About DAMN TIME!!!

I brushed out my curls so you could more easily see just how bad my roots have gotten. I find it a blessing and a curse that its so hard to see when my hair is curly. Blessing because, its hard to see. But curse because I let it go sooooooooooo long without dealing with it.

Now the shade is really not that big a difference in reality but its certainly enough that the skunk stripe was starting to REALLY bug me. And prevent me from straightening my hair.

Now after a bad experience in my late teens I swore I would never dye my hair at home again. But a couple years ago I was out of town and realized how bad my roots were and decided to brave a drugstore and try this out in my hotel room. This is the light auburn shade. I learned 15 years ago that no matter what shade I tried to dye my hair or what shade I asked a hair stylist to dye it it was going to turn red. I mean WHATEVER shade. Blonde, brown, it was irrelevant. I would go in and say "my hair always turns red, I DON'T want red" and they would PROMISE me it would not turn red. And then it would. So I just chose to go with it. And its been auburn ever since.

And this is the ONLY brand I will use. Garnier Olia. Its apparently an oil based hair colour and that worried me at first. But there is no oil. It is a cream developer and a tune of colouring. No oil, not runny and best of all it has almost no smell. I have helped friends dye their hair in the past and the smell has been so horrid that I almost want to cry. But this is barely noticeable. I put a shower cap on it while its sitting (30 minutes which I know is a fairly long time) and usually watch youtube videos on my ipad while waiting for it to do its work.

And once more, I am without roots! Just in time for my trip! The sad thing is that seems to be the only thing that gets me to dye my hair these days! But I have touched up roots and tickets to NYC and Vegas so this Jinx is a content blogger at the moment.

New Garnier Fructis Style De-Constructed Texture Tease Review!

Let me start by saying I do not usually use drugstore products. I find them less likely to be silicone free, I find they usually don't work as well as higher end ones, and they have to usually be purchased to be tried. I get sent samples of higher end products all the time, and Rusk, Phillip B, Oribe, Bumble and Bumble, Living Proof and others I get as samples in boxes or in stores and can try before buying. In a drugstore you have to buy it and hope you like it. For every 10 drugstore products I try, I am impressed by one or two. Which is why I simply stopped buying them.

But the Garnier haricare was on sale for $2.99 at Shoppers Drug Mart last week and I had $1 off coupons. So that made them $1.99. For $1.99 I was willing to try!

And I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this product! It has Calcium carbonate for texturizing and polyvinylcaprolactam for volume in it. AND NO SILICONE! And apparently Allure Beauty gave it an award for best of 2014! The instructions are just like that of any texture spray:

And like every other texture spray out there, you need a LOT of it. So to find a product for $4 (I paid $2!!) that works as well is amazing! The smell is strong and kind of fruity but fades quicky, And the number one test before it goes on my hair:

In the above picture you can kind of see a big circle that has no pores, lines or anything visible on my hand. and in the below picture that same circle seems kind of wet? That is the product. ITS CLEAR!!!!!!!!!!! No white or chalky product to be seen on the hair!! HUZZAH!

Now for a before and after picture: Before I put it in:

And right after I put it in. So in my hair right now is NOTHING other than the conditioner I used to wash my hair this texture spray.

I also did not use nearly as much texture spray as I tend to when using other brands. Now obviously I would use a bit of a curl balm or serum or something to get rid of the frizz at the top near the scalp, But overall, I am IN LOVE with this product. If you want volume and texture (though the texture part is hard to capture on camera when my hair is so curly) I HIGHLY recommend running out and picking up a bottle of this! Garnier hit it out of the park with this product! 

New Skincare Offerings From Garnier

I will admit it. I am a skincare snob. I do not use/wont use drugstore skincare. It is not because I think that there is anything wrong with it, and not because I think department store products are automatically better. Its because 95% of ALL skincare does not work for me. I get break outs, cystic acne and chemical burns from even the stuff made for sensitive skin. So for me to shell out for ANY skincare of ANY kind, it is not without trying it first or if need be an ironclad ability to return said product. That usually leaves me at Sephora, The Bay and Holt Renfrew.

But..............  hmmmmmmm.........

Micellar water is becoming all the rage lately. Basically Micellar water is just simply a surfucntant (remember me discussing this in relation to haricare?) suspended in water. In this case its basically just water and oil mixed together. The surfucntant (the main ingredient in soap, shampoo and other cleansers - the thing that usually makes the bubbles) is what causes the oil and the water to mix and not separate like oil and water otherwise do. So basically, its water with oil suspended in it using surfunctants. But don't worry. The surfunctants are very mild and merely used to bind the water and oil. So they are in small quantities.

Considering that its simply a cleaning water, I am very interested in trying these. I find little chances of it doing harm to my skin, and if it works, its a great budget option. If not, well, you will likely here me bitch about it here!

Have you seen either of these products yet? If so have you tried one? Or do you WANT to try one? Let me know in the comments below!

Free Sample Ultra-lift Transformer | Garnier

Ultra-lift Transformer | Garnier

I have never clicked on the share on blogger before, so I hope this works! A free 5 day sample of New Garnier Ultra Lift Transformer! Click on the link to order yours!