Bleach London Hair Dye Review

When I wanted to change my hair color, I decided to try a new brand that caught my eyes in Boots. I normally buy my hair dye online but this product line allowed me the same amount of color choices but I got to have it immediately and not pay pesky postage charges.

This, is Bleach London.

This London based salon has expanded it's professional services to your bathroom counter with bleaching, coloring, care, and styling products. Their extensive range is designed for the modern world woman looking for a fresh and trendy look on a budget. 

Available at Boot's or Bleach London Online Shop

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I have used three of their products so far.

TANGERINE DREAM

Currently using this one for my vibrant orange hair. My hair, lifted to medium blonde took this orange amazingly and produced a nearly glowing look that made my husband happy! It doesn't impress me as much as the other hair tint brand I used because it look only one wash with a color safe shampoo for more than half the color to leave my hair. Now I am not complaining. I simply mixed the remained of the color into my conditioner bottle so now every wash is an orange top up. 

This color is exactly what I hoped and wanted. The vibrancy rocks my world and though I change my hair tint color so often, I might (try) to stick to this color a bit longer!

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AWKWARD PEACH

 Before I was a tangerine dream, I was rocking the awkward peach. I new this would need regular topping up because I have had peach hair before so I just kept this in the shower. The tone nearly made my hair look lighter than it was which I loved because I did not bleach my hair light enough for a proper pastel tone. I got bored of it as I do any hair tint so I moved to the next color but I believe Awkward Peach is the most beautiful peach tint on the market. 

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GRITTY IN PINK COLOUR KIT

I played with this kit when I had the points to get it free on my Boots Advantage Card. I loved the multitonal look this gave me. On long hair this would be like a My Little Pony dream. I was not talented enough to keep the color up but I sure tried. It was nice while it lasted. I love the Violet Skies. It was like a hair toner, it took my hair to a beautiful ashy tone and I loved the look.

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I will continue to buy Bleach London products. The goal would be to try every color in the range and as my hair grows, see how many different colors I can do in one go! These are price efficient and effective products and great for someone looking for very temporary looks. I bet these would be brilliant for festival season!

Thank you for reading!

xo Taylor

Lusts and Loves

I am a shop-a-holic, I am obsessed with beauty products and every time I pop into the big Boots in City Center, I hear products calling my name. these are the products currently catching my eye that I needed to share with you!

St Tropez Self Tan Dry Luxury Oil

100ml   £25

This is exactly what it says it is, a dry body oil that gives you a luxurious tan. It hydrates your skin, doesn't smell like feet, and has a shimmery glow to it while it sits on your skin. I cannot think of how that could ever be bad! I enjoy the level and tone of tan I get from St. Tropez and if you read this blog, you know me, I love anything luxury!

 Bumble & Bumble Surf Spray

125ml   £21.50

Bumble & Bumble is, hands down, my favorite hair care and hair styling brand. The products do what they say they will do and I attribute my hair health to them. I haven't used a sea salt spray sense I chopped my hair off but I wonder how that would go. Using it to soften up a curly do...hmmm....

Bleach London Rose Conditioner

250ml   £6

I have been very impressed with this brand, my peach and orange hair has been by them and i find that keeping that peach tone is quite difficult. Well, pink and orange make peach, I tint my hair orange and then I can use this conditioner to keep that rosy under hue. It is on my list. For a golden blonde, this could be great to create rose gold hair which is massively on trend right now.

Real Techniques Starter Set 1406

5 brushes   £22

I was heavily trolled recently on facebook for saying this brands bold metal brushes are overpriced but I stick to my word. One bold metal brush is the same price as a set of 5 brushes, SAME BRAND. This is my favorite brushes brand and the goal is to collect them all! (in an affordable manor)

Yves Saint Laurent Rose Gold Touche Eclat

2ml   £25

Rose Gold is my color, I love everything rose gold as it goes great with my pale pink complexion. Touche Eclat is a great product for those lazy makeup days. Under eyes, under brows, around the lips and wherever else you need it. I think this product would suit anyone. I want it. *drools*

If any of you nabs these goodies before I do, I envy you... you lucky monkey. But the dream is that I can snuggle up with these and love them forever because I am a crazy compulsive shopper.

See you soon with some tutorial posts and LOTDs for hair and makeup. As it is 18 days until my brother in law's wedding, everything will be wedding prep themed! 

xo Taylor

Bumble&Bumble Hair Makeover

Bumble and Bumble has an Instagram contest running to win free products but it is only available in America. Well, I can't win but I can blog about it! The contest was your Invisible Hair Oil makeover.

