Argan Oil for Damaged Hair

Do you ever touch your hair and realize just how damaged it is? Whether it is because you love to dye it, you spend too much time out on the sun or because you love heat tools I have a quick trick for you!

Most of us know that Argan Oil is the best oil for your hair because it's really similar to the natural oil your hair produces I'm gonna tell you  how I use it to minimize the damage to my hair.

There are a lot of different types of Argan Oil but I'm gonna tell you how I use the penetrating oil, this particular one is really thick and smells quite nice. This bottle lasted me about 6 months.

• As I've said many times, I dye my hair a lot. I only bleach my roots and I try not to overlap, but I always put some drops on the bleach, this helps so that the damage is not as bad.
• After washing your hair pat it dry, put 2 or 3 drops of oil in your hand and rub it on your hair avoiding the roots.
• Rub some drops on your hair whenever you feel it dry and after brushing it.
• Before washing your hair, saturate it with Argan Oil and let iT sit for half an hour, if you can, let it sit overnight, then wash.

Follow this steps and you'll see how you hair starts looking and felling healthier.

Have you tried Argan Oil? Do you like it? Let me know in a comment!

Nails of the Week

Hi! How are you? I hope great!
You know when you get into the spirit of Christmas really early? Well that happened to me this week except only with my nails haha. After painting them I stared at them and realized it looks like winter arrived early this year. Funny thing is, I really don't care about seasonal colors.

I used Beauty Secrets Hardener as my base coat, but since this is a foil polish I recommend to use a ridge filler as a base coat.
I used China Glaze Blue Bells Ring, from the 2012 China Glaze Christmas Collection. I've been in love with this polish since I saw it, I just loved the way it looks on the bottle. The formula is great, you only need 1 coat but I used 2 just in case. No top coat.

For the accent nail I used China Glaze Platinum Silver. I have a love/hate relationship with this polish because as much as I love the color, the formula is super streaky. I used two coats and China Glaze Fast Forward as a top coat.

 Here's the final result.

The first two pictures are indoors and the last one is in natural sunlight. The camera doesn't really pick up the effect but I promise it looks the same as the bottle, really pretty.You can see that it looks uneven but that's because I didn't use a ridge filler.
Let me know what you think!

The Worst White Nail Polish

I've never been a huge fan of white nail polish, even though it's kind of a "basic" for nail polish but I just can't get into it, maybe it reminds me of when I was little and bored in class I'd paint my nails with liquid paper haha or I don't know. So I did have one but just in case my sister wanted to borrow it or something. But lately I've gotten more into nail art and suddenly I wanted to use white for a lot of things, wheter I want to use it as a base for a neon color or to do some details so I thought I'd try the one I had already.

 L.A COLORS in French White.

I bought this polish on a whim because it was on sale and I said why not, but when I actually went to use it I was surprised on how many coats I needed to make it opaque. I tried it with a lot of different base coats and it was the always the same result.

To get it somewhat opaque I put on 4 coats but the drying time is awful, everytime I tried to do something it ruined the polish no matter how many hours I waited.

I've used it for water marbling but you can barely see it so I use it when I only want one color to show on the nail. Also for dotting it's not as good, you have to leave big blops on your nails or else it doesn't show.

So now I'm on the look for the perfect white nail polish and if you have any recommendations leave it in a comment I'd love to try a different white nail polish.

Forever 21 Haul

Last year they finally opened a Forever 21 in my country, big downside, it's really far away from my house so I had been planning to go but my plans always went wrong for one reason or another and two weeks ago I finally had the time to go and I really liked it! so I thought I'd show you what I got.

First, I got 2 really awesome sweatshirts. I was trying to decide between the two but I couldn't so I got  both. The first one is a Wolverine sweatshirt, it's also really warm and soft.

The next one is a Spiderman sweatshirt, this one is lighter but still really warm.

 While we're still talking about superheroes, I also got this really awesome Thor t-shirt. As you can see I really love Marvel.

 Now, let me tell you, I absolutely love Star Wars, and I have quite a few Star Wars shirts already but this one is so pretty I couldn't leave it behind. It's a muscle shirt and it's also really soft. Is it me or F21 has really soft clothes?

 I have a thing for shirts that are longer in the back, I don't even know why, I'm actually pretty short so this type of shirt makes me look shorter but I like them. This shirt was on sale and it's not as soft as the rest of them haha.

I already told you about the brush set I got, I haven't tried all the brushes yet because I'm not a huge fan of face powder or anything but the ones I've used work just fine. And they also had this cute fox phone case and it protects the front of the phone as well which is a must for me because I'm clumsy and I drop my phone left and right so it needed some protection plus it was on sale really cheap.

Last, I got 3 spaghetti straps that were also on sale and I got them in black, grey and white. I didn't take a photo of them because they dirty and I need to wash them but yeah!

Let me know you think of the stuff I got in a comment!or you can tell me what you think of my sheets haha.
 Hope you have an awesome day! Thanks for reading. 

