9 Things You Notice When You Cut Off Your Hair

I very recently cut 12 inches in length off my hair and I'm loving it! That said, there are a few things that I've noticed.

1. Everything feels bright, breezy and fresh
Suddenly you can move you head without the weight of all that hair and it feels....weird. Good, but weird.

2. Styling time is cut in half...then half again
15 minutes to brush, 30 minutes to straighten and style etc - how did you put up with this for so long?! Now it's 2 seconds to run a brush through and it's done.

3. Blow-drying hair isn't a marathon event anymore
A 45 minute activity suddenly fits into an ad break and washing your hair more than once a week isn't hilariously impossible.

4. Multiple £'s in savings on hair products and dye
That penny-sized amount of shampoo and conditioner is actually enough now. Okay, so it took a few washes to get used to not using half a bottle of each and you might still stock pile back-up bottles like before. But taking advantage of every shampoo 3 for 2 you see is now just good sense instead of a necessity. Don't forget you also now only need one box of hair dye instead of three too.

5. Phantom hair washing and brushing 
The first time you wash it yourself and are surprised by the hard stop at the end of your now shorter hair followed by those first few brushes where you forget it's shorter and the end of your hair takes you by surprise every time.

6. You can put it in a ponytail without weight training first
Simple updo styles or even the humble ponytail take seconds rather than 20 minutes of brushing/smoothing/holding up hair that weighs way more than it should.

7. The VOLUME
Hours spent teasing, texturising, spraying and using every volumising technique in the book just to get your roots to do anything other than lie flat against your scalp are a thing of the past with shorter hair.

8. You don't spend half the day getting your hair trapped
Car doors, zips, bag straps, bra straps, seat fabric, and at its longest even trousers were a hair trap ripping it out at every turn. Not anymore!

9. You miss it
As much maintenance, pain and effort it was to keep it that long, you will miss it from time to time. But it will grow and before long you'll want to chop it all off again :-)

Quick Update | L'Oreal Preference Glam Highlights

Today's post is just a super quick update on my L'Oreal Preference Glam Highlights (first applied here and then updated again here) experience. It's been a few months and I've been topping up here and there. Since my November application, I have used three more boxes every 6 weeks or so as I slowly brighten back up to blonde.

As always, the dye itself is perfect for my intentions and blends so bloody effortlessly that I'm impressed every time. Even when I think I might have royally messed up, I'm always happy with the results and how well this stuff blends. Here's a quick view of the highlights:

You can see my natural colour in the back blending nicely plus some white-blonde almost platinum pieces threaded through too. I've been using the comb that comes with the box as well as my tinting brush and bowl set to apply.

My hair feels softer than ever so I'm happy. I usually have quite course hair and I think the bleach has really helped to soften this up a bit. Plus it's so very shiny all the time!

I love this dye kit and will continue to use it for touch-ups and further highlights. 10/10 would recommend forever :-)

Tabitha 

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Loreal Glam Highlights Update

I haven't blogged in almost a month! I have lots of ideas for posts but it's been difficult to get the pictures that need to go with them because I spend the daylight hours at the office and all my house lights are dim yellow.

Anyway, enough with the excuses. I just wanted to share a couple of pictures from just over a week ago since I managed to capture my highlights in the sunshine while taking train selfies (standard). The sunlight doesn't do my skin any favours so they are edited to fuck but I promise I haven't edited my hair.

As you can see, the highlights are still bright blonde and seamlessly blending with my hair. I am so so so impressed with Loreál's Glam Highlights kits as always and can't wait for my next session.

I'm letting my hair rest until after Christmas and then I'm going to put even more highlights in! :-) I definitely couldn't have done it without the kit though so a massive hats off to Loreal and their impeccable hair dye ranges.

Tabitha

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Post not sponsored by Loreal - I just love their products and wanted to share :-)