Dip dye and DIY!

Hello pretty ladies

DIP-DYE

So, it seems like everyone on planet earth tried out the "dip-dye" trend. And I'll admit, I have too! I've had purple dip-dye, pink, red, blue turquoise and the standard "ombre" hair.
Here are a few photos:

Even though a lot of people did it and I prefer to be different to everyone else, I really enjoyed having dip dyed hair! The first positive was that I didn't have to keep touching up my roots because the dye never touched the top of my hair!
However, I won't say that that made it less damaging because, as most of you will know, if you want "fantasy" hair colours which are semi-permanent, to be bright and vibrant on darker hair, you do need to do the ultimate damaging thing to your hair: you need to bleach it! Now, luckily I only ever needed to bleach my hair once (for the blue/turquoise hair colour) because all of the other ones went over my natural hair colour quite easily. Also, with semi-permanent hair colour, I will admit that the colour fades very fast! Especially since you will be applying the colour to just the ends. The ends of your hair get the most damaged by heat tools, brushing your hair, etc. So you do need to reapply the colour pretty often unfortunately. However, a nifty little trick I discovered with semi-permanent hair colour to stop it fading so fast is to add a little drop of the colour to your everyday conditioner so that when you put in your conditioner in the shower, more of the colour will be applied to your hair to refresh it and keep it more vibrant!
All in all, if you want to dip-dye you hair: go for it! If nothing else, it's a bit of fun :)

DIY

So, seeing as though summer is juuuuust around the corner, I thought I'd do a little DIY to summer-up my winter wardrobe! I had an old pair of jeans that I never really wore anymore and I needed some new shorts so logic told me to cut those bad boys up! So I did!
And here are the results:

For the studs, I just took an old studded belt, picked of the studs and stuck them back into the shorts as they had little bendable spike fixtures on the back of them. I cut open the back pocket and added a section of studs so that these shorts would be able to make any outfit look a bit more edgy which  like a lot!
I think the shorts were a great success (Borat style "greeeat success!") and I'd definitely DIY my wardrobe again!



Soooo, I think that's all I have to say about that for now.
Until the next time,
Tanya xoxox