How I Bleach My Hair Extensions

Hey everyone,
Thought to share how I bleach my hair and the products I use.
I was once among the clueless, and ever since I figured it out?  hmmm! Let's just say If my hair extensions could speak, they'd be screaming at me from all the processing they go through!

 

Here's all I used for the "Procedure" lol!

1. Silicon Mix 

2. BW2 powder lightener

3. Clairol Soy4Plex 30 volume developer

4. Hairven Shampoo

5. Hairven Conditioner

6. One 'n Only Argan oil

So, first of all, make sure you're using high quality hair. This is important!

Not many hair would go through the bleaching procedure and come back to life. Take note.

Last fix I did with this hair.

I already went from Jet black to brown.

So here's the hair prior bleaching. Yeah I had green highlights one time LOL! (That's what you see at the ends)

Step1: Mix bleach and developer till you get a good creamy consistency.

Step 2: Lay your hair flat. (You want to do this outside like me, or in a very airy room)

Step 3: brush on the mix on the hair and comb as you go. You do this to make sure it gets in.
(I'm not the messy one, It's a somewhat messy procedure. I guess lol!)

The weather was really dry, reason I placed each bundle in the bag. Just so the mix on the extensions don't dry up before I went through all.

If you notice, I didn't apply the mix on a straight line. One mistake a lot of people make.
Also, all bundles were different lengths. I controlled the application to stop at different points. The shortest length had the most application. 

 Step 4: Rinse thoroughly with water to stop the processing.
              Then Shampoo and condition. I totally love the HAIRVEN products.
              Believe it or not, it's a Nigerian product. Reminds me a lot about Tresemme.

I love me my Silicon mix! Amazing product for treating damaged hair. I just use this most times I bleach hair.

Shoprite bags "saving lives since forever LOL!"
This is one way I condition hair.
Rub in the silicon mix on damp towel dried hair and keep it in a bag for errr.... 15-20mins.

After rinsing the Silicon mix off, I add  Argan oil to restore the shine. This One 'n Only Argan oil is just
AMAZING! little goes a LONG way!

Bad lighting, finished result anyway. The bleaching brought out the green I had on sometime ago.

Installed my hair at Patrick's Beauty Zone. I always do bone straight at Salons, that's one thing I can't really achieve on my own (Not patient enough to do it like them).



My curls though! I achieve in a few mins. Master! hehe!
I use my Tresemme curling wand. Did a a post on that a while back. See it HERE

Plenty kisses,
Mwaahh!
Bemi.

How I Clean My Brushes / DIY Makeup Brush Cleaner

Hey gorg ones!
So I'm just going to slide back into your lives like nothing happened :D
I mean!
Nothing happened really. Yes! Yes!
I loves you too!

Meanwhile. your girl been out here LEARNING!
Y'all gon' learn alot!

Right on!

I know I need my brushes to be squeaky clean at all times. I dont even know how many brushes I have and I bet Y'all dont expect me to be on that expensive brush cleaner deal (aint nobody got money to waste on those 50ml-costing-thousands-of-naira fluids).

I'm just saying! LOL!

Ok, on a serious note, these DIY cleaners do as much as those brush shampoos and sometimes even better.
Being a professional makeup artist, I get to clean my brushes pretty often. Here's how I do it...

From left: Alcohol, Apple cider vinegar, Morning fresh anti-bacterial, Extra virgin olive oil

Being the queen of depotting, I sorta got rid of the actual containers of the Alcohol and Olive oil.
               (They say I hoard, reducing my storage size makes me feel I don't hoard so much).

Alcohol: This kills everything lol! I only use this when I know my brushes have graced some not so healthy skin.

Apple cider Vinegar: Hmmm lets just say this helps take out all that grime faster. We can call this pretty mild bleach.

Morning Fresh: The ultimate grime cutter.

EVOO: Lets say this conditions your brushes after getting stripped, you don't want your expensive brushes feeling like rubber hair lol!

These are just some of the brushes I'm cleaning.

Step 1

 Get a bowl,

So I did some not so healthy skin the other day, reason I'm spraying alcohol. (OPTIONAL)

Step 2

Pour 3 parts morning fresh to one part olive oil

Step 3

Swirl your brushes one by one and repeat step if necessary.

See all that grime! Its not even a foundation brush oh! lol!

Step 4

Rinse out all that gooey stuff!

Dilute the Vinegar with water and soak your brushes for a few minutes

 Ces finis!

So I was going to put up a photo of how they looked when the got dry. Someone got a call and put these babies to work again. Lol!

We pray for dirty overworked brushes right?

Hope this post saves someone a little change,

Love,

Bemi.

DIY : Cheap lipstick palette

Heyy darrrrrlyns!

I know it's been forever, no excuses!

I kinda "holiday-ed" too much and got extra extra lazy! X_X

Today's DIY (Do it Yourself) post is a fun one and way cool if you're 

1. On a budget

2. Not in love with flamed deporting of lipsticks (like me)

3. Looking to stop carrying bulky stuff around

On a budget...

This is like the cheapest way to have your best of lipsticks in one place. Cost of this home made palette is approximately 300-500 naira. Getting a MAC empty palette or the Z Palette with the inserts would cost waaaaay more than. 

Not in love with flamed deporting...

So there are like other methods of deporting where you actually have to melt the lipsticks over direct flame. I just feel like after that direct heat, something goes wrong. 

Looking to stop carrying bulky stuff...

Fun how 21 or more of your favourite lipsticks are together. Just a hand away!  

All you need 

1. A pill box (found in standard pharmacies) 

2. A hand dryer

3. A cosmetic spatula ( well, i used a table knife)

4. Sanitizer wipe (you could use any non toxic cleaning agent)

5. A flat mixing palette ( I sha used a film... The point is, use a non messy surface that would not absorb your lipstick)

6. And your lipstick. 

Here's how...

Disinfect all you'll use 

Mac "Cyndi", Beauty UK "Sunset" and Avon "totally kissable". 

Choose lipsticks to be deported

Roll lipstick all the way and cut 3/4 way

 Crush evenly

Carefully transfer to pill box 

Spread evenly in box

Clean any mess

Turn dryer on to low heat and hold on to the lipstick. 

After 2mins ( or more depending on the  lipstick) your lipstick should look like this

Leave to cool and YEEEEEPS! You're done :)

You might want to peel off the name from the lipstick and stick on your palette for easy reference. 

Ces finis!

 

Repeat till you get all you want

This post will be updated after I fill all the empties. 

Here's Hoping this was helpful to you!

And oh! Sorry about the poor photos, y'all sha get the drill *wink

Mwah!

Bemi.