucked into it. They sell wigs, clothes, accessories and decorated nails! Very cute =) As much as I'm interested in the nails, I don't think I'd be allowed to wear them to my school ): I'm not finding anything that I fancy for the clothes and the accessories either. Now, as you can see, I have a short mullet going on but I'd like to have longer hair too! So I checked out their wigs catalogue and set myself on three wigs.

http://www.hime.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3196509
Do I really need this much hair though? It seems alot but then it'd be fun to try and do fish braids on it. x) Kind of wary of the bangs though @@; I like the volume but at the same time, it looks a bit too much.
Price after deduction: 22.50$CAD

http://www.hime.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3196185
Looks very cute and natural. I like it cause of it's length. Wary of the bangs as well ><; The volume and the way it's styled makes it look more put together than the first wig. Price after deduction: 27.50$CAD

http://www.hime.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3196108
Looks really cute and natural as well. It's shorter though but it looks more innocent. I'm digging the side bangs but then it's straight and I've always had straight hair and since it's synthetic, I can't really curl it @@;
Price after deduction: 24.00$CAD

I could always just buy two o_o; But then if I'm going to grow my hair out, it'd be kind of a waste. Wahhh D: But I really want long hair naooo T.T Can someone help me decide? Anybody there reading my blog? ._.

VI

"Every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back." So keep smiling and be optimistic!

That is the core meaning of which I try to get across to people who are acting all sad and depressed. I wish they understand that quote and it's meaning and realize wholeheartedly that they're missing out on life; that they are not moving forward with their life by staying in the emotional state they are in. I know it's easier said than done but keep trying. Hopefully, you can learn to see the brighter side of things; and mushed together with your past experiences, you will know the border between being naive and being reasonable.


Hmm...I went pluck-happy today. I plucked my arm pits and my eyebrows x) I guess that's abit too much information for you guys, but who's reading anyway -o-; Nonetheless, tomorrow I will have to bleach my eyebrows again cause they're looking too dark. Maybe shorten the hairs abit cause I noticed with some ullzangs and J-rockers that they aren't long nor are they short as stubble. The eyebrow hairs are trimmed and mid-length. =)

Bio-Oil is doing okay. I got some pimples here and there @@ I need to use the Aspirin Mask again soon and try and dry my pimples out x) I REALLY want clear skin T_T It feels smooth and clear but the complexion is just dead ugly! D: Whhhhhhy!! Oh man, I will definitely go to Vicky Belo for treatments when I go back to the Philippines. Freaking hell, I don't care about the risks. I just want my clear skin T_T


I'll post about my facetrading adventures at Richmond today and a picture of what I bought from someone tomorrow =) But for now, I think that I should go wash my face since I'm about to go to sleep. That and I think that the pores on my eyebrows should be closed by now x)

V

So I finally decided to join the bandwagon and try out Bio-Oil. I'll be updating my journal weekly starting tomorrow to keep track of my progress/epic phailing.

"Bio-Oil® is a specialist skincare product that helps improve the appearance of scars, stretch marks and uneven skin tone. Its advanced formulation, which contains the breakthrough ingredient PurCellin Oil™, also makes it highly effective for numerous other skin concerns, including aging skin and dehydrated skin. " (http://www.bio-oil.com/en/uses.html)

My current skin care routine right now is as follows:

Clinique 3-step system. Lol. I forgot the exact products but I'll upload pictures tomorrow. I've been using it for 6 months now and I must say that my skin has significantly improved over-all! I get break-outs when I begin to get my period but they go away afterwards. I really like my Clinique and I hope that with the addition of Bio-Oil, my skin will become better.

I also exfoliate my face with St. Ives Apricot Scrub twice each week and use the Aspirin Mask at least once a week (or I try to). If i were more consistent with my mask, maybe results will be sped up haha.


I wore my GEO CK-107s today. My E-GCs were more comfy lulz. I just need some time getting used to them and well, I wore them for 10-12 hours so yeah =_= I guess that's why. Also, I still can't get used to the fact that my eyes look so much bigger @_@ It's crazyyyyy. But yeah, with persistent use, I will definitely get used to them! Then maybe I'll move on to Dueba DM-23 Browns and have HUUUGE eyes x)