What I did: I did leave an inch section uncolored each side from my middle part so that it would blend well ( look more natural and professional haha I tried!). Then I simply kept taking random hair strands and coloring (as shown - some from middle and some near the hair ends)

I kept it on for an hour till I saw some color developing and then simply rinsed out with plain water. I did not shampoo for good 24 hours.
Caution: If you are using this color on your scalp please strictly follow the directions that your hair color comes with. I could play around a bit because I had no color touching my scalp. I exceeded the duration by 15 mins.

Disclaimer: I am not a hair professional by any means so please do your research and speak to a professional before doing any hair treatment or procedure. With this video I am just sharing how I colored my hair and this isn't a tutorial.

Product used: Loreal Technique Hicolor blondes for dark hair only and Salon Care 30 volume creme developer
I got mine at my local Sally Beauty Supply store.
I used half bottle of developer which makes it 2flz oz with full color tube.

Let me know if you like this color transformation on me!

Yayyyy!! thank you guys so much. I am so happy to be with five hundred and now six hundred of you on youtube, and also all of you who follow my blog or other social networks.  I can't even tell you guys how much this means to me. I am so very grateful and want to return back with these lil gifts. Thanks for always being so supportive.

So, incase anyone missed out my giveaway + January favorites + free coupon code to my favorite Purador products on youtube, I thought I will make a post here as well. I am so very excited for this. Check out my video and giveaway details below, its open only till 15th of Feb!

                                     January Favorites + Giveaway + a free coupon code!

This video is about Giveaway and some of my Favorite beauty, hair and skincare products this month with little review. YSL, Clinique, Purador, Giorgio Armani, Ardell.

I love purador because it is natural and performs for me.
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Giveaway details:
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The winner's comment will be randomly selected by a generator on random.org. I will then personally contact the winner and post the results on instagram and twitter.

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This hair updo is my favorite for those lazy days or when I am having a bad hair day

It literally takes no more than two mins and is my go to hairdo this summer.

Pic: Top knot / Messy Bun

All you need for this messy bun is - a rubberband matching your hair color, hairbrush and some bobby pins.

Start by making a high pony tail. Stop kind of mid way to leave an extra strand of hair.

You should have sort of a bun, tighten it with the rubber band. Now, take the extra strand and wrap it around the rubber band. Spread your bun for volume and bring it forward. Pick up few strands at a time and tuck them inside the rubber band (by moving them towards the back side of the bun). You could even use bobby pins for extra hold. Play around till you like the shape and style of your messy bun.

Take the side strands towards back of your bun as well and secure them with bobby pins. Give your bun a final spread.

As much as I like this messy bun for an easy everyday hairdo, I equally like it for any last minute calls to some occasions. I just like to make sure that if I am to be attending a party or any such occasion, that my bun is secured with bobby pins. I give it some extra time making it all upto my liking and yes have got many compliments for it.

So, I hope you enjoy recreating this just the way I do. I would love to know from you guys in the comments about your favorite go to hairstyle.

This is not a sponsored post, these are my real life choices.

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Its been a while since I posted in the Hair section of my blog. Those of you who watch my youtube videos or are following me on any social media know that I am absolutely like an hair addict. This does not mean I am a pro at hairdos and all but rather that I like to do things to my hair as I have like fine and the least manageable hair (at least in my opinion, and yes I am sure of that!). That is why I love all the things that I could do haha! and love it even more if these things come out to be easy and natural recipes.

I still cannot believe how I skipped blogging about this DIY Sea Salt Spray I made, when its so quick and easy to do and has amazing results.

Its literally just two ingredients, water and salt! Yes, thats about it.

I used 1/4 cup of warm water and 1 tsp sea salt. Put both these ingredients in a spray bottle. Give it a good shake. You could also use hair gel for extra hold (optional). Spray it on your hair.

