HAIR STORY (PART 1)

Hello!

Sorry it's been a while since my last post but I've been busy decorating my room! If you know me personally you will know I have done everything to my hair ( not like that! ) from dying it every colour each week to endless amounts of heat... Safe to say my hair was frazzled (omg I now crave frazzles).

So today I just gathered my courage and decided to get it cut, the final result as you can see it's so shiny and feels AMAZING! I am trying to grow my hair and feel it will grow quicker this way as it will be stronger. Each month I shall post an update on my hair length followed by tips in order to keep hair healthy and what vitamins I take to enhance hair growth.

If you're trying to grow out damaged hair, feel free to do what i've done and start your own hair story, take on the journey with me?  Comment and let me know what you think on my new hair, i'd love to know. Have a good day! :) x x x

GET CREATIVE (NAILS)

WANT TO KNOW HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS CUTE LOOK?

First, choose two of your favourite nail varnishes I chose these two,

(Left, I just found in a set I received on Christmas or something. Right, Rimmel London, lasting finish, 060 hot & spicy - £2.99 from any drug store)

Begin by painting your nails with whatever of the two nail varnishes you've picked to be the base colour.

Then, start from the top on either of the top left or top right corners, which ever is easiest and paint a line (the width of the brush) up-wards to the center halfway on the top of your nail. Then, you guessed it, do the same on the other corner of the nail and do a line till it meets the other line in the middle and BAM, you have it. Repeat the process on all nails, and if you have a clear nail varnish (optional) finish it with a coat of that to give it that glossy finish!

Let me know if this worked for you, and whether you liked it or not. Have a nice day & thank-you for checking out my blog, return soon :)
-Demi x x x

OOTD

OUTFIT OF THE DAY

So today I decided on going for the casual dressy image - along side with that I felt rather creative. So, I found my black body-con dress from Jane Norman - £28.00. That alone looked FAR too dressy considering i'm having a chilled day so I found my brown loose top which was £12.00 from Newlook. I then folded the sleeves from my dress up until it tucks into my top and completes the look I was going for and actually looked quite cute. After all this i'll probably just go in the bath and get changed into pj's & watch films, oops.

Feel free to let me know what you think or share with me your OOTD, have a good day :)

-Demi x x x

MY FIRST TIME

OK, depending on how you choose to interpret the title - this isn't going to be about anything sexual. Good, now we have that clear, this post I've put together as a tag to YOU reading this.

When did you first start wearing make-up?

 I'd say when I was 12, but only then it would be mascara and some off colour lipgloss - make-up wasn't really an interest at that age.

When did you have your first crush(name)?

LIKE 4 OMG LOOL, I WAS CONVINCED GARETH GATES WAS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE AND HE LOVED ME BACK HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW IT YET. I CRIED SO MUCH WHEN MY MUM TOLD ME HE WAS GETTING MARRIED :(

What was your first email address you made, that at the time thought was the bees knees?

cool_duderocks@live.co.uk , lol I dont really know how to comment on this... *steps in a dark lonely room,bye*

First memory?

Having this really cool play phone thing which I truly loved, and coming home to see my cat had chewed the wires and I didn't have a play phone anymore :(  (the tears are real)

First concert?

QUEEN B, BEYONCE, MY GIRL. IN 2009/2010 I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

First friend?

Paige Murphy, I've known her since about the age of 2 and she's still a best-friend to this day.

OK - over to YOU! Copy this tag and fill it in with your answers, comment if you've done it and i'd love to hear about your first times! (That sounds awful)

        Have a good day:)  -Demi x x x

WHAT'S IN MY BAG?

It's the furthest away but you're sat there thinking 'ayeeeeee, Nandos loyalty card? She fo'real?' Well yes. Wherever I go,so does my Nandos card, you're laughing now but next time I visit I get a free half chicken,yeah you heard... WHO'S LAUGHING NOW. (Go meee!) - Can be found..Well..At Nandos,lol.

Another item that you will find somewhere in my bag is money, because you just never know when you might find a beauty product that makes you just 'AHHHH', but you have to turn away because you don't have any money on you.  - You can't have mine i'm afraid so you'll have to earn your own.

