Going back to my roots

It's been about 12 years since I last had my natural hair color. I think Julius was two-years old, or almost two-years old, when I first dyed it red. The reason was because of lack of sleep.

My son was a terrible sleeper and I was always looking so tired. With my pale skin and dark hair, every day at least a handful of people would ask "are you okay?" "what's wrong?" "are you sick?" "you look tired." And no amount of make up would help. so I decided to lighten my hair color and the results were immediate.

After that, I just enjoyed being a red head. Then I went brown. Then burgundy. I tried a bunch of different shades of red for years...and then almost two years ago I took the plunge and went purple. It was so much fun. For about two years I tried new, bright and wild colors that I had always wanted but never had the courage to try. Color Splat saved the day with their easy to use product and amazing results.

Then I decided to go blonde and that was a challenge (as you can read in my previous posts). When September came around I decided to go for my fall color: reddish brown. But the past bleach in my hair kept causing the color to fade early.

So today, as I stood in front of the hair color aisle, my husband asked me if I was ever planning to go back to my original hair color. Hmm. There was a thought. It would certainly save on buying hair dye every time my roots would start growing in.

No time to dwell. When it comes to hair choices I often decide on impulse. It makes for happier moments in my opinion. I grabbed L'oreal Paris Multi-Faceted Feria: Bright Black and took the boxes (I need two for my thick hair) and (obviously paid for them) went home.

The funny thing is, I bought Bright Black, and yet my hair had other plans. It usually does.

so it's more of a brown-gold-black-blue color thing going on.

It's always an adventure when playing around with my hair!

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I hope all of you had a great holiday season, and hopefully we can all celebrate Trump getting impeached soon.

Awhile back I discussed skin and hair care products. Since then I discovered the amazing Laniege and Hello Fab (Thank you, Sephora, for your free gifts!) More specifically, I'm talking about Laniege's Lip Sleeping Mask and Hello Fab's Coconut Water Cream. I spoke about the Lip Sleeping Mask on my Instagram page when I first fell in love in with the product.

A few days later, I tried Hello Fab's Coconut Water Cream on my daughter's incredibly wind burned wrists and HELLO! It practically healed her skin on the first application. Her wrists were completely healed by day two. Yes, this was an important discovery. I found myself using it as well on my face after a long walk outside in the windy and cold mornings with my dogs. Dudes, this cream felt amazing!

So naturally I wanted them for Christmas, and luckily, my husband is awesome and went out to Sephora and bought me not only Hello Fab's Coconut Water, but also the Laniege Dream and Glow box set!

So what did I think of the products?

Honestly, the Lip Sleeping Mask is still the absolute bomb. I love it.

But I can't say the same for the Water Sleeping Mask. I decided to try it today because I've been sick with a cold and had a fever over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so my skin needed some TLC. Initially, it felt very similar to the Hello Fab Coconut Water Cream. It was thick and cool against my skin, and I could feel my skin absorbing the needed moisturizer but....I didn't like how it felt near my mouth and the sides of my cheeks. I have pretty sensitive skin which is why my usual night cream is pure extra virgin coconut oil with a few drops of lavender essential oil and tea tree oil.

The area around my mouth became red pretty quickly, but after a few minutes went away. I don't like the tight feeling this mask is giving me so I already know that I will be washing this off in a few minutes. Yeah, I don't think an overnight mask is for me.

So I just washed the mask off and I gotta say that it feels smooth coming off, and my skin feels really soft now. Okay, so maybe it isn't so terrible, but I'm not sure if I am going to use it again. Now that the mask is off, I decided to try the final product in the Dream & Glow set: The Moisture Cream.

I like it. It isn't as heavy as the mask, and it stays on light against my skin. I can see myself using this as an occasional night or day cream. It feels nice. It makes me wonder if they have an eye cream and if it feels the same as this face cream? Has anyone used it?