Hair Hack- How to condition your hair properly

A short post on a little trick I’ve discovered. Again, a disclaimer that I did not rip off anybody’s idea. I thought of it on my own so if you’ve seen it somewhere before, all I can say is that great minds think alike.

After shampooing, we know we have to use a hair conditioner to seal in the moisture. However, we are not supposed to apply it to the scalp. Hair conditioner and hair masks applied too close to the scalp can make the hair look limp and oily. They also clog up the hair follicles and cause hair loss so the rule of thumb is to apply them to hair below the ears.

So what’s the problem?

Applying hair products to hair that falls below the ears is just a guide and if you apply hair products to these sections of hair, then it’s likely you’ve applied them too close.

I don’t know about you, but this has bothered me for a long time until I came up with a little trick and I’ve been using this little trick for years ever since then.

After washing my hair, I tie it up in a pony tail with a waterproof hair tie. Those curly telephone cord looking ones will do just fine.

Squeeze out excess water from the hair and then simply apply the hair conditioner/mask to the entire pony tail. This way, I know I’m not getting too close to the scalp AND it gets the hair off my face so I can do a facial mask at the same time. You can also use the same trick for when you’re applying other haircare products (e.g. hair oil).

It also works for short hairstyles. You can just section your hair and tie them separately then condition them.

I didn’t condition my hair when I sported a short hairstyle though. The hair ends are “new” so they have not aged as much as the hair ends of longer hairs. And rougher hairs make styling much easier. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but those with shiny silky hair can’t really make their hair stand up as well when their hair is short.

Anyways, this is my little tip: To tie your hair up in a pony tail before conditioning. Hopefully this has been helpful to you.

That’s all for this post. (^O^)／

The Body Shop Cocoa Butter Cream Body Scrub

A review of something that I’ve repurchased several times. It’s the Cocoa Butter Cream Body Scrub from The Body Shop.

I always use this before I shave or epilate my underarms. Scrubbing before will help to give a cleaner shave and helps to minimise in-growth hair.

The Body Shop has many types of body scrubs, I actually only own two types and I use them for different areas. I like this one because it is gritty enough to exfoliate properly without being too harsh on the skin.

For people who have been slacking off the exfoliation game, use this once all over your body, especially the kneecaps and elbows, you’ll find that your skin glows (from having all the dead skin gone) and the elbows are smoother too.

I shall end this post by saying that this tub is a lot cheaper on sale period so don’t ever buy it full price. I paid S$19.90 (USD 15.90) while my friend who was super anxious to get hers after I raved about it to her, got it with only members discount on the original price. I think she paid S$34 (USD 27.20) if I remember correctly.

Anyways, posts for these few days leading up to Chinese New Year will be on products I highly recommend so that you guys can go try them out to make yourselves pretty for your family gathering.

That’s all for this post. (^O^)／

The Body Shop Wild Argan Oil (Miracle Solid Oil)

I have been wanting to do a review of this product for a long time but procrastination got the better of me. （；￣ェ￣）Better late than never right?

It’s the Miracle Solid Oil from The Body Shop’s Wild Argan Oil series.

I got it when it first came out. According to Instagram, I owned it for 19 weeks.

At first I only wanted to get The Radiant Oil also shown in the picture above, but the sales assistant recommended this to me. She’s from the Bukit Panjang Branch and I noticed that all the sales assistants there are friendlier and more helpful without being pushy about making a sale. I love shopping there a lot more than the Choa Chu Kang Branch and JEM Branch.

Anyways, thank goodness for her recommendation because I love this more than The Radiant Oil. In fact, I love it so much that I gave one (among other things), to Pearlyn for her birthday.

To use it, all you have to do is to rub clean fingers over the surface and then use it to smoothen hair ends. A little goes a long way with this product.

It can be used on damp or dry hair. I find that either ways will give my hair a healthier shine. It’s a body and hair product so I use it for my elbows, heels and knee caps too. I love how soft it makes skin feels. This is awesomeness in a tin.

What I don’t like about it is the scent. I’ve no idea what Argan oil smells like but I don’t like the scent of this product. It smells weird to me but that’s something I’m willing to overlook, especially when it’s not overpowering.

This 50g of goodness retails for $19.90 before discount. I highly recommend everyone to try it out. The Body Shop has storewide 30% now, if I’m not wrong. I got mine for 25% off at around $15 (USD 12). It’s already a pretty good deal but it’s even cheaper now. This is something that I will repurchase and I highly recommend as a gift to anyone with dry elbows and heels, or to those who simply wants shinier hair.