Bumble just recently expanded and created the Hairdresser's Invisible Oil range to a Shampoo, Conditioner, Primer, and Oil to create sleek, healthy, UV and heat protected hair that shines! It really works.

I own the miniature versions of all these products for travelling.

This kit is available at larger and participating Boots or at bumbleandbumble.com

MY HAIR MAKEOVER

BEFORE

My hair is dry, frizzy, and three days unwashed...yikes!

AFTER

With just a wash, spritz of primer, a blowout with a round brush and a light application of the oil after words, I have humidity proof, smooth as silk, straight hair that will last me days!

This process was easy to do and in the long run will have a great impact in preventing further drying and damage to my hair.

Rocking Illamasqua skin base foundation in 006, MAC Cranberry and Cinderella eyeshadows with Eyeko Eye Do liner, Benefit Brow Zing, and MAC Snob lipstick.

Meet My Hair Products

Hair care products grow terribly underrated but I am obsessed with them! They are the key to great full flowing locks! My hair is terribly over processed from bleaching it too much so a lot of my hair care products are based around restoration and hydration. The rest of my products are more for vintage styling or were from when my hair was very long. (I am growing it out slowly attempting to get my mane back!)

My favourite hair products brand is Bumble and Bumble. An American brand, always sulphate free and designed for easy hair styling. My other favourite brand is Moroccan Oil, the brand designed to make hair frizz free and healthy- it definitely gets the job done!

HAIR WASHING ROUTINE

I currently am double cleansing my hair every single day to clear my scalp and also to remove my purple hair colour. My first cleanse is with Bumble&Bumble Sunday shampoo, a deep cleansing shampoo that is amazing at removing hair colour and especially the stubborn red and pink pigments. My hair gets three or four shades lighter with every wash!

I move on to my new FAVOURITE HAIR PRODUCT, Head and Shoulders Menthol Fresh. I have a vey delicate scalp that over the years has been wrecked with psoriasis. This is the first shampoo to have ever cleared up my scalp and soothe my scalp irritation and flakiness. This also removes hair colour extremely well.

My current conditioner is Bumble&Bumble Mending conditioner designed for healing broken and damaged hair and repairing the follicle thus providing smoother hair that doesn't frizz out so easily. I commonly use hair masks, all of which are sample sachets from many different brands like Ojon, John Frieda, Moroccan Oil, and more. I love samples.

CONDITIONING PRODUCTS

En route to healing my hair I have a strict routine of using restorative hydrating products. After wash, pre-blowdry, I use the Redken Anti-Snap leave in conditioner- focusing on areas of greater damage. After blow dry, I apply a little moroccan oil to the ends of my hair and to areas on my scalp of extra dryness. Sometimes i use the percy and reed dry conditioning spray on my scalp when setting pin curls because they can become quite frizzy sometimes and this stuff tames fly-aways easily.

STYLING FAVOURITES

All my styling products are from the Bumble&Bumble thickening range. My hair is extremely thick but when I style my hair I always want drama and massive amounts of volume! I use the thickening hairspray and the full form mousse in my blow dry. After styling for root volume i use the cream contour and city swept spray wax. These two do the job of backcombing all on their own. I pray to them!

Welcome To My Beauty Desk

Welcome to my beauty desk. This is my domain, my artsy fartsy corner of greatness where I channel my personality and style in a way that does not annoy my husband too much. Everything I do with hair, makeup, nails, drawing and blogging happens right here.

For my makeup I use Muji acrylic storage systems to keep my makeup away from dust and still visible for me to see where everything is inside the drawers. I currently have 11 drawers for my makeup collection. My brushes sit in also a Muji container but at the moment I only keep my commonly used brushes out and the rest of my brushes remain in a lidded box in my main desk drawer cleaned and away from dust and bacteria for when they are needed but mostly for when I am doing makeup on someone else.

On my desk I keep Wedgwood trinket boxes full of earrings, bobbypins, little mermaid stuff, wedding memorabilia, tattoo art books, and a tons of lovely pens and pencils for when I feel like doodling. As per my obsession with the little mermaid, I keep a cup full of forks that i have collected throughout my travels.

Below my desk, is my cute little mobile salon cart with one drawer for my hair brushes, butterfly clips and foam rollers. Second drawer is full of all my styling products including pomades, styling lotions, conditioning oils, etc. Last drawer, junk drawer... we all have one.

Most importantly is hanging on the wall. My two beauty diplomas, soon to be joined by a third.