How to get your hair platinum blonde! (With little to no damage)

Hey guys! So I know usually on my blog, it's really heavy stuff. Well, on a lighter (bwahahaha, see? Lighter! xD No? Oh, right....sorry) note, I've decided to do a sort of tutorial on how I got my hair platinum blonde, minus the youtube video.

First, I'll start off with what I did:
So, naturally, I guess you could call my hair a dark ash blonde. It's long, and really thin. The color, since I was born with this really bold, pinkish gold color, this hair color just didn't suit me. At all. It had no dimension, and so I decided I needed a change. My hair was already dyed a goldy-color, but what I did, was I went to the store and bought the cheapest, lightest hair color I could find.

It turned my hair yellow.
(And I'm talking anime character yellow)

So, Since this was a school weekend, we bought another dye. Did the same thing, it was a little better though. So now that it was lighter, I looked up what the magical thing called toners are! We ended up getting one, and leaving this toner (Wella, T18 I believe) and left it on for ten minutes. It did a lot for my hair actually, and I liked how it looked. It was a sort of pastel color, but I still needed it blonder.

So I did it again. xD

By now, my hair wasn't really hurt. It was holding very well. :3

I ended up doing two different toners within a week, and my hair still wasn't the right color.

So finally, I sucked it up and bleached my hair.

I went the chickening-out route though. I ended up using the Feria "Absolute Platinum" kit, thinking it was some kind of magical way to get around using bleach, but no, haha it's still bleach. xD

So, I bleached it, and it dried my hair out more than I was hoping it would. It lightened like crazy, but now my hair was a dull (uneven) pastel yellow.

So I bleached it again.
And, wait for it!

I bleached it again!
But this time, I ended up using the wella, T18 toner afterwards. It did wonders for my hair color, but the condition wasn't very good.

What I recommend:
Start gradually going lighter with box dyes (they can have peroxide if you prefer the faster results). And by gradually, I mean over a span of a month or two depending on how dark your hair naturally is. Between the dying, I highly highly recommend using a hot oil treatment once a week. The hot oil treatment you can use on your hair can be a mixture of anything. Some people go really crazy with this, but I really just put a few tablespoons of olive oil with a few tablespoons of coconut oil and put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds. After you do that, I literally just spread it all over my head and sleep on it. In the morning, my hair is like silk, it's insane.

You can also use a deep conditioner to keep up with it.
Anyway, so once you've gotten your hair to some sort of blonde, then it's time to bleach it. What you do, is you go to any hair care store and get a tub of violet powder bleach, and a 20 or 30 volume developer to mix it with. This way you can avoid having to bleach more than once due to lack of product. After you bleach it, you need to do either a deep-conditioning or a hot oil treatment to make sure you don't damage it too much. If you're only bleaching once, there should be really no damage, but you're still not gonna want fluffy, lifeless hair.

Now that you've bleached, wait a day or so and use the toner. You can do it immediately afterwards, but I don't recommend it. Your hair will be in no condition to handle that. You can use any toner, but the one I've found works is T18.

Yay! If you follow these steps you should have platinum blonde hair! What you can also do to keep up with it (I haven't really found it works) is buy a purple shampoo and conditioner. They'll be specially made for platinum blondes, so they aren't too hard to find. But just remember to regularly condition your hair, and keep up with hot oil treatments. Your hair should still be in good condition after you do this.


I was going to put a list of the products I've used, but I can't remember any of them. If you have any questions just leave it in the comments. :)

Stay platinum. ;)

-Evie

Inspiration for the day♥

Stay complex♥

Top 10 of the week

Just a couple more months to go.

I'm sorry I've been so busy. I'm trying to keep up with posting, but school has been more than happy to keep us busy, and with the end of the year talent show coming up I'm deciding whether or not I'm going to do it, and if I did, what song I'm going to do. So I've decided to create a simple top-10 list of random crap, starting with the song I'm highly considering doing for my talent show. Enjoy!

10. Stay - Rihanna
This is such a beautiful and meaningful song. It's really raw, and since performing in the school talent show well be my first time ever performing a song live, I figured I wanted it to be sentimental and meaningful. I'm really good at piano, and since this is a piano song I'm strongly considering this. Plus it's in my vocal range, at least for the most part, but please, if you have any requests about a song you think I should do feel free to comment below, it's greatly appreciated.

9. The word "hyperbole"
Hyperbole basically means an exaggeration. I might never use this in a sentence but the word itself is pretty damn entertaining.

8. Witty comebacks
Because sometimes "Your mom" just doesn't cut it. I recommend "you're just mad because your mom has a bigger dick than you do" or "if I wanted to hear a bitch I would've bought a dog"

7. Cherry Airheads
No explanation necessary.

6. The card game "BS"
Because why not?

5. Quote;
 "Nobody said that it would be easy. 
They just promised it would be worth it."

4. Color: Yellow
This has been a very long and heavy week, and the fact that it's Friday is really relieving. Yellow is a light and airy color, which is probably how you should take today.

3. Food; Pizza
Generally pizza is my first choice but it seems especially appealing this week.

2. Emotion; Relief
That's definitely the tone for today, at least. I'm exhausted after this and I think today is a day for recovery and fun. :) Enjoy yourself, splurge, hang out with people. Make today awesome.

1. Random acts of kindness
Being random and putting it to good use for strangers will make you a superhero in disguise.

Have a beautiful week, my friends.♥

~Evie

Letting him go