hair

saturday: the lazy girl heatless wavy hair hack

14:10

Hello lovelies! I wanted to blog today, and after taking my hair down, I thought I would show you how I've been styling my hair recently. Not on a daily basis, but mostly every time after I've showered.

I didn't take photos of the before, but I've posted previous pictures of my natural hair. It's very straight, and sometimes has a slight wave to it if I've been caught in the rain. But on a regular basis, it's very thin, fine and flat. I struggle with taking the perfect selfie to make it look bigger than it is. (Maybe I'll save that for another day ;))

This is the end result, I'll show you a photo and explain from there. Probably the easiest heatless (somewhat) style ever.




It looks just like I've braided my hair, but after a few hours, my hair really starts to form nice natural looking waves. Basically, I blow dry my hair so it's 99% dry. I do this after my shower because my natural hair is so fine and flat, I use products and my hair dyer to give myself some extra volume. You can gladly skip this step if you are blessed with beautifully thick hair ;)
From there, I separate my hair into two sections. All I do ladies, is twist my hair away from my face. I twist it tight, and then similar to a milkmaid braid, I flip it over my head, so it's resting over my head and I use about three bobby pins! I do the same to the other side and make sure it's secured. I don't have a set time I leave this in for, it really depends on the day and what I'm doing. Today it was probably up for over an hour. 

When you take them down, they'll be tight, but I like to brush them out so they are smooth and blend with my whole head of hair. I will shake them out too, and in the summer I like to use a salt spray, but seeing as we are in the fall (YAS), I plan to skip that step. 
These usually stay in until the next day, depending on what I've gotten up to!

I hope this was helpful, and I hope you try them out too! So super easy to have up when you're doing makeup in the morning before school or anything like that!

I'll see you guys maybe tomorrow with a review post! Have a great Saturday!

Toodle-doo! 

PS: My hair color looks very strange, sorry about that! It is also even, it's just the way my head was when taking the photo. 

beauty

review sunday: top 5 nail polishes

15:38

Hello lovelies! I thought I would start a new series for Sunday; a top 5 favourites. This can range from nail polishes, like today, to makeup and to clothes. Even music and or book favourites. if you would like me to go deeper into certain products, let me know.

I'm not sure if I could really rate these polishes by favourites, but I will do my best to give you a short and sweet review.

These are my five.


1. Eternal Optimist by Essie: 
This color isn't coming off true to as it is on the nails, but this is one of my favourites ever. If you've ever seen Breakfast Club, or Pretty in Pink, it makes me feel like Molly Ringwald. It's that sort of princess sophisticated pink.

2. Vested Interest by Essie:
As you can probably already tell, I like my Essie polishes. This one is my favorite for the fall time. It's a perfect soft green that goes really nicely with any burgundy shirts and things. I love this one and I only got it last year. 

3. Stormy Night by Revlon
I don't know what it is about this one, but in some lights, it's a purple-y grey, and in some lights it's just plain grey. It's just a great fall color staple to have in your collection. I don't know if it is still sold at Revlon counters, as I got it nearly three years ago, and I'm almost out. 

4. Blanc by Essie
This baby is a new addition to my collection. It is a pure white nail polish to go with that 90's trend that is back. I remember back in high school, I was an avid Buffy the Vampire Slayer watcher, and I tried a white polish like Buffy had, and everyone assumed I had white out on my nails! Not now, I say! It is such a nice shade of white to help bring out the very small tan I have hidden under my extremely pale skin. 

5. Pocket Aces by Revlon
Looks more orange right now, but on the nails it's such a nice red-pink. I want to say it's like a strawberry red, but it's not quite. It's a red but leaning more on the pink-neon side. Some lights it looks very orange, but that's okay! It's one of Revlon's new gel envy polishes, and I quite like it! 



I just thought I would do a review today, and since I'm more into painting my nails lately, I figured it would be this. 

Let me know what you'd like to see next, and I hope you all have a great Sunday! 

Toodle-doo! 

anxiety

dealing with panic attacks & anxiety

21:37

Hello my love buckets! Yup, you are now called that! I wanted to write this bog post about how I, myself, deal with panic attacks and my anxiety. I feel like more recently, people have been more open about their dealings with anxiety. Which in my mind, is so nice to be able to connect with someone like that.

