Well GEEZ

it's been a while! I'll have to try and get into blogging again

Deodorizing Disks

It's that time, you know, when you want to get your house in order... Well, I'm overwhelmed, so I'm starting out small. I'm making deodorizing disks. I'm using this recipe and it's now in the drying stage. Of course it's winter, cold and gloomy, so it's not drying quickly. I'm impatient so I popped it in the oven @ 200 degrees for 15 minutes and I'm keeping the tray in there while the oven cools down. Hopefully it'll turn out!

Argan Oil

So I've gone to being a complete pink head for over 2 weeks now. I LOVE it.  I honestly don't know if I can ever go back to having regular people color on my hair now. The usual black and brown just seem so boring.  See, hot pink hair!

under the gym's bathroom lights

inside the car with natural sunlight

I love my pink hair so much I've been researching how to take care of it. I've been conditioning it and using the Joico K-Pak Reconstructor to get it back to health. I have also been using some oils. My latest purchase is this 100% pure argan oil:

It's simply amazing. It makes my hair so soft. I'm going to have to stock up on this baby!

Fitness

I started this journey summer 2011. I was tired of being fat and lazy. I eas forever making excuses: I can't afford the gym, I don't have babysitters, I havd four kids, I had 3 sections, I don't have time, I don't want to give up my reading/wine time... Whatever. They were excuses! 2 years later Iam more fit than I was in college. I'm back to the same size when I was a high school cheerleader. I'm stronger than I ever was. More importantly, I am setting an example for my children, to live a healthy lifestyle, eat good nutritious food, and exercise. It was tough at first but it's life now, a much better life than before.
Yesterday's work. I usually post my workouts on my instagram @theprincessmars

Peachy Pink Hair

Friday night I decided to go completely pink so I bleached my hair. Not too bad of a job, I did miss some spots but they're not in obvious places so I'll just have to deal with those in about 6-7 weeks when it's time to touch up on the roots. I was thinking of bleaching as close to banana peel color but I didn't want to completely fry my hair so I took it out earlier and ended up with this ginger shade:

That's when, on a whim, I decided to heavily dilute the atomic pink and try dyeing my hair more of a medium pastel pink. Well, it wasn't a dark pink for sure but the yellows left in my hair really showed through the diluted dye. I ended up with a very peachy pink color, coral really, and get this, it matched NARS Orgasm blush pretty well, lol. I decided to sleep on it and see how I felt about it in the morning. Well, after putting on some hot rollers, I LOVE the color! It's so different from all the other "alternative" shades. Look:

yes, my laptop's webcam is THIS crappy, lol

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Sadly the color didn't last long. I took a shower Monday morning after the gym and when my hair finally dried, it was looking much more orange. :( So tonight I'm going pretty much full blown Atomic Pink. I'll post about this dye job soon!