Happy Easter everyone!

Here I am sitting with a warm cup of green tea and a half eaten Easter egg by my side. I'm tired today and suffering mildly from the over indulgences of having a good time with friends and family (i.e. too much drink). It has been a lovely weekend with a visit from my sister (which always ends up with drunken conversations in the kitchen) and a lot of time spent with my favourite people. Back to work tomorrow, no long weekend for all of us unfortunately but only four days and then I'm off to one of my favourite places on Saturday for a little one year celebration with the boyfriend. We're going down to our university town to relive those glory days and I am very excited! I do miss it an incredibly large amount, especially on days like this when I'm feeling slightly fragile. Let's just hope the weather holds up so we can make the most of it. I will be sure to take lots of pictures and give you a little insight into what we get up to :)

As for the hair, it's been just over 3 weeks with no heat (aside from the hair dryer when I had my hair cut) and it's feeling good! I've still been using the Tresemme Split Remedy line but am so tempted to pick up some other brands shampoo and conditioner to just give them a go because I get bored of hair care really easily. A couple of weeks ago I bought the Vo5 Hot Oil treatment, which I used the other day and I found it nice but didn't notice a huge difference. My hair has been looking a lot shinier recently anyway and I've actually had a few comments saying it looks lighter, which was an unexpected side effect of no heat (which it probably has no correlation with). But all in all I think not using heat has been very good for my hair and I feel as though it has grown quite a lot since I had it cut already. So all is good there.

I also want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of my followers, I've had quite an increase in the past couple of weeks thanks to blog hopping and general networking around the blogosphere and I am so grateful to each and every one of you and I hope you are enjoying reading and looking at my posts as much as I enjoy doing them. There are some really lovely people and gorgeous blogs that I've come across recently and I hope that what I'm putting on mine gives some of you the enjoyment that I get from reading yours. So thanks again and I hope you're all having a fantastic weekend!

Hello there!
So it's the end of week one of my no-heat, hair repair experiment and so far it is going well. It hasn't been particularly hard at all and has really made me think about just how much heat I was using and what I was putting my hair through everyday. It was completely unnecessary! Oh how we learn. I do feel like my hair looks shinier for sure, at the moment it doesn't really feel much different and I haven't suddenly got thick, flowing locks (I was hoping) but I definitely feel like I'm on the right track!

The Tresemme Split Remedy haircare that I'm trying at the moment is good, but I can't really tell if it has done what it claims to (repair split ends by up to 80% after 3 uses) because, well, how could you unless you painstakingly checked each split end in your hair! I do have my doubts as to how any hair product can claim to do that but I will certainly keep it up for the rest of the weeks to come because it is a nice line and I have hope in my heart.

As another addition to my ever-expanding arsenal of hair products, yesterday I purchased the Tangle Teezer, after hearing quite a lot about it and, of course, wanting to reduce the amount of breakage I have when I brush my hair. The only thing really that put me off buying it before was the price, £10.99. Now I know hair brushes can be on the expensive side of things here but it's just that this one in particular feels so plastic-y (?) and not in the slightest bit luxurious so I didn't think it seem to warrant that amount of money. However, I decided to go for it because I am hair obsessed at the moment and so far so good. I've used it on both wet and dry hair and it definitely does make it a doddle to brush your hair and teeze those tangles, so it's a thumbs up from me.

I will be sure to keep you updated with what's going on and whether I find any more miracle hair products to help me through this time! (A little melodramatic, possibly.) I have some more beauty posts on their way soon so thanks for reading and speak soon! 

Woohoo! I have finally been shopping after what feels like a lifetime! I have been buying things here and there, but there's nothing like the feeling of getting home after a day of shopping with your arms full of bags and full of lovely things! Plus, what made it even more exciting was that when I got home there was a little package waiting from me which contained my absolutely lovely bracelet from Wavy Jewellery (wavy.bigcartel.com) - I am in love with it! And the packaging is really cute and so personal, take a look down below at some pictures of what I got.

