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Going Ash with Live Hair Studio

Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Those who know me or have seen my pictures would know how much of an "expert" I am in making my hair look and feel smooth and pretty. Truth be told, I don't go to salons often and I don't do my daily trimming of hair ends often either. That's probably partly the reason why.

I mean, the first time I had my hair dyed, I did it myself and it was a bad job done. I learnt that 1 bottle was not enough for me. Haha.

Between me and you, the end result was the top part of my head being brighter than the rest of my hair..

*pictures taken after my black roots decided to join in the fun which made my hair look a lot worse

BUT. I am stepping up my game and finally doing what I have always wanted ever since I know of its existence. Thank you LIVE HAIR STUDIO for the opportunity!

ASH GREY HAIR.

Yes, that's right. It has always been a dream mainly because of how my actual grey hairs would be less obvious when they grow. Hahaha. And also because ombre/balayage grey hair looks so edgy! But we decided on ash grey/blue because I was only bleaching my hair once.

Prior to starting, Anson, the senior hair stylist. gave me a brief description on the process and treatment he'll be doing on my hair.

OPALEX

A treatment which he did after he bleached my hair. I was told that this treatment actually minimizes the damage of dyeing your hair.

In summary, Opalex allows the hair to restore the strength, structure and integrity of the hair before, during and after hair services.

OPLALEX as an add-on service for:

1) Hair Colouring

-For a longer lasting colour with more vibrancy

2) Bleaching

- Dramatically eliminates breakage

3) Re-bonding

- Restores strength, structure & integrity of the hair

4) Hot & Cold Perm

- Improves elasticity with strong bouncy curls

I mean, I was already prepared to get my hair somewhat damaged from the bleaching/dyeing but after he explained to me about how it causes less damage with Opalex, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved somehow.

Anson started off by bleaching the bottom parts of my hair. After which, I got to experience the magic Opalex can do.

Just look at how smooth and manageable my hair looks after bleaching probably thanks to the Opalex treatment!

By the way, I totally shocked myself and my dad with my bleached hair (he thought I was dyeing my hair golden haha)

Got to fix my bad hair dye job next! The colours were on.

You must be thinking what happened. How does my hair look SO perfectly smooth and straight after dyeing. I'm surprised myself. I would refer my hair as "perfect" and that has never happened before. Serious stuff.

Anson did another amazing treatment (even better than Opalex) on my hair after dyeing it, called MUCOTA.

Don't wanna bore you with the technological stuff but basically, what MUCOTA does is:

-repair damaged hair and strengthen hair surfaces,

-resulting in shiny and healthy hair which has a light and soft texture and

-is more resilient to external damages (aka my hair after MUCOTA treatment).

It really did what it said it would!

One week after, I suppose the ash grey is not that obvious given I only bleach once but I am still pretty happy with my current hair colour! Occasionally, it looks green!

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Thank you for reading,
Cheryl x

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Your Essentials: Essential CC Oil & Night Care Milk

Saturday, September 19, 2015

I personally am NOT happy with my hair. I see a lot of girls out there with soft and manageable hair while I am stuck with a hair that have ends like a broomstick. JEALOUS. Please tell me I'm not the only one?

Did you know that there are so many things that we are doing/not doing to our hair everyday which could send the 5 stress brothers to torment our hair? Warning: It will SHOCK you.

Look at how horrible their hair is!!! They look like they are very determined to destroy everybody's hair. Just saying. I think my hair is close, though. Ugh.

Cute and round but scary brothers are out to kill your hair.

As I have learnt that blow-drying my hair will hurt it, I have turned the idea down and have always been letting it air-dry now. But i'm sure many of you are still doing that. Right, right???

Combing hair. Through both damp and dry hair can both cause great damage! I try not to comb my hair when it's wet but how are we able to avoid combing completely?

As the ends of our hair are the oldest and driest parts, when a protective cuticle is destroyed at the end of the hair, the hair splits into two or more parts(split ends). How do we prevent that?

Exposure to sun, wind or air-conditioning can all result in hair dryness! All of which we are exposed to. Great. In a country as hot as Singapore, it gets even worse. Our hair cuticles that protect out hair are weakened and are unable to retain moisture within the cuticles of the hair.

Besides daily heat styling, blow drying and brushing, other seemingly harmless actions like tying your hair into a tight ponytail or twirling your hair with your fingers exert excessive stress on your hair, resulting in hair breakage. Not that we can't avoid doing that, but is there a better way? We can't just NOT twirl our hair if we are...

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THERE IS A WAY TO GET RID OF ALL 5 STRESS BROTHERS?

Introducing to you 2 NEW LEAVE-ON TREATMENT RANGE products that will help you with your hair cuticles!

1) Essential CC Oil (aka Cuticle Care)

As we all know by now, Essential is a popular hair care brand from Japan and has a wide range of products to help repair and care for hair.

