Friday, August 20, 2010

Chinese paper cuts

I finally started to get the hang of putting on false eyelashes so I've been on the look out for a good brand. So far I really like the soft eyelashes of Dolly Wink. But I just came across these falsies on Urban Outfitters beauty shop. Its Chinese Paper Cut-out inspired. I'm curious as to when would be the appropriate time to wear them. Halloween? New years? Chinese new years?

Friday, August 13, 2010

My 1st Digital Perm

Having craved wavy locks for ages, I finally decided to get a perm after reading about digital perms. So its supposed to give you looser curls. I went to a Chinese beauty salon after looking up every salon in NOVA that had one. Most were Chinese or Korean salons and there was one American salon that charged 300! I paid $150 and that included a cut. First there was a wash, then a cut to thin out my hair. Now I have never gotten a perm ever so I dont know what these steps are called so I'm just gonna make em up. The 1st was some kind of conditioning with a hot rotating halo for 20 or so mins. Then the hair was rolled and hooked up to the digital perm machine for like 20mins. Then I sat under a blowdrying dome for 10mins. They then put a horseshoe shaped dish around my neck and rinsed the perm with a solution. Finally wash and blowdryed a bit. She insisted that my hair be air dried. And this is the result after air drying.
Here I'm nervous about the perms cause the rollers looked small.
I have to wait a week before I do any major styling, but I think I can get the big waves I want with blow drying. And then color! I'm leaning towards a dark caramel color but that may be too far on the blonde side. But then again its almost fall so I could do a red color. Decisions Decisions