The short story of my blond hair

A little while back I told you that I wanted to try blond hair. I finally got them blond after slowly getting them lighter in steps.

You like??

Nevertheless, after Heaven died I felt the urgent need to change something. Something to make my pain visible and for some reason having blond and light hair didn't feel right anymore.

So I went to the L'oreal salon in Excalibur City and told them I wanted the exact colour of my natural hair. Here's it:

Sorry that I'm not all smiley and made up, well I didn't have that much of a great time lately. At least I got my new contact lenses, so no glasses anymore except for reading.

What do you think? Liked the blond?

Love,
Guinevere

My New Hair Colour

My wedding is coming closer and closer, a good week and I'm married. Unbelievable..

Since I had three different hair colours I thought it's time to get a more natural, harmonious colour for my big day.

I wish I could say it was simple to find a hairdresser, but a lot can go wrong when it comes to colour. There are a few salons, but their prices are insane..

Luckily, I was part of the Matrix Colour event. The lovely hair colour expert of L'Oréal was there as well and since she owns her own shop I went to her and got a wonderful result.

Before:

After:

Like I was born with that hair colour. She's amazing. I love the result. Kisses to you, Belma!!

You can find her store here: Anton Baumgartnerstraße 127, 1230 Vienna. It's called "Belma Coiffeur" and she has a facebook site as well. :-)

If you want a new haircut or colour and not end up broke, go to her!

What do you think? Like the result?

Love,

Guinevere

L'Oréal Wild Ombrés Highlights

Hey lovelies,

Sorry for my silence, but I have a cold that really knocked me out the last couple of days and still does. I hate these temperatures.. It feels like we're a week away from christmas..

But let's change topic, I know I said I'm too chicken to try the Wild Ombré Highlights dye before my wedding, but I did it. You guys were so curious, so I just had to. *g* Here is the post where I showed you all the details. *click*

Let's give you a before and after and then I'll talk about the experience! *g*

Before:

and nooooww: after!

You can definitely see a difference! What do you think? 

I'm not so sure about it, but it's not bad. I sorta like it. *gg* The only thing is the not-so-perfect transition. It's too harsh, but it's difficult to get a real idea about how it will look afterwards while dyeing it.

You use it with a brush on your dry hair starting as far up as you want it to:

Pretty Guinevere.. What a horrible picture, but I wanted to show you how it looks..

I was a bit nervous, cause the instruction warns you more than once to be really careful with the dye.. I found that quite unsettling, also you have to be quick mixing the liquids together, cause once mixed it overflows if you don't open the bottle quickly enough. Truly weird. 

Luckily, I didn't have any problems with the product and even though the dye touched my skin, I had no troubles with that. 

All in all, I think this is a great dye if you wanna try the ombré look! So, what is your opinion on it?

Love,

Guinevere

L'Oréal Paris Wild Ombrés Préférence Highlights

L'Oréal released something pretty cool - a DIY ombré hair dye. The ombré style is quite trendy at the moment, so this is right up your alley if you wanna try it.

I got this two weeks ago and look at it every single day, but can't get myself to do it. I'm sure it works great, but I'm getting married and I think for now I wanna keep my hair colour classic. 

Nevertheless, I wanted to show you how it would work and the tools you get to achieve that look. So here we go:

Quite an amount of items:

Tool kit:

So, what do you think? Something you would try? Do you have the ombré hair style?

Love,
Guinevere

Garnier Olia Color Party!

At the beginning of November I was invited to a top-secret Color party. Garnier released a revolutionary new hair coloration that works completely without ammoniac. You know the ingredient that smells so bad you're always on the verge of fainting because of the fumes.

We were at the L'Oréal academy in Vienna and the idea was to get a at-home experience, so we had to dye our hair by ourselves, but of course we got some help.

I chose the shade nr. 7 which was quite popular. Let's share some pictures:

Here we go:

Miss Austria was also part of the event. She's so skinny and her facial features are so perfect, I was so jealous.. 

Group photo of some of the guests. I looked really bad standing next to the best looking person:

Me with my new hair color!

It was a lovely evening, even if it wasn't that easy to color your hair by yourself.. Several girls had troubles, but luckily it worked for me.

It's a little over a month now since I dyed it and the colour still looks lovely, the nice smell is another plus. 60% of the colour is made of oils, several of them of natural origin. Pretty cool.

Thanks to Garnier for inviting me and if your looking for a hair color without those horrible fumes, go get this one! In France and the UK it's already available, we'll get it in January

Love,
Guinevere

The Ultimate Hairdresser Experience

I regularly get mails from different brands about new products, which will be released soon. A couple of weeks ago I got one about a new Colour Lock System by Wella.

This system prolongs the brillianze and beauty of your coloured hair. There are four different types of infusions: Hydrate, Volumize, Smoothen, Repair. Out of these four one picks two and your hairdresser massages them into your hair. It's a serum and foam.

Since I'm a hair junkie I was quite curious, so I asked if I could get that system to test it. Julia, the lovely contact from the company that sends me the newsletters, told me this treatment is only available at a hair salon, but if I want I could try it there.

Of course I said yes and yesterday was the day I had my appointment and that at a chic hair salon - Strassl Exklusiv in the Ringstraßengalerie. I never was at such a fancy salon. It's brand new and I looove the interior design. Exactly my style, modern, sleek, simply classy:

When I arrived the first thing the woman at the reception said "such extreme long hair..". I felt the need to apologize.. Maybe I should have said that, but, luckily, they got over that first shock quite fast.

I was escorted to one of the beautiful chairs, offered something to drink and we started talking about the colour I would want. When I left home I was sure I just would want a true black, but I asked about her opinion and she recommended a natural, glowing, soft brown. I said yes.

Here are some before and after pictures:

Before:



After:

Truly beautiful, right?

But this endresult wasn't a 30 min job. It took 4 hours.. *g*

Let's go over the process:

• hair analysis aka what should the endresult look like

• lovely Julia and Natascha washed my hair with a hybrid product (basically, a mix between a shampoo and a gentle bleaching product) - a lot of tugging was involved.. the price of long hair and quite some charging for the bad quality (drugstore) colour I used to dye my hair and how uneven my result was - again I felt the need to apologize

• since my hair reacted nicely to the bleaching, the colouring started

first I got some light strands and and then the rest of the colour was applied

After thirty minutes Julia washed my hair and then started using the Colour Lock System which looks like that:

That took short 10 minutes: first the serum and then the foam. I got the mix: Colour Save and Repair.

After washing it out again, she blow dried my hair.

As you already saw the result was this beautiful glowing, but natural looking brown:

I never thought this would be such an exclusive and professional experience. I'm so grateful. So thanks again to the lovely girls from Strassl, Wella for letting me test the system and sponsoring it and Julia from the PR company who made this appointment possible.

I'm certainly gonna come back, regularly. I don't know how to afford it yet *g* but the quality definitely convinced me. I always wanted to try this ashy emo blonde, even if I doubt it would suit me. If I ever decide to go for it, I'll do it at that salon with Julia.

So if you have a hair "experiment" coming up, I would go there.

Love,

Guinevere

All services were covered by Wella.