Essence Gel Eyeliner: Review

You might remember this eyeliner from a previous haul, I said I was going to do a revview as soon as I could find a brush and guess what? I finally did!

I realize it took me some time but I really wanted a syntetic brush because I don't like brushes made with animal hair and MAC is a big no for me, shocker, I know. I looked everywhere for the Essence brush but I couldn't find it so my next choice was Elf, and let me tell you, Elf is not cheap in my country and it's hard to find so I did my research and found a place not too far away from me, and they actually had it so I got it. Two weeks later I went to Forever 21 and I saw a brush set that really caught my eye and it came with an angle brush so I got it too.

Two weeks after that, here we are and I've been using the eyeliner everyday.
A little fact about me: I love doing winger eyeliner but I also suck at it, my wings are always uneven so much that when I use a pen eyeliner I guide it with my nose so the wings are as even as I can get them, but I found that is way easier wih a brush . I´ve been using the F21 brush more because of the shape, but the elf brush is way better, the eyeliner applies better.

Lines I did with the F21 brush.

Lines I did with the elf brush.

 Now, as far as the eyeliner goes, I love it, it glides on super smooth, the color is a rich black which I love, it's waterproof and it lasts all day. It does smell weird and since I'm still new at this gel eyeliner thing I take too much with the brush so I have to clean it and some lumps form but nothing that can't be fixed.
So my veredict is, do get it, it's a great way to start using gel eyeliner. Also it's really cheap and you got to love that!
Leave me a comment to let me know what you think!

Vegan Lavender Cookies

Hey! How are you?

Lately I've been obsessed with lavender, I bought some of it dried and wow it's really amazing and I've been trying it on everything and that's why today I bring you a recipe for vegan lavender cookies.

This makes a ton of cookies, I don't know exactly how many, sorry. I got the lavender at a local organic store.

You'll need:

• 3 packs of Stevia.
• The equivaent of 2 eggs, using the replacement of your choice.
• 2 cups of flour.
• 1/4 cup of soy milk, I used vanilla.
• 4 tablespoons of agave nectar.
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
• 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
• 3 tablespoons of dried lavander.
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
• 1 teaspoon of nutmeg.
• 1/4 cup of canola oil. 

Here's everything I used except the milk because I forgot.

As the egg replacer I used:

•  2 teaspoons of baking powder.
• 2 tablespoons of oil.
• 1 tablespoon sof oil

 That replaces 1 egg, so I doubled everything and put it in a little bowl, mixed and put it aside.

In a large bowl mix the oil, agave nectar, and stevia.

Add the egg replacement and mix.

In a bowl add all the reamining dry ingredients and mix being careful not to spill anything.

Then sift the dry mixture over your liquid mixture.

Then add the milk and mix. It should look like this.

Now chop the lavender as small as you can. And add it in.

Mix it and you should have a sticky dough.

Now, I meant to take photos of the next steps but it was just too messy because I was working the dough with my hands.

So, next form a ball with the dough, wrap it in plastic and put it in the freezer overnight if you can. I was too impatient and put it in the freezer for 2 hours.

Pre-heat the oven at 190 C/375 F Then put some flour in a cutting board, place the dough and roll it. I used some heart cookie cutters that I had laying around but you can do any shape you want. This dough was enough to fill two trays.

Bake for 8 minutes and then turn the oven off, leave for another minute and take them out. They might look saggy and soft but once they cool off they will harden.

                      

I thought my little cousins weren't gonna like them because they weren't chocolate but they loved them and fought for the last one! So for me, that was a success.

I really hoped you liked the recipe! If you make them let me know in a comment! 

Beauty Secrets Non-Acetone Nail Polish Remover: Review

Hi everyone!
First of all let me just say IM SO SO SORRY for not posting in so long, but my computer was broken and the mobile app absolutely hates me and I couldn't do anything about it, but now my computer is working (let's hope it continues working) and I have some reviews and recipes lined up! So stay tuned for that.

But today I have a review of the Beauty Secres Non-Acetone Nail Polish Remover.

The reason I bought this was because I was at Sally Beauty Supply and I remembered I ran out of my nail polish remover so I saw this, it was good value for money and it said Non-Acetone so I thought "well it can't be that bad" so I got it. When I got home I opened it and was quite surprised with the smell, it doesn't smell as bad as others do, so my sister asked me to try it on her and boy was that a mistake.
It took forever to remove the polish from one nail and it left her nail peeling and hurting, it was awful, and this was just regular polish, no glitter, no nothing. Then I though "well maybe it's because my sister is allergic to everything" so I tried it on my nails, and that was a huge mistake, The only nail I tried it on hurt like hell and was peeling like crazy, it was a huge mess so I don't recommend this. I even tried to use it to clean my nails art brushes and it was useless.

If you read the bottle it says "gentle professional formula" and "safe for natural or artificial nails". This is not gentle or safe for natural nails, it may smell like blackberries but that's about it. So I'm gonna stick with my drugstore brand or Essence because those may be a little bit more expensive but they don't damage my nails.
What do you think? Have you tried this nail polish remover? Let me know in a comment! Thanks for reading!