That’s it for this post. Until next time… ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ

Maybelline Fashion Brow 24H Coloring Mascara

I’ve always been a huge fan of eyebrow mascara. They help to keep eyebrows in place and also help to tint the brow hairs slightly to match hair colour. My old favourite was a dark brown colour from Canmake but they’ve since changed the packaging and no longer sell it in dark brown so I had to branch out.

Kate has a collection of eyebrow mascara too, but the colours are either too blond or too red. As an Asian, I’ve jet black hair. I did dye my hair red, brown and even ash in colour before but I’m in love with my black hair now and have since kept it so for the past 2 years. I find that my hair is now stronger, shinier and a lot cheaper to maintain. Anyways, with black hair, dark brown eyebrow suits me best.

I love Maybelline’sFashion Brow in no. 5, Dark Brown.

I’m glad I decided to give it a try when it was on sale a few months ago and it is now a staple in my everyday makeup.

A closer look at the brush head.

The brush itself has a rounded end and initially, I thought it would over apply and I’ll end up with super thick brows but it proved me wrong. The bristles somehow made over-application an impossibility. Honestly, in the past 2 months of using it, I’ve never gotten too much product on my brows. It is by far, the best eyebrow mascara I’ve ever used, and it only cost S$11.90.

With just this tube, I can do away with eyebrow pencils and gels as it can do the job on its own.

Hopefully, this review has been of help to you. It may seem like an exaggeration, but I truly like this product. This is not an advertorial (nothing that I’ve written in my blog is). All opinions are entirely mine. I post here as a hobby.

The Body Shop Blueberry Body Butter

For the past few months, I’ve been obsessed with products from The Body Shop. Ever since they changed the membership system to points accumulation, I’ve been buying more stuff from them. Here’s my previous post about how bad their old membership system was. Honestly, I’m glad they changed the system. I’ve spent so much there, I’ve become a Fan Member. ^_^

Just the other day, my tub of Blueberry Body Butter 200ml ran out. Here’s a photo that I posted on my Instagram account on all my recent empties.

If you can’t already tell, I love Blueberry Body Butter a lot. I’ve previously tried a lot of their other body butters (passion fruit, satsuma, peach) and they left an oily residue behind, so I’ve never gotten round to finish using them before they expired. The Blueberry body butter is different. The texture is creamy and sinks into the skin without being too oily. I use it almost every night right after my shower to moisturise my skin before bed.

The scent is nothing amazing, just a generic Blueberry fruity scent. I don’t find it overpowering but for those who are sensitive to scents, it’ll be safer to test it out in the stores first. Those with normal or dry skin will like this product.

It’s a limited edition product so I’m not sure it’s still in stores, but I think it’ll definitely appear in their warehouse sales. I’m pretty sure they’ll bring it back as a regular if it’s popular.

Right now, I’m just glad that I’ve another tub stocked up during one of their sales two months ago. I’m not going to use it till I’ve finished my other body butters. I go through them like crazy.

I also have their Blueberry shower gel but it’s not my favourite scent so the conclusion of my review is: Buy the body butter and leave the rest.

Hopefully my review has been helpful to you.

My Fair Lady

I watched the dressed rehearsal of My Fair Lady musical at the MasterCard Theatres in Marina Bay Sands yesterday and it is fantastic.

My Fair Lady is a love story but it is not just a love story. It has humour, good music and great choreography. Best of all, it ends happily ever after, better than the morose endings of most famous but tragic love stories.

I’ve not watched the play before yesterday, but I’ve watched the movie made in 1964 starring Audrey Hepburn and it is one of my favourite movies. If you haven’t watched that, imagine a better, non-prostitute version of Pretty Woman.

The musical is not a word-for-word version of the movie, some scenes are rearranged and, I daresay, I prefer the musical’s pace over the movie’s. I even prefer the musical’s interpretation of the characters. I just went back to watch the movie again (that’s 5 minutes ago) and realised that the characters in the movie seemed a little less expressive than they should. Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins are so much funnier in the musical even when they’re saying the same things.

However, one regrettable part was that the musical does not have the scene at the Embassy Ball, which I think, would be essential to show Eliza’s successful transformation. After all, showing that you’ve won is more satisfying than saying you’ve won.

All in all, a fantastic musical that’s for anyone who knows how to speak English. I do recommend reading the lyrics first though, to get an idea of what they are saying as their accent is so strong.

Here’s the lyrics to With A Little Bit ‘O’ Luck, one of my favourite song in the play.

I lifted them off Metro Lyrics and you can find all the lyrics to
My Fair Lady there. I especially like Why Can’t the English? and Just You Wait.

As usual, before I end this post, here’s the link to book the tickets.

It starts tonight till the 2nd of March.