I didn't go absolutely crazy on the spending (I am attempting to actually come out of my overdraft at some point) but I bought enough to make me feel good! So I thought I'd give you a little peak into what I bought if  you're interested!

First things first, my hair! Today is Day One of the big hair experiment and the first day in years that I have gone out the house without the use of a piece of heated equipment (hooray!). It was absolutely fine. I tend to  clip my hair back with bobby pins quite a lot anyway so it looks kind of 'done' without using heat. So all is good there.

So, first on the shopping list was hair products to bring my hair back from the brink of dry and damaged disaster. I spent a while browsing the aisles and decided to go for the Tresemme Split Remedy line (mostly because it was on a really good offer on Boots) but also because it claims to reduce split ends by 80% after 3 uses. I went for the shampoo, conditioner, leave in treatment and hair masque so I'm quite excited to give it a go and see if it improves my hair and will let you know the results in the near future.

After that there wasn't actually a lot that I really needed, but of course I did get a few more bits. I bought some lovely coasters from John Lewis because I got a beautiful new desk this week (which is the crackle effect you can see in the background of some of my pictures). It's a restored washstand from a little shopping village near Stoke and I absolutely love it.

Coasters from John Lewis: £5.99 

Rose Gold Star Earrings from Accessorize: £4

Pen from Paperchase: £2

Gold Heart Earrings from Accessorize: £3 (bargain!)

I'm loving dangly earrings at the moment and thought the prices of the two pairs I bought were really rather good! The star earrings are my personal faves, rose gold is having something of a fashion moment right now so thought these would be perfect matched with some other rose gold accessories and can easily be dressed up or down depending on the situation.

And now for the little surprise which was waiting for me when I got home...

I hope you enjoyed reading, let me know what you've been buying recently! I have yet another nail post to put up tomorrow featuring one of my favourite nail polishes of all time! 

I hope you're having a splendid day and speak soon!

Not me! image from good ol' google.com

Lately (well, over the past year or so) my hair has been getting in increasingly bad condition and has started going really thin at the ends. I used to be able to grow my hair long (which is how I pretty much always have it) and it would stay nice and thick all the way down, but nowadays it gets much thinner towards the ends and looks unhealthy and split. I do try to keep my hair in good condition but, thinking about it, I probably haven't done as much as I could to help it. I don't go for regular trims (and haven't done since I first started uni, which is 4 years this year) and I have gotten out of the habit of using heat protector on it when I blow dry, straighten or curl it (which is pretty much everyday). So really I haven't been careful at all about treating it well.

So, leading on from a discussion with one of my friends from work, I have decided to embark upon a little experiment to see whether I can improve the condition of my hair because it has been on my mind quite a lot recently.

The experiment is basically going to involve using no heat on my hair for *gulps* FOUR. WEEKS. I don't know why four weeks, there's no scientific reasoning behind it, but I figure that would probably be enough time to see some sort of improvement. As well as this, I have started taking those pills for healthy hair, skin and nails and hoping they will help to make a difference too (anyone else use these and know if they work?). Also, I'm going to buy some new hair care products that claim to restore or repair hair (I may pick up the John Frieda Repair line tomorrow. (And, who knew there was a mascara in the range?!) and use a mask on my hair at least once a week.

and again...

I really hope this works because my hair just seems to have stopped growing, whereas it used to grow at a pretty fast pace, and it just looks and feels unhealthy to me. I don't know the last time I didn't use a hair dryer and my straighteners to style my hair of a morning but, trust me, it was a long time ago. I'm going to try really hard to stick to it but I'm wondering if an important night out or dinner crops up, whether or not I'll have enough will power to just go out with my natural hair (which, by the way, is pretty straight, just with the odd tendency to go fluffy).

I will keep you updated, probably on a weekly basis to let you know how I'm doing and whether or not I feel like any improvements are being made and if the products are doing what they claim to.

In the meantime, do any of you lovely ladies know of any good repairing or restorative hair treatments that might get my hair back into tip-top shape? I would be really grateful if you do. Thank you  for reading and have a lovely day!