My New Hair, How I Style It & What Products I Use

If you didn't know but since year 7 at high school I have been growing my hair, and by the time it was year 10/11 it was somewhere down near to my waste. I have wrote about my complete hair story, so click here and it will take you to that post.

So my hairs long, all one length, and for the last few months I have been having a love/hate relationship with it. I love it because it's so long, and it looks amazing when it's curled, straightened and basically had a lot of effort put into it. I also love it because I am proud that I have actually been able to grow it. However there are a lot of reasons why I didn't like it by the end, it took ages to dry, took ages to style, so most of the time it was just shoved up into a bun, and whats the point in having long hair, if its just in a bun on the top of your head? Also it made my head quite heavy and I just had enough by the end.

Therefore I went to the hairdressers and got it cut. I didn't want anything too drastic because I have obviously had long hair for quite a while and I was used to having it long. So I got some pictures of pinterest and showed them to my hairdresser. But basically I wanted some layers through my hair, I wanted a few inches off it, so it's had a good cut and I also had it washed and styled. I was so happy when she finished it, I was just relived I genuinely loved it!

I've now had my hair like this for about 2 weeks. I have found its quicker to dry and style and I actually do more with my hair now than I did when I had more hair and it was a lot longer. I will go through all the products I use on my hair, but I don't really use too many.

Shampoo/Conditioner
I basically use any, I'm not too fussy. But I do wash my hair twice with shampoo and one of the shampoos has to be my favourite one ever! Which is John Freda's blonde shampoo, it doesn't matter which (enhancing, moisturising..) but just one of the blonde ones, to keep the colour enhanced. I do normally use L'Oreal as well, I like their shine one (pink) and the thickening one (blue). I match the conditioner to the shampoo, so normally its' L'Oreal.

Serum
When my hair is towel dried, I like to add a serum. I do this because I feel like I've taken some moisture out of my hair by washing it. So I need to add some serum to tame my hair, but also add some shine and silkiness back into it. I go between a few serums, but the main one I use is Schwarzkopf got2b Oil-Licious Styling Oil. I have used so much of this, but it has lasted me such a long time. This is a stage I never miss out.

Lightening Spray
Also when my hair is towel dried, I sometimes use the John Freda Lightening spray, I don't use this all the time, maybe once I week. This is the same range as my blonde shampoo. If you are a blondie, you need to try this range - it's amazing!!

Heat Protectant
My heat protectant that I love and have loved for years is Tresemme Keratin Smooth heat protectant. The main reason I love this is because it leaves your hair so soft, smooth and shinny and obviously it protects your hair from the heat.

Styling
When styling my hair, I don't really use too many products. One main product which you would of seen in my july favourites   and that is he Toni & Guy Rough Texturiser, you can go to the favourites too see more about this product. But I use it on first day hair when it is very shinny and doesn't mould into what I want. This really helps add texture and makes the hair easier to style.

Hairspray
Me and hairspray have a very love/hate relationship. I rarely use hairspray, but I wanted to include it because it is a product I use when I've curled my hair, or really put a lot of effort in my hair and I want it to stay. Or I am really having a bad hair day and my hair really isn't doing what I want. So I have found the best hairspray is the L'Oreal Studio/Pro Boost It Volumising Hair Spray - Extra strong.

Dry Shampoo
With my hair I tend to wash it every other day, or every three days. In between washes, my roots do get a little bit oily and they do need a little refreshness, so I use a dry shampoo. I am not really too fussy with dry shampoos, so I switch between them really, at the moment I am using one for Aussie, its the Aussie Winter Miracle dry shampoo, I really like this range, it comes out in the winter time. The reason I have one still is because I stocked up last winter, haha! I do also like Batiste Dry shampoos.

Thats all the products I use in my hair, so the way I style it is really quite simple. If my hair is down, its normally platted the night before to give some waves, or curled in the morning. I use the Tresemme Heat Protectant on it when using the curlers. I also use the Toni & Guy Rough Texturising spray to give it a lot more texture to the curls.

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All things hair: My hair history

I wanted to write a blog post all about my hair, however all the things running through my mind will just create a big looooong blog post. Therefore I am going to create three separate blog posts all about my hair. This is obviously the first post, this is the one where I talk you through my whole hair's history, so if I've dyed it, how I've had it cut and how it's generally changed throughout the years. 

 The other two blog posts, will include things like my hair care routine & what I apply to my hair and then my tips and tricks on how to achieve healthy hair. 

If you want to see my most recent & only hair post (I believe) then click here. 

Okay, so from the beginning...

I was going to add a picture of me as a baby, then I was looking through them and I realised I didn't really have an hair as a baby, so I decided not to bother... as this is a post about my hair history, haha.

This was me when I was in nursery so around 3 years old. My hair was a blonde/golden colour.

This was when I started primary school, there isn't really much difference with the previous picture. But can I just point out, I had no say with the style here. Mum, what was with the full fringe and bob?!

When I was a child my hair was always blonde, in fact if you asked the 5 year old me it would of been 'golden blonde' and for some reason I just wanted to be goldilocks (don't ask)! 

This picture was when I first started high school, my hair was a very mousy brown colour. I really didn't like this stage my hair went through because I have just always wanted to be a blondie. 

A few years after this, I begged my mum to let me have some blonde put in my hair again. So I had a few blonde highlights. 

Shortly after this, I wanted to experiment with my hair style. So I decided to get a full fringe cut in. Yes, this was the biggest mistake of my hair life. I really wish I didn't do it, it didn't suit my face, and it was just very annoying. I only have one picture of this, because I hated it THAT much.

To grow my fringe out, I used to clip it to the side of my face and I did literally wear my hair up for about a year. It was just the hairstyle I used to wear to school. I believe this is why my hair grew so fast because being up I didn't realise it was growing, if that makes any sense. 

After I grew my fringe out, I got some more highlights in my hair and I promised myself I would never cut a full fringe in again.

A few years later, my hair was pretty much all blonde, I never dyed all of my head of hair. It was just from having highlights put in and also using John Freda Blonde Shampoo & Conditioner.

This was me on my prom day, so my fringe had fully grown out by now. I was happy with my hair at this point, it was the right blondeness and a good length.

I did do some hair modelling at a hair salon. When I say hair modelling, I mean I sat in the chair and they curled/straightened and did whatever they liked to my hair. So on this particular day, I got curly hair for free. 

I went through a stage when I was about 16 where I just wanted different colours in my hair. I dyed my hair myself, I got the dyes from a local shop that did piercings and tattoos. The dyes were: Stargazer dyes and they were semi permanent. I went all sorts of colours, like pink, blue/green and purple. I'm not sure why I wanted these colours in my hair, but I thought it was cool at the time. This was during the summer, leading into college. 

I then went through another stage with colour, instead of dying the ends bright colours I dyed it blonde and brown at the ends as a kind of ombre effect that wasn't ombre because my hair was blonde from the top. It that makes sense. 

When I started college my hair was just all blonde. I kind of let it do its own thing. It was a lot blonder here, I'm not really sure why. But I liked the colour here. 

From here, my other and only blog post carries on with my hair history... click here to find out the rest of the story. 

Thank you so much for reading, there will be the other blog posts up shortly through autumn. So get ready for two more hair posts to find out my hair tips/tricks/things I've learnt and also my hair care routine. 

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