I highly recommend My Fair Lady and I’m glad that I picked the first row because their facial expressions was so animated and it’ll be worth the extra money to sit closer to experience the play.

And if you’re a kaypo like me, you can follow Brianmdrummy on Instagram . He is a member of the cast and Instagram rather interesting pictures of the play and of Singapore.

And again, nobody paid me anything to write this to the very little number of people who visits this blog. It is written of my own accord and yes, my friend Chibi San invited me to watch this as well.

47 Ronin

Okay, so I just came home from watching 47 Ronin and my hair is wet from showering so while waiting for it to dry, I’ve time to write a mini review here.

Keanu Reeves has been in some pretty good movies and a lot of lousy ones. That’s the same for Rinko Kikuchi. All of you may remember her from the super awesome Pacific Rim but I also recall her role in Babel and it was not very pleasant. So I’d walked into the movie theatre with very very low expectations.

And, I was surprised that it wasn’t all bad. It is the American’s interpretation of a Japanese version of a Chinese period drama movie. Phew. That was a mouthful. The plot and costumes are interesting and the animation is good. Rinko Kikuchi is outstanding, her character reminded me of a Japanese version of Helena Bonham Carter.

However, I can see how some people might not like it. If you’re looking for an action movie, you might be disappointed.

If you are a fan of chinese period drama movies, then there’s still a chance that you may not like it. The costumes may look good but from a critical eye, they are not as lavish and detailed as Chinese period dramas. The Americans just do not have an eye for details. As I said, I went in with low expectations and the movie was good, not great.

Bun Bun, my adopted bunny

For the past two and a half months, a bunny has been living in my house, and hopefully for a very long time after, he will continue to do so.

His name is Bun Bun, and he was found hopping forlornly in the neighbourhood. Whoever thought that it’s okay to abandon a rabbit by releasing it, is an idiot. There are stray cats that could prey on the poor animal and he could have died from ingesting grass that are constantly sprayed with insecticide. When my sister Whatsapped me about Bun Bun, I decided to adopt him.

I expected commitment and responsibility on my part, and space that had to be allocated to the bunny. However, I did not expect to like Bun Bun so much, it’s almost mean of me to say that I like Bun Bun more than my guinea pigs.

He goes to the litter tray to poop and pee on his own, without any training on my part. He sleeps under the bed and so does not even need his cage. I dismantled his cage after stupidly washing it every three days, for a month, before realising that he doesn’t even sleep in the damn cage. Now, all I gotta do is to sweep the floor daily for his little poop pellets, change his water and feed him twice a day, and only change his litter tray once a week.

Adopting Bun Bun is one of the best decisions that I’d made this year. I’m glad for his companionship and also never fail to marvel at how smart he is. Below are some photos of Bun Bun that I took for the past few weeks.

Now, if only he would allow me to carry him. Sigh~

Grooming photos.

My house is now cleaner, thanks to having Bun Bun around, as I now try to clean every corner thoroughly so that he doesn’t get his paws grey just from exploring undusted areas. How’s that for positive influence?

Le Noir Singapore (Part 2)

Since nothing new was written and I’m having too much fun posting photos on Instagram (so much so that I’m neglecting Twitter and this blog) I’ve dug out an old entry drafted ages ago, for your reading pleasure.

Actually, this post consisted mostly of photos..

A picture speaks a thousand words. Or if you are a lazy bastard, like me, then many photos make one blog entry.

This is Part 2. No photos were taken by me during the show. I’ve basic respect for the performers, unlike some in the audience.

End of photos. It was a fun and enjoyable experience for me. If you’re interested to know more, you can read Part 1 here.

Thanks

This post is about the good things in my life.

While bad things happened to me today, I realised that I have a lot of good things to be thankful of in life. Instead of recounting what happened to me in words here, which will make me angry again once I recall it, I shall feel thankful and be glad that at least that poison is out of my life.

On days that I am feeling bad, I am glad that I have friends to pour out my sorrows to. Sometimes I take things for granted even though I’m trying not to, so thank you to people who listened to my rants and made me feel better.

Thank you Universe, for the things that makes me laugh on gloomy days. Actually, more specifically, “Thank you Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady for giving the world ‘The Big Bang Theory’.” It has been my go-to instant pick-me-up. Works every single time.

Finally, a huge THANK YOU to the asshole with low E.Q. You made me feel like I’m a better person than you are. Even though you need a lesson in parenting, I had the grace not to point it out in your face. Gotta give me a brownie point there. Ellen Degeneres did say that affirmation is essential and good for everyone.

Oh, and good job for firing the tutor 4 months before PSLE. Let’s hope your daughter really doesn’t need my help though we both know that’s not true. ^_^