Everyone deals with panic attacks or anxiety differently than some. Some may also have different levels of both. I would consider mine fairly mild compared to others, but I wanted to share my coping mechanisms with you all. Just last night I had a mild panic attack while at my boyfriend's work BBQ. I can not explain why it happened, as I was totally fine just minutes before walking in the backyard. I had sweaty palms, had a hard time breathing and I felt as if I was getting squished.

I quickly removed myself from the situation and found the bathroom so I could have a few minutes to myself. I texted my best friend Samantha and my other friend Kaitlyn who also understands. I find texting someone and/or talking about it out loud. I found it harder to get over it than I usually do, and that totally threw me off. Once I got home and talked it over with my boyfriend, who really tries to understand how I'm feeling and how to deal with it, I started to feel better.

Basically, what helps me is sometimes fresh air, my own space and something to hold in my hands if I am in a public space. If I get anxiety on the public transit, I usually find something soothing to listen to and try to drink water if I have my water bottle and breathe it out until I can tell myself things will be okay. Lately, Troye Sivan's new album has been the most helpful thing for me in those times.

I find for me, if I have someone to communicate with to get it out of my system. I do know that this will not necessarily be the same for everyone, and that my methods may not help for everyone. It just happens to be the way I've been sorting it out for the last few years that it's escalated. I know some people cannot have caffeine or alcohol if they deal with anxiety, but I'm usually okay with caffeine. I have had previous experiences where I had a panic attack while drinking alcohol. Uusally i'm alright, but it depends on the situation that is around me.

I am very thankful that I do not suffer more severe attacks than I do, and I am so thankful for my friends and my family who are coming to terms with me in this way, and for helping me and trying to understand. If you want me to go into more detail about how I deal with it and more situations, I can do a video on my channel if you let me know!

I know this was another rambly blog post, but I do quite enjoy these. It's like little chats to you but I just don't get a response, ha! I will hopefully be posting more this week, even though i am fairly busy. I hope you all have a great night/morning, and please leave a comment if you have any questions regarding my experiences! I love you all!

Toodle-doo!  

cold

sick days

11:13

I feel terrible. To give you an overview, I have a stuffed nose, a very phlemy cough, (tmi, but it's life) a nauseous tummy, and a horrible cough.

I got a cough/no voice about two weeks ago. From there, it's progressed into a horrible head cold with the worst phlemy coughs ever. I started my new 32 ish hour ECE job this week, and guess what? This girl has not been able to work her first two days. Yesterday I was there for an hour, and I got sent home by my boss. She was very gentle about it, and told me to go to the clinic. They were not open yesterday, and I don't have a doctor yet. Assuming I would feel better after a day of rest, I woke up today feeling semi-ok, and I tried my hardest to push past the horrible feelings in my head and stomach. Another tmi, but just before leaving for the bus, I had a 'lovely' time getting rid of all my extra mucous, and I just knew today wouldn't work out.

I arrived at work and my boss opened the door, took one look at me, and kindly sent me away. She wanted me to make sure I wasn't contagious, and working with kids is really hard if you are sick. I am slowly beating myself up about it, but I do know that she means it in the kindest way, as she doesn't want anyone in the building to get sick due to me. I feel like I am a horrible employee for being sick my first week, and honestly, it is not me faking it. My mom said when I was younger, I got really sick like this and I wound up needing an inhaler.

I went straight to the clinic from work, only to find out they are not open until 1. The pharmacy connected to it was open, so I went in asking, or more like pleading for someone to suggest some medication to me. I now have some lovely Tylenol complete sitting next to me on the bed and one trying it's best to work it's magic on me. The pharmacist told me he's sold plenty of it in the last month, and the majority of it was a recommendation from the doctor anyways. He said I should take the drowsy one and nap when I got home. It hasn't hit me yet, but I'll be napping after this sad, sad blog post.

Basically, I feel like a rubbish employee that can't deal with a cold, but the fact I've gone in both days to try and push it out of my system and forget about it and work, showed my boss that I did want to be there. She told me that and it did make me feel a bit better. I may go back to the clinic later if I see no changes, but I should be better the next few days with this and some chicken noodle soup.

So that is what's happening with me lately. I am a walking human of sickness. And I am trying my hardest to fight it off just so I can finally work full time in my job that I worked hard to get to. I'm praying my energy will be much higher for tomorrow and I will feel up to working.

The pill is hitting me now, so off I go for a little nap. Thanks for reading this nonsense blog post. Hve a great day/week!

Toodle-doo!

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