From here keep scrunching your hair or twist it into a bun (recommended if your hair refuses to go into curls easily). Both ways you should end up with lovely beach waves within an hour. For drying either go overnight (this will give tight curls) or for waves that I love, I simply let it in buns for half an hour. While you are letting it sit in buns, you could even use blowdry to speed up the drying process. After about half an hour I open up the buns and sit in front of a fan and keep scrunching my hair for next 15-20 mins (whatever time your hair takes to dry).

Watch my full video tutorial here:



Hope you enjoyed! Let me know  in the comments if you would want to recreate it.

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Hello my Loves!

Hope you all had a happy Hallows' Eve. I personally had a blast and enjoyed myself. I took up the Disney's Jasmine look for the eve. You can check out my look at My Instagram or My Youtube.


Photo: Homemade Hair Mask

I wanted to post about this recipe ever since I tried it the first time. But, I wanted to be sure of the results before I post my review. Now that I have tried it twice, and I am really happy for my results, I felt like sharing it. Home masks are so good. One thing I can say about them is that the hair feels strong, shiny and definitely healthy after that. I have even bought a herbal Hair Mask with Lemon by Dabur Vatika. Let me know in the comment box below if you would like me to write a review on that.

Recipe.

2 Eggs White
A tablespoon Acacia Concinna powder (Shikakai)
Few Lemon drops
2 teaspoon Yogurt

If you don't have Shikakai, you can even add Hibiscus Powder, that will help you with the application by making this preparation dense. Shikakai is a natural conditioner so I definitely recommend you to buy it. You could get them on Asian Stores (if you are in US or out of India), or you could buy it on Amazon Health.

Mix all the ingredients well. Apply and leave for 30 minutes. Wash off and shampoo.
My hair felt soft and shiny.
If you happen to try it let me know how it was for you.

Tips: 

Use once a week for deep conditioning treatment.
Skip any ingredient that you know you are allergic to.
Skip Yogurt in winters.

This is not a sponsored post. I am always looking out for more healthy ways to Hair, especially because I have fine, wavy and sensitive Hair that require extra care.

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Hello beauties,

I have been enjoying short trips this Fall and it is totally gorgeous near Boston here in United States. Today, I want to talk something about a major issue that all of us experience - it is the Split Ends. I have my friends asking me all the time on this as I have not had them since many years now. Yes! I know its exciting and I thought of blogging about my very simple techniques that favored me in preventing them. It is not something out of the world but still conscious efforts are required to make it a habit.

It is not like I never had them, infact I had them a lot during my teens and even in early twenties. But thankfully I do not get them now, I would say almost gone. It was last year that I realized that oh! yes I do not have split ends, when a friend pointed out. So, I had to think hard and recall what difference I had made to my hair care regime that actually helped me with the results. I have had them as a habit since then and do it consciously. And it is very simple and all natural products.  I hope like it helped me, it would help all those who are facing this problem.


So, here are the few simple ways:

1. Be gentle to your hair

Your hair is the weakest at its ends. Never use anything harsh on it be it rubbing with towel or intense combing.

Just soak excess water with towel or even better with a T-shirt but be gentle, but do not rub.

2. Hydrate
I make a point that my ends are properly hydrated.

I like to put just a pea size amount of coconut oil, rub it between my palms and evenly distribute towards end of my hair after I wash my hair and hair is still damp. This locks in moisture for long.
Whenever I notice my hair is dry again, I would simply put some water or again oil over my ends. And trust me your hair is too dry at the ends so no one would even notice you have oil on. But of-course do not put loads on when you go out, just a pea size amount should do the trick.

Keep drinking water - I can not stress this enough. This helps from inside out and your hair remains hydrated and it can withstand any toughness that it faces from the environment.

3. Go for a trim
If you already have split ends, in my opinion first you really need to trim them off as a treatment girlies. And both the above steps should take care of preventing split ends.

If you have any other tips and tricks for preventing split ends, I would love to hear. Also if you happen

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to try these methods as a routine for some months, do come back and tell me how was your experience with it.

