Same Product, Different Colour - Schwarzkopf - Live Colour - Ultra Brights, Shocking Pink

After having red hair for a while, I decided to switch it up and do something I have always wanted to do... I dyed my hair pink!

This product acted just the same as the 'Red Embers' version, and I just love my new hair colour!
I didn't bleach it prior, so I got a lovely dark pink shade :)

Do we love it, or do we love it? :D

This shade also smelled like raspberry which is pretty cool.

... my parental units don't know yet...

Schwarzkopf - Live Colour - Red Embers

So, as I may or may not have mentioned, I dyed my hair red.
I did this with a permanent colour and while the result was nice, I wanted to make the colour more vibrant.
Enter the '8 washes' Schwarzkopf live colour!
This is a semi-permanent colour treatment that will wash out bit-by-bit (and the shower water will look like it is from 'Psycho')

The colour it added was quite true to what was shown on the box and it made my hair smell like hair dye (love that chemical-lly smell, by the way)

And because I am a great blogger, I didn't take any photos o.O

Price: 5/5 (rrp $4.89 for one box)
Scent: 1/5 (oh so traditional hair dye smell)
Effectiveness: 5/5

Same Product, Different Scent: Crabtree & Evelyn Hand Therapy - Nantucket Briar

This smells like heaven to me, if I were ever let in to heaven :p

I smell lavender, rose and violet... the website lists it as peony, wild rose, citrus, vanilla, patchouli and exotic spices...

At any rate, I LOVE this!!!

Scent: 5/5

Model Co - Shine Ultra Lip Gloss - Strip Tease

I'm quite suspicious of lip glosses since my toothpaste allergy/lips that never stopped bleeding started about the same time that I started using lip gloss (correlation does not equal causation).

This lip gloss reminded me of these old fears...

Right of the bat, this is a relatively unknown brand name to me... This is your typical sticky lip gloss, with virtually no colour pay-off and fine-milled glitter.
On, it makes my lips feel a little itchy and while it provides a physical barrier, it didn't add any moisture.

The container, while I love the little mirror on the side of the tube, the damn thing leaked!!! How dare it!

So let's say it is like it's colour name-sake (A cheap strip-tease)  it leaves you a few dollars poorer and covered in glitter. XD (and there are a few other parallels, but I'll keep it a bit more appropriate for the blog)

Price: 1/5 (rrp $20.00, how can such a crappy formula cost so much?)
Scent:1/5 (smells like powdered fake fruit)
Effectiveness: 0/5

John Frieda - Colour Refreshing Gloss for Warm Reds

I recently dyed my hair to red (as you may have seen). 

How I imagine I look

How others see me

And to keep it looking fierce, I thought I would give this a try. 
First thing I noticed is that it smells like raspberries!
So you put the red goop on your hair and leave it there for "at least 3 minutes".
You then spend those three minutes trying to wash the red stains off your hands and wondering why you didn't wear gloves.

'And yet I would shudder to wear a heart so white'... It's Lady MacBeth, you butts!

Once you wash it out, you do get a little colour boost, but not enough to warrant using this again.

Price: 2/5 (rrp $16.99 for 177mL, or 4 washes on my shoulder length hair)
Scent: 5/5 (great for a hair colour product)
Effectiveness: 1/5

Masquerade! - Baroness SYN-AKE Mask Sheet

SYN-AKE is a synthetic protein fragment of viper venom, used as an anti-wrinkle agent in a number of beauty products. I guess the idea is the venom will lightly paralyze the face... did I notice such a thing? No,  but I love the idea.

In addition to the SYN-AKE, this mask also has lavender and lemon... and why isn't the font in white? I can hardly read this!

Art break - The Man in the Iron (red) Mask

One of my colleagues held a masquerade themed birthday party earlier this month.
I asked one of my friends at work if he received an invite, the following conversation then took place:

Me - Do you have a mask?
Lakai - No.
Me - Well, I know a few shops nearby that you could get one...
Lakai - I don't think I want to do that.
Me - Or you could make one, it wouldn't be hard. You just need some paint and...
Lakai - *Looking at me*
Me - ... Or I could make you one?
Lakai - Now you understand my thoughts.

So I asked for the colours of the clothes he planned to wear (which started a discussion on dress codes) and set to work.

I had black and crimson/wine, with white accents to work with. I wanted something that looked a bit fancy (it is 'Masquerade' after all) but still understated and manly (I don't feel like being beaten up).

So this is what I came up with:

I used cord under the paint to create some interesting texture, arranging it in an asymmetrical starburst shape.
The white beading stops it from being too dark.
Each bead was placed individually O.o

Verdict from Lakai: He said he meant that he wanted to make it together (why he didn't say that, I don't know... I think he just felt bad and said this), but he liked it! :)