How to grow hair longer. Tried & true at home remedy!

How to grow hair longer. Tried & true at home remedy!

I went yesterday to get my hair cut and I haven't had my hair cut in about 3 years!! Yes 3 years.

I've always loved long hair. I love femininity, pink, and amazing, long, thick, lustrous hair. 

At the end of 2007 I got this insane insane idea about having really short pixie hair.

Don't ask,  I guess I just wanted to see how it would look on me. 

(not very good I should add)

So the hairstyle itself was...ok.

The girl made it shorter than I wanted but what was I supposed to do? 

It was already chopped off, I couldn't so anything about it anymore.

 So I'm glad I did it, to get it out of my system to have short hair. 

But it nonetheless left me a little bit...traumatized. I will never again have short hair. Never. Never Ever!

I decided to not get haircuts because every single time I go they cut too damn much. 

Yes, I know the ends are fried, a little, but I don't care. 

I don't like having hair that is shorter than where my boobs are. And my boobs are not small. 

Well that sounded bad, they're not at my knees but I'm sporting in the Ds so you get the idea.

ANYWAYS!

I'm glad I got my hair cut, I wanted to add some layers for more volume & fullness and well my ends were really, really bad. 

Really bad! 

She only took off about 3 inches but to me that was like 3 feet. 

My hair now barely reaches my, uhm nipples, so it's still long but not long enough. 

My hair is softer now, and bouncy, and voluminous, and just plain bouncy. 

I love it.  

Now to get to the POINT of my post!

The lady who cut my hair has been cutting hair for over 25 years. 

She told me that to get my hair to grow faster and stronger that I should crush birth control pills, put that in my shampoo, any shampoo, and let it sit for awhile so that it fully mixed with the shampoo. 

When I shampoo my hair I should let the shampoo sit for about 5 minutes so that

 my scalp and hair can absorb it. 

At first I thought hmmmm, uhh, QUE? 

But I went along with it. I later asked my mom what she had used to grow her hair. 

My mom had her hair as short as Posh Spice's pixie cut and in about 3 months it was at her shoulders. NO JOKE! 

She told me she was crushing birth control and adding it to her shampoo!! :-O

I will now be trying that! I'm going to take a before and after picture and do one, two and three months to see if it really works!! 

Stay Tuned :)

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Look of the day 12/23

Look of the day 12/23

 I decided to do a play by play of how I do the looks rather than just a picture of the final look which I know looks much different than what it sounds like I'm doing. 

 So, after much procrastination here is the first of the walk thru pics. 

Since it was close to Christmas I decided to go with green.

First off, I apply concealer to the area under my eyes and my entire eyelids and set with a loose translucent powder.  It acts as a primer for my shadows and a..concealer!!

1) I use a white eyeliner pencil, this time I used a Rimmel London in 071 pure white, it glides on nicely and doesn't completely disappear when I blend it out, on the lower lid. This helps to make the colors of the eyeshadows pop out.

The shadows I used this time were from a small palette my mom got me from a swap meet. I'm a huge MAC girl but I have no problem using "cheap" shadows as long as the colors are noticeable and don't crease. 

I used the green from column 2 row 4, the light green from column 2 row, and the charcoal color from the last column row 3.

2) Using a large shader brush, MAC 252  I pack on the light green onto the lower lid and pull it up into the crease just a little bit.

3) With a medium size blending brush, my favorite is the MAC 217, I swirl in onto the crease and pull it up into a sort of arc shape going back and forth on the upper lid. 

4) I then get a crease brush(the middle brush, I got it at a beauty supply store & don't know the brand) I dip it into the charcoal color and apply it just in the crease to add some definition. It basically just goes where the two greens meet at the crease. I pull it up a bit onto the upper lid &... 

5) I go back to the blending brush and go over the dark green and charcoal just to blend them together and soften where the two meet. And then using a q-tip I roll it on the outside starting at the edge of my eye up towards the end of my eyebrow to clean it up & make a straight line. 

6) I grab my Carbon by MAC and using my MAC 266 small angled brush I make a thin line across my lid as close to the lashes as possible. This is especially helpful for people who have trouble applying liquid liner.

  I do this simply because I do not like liquid or gel liner on the inner part of my eyelid since my eyes tend to water a lot and it just smudges. 

7) I grab my gel eyeliner and the bent brush (sonia kashuk), dip it into the gel and starting from the last half of my eye I apply it and wing it out. I LOVE winged eyes and I do not ever go out with out mine like that. 

8) Apply mascara and that's it :)

 I usually apply falsies if I am going to go out but since I was just at home that day I didn't put any on.

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Look of the day

Look of the day

This look is one of my favorites. I wear it a lot and when I do make up on friends this is usually what I go with to show them how easy it is to add a little bit of color but to not look like you're going out to a club. This is especially perfect for people who are afraid to try color but want to.
Plus i think it's perfect for green and brown eyes.

To start off, I put a small amount of concealed on my eyelid to 1 act as a primer and 2... Conceal, lol, my dark circles. I add just a little poos powder over it to set it.
I then use Shroom from MAC on the entire eye as a base and highlighting color. I personally don't using white as a highlight, I think it looks ridiculous personally.
Using Nocturnelle by MAC, I apply it to the lower eyelid. I mixed in a little bit of white so that purple wouldn't be so dark as Nocturnelle is a dark purple. Slightly pull up the purple over the crease and into the upper lid.
Then, using my favorite Woodwinked by MAC I use a blending brush like MACs 217 and swirl it on the upper lid and I blend it into the crease so that it Medes with Nocturnelle.
Using a small angled brush I add some Nocturnelle to my lower lashes for some more color.
Finished with my signature winged liquid liner and my favorite mascara Maybelline in Blackest Black.
It's really easy to do and super quick.
The best thing is if you want more color shown you can flip it. Use brown on the lower lid and purple on the upper lid.

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Sephora Favorites, Best of makeup Giveaway

Sephora Favorites, Best of makeup Giveaway

There is an awesome giveaway going on right now over on April Athena blog! 
 She is giving away a Sephora makeup starter deluxe kit!! What a better way to be able to try out different kinds of makeup then a starter kit of all the makeup Sephora considers their favorites. 
 You can head on over to her blog to find out how to enter. 
Also make sure to check her out on Twitter and especially her YouTube Channel.  
 Good Luck to all who enter :)

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