♥ DIY: Bleaching and Coloring Hair

Hello everyone!

Yes, I am back to blogging! Yey! It has been almost two years since I "abandoned" my blog because my laptop broke and I am so poor I could not buy a new one. :( But I am always active on IG so follow me there. I did reviews there for the mean time. I still visit my blog though and encouraging myself to go back to blogging and here I am! :D Hopefully, I could post a lot before the year ends. 

Also, I am excited to announce that I am now an official member of Davao Bloggers Society. Yey me! It is also one of the reasons why I came back to blogging. I am looking forward for the events, workshops, etc. that I will be doing as part of the DBS. Hopefully, it will enhance my skills in blogging and be more exposed to the blogging world. And of course, gain new blogger friends. Hehe!

Anyway, for my first post of the year, I will be sharing to you my first attempt in bleaching and coloring my hair with the help of my aunt. I just want to share it here in my blog because I know there are also a lot of girls and guys out there who want to color their hair with not so common colors, it is called fashion colors nowadays, but we all know that we need to have a budget of Php5,000 and up if we want our hair to be done by professionals in a salon. But I don't have that amount of money and it hurts my pocket if I will just spend it on my hair. So, I decided to do it myself with the help of my aunt and with the help of the internet. Just a disclaimer though, we are all first timers here, my aunt and I. Also, I have done a lot of research and I contemplated for how many months before I finally decided to do it myself. I am not encouraging you to do it yourself by writing this post but to give you reference based on my experience. So, if you are interested, just keep on reading. :D

Hair Background

Before anything else, I would just like to share my hair background. All that my hair had undergone. My hair is originally wavy. I had my hair relaxed since I was in Grade Six. So, basically, I don't have a virgin hair. I color my hair once in a while because I'm afraid that it might cause so much damage to my already damaged hair that is why it took so long for me to finally decide to color and even bleach my hair. Last May, I had my hair relaxed again. I always had my hair relaxed every after 6 months to 1 year to maintain my not so straight hair. Hehe! Then I colored my hair using the Etude House Bubble Coloring. I shared my experience about that product on my IG. It was a very long post, I should have made a blog post instead. Anyway, that was the last treatment my hair had. And then after a month or so, I bleached my hair. 

It took me almost one year to contemplate and also made some research about bleaching and study hair coloring through the internet because, as what I have said, I am afraid that it would totally destroy my hair. I always think that my hair is very damaged due to hair relaxing that is why I always think twice. And I forgot to mention that I blow dry my hair EVERYDAY. Could you imagine the damage from the heat? :/ But I always do hair treatments at home which will be in a different blog post so stay tuned for that. ;)

Anyway, let's stop this blah blah and talk about the main topic of this blog post. Hehe!

♥ DIY: Toner for Acne-prone Skin

Hello everyone! Another typhoon is coming in the Philippines and I hope everyone is safe and that what happened during typhoon Yolanda will not happen again this time. I pray for the souls and I pray also for the survivors to recover quickly for Christmas is coming very soon. :( As I've said, there is another typhoon coming so our classes were suspended for safety reasons just for today. So, I just stayed in our house and I will use this time to blog because for the coming days I will be very busy and I got no time to update this blog from time to time. :)

Today, I am going to share to you my toner that I am currently using for my acne and acne scars. Just a background, my acne started January this year after I had my chicken pox and until now, I still don't know the cause of it. 

I discovered this toner through Pinkiericegurl on Youtube. If you are interested, click read more to know how to do it. :) 

♥ DIY: Nail Art Sticker

Hello friends! Here's another DIY blog post. It's been a long time since my last DIY post so here is a new one. This time, it has something to do with nail arts. So, if you like to make nail arts, then stay tuned to know more. :)

I am going to teach you how to make your own customized nail stickers. For this blog post, I am going to use chevron pattern as an example. So, you will need:

1. Craft Scissors (Zigzag)

2. Ziplock bag

3. Nail Polishes (any color you prefer)

♥ DIY: Heatless Curls

Hi girls! Do you want to curl your hair but afraid to damage it because of the heat? Well, this DIY is for you. You can achieve bouncy curls like you came from having a digi perm without heat or chemicals. And it is not also time consuming which is very convenient to those people who have less time to prepare themselves like me. Lol! I will teach you how. :)

All you need to have are curlers. I recommend the foam curlers because we are going to put the curlers in the evening and stay it overnight. So, you will be able to sleep properly with the curlers on your head. :) Another thing you need is a mousse. It is actually optional, I did mine without mousse and it resulted perfectly.

Step 1: If you have the mousse, apply enough amount onto your hair.

Step 2: It's time to put on the curlers. Do not roll it upto the roots of your hair. Just up to the middle.

Step 3: Leave the curlers overnight and hope that you will have a goodnight sleep. Hahaha! Lol! Promise, the inconvenient sleeping will be worth it. :)

Step 4: It's morning already! Did you have a goodnight sleep? Haha! It is time to remove all the curlers, the most exciting thing to do when curling your hair. Hahaha!

Step 5: After removing all the curlers, run your fingers through your hair.

Step 6: If you want the curls to loosen up, use hair spray and while it's still wet, rub your hair downward.

And the finished look:

I learned this tutorial in ItsJudyTime. If you want more hair tutorials, just visit her youtube channel. Hope this tutorial is helpful. Thank you for viewing! :)

Lots of ♥, Judy

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♥ DIY: Pore Strips

Hello everyone! This is my first time to do a diy. I have so many ideas on diy like the ombre shorts but I was afraid that I will fail and doesn't like the outcome. Lol! So, this diy is about how to do homemade pore strips. I have seen a video by Michelle Phan how to make a pore strips but it needs microwave oven to make it and we do not have that kind of appliances. So, I was discouraged to make it. Then, one day, my classmate told me that she tried it without using microwave and it works she said. So, I tried it also. And yeah, it really worked. No machines needed. Lol! 

So, all you need to have is an unflavored gelatin. There are a lot of unflavored gelatins available at the supermarket but I think it will work properly if you use the brand Knox. I haven't tried other brands but if you want to save then, you can have an alternative brand for it as long as it is unflavored. This is what I used. 

Okay! So let us go now to the steps.

Step 1: Boil a cup of water. When it gets hot, place the part of your face where you want to put the pore strip onto the steam or the smoke of the hot water. In that way, your pores will open so it would be easy to get the white and blackheads.

Step 2: On a small plate, pour an enough amount of the gelatin and warm water. Mix them properly. Feel the mixture if it's watery or sticky. If it's still watery, pour again an enough amount of gelatin. If it's sticky, then you can place it already to where you want to place it.

Step 3: After you place the gelatin, put a tissue on top of it to make it easy to remove. Put it like this:

please excuse my oily skin >.<

Step 4: Wait for at least 30 min for it to absorb all the white and blackheads and also the oils in your skin if you have oily skin like mine.

Step 5: When it is already dry, remove now the tissue carefully. Then be amazed of the white and blackheads on the tissue. I was also amazed when I first did it. xD

So, that's it. I hope you learned something through this post. And I'm sorry for my english. >.< Thank you very much for viewing. :)

Lots of ♥, Judy

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