I occasionally wear coloured lenses too. My eyes are naturally hazel, and so I have to get the type of lenses for darker eyes.

So far, I have a collection of Turquoise, True Blue, and a light golden colour that just adds goldish flecks to your natural colour. Mine are all disposable too. (Freshlook)

I get them shipped from the states, so to make it worth my while in shipping costs, I get a load of different ones each time.  8)

Anyhoo, I'm glad that you are feeling better. Us redheads have got to stick together! 

When I used to work in the salon, I had quite a few of my customers who had babies and I took care of their hair for them throughout their pregnancies.  Towards the middle of the third trimester, a lot of them would come in asking for a drastic haircut, jusst to change SOMETHING.  I would do my best to talk them out of it, telling them that their bodies would  be changing drastically (smaller) very soon, and that ponytails could be very easy with a baby.  I would say, "So many things are getting ready to change in your life, do you really want to be fighting with a new haircut that you may regret.  I'd tell them if they still wanted it cut that I would do it after they had no postpartum depression.  I had more than a few thank me for it later!  (So Rua, beware the hormonal haircutting urge!)

Now, what can I do to talk myself out of a haircut?  I know the eyepatch will be off next week, I'll have new glasses with cute little bronze frames and be back in my green contacts at least part of the time.  And yet, I'm bored.  I  feel sorry for myself; you'd think I had lost a limb, the way I'm acting.  It's all going to be fine.  I have a headache and just don't feel good, fever, my eye is infected. 
But I just want something new, that I don't need and I keep thinking"Do a mercy-killing and chop off all those dead ends and layers."

Then I think about the PMS rule.  I found out in Jr. High School to never cut my hair or my bangs during PMS week or the "other" week.

Well, this not hormonal but it really feels similar.  I want to do something drastic that I will probably regret; mercy-chop the hair.

I've just finished Christmas shopping so I can't shop much for myself right now.  So I've got to think of something creative.

Any ideas, anyone? ???

TIA

Good one Anais!

One thing I do whenever I'm feeling like that is get myself my favourite chinese take-away and I rent a couple DVD's.

Get into yer plushy soft jammies and crash for the evening....reveling in your chinese with a glass of wine and movie. Maybe a nice chocolate something for afters....

That is bliss for me! Of course, then again, I have always had this obsession with food.

Oh, and keep an eye out for my upcoming posts where I will want to do a drastic haircut. Trying to talk me out of that will keep you too occupied to worry about your hair! 

My eye is much better.  I go back to my regular eye doctor Monday morning to try a new type contact that is supposed to let more oxygen and moisture through and be more comfortable.  New glasses are cute and work great; just can't wear them very long each day yet.  
I decorated my eyepatch with burgundy sheer ribbon; made me feel a little more feminine.

MY HAIR!
I broke down and measured tonight at 17.75" so if I make 18" by January that will be 6 inches in 9 months; that's three months ahead of schedule since April 05 will be a year.  I think that's about .67" per month on average.

New hair routine:  Some time back I splurged on a bottle of Phytojoba Shampoo and I love it.  I had been following with Biolage Conditioning Balm, just a tiny amount.  Today I accidentally left the 2nd shampoo lather on while showering and when I rinsed it out, it felt really conditioned and not tangly at all.  So I left the conditioner off.

My hair felt incredibly good today and looked pretty good for my hair.
I've wanted to try the Phytorhum Egg and Rum Shampoo but wouldn't buy another one just yet, and my dad had me order it for myself for doing a lot of his Christmas shopping online for him.  It should be here Tuesday.  Sweet, sweet Daddy!

1)  So I want to try alternating the Phytojoba Shampoo with the Phytorhum Shampoo

2)  and only deep condition with the Conditioning Balm on weekends, subject to change.  

3)  I want to keep using my jojoba oil either dry, in a dilute mist with distilled water or on wet hair

4)  and also use a dilution of water and red wine vinegar as needed.

5)  I also like a lavendar water mist especially on my scalp.

6  Aloe vera gel, as needed.

This will take some tweaking to get this routine down but I figure if I get to something that really works well for my hair in less than a year since I started, I'll be more than pleased.

I'm using a Madora detangling comb, a Comair shower comb (very smooth, from Walgreens), a Champion hard rubber comb, my handmade hardwood combs (no static, no damage) from Ric at combmaker.com, Fuller's Gentle Boar Bristle Brush, as needed and rotate 2 silk pillowcases from tenderheaded.com.

It is so good to entertain myself with my hair interests again.

Merry Christmas to anyone reading!

Merry Christmas, and I'm glad your eye is getting better.

((((((Strawberryfine))))))) You're a fighter-- I would go nuts if my eyeball wasn't functioning the way it should. Those new contacts sound teriffic!

Emerald.  I like being an emerald.  And yet I'm going to be a sparkling  diamond soon but, I hate, in a way, to give up my 'emeraldness'.  It almost makes me not want to post, to hang on to being an Emmie as long as I can.  But life goes on and the stages of life shift seamlessly.  It's really kind of neat we have something to signify our passages.

strawberryfine 8)

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Oye!!!
Coconut milk does not like my hair.  I'm not sure what brand I had and it didn't smell very coconutty, disappointingly enough.  I massaged the coconut chunks into my hair enough to saturate and put on a shower cap for an hour.

I had to shampoo three times to get my hair to feel kind of clean.  Then when it was dry, it was oily halfway down and dry as stale bread on the top layer and ends.

I had to shampoo two more times and use a vinegar rinse and I hope it is clean now.

I wet-oiled with jojoba afterwards because it felt like straw.

Well, I'm not surprised about the coconut milk.  I've had so much trouble using oils.  I have just about given up on coconut oil, I know I can't use olive oil-tried that years ago.  So far I'm doing okay with jojoba oil, lavender oil, rose oil, ylang ylang, jasmine absolut; castor oil makes my hair very shiny.  I've tried a mix with rosemary oil and it was nice.

I really hope these oils are going to work for me long-term.  So many of the natural conditioners have chamomile, calendula or cedar oil in them and I am allergic to those.

Oh, yeah!  Right before I washed the coconut milk off, it had started to burn the back of my neck and my ear.  I don't have any allergies to coconut as a food; I don't know why it burned. 

I've seen some other posts elsewhere and many people have really liked the coconut milk. 

Leave it to my weird hair and skin to rebel.