Hello in this Fall Season

As the weather is changing I changed my early morning habit. During breakfast hours I have been having Green Smoothies. It has not been long, actually just about two weeks. And I skipped some three four days as well. And after one more week with smoothies, something unexpected that I noticed this morning was with my hair, its length. They seemed longer. I had cut 3 inches off my hair a month back and I am not a person whose hair grow easily. My hair seem longer for about two inches. And it seems as though it has been because of these green smoothies.

Pic: Blueberry - Grape smoothie

So again all excited about it, I wanted to share it with readers searching of organic ways and holistic living ideas. The ingredients I have been putting in them include all sort of greens and even fruits. I have used spinach, parsley, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, carrots, ginger, tomatoes, lime juice and cilantro. The smoothie in the pic consisted majorly of blueberries, some grapes and added water. One element that I absolutely love adding in all my smoothies is lime juice. Citrus fruits act as a good cleanse for body. I also like adding black salt in some of the smoothies. Sometimes I like to add honey especially to my lemon juice. Other than that I restrain from adding any other sort of salt or sugar to my smoothies.  With leafy greens I make sure that I put them soaked in salty (seasalt) water for atleast 10 mins before use. I find this the best and easy way to get rid of any unwanted residues that might be present.

Amongst the ones I have been making, my favourite ones are fruit smoothies. They are tasty and easy to make. Here is the recipe for a glass of blueberry grape smoothie.

Recipe - Blueberry Grape Smoothie
1 cup blueberries
1/2 cup green grapes
1/2 cup water
Few drops of freshly squeezed lime juice
Honey to taste (optional)
Black salt to taste (optional)
Dash of Black pepper (optional)

Put blueberries, grapes, water and lime juice in mixer and blend well. Pour in glass and sprinkle black pepper, add black salt and/or honey and stir well. Enjoy fresh! I like to have these smoothies within half and hour of preparation and all try keeping in glass containers.

 For more chilly days I start adding dices of ginger to my smoothies.

Smoothies give a healthy start to our day. If anyone happens to try this recipe or has other good to taste and/ or nutritious smoothie recipes, please mention in the comments below I would love to try them.

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Hope you all are enjoying summers. Last weekend like often I ended up wanting to get a redo of my heatless wavy hair style. My hair naturally is quite fine and wavy so I try not to use harmful chemicals in form of mousse or hairsprays. 

Pic - results after using homemade mousse (peasize/ few sprays) and rollers for loose heatless waves. 

I saw this hairstyle by Evelina Barry of heatless waves and wanted to recreate. I had read about DIY hair mousse. So, I ended up making my own version of Hair Mousse. I have linked all my inspirational videos and blogs below. I must tell you I never thought it would work. I am glad that its so healthy for my hair and it works. For me because my hair is naturally wavvy it lasted me till another day. I keep experimenting with my shampoos trying to make them as organic as possible. This is the first time I made hair mousse. 

Alright girlies


As per the personal experience I was more happy with the conditioner. I found out the ends of my hair where I applied the conditioner to be a little more shiny that usual after the wash compared to the rest where I did not that much. You can checkout the pictures and even there I could see it was somewhat evident. I simply let my hair air dry and took these pictures.



Photo: Hair after using the shampoo and conditioner - felt soft and shiny.

For the shampoo, it felt amazing on my hair while washing and could feel that it is a natural shampoo. I feel that our hair thank us and that is evident the very moment we indulge in working the shampoo in our hair scalp. I would again want to stress upon a point which I made in my previous blog that not all shampoos are meant for your hair type and this even includes the natural shampoo. I remember an year back I tried a natural shampoo and moment I went lathering it into my hair I felt it was drying out my hair and they felt rough. We need to be aware of the type of hair we have and accordingly chose.

This shampoo felt good this point of time but still I would want to try more of it the coming weeks so that I can share more elaborated review. You can definately try them as staying closest possible to nature is always good.


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You can read more about my hair issues and how my current regular moisture shampoo is helping me deal with it in another post here:  http://ssilkydhillon.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-girl-with-hair-issues.html

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