Hair today......

.... hopefully not gone tomorrow!

I'm so excited today because I am (finally) getting more highlights in my hair - it has been months and months since my last highlights and the top of the highlights are nearly down to my ears!! ( I can finally see what my natural hair colour is after years and years of dying - I can tell you it is a lovely shade of....bleurgh). You know the colour, what people call dull mousy brown - its just a boring, bleurgh colour.
The reason it has got this bad is the same old money problems we are all experiencing at the moment — either not eat for two weeks and spend £60/£70 on hair or just put up with it.
BUT a wonderful woman has come to my rescue, her name is Tash she is my friend's brother's girlfriend and she is training to be a hair dresser and said she would give me highlights in exchange for sharing a bottle of wine - not a bad price at all!

A few pics to show you what I am eventually aiming for....

     

Yes I know I'm sorry another picture of Kesha but this is exactly how I would love my hair! As you can probably see I want big wavy hair as well but unfortunately my very thin poker straight hair will not allow it!!

Happy hair days......

Beyoncé - ultimate style icon.....

 I fricking love her!!!

 (Images from Dailymail.co.uk)

I am in total awe of this woman - here she is just shopping in Hollywood after the Grammys as you do in your six inch Christian Laboutins and LBD!

God damn! Loving the new blonde bombshell look as well!

Beyoncé Knowles I salute you .......

  

Look what I found in the post....

I've heard a few people on the blogging circuit talk about Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred and I thought it sounded intriguing (and do-able) so onto Amazon I ventured and bought it brand-new for £4.99 (postage was free).


The DVD contains 3 workout levels increasing in intensity. Each workout is only 20minutes long (so easy to fit in during your day) which contains: • 2 minute warm up • Three 6 minute circuits featuring 3 minutes of strength, 2 minutes of cardio and 1 minute of abs • 2 minute cool down
The idea is that you do the workouts everyday for 30-days and you should be fitter and look better. You start on level one and once that workout becomes easier to do, you move up a level and so on.
Today was my first day of the 30-day shred and I didn't find it as hard as I thought I might (but I have been going to the gym)
I went for a 2mile run then came home, put the dinner in the oven, did the 20-minute workout and by the time I cooled down, dinner was ready!
After doing the workout I could definitely feel that my muscles had worked hard (even for only 20minutes) I think my muscles are going to hurt in the morning!!!
Anyway thought Id do some before and after pics to show you the difference (if there will be any!)


*embarrassing photos alert*






(excuse the extremely messy room)
I am going to try to do this everyday for 30days probably in the mornings before work. Just to let you know I will be going to the gym as usual aswell - every little helps!
Has anyone else tried this DVD and had results?

Wish me luck!

Currently lusting after......

• Suspender tights

• Christian Laboutin shoes

 

• The summer (hurry up!!!!!) and obviously to go with the summer I want.......

• A bikini body and golden tan

• Long blonde messy hair 

(All photos lovingly taken off Google)

Also as I was looking for photos I found an outfit which is very me and I want it.....

Sorry for all the pics of Kesha ( I don't actually really like her I just love her hair - and this outfit! haha).

Have a good weekend lovelies!

Gym update!

 (Google image)

I know I haven't blogged about the gym since I said it was going to be my New Years Resolution to get fit but that doesn't mean I haven't been going! (I just don't want to bore you all too much!)
At the moment I've been going to the gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and the occasional Saturday when I can be bothered.
I think its paying off, not too much of a difference yet but I'm feeling better - which is the main thing!
As I don't have scales at home I'm trying to stay consistent and weigh myself at the robot-looking machine at Boots. My original plan was to do it every Monday morning but I think that is too often and I won't see much of a difference so I'm just going to do it when I remember basically!
I went this morning on my way to work but today's stats aren't that precise because I had heeled boots on which made me taller resulting in my BMI being lower than it actually is, and probably made me a little bit heavier than I am — every little helps ;)
So here it is:

Weight - 9st 8lbs (exactly the same)
Body Fat - 26.2 % (down 0.7%)
I wont put the BMI because its irrelevant!

I know there isn't much change but I'm quite pleased as long the the numbers aren't going up!! haha.

Quest for the Best: Nail Hardener 2

If you have read my earlier posts you will know that I have extremely weak nails and I am constantly on the look out for a nail hardener that actually works. (You can read my previous post here).Product number two that was given a run for its money was Maybelline's Salon Manicure Calcium Strengthener which promises to 'reinforce soft fragile nails and is enriched with calcium fluoride'.Because my nails are weak, they bend, causing my nail varnish to chip off, so my test for strength is to see how long my nail varnish stays intact for. I used Maybelline's Salon Manicure Calcium Strengthener as a base coat and a top coat along with two coats of 17 Lasting Fix nail polish in smoke signal.After three days my nails looked like this......

As you can see the tips of my nail colour have chipped (due to tapping away on a keyboard everyday). My nails don't feel that strong when I have the Calcium Strengthener on and I can still bend them easily. I'm sure if you used it repeatedly over a length of time it may strengthen your nails but for the time being I'm sticking with Barry M's 3 in 1 basecoat, topcoat and nail hardener. I know chips started to appear with Barry M after three days, but only very slightly and not to the extent as shown above. My nails also felt a lot stronger with Barry M so until I find something better, Im sticking with it.Has anyone used the Maybelline Calcium Strengthener and disagree with my opinion? I'd love to know what other people think.
 

Wow! What a great giveaway.....

For those of you who don't follow Brittany's blog Brittany Love (Which you really should - she's very cool), you probably don't know that she is doing a MASSIVE valentine's day give-away of lots of amazing goodies.
With nearly £100 worth of make-up, including Bourjois, Urban Decay, Collection 2000, Colour Works and more you should really head over there and take a look (just click on the blog name above).
Bye for now (I promise I will be back with a proper post soon)