This September, you are in for a treat as they have decided to help chase the stress brothers away for you!

You have heard of CC Cream in skincare where 1 cream have x number of effects (e.g. moisturize, cover blemishes, brightens skin etc.)

And this Essential CC Oil shares the same concept whereby 1 oil protects your hair from 5 stresses.

As it may appear to be oily, I am very surprised that it is not at all! Even after washing your hands, you won't be able to feel any sticky or oily residue left on your hands. -GASP-

This CC Oil forms a protective coat around each hair strand and PROTECTS YOU FROM THE 5 HAIR STRESSES leaving you with more beautiful, less tangles and manageable hair.

The "BEFORE" picture was taken after my hair dried after a shower without applying Essential CC Oil. The "AFTER" picture was taken with Essential CC Oil used after my hair dried after a shower.

(NOTE: NO COMBING INVOLVED IN BOTH)

I'm not gonna lie but I was pretty obsessed with touching my hair with how smooth it felt with the help of CC Oil. My hair got much softer and smoother!
Not to mention, it made my hair smell like flowers. Who wouldn't want that?

2) Essential Night Care Milk

Now this I haven't brought it up but the scariest part is that SLEEPING can too do damage to your hair because of the friction caused between your hair and your pillow!

Thanks to that, you can has fabulous lion's mane in the morning. Girls, are you one to wash your hair in the morning JUST so you can get rid of that insane lion's mane?

It's ok. I got your back.

Essential Night Care Milk protects your hair from pillow friction by leaving a protective coat around each hair strand and PREVENT MISALIGNED CUTICLES WHEN HAIR RUBS AGAINST YOUR PILLOWCASE, leaving your hair more manageable the next morning!

At this point, it is no surprise that it is yet another non-greasy formula.

I am a living example.

The "BEFORE" picture is my stiff, "broomstick" hair making an appearance aka hair when I wake up after combing without applying Night Care Milk before going to bed...

The "AFTER" picture is the hair which got cast a spell by the Night Care Milk before going to bed, blessing me with the utmost ridiculously dreamy hair. #goodhairdayftw Even before combing, the result was obvious. My hair felt moisturized and healthy.

I couldn't handle it. I was sooooo in love with my hair for the whole day I couldn't stop looking at my hair when I passed by mirrors. I also couldn't stop smelling it.

Deeply impressed by both products! Highly recommend you to get yours in stores today.

RETAILING AT $11.90 EACH

Before you go, here's something fun for you!

Essential's Mane Hero Facebook Game

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Thank you for reading!

Cheryl xo

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Brief Quick Non-Heat Pretty Curls Tutorial

Friday, May 23, 2014

Did you ever have times when you have the perfect outfit and makeup but didn't have enough time to do those magic curls to your hair and feel bumped because that wouldn't be perfect anymore?

I have the solution for you now! Just discovered this yesterday and the above was exactly how I felt. I believe a lot of you can relate!

If you followed me on Instagram, you might have seen these curls I did to my hair for Singapore Hit Awards(which I will be blogging about soon)

I had my shower and was thinking if I should do something about my hair for that occasion. It turned out unexpectedly well!
LIKE THIS:

NOTE: Your hair has to be a little damp for it to work perfectly

You would only need this one cheap tool to give you this result.

I believe this is already well-known to most of you but if you don't know where to get it, I got mine from a shop where they sell lots of extremely cheap accessories.
The price said $5 for a packet containing 6 of these but it is under a "3 for $10" promotion together with other accessories. (:
If you have got a lot of hair, you may need to buy 2 packets.

1) You should separate your hair into 2 parts and separating each part again into 3 sections (using 3 curlers for each side)

2) Grab 1 of that section and clamp it in between the curler like this:

My hair is not the best for illustrating but you get the idea

3) Curl it inwards towards you making sure you hold the clamped part tight enough to keep it in position

It looks like a mess right now because my hair has is in layers but I promise it's going to look pretty after!

4) Roll it up till you can't anymore and then make the bend the 2 ends to join them together by putting one end into the hole of another

5) Do the same for all sections of your hair and leave it on for about 15 mins

6) Take the curlers out slowly in the according to the direction of how you curled it just now

7) HAIRSPRAY!

What I usually use when I do my hair for it to harden and stay in place

If you don't like the smell of hairspray, you can try using this hair fragrance of Ma Cherie which has the advantage of helping your hair stay in place and at the same time, making it smell nice (:

I don't think the 2nd one helps the hair stay in place as well as the hairspray does so I would recommend using BOTH! Haha

My hair stayed in place for the whole night which I must say, I am quite surprised about.

This is quite the messy tutorial but I hope it helps you nonetheless! Leave a comment if you tried or leave a comment if you want. I'd appreciate that!

Thank you for reading!

Cheryl xo