John Frieda Sheer Blonde Lightening Spray

I use this in-between dying my hair (which is usually quite a long time!) I try to avoid dying my hair as I don't want the condition to go downhill. My hair is in pretty good condition all the time which is great! I usually only dye my hair to brighten it up, and tend to go for shades quite similar to my natural one (perhaps a bit lighter).

So it's been a while since I last dyed it, and I've been using a range of different blonde products, such as 'touch of silver' which is a purple shampoo designed to get rid of any brassiness in blonde hair, and stop the 'ginger' tinge that it can sometimes get. That shampoo is great, smells quite weird... but in a nice way? ;) The only thing is that my scalp is quite sensitive, and I find that it aggravates this leading to an itchy and flaky scalp... so I use this not very often. My hair never has very noticeable roots, as my natural colour isn't dark, but you can definitely tell sometimes that it's due for a bit of colour!

No roots :)

Roots?!    

As you can see on the first picture (me: right) I have my fringe pinned back and the underneath of my hair, and roots are looking considerably darker than the rest of my hair! Nightmare! I assure you that I've only been using the John Frieda Go Blonder Lightening Spray & have not been dying it! Result! As you can see, it really does work! I can't speak for every shade of hair, as I know that many people have extremely dark roots, but it can certainly tone them down a bit in-between dying! Also excuse the second picture, no idea what I'm up to! haha....

Hair routine when using Lightening Spray:

- Wash hair with Aussie Mega Shampoo & Conditioner
(light conditioner leaves no residue and therefore doesn't weigh hair down) I like to use this combination of products as I'm spraying my hair after washing it, so I don't want too much greasy stuff on there to make it oily!
- Towel dry hair & spray evenly Go Blonder Lightening Spray on to roots. I also spray some on my brush and then work it through my hair for a more even finish.
- Dry hair
- Straighten or curl hair (the spray works off heat, so ideally both DRY & STYLE with heat)

It does take a few times to see a significant difference, but if you're a bit more impatient, then you can also use Superdrug Colour effects wash in wash out hair colour! (really cheap, £1.19 or 2 for £2) to boost your colour!



Hope this review has been helpful :) feel free to leave me a comment or anything and I'll get back to you!

Lucy xx

Getting in the Christmas Spirit!

If you're in the UK, your local B&M store is THE PLACE to get Christmas decorations on a budget! Really cheap fairy lights etc, and even Santa & Elf costumes! Oh and the funniest thing was a Father Christmas toilet seat cover.... haha! Everything ranges from £1 upwards!

I know this isn't anything beauty related, but I just had to share this with you guys! We've decorated the flat ready for Christmas, and we even have a little Christmas Tree in the kitchen! We've made the flat look really Christmassy! :)

Lucy x

Christmas came early! Longchamp Le Pliage :)

So I've been looking at Longchamp bags for a while now.....

I first saw them whilst looking at YouTube videos. A few of the channels I subscribe to have featured these bags. I'm not very in to 'following' trends, but if something takes my fancy then why not get on board?!


Selfridges have been doing 20% off everything for a few days now, so I thought I'd ask my boyfriend for a Longchamp seeing as we could get discount! We're exchanging gifts early this year, as we're spending Christmas apart.... so he gets his PS3 game early (Skyrim....) and I get my shiny new bag, one of the only up sides to being apart I guess :(! 




I feel that these bags are quite expensive for what they are, but I really like them. They're practical in every sense....they don't attract dirt, even the small ones are plenty big enough to fit your essentials in and so on.....! The standard 'Le Pliage' bags start from £48 and go up depending on what size you want and which length of strap. I went for the smallest one, it will be perfect to fit in my locker at work, and small enough for trips out to the cinema etc where you generally don't need a lot of stuff! I got my bag in Taupe, as I reckon it will go with a lot of my clothes, I'm in to these sorts of colours!

Just for comparison, here is the bag next to a regular sized bottle of Volvic! It's pretty small, but it fits in nicely my large rectangular purse, make up bag, phone, bus pass. Another plus point for this bag is I'll be less likely to stuff it full of things I don't need... which is always a problem I have with bags. They get heavy and my arm hurts.....hopefully not with this one! I carry a small notebook with me to Uni anyway so this won't be a problem!


Just a short review to show you my new bag :)
Feel free to leave any comments below! Lucy x