Also my Shea butter body lotion, that you will either find splattered EVERYWHERE in my bag (don't you just hate when that happens), or nicely compact in it's packaging as it should be. I just LOVE this product, it moisturises the deeper layers of your skin,and smells just mmmmmm, like I find myself licking my skin afterwards to then realise it doesn't taste half as good as it smells :( - Can be bought in 'The Body shop'.

Finally, my vaseline and my impulse, these two are good for topping up during the day. Vaseline to treat my lips as they get VERY dry during the day. And my Impulse has the sweetest scent, it's called 'Sweet smile',aw.. :)     -Both can be bought in any drugstore.

 Anyways, let me know what your bag essentials are or if there's any must have items I should know about. Follow my blog for up to date posts I create daily. Have a nice day :)

RANT OF THE DAY

This blog isn't a particular subject so with having the freedom to post whatever I wish on my space on the internet I thought i'd have a little rant as it's about something that really, REALLY gets on my wits...

As i'm half black,half white (mixed race) I don't fit under just one of those, i.e either black or white... You may or may not have heard ' too black for your white friends, too white for your black friends '. So I lie quite nicely in the middle - I don't really mind that. As of that, I appear rather tanned... But, in my opinion, I really don't see how it's fine with all the 'woaaah,you're wearing so much fake tan' 'you're so brown omg', when i'm not wearing any,it's my natural colour, and brown and orange are different colours. It wouldn't be acceptable if I just went up to a fully white person and said, ' OMG HAVE YOU BLEACHED YOUR SKIN OR SOMETHING ' 'WOAH STEADY WITH THE BLEACHING OF THE SKIN 'YOU'RE SO WHITE''... See, I thought not. They'd probably cry and feel humiliated.

To summaries, whatever your colour - it's a blessing. Be proud of your colour, and don't be so ignorant! Not everyone has to be either black or white... And be careful what you say so you don't make an individual feel an outcast if they're not the same colour as you.

PUT DOWN THE STRAIGHTENERS AND CRACK OPEN THE EGG

EGG HAIR MASK

To restore strength in your hair after using heat, you're going to think i'm crazy but have you ever tried an egg hair mask? It's full of proteins which will strengthen your hair! I have done it at least once a month and it really does make a difference. Below I will instruct you on what to do.

1) Depending on hair length, crack open 1-2 eggs and mix them together.
2) If you have any almond oil, or argan oil add a tea spoon of that to give it that shine.
3) Apply it to your hair, focusing mainly on the ends of your hair as that's the weakest and most damaged part of your hair.
4) A plastic bag over your hair ( not head, I know no pain no gain but seriously, I wouldn't go as far as killing myself for healthy hair ) secure it with a hair band at the top. This keeps the hair warm and absorbs the egg better.
5) The longer you leave it on your hair the better, a minimum of 25 minutes is recommended.
6) Finally rinse the egg out of your hair with lukewarm water ONLY as you don't want scrambled egg in your hair do you? I think not.
7) After this wash your hair as normal.

This method works for ALL hair types, results show clearer the more times you carry out this method.

AUGUST FAVOURITE

So here we are in the middle of August! This year has flown by for sure. Last week I went shopping with a close friend of mine and found this beauty, IN MY SIZE! I find it challenging finding clothes in my size as i'm a size 6 and shops prefer to get more stock in at larger sizes. But, even better it happened to be in the sale so it didn't hurt my purse!
It's a pale pink bodycon dress which depending on which shoes and accessories you choose to wear it with, can be worn in any occasion. I haven't worn it out yet but it's still a favourite of mine;)

GET TO KNOW ME

So, as you can probably tell, this is my FIRST post! I am new to this whole thing so go easy on me ;)
My blog was created purely from boredom...Yeeup..
Hopefully from reading this post you will be able to know a bit more about myself, enough waffle and lets start. ( omg i love waffles! )

Name: Demi-Rae Taylor.
I fan-girl over the Janoskians & my baby, Justin Bieber ( I'm not Pattie,lol ).
I'm 5"2 and I think i've stopped growing,haha go me! #teamshortass

To your left is an old pic of me.

And below is a recent pic of me, gosh how much i've changed ( not grown cos i barely grow :(  )

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this post and i've left you wanting more..;)

I'd love to hear from you! Comment below a bit about yourself, or to check out your blog, or recommendations on what i should post next and i'd be delighted to hear from you!

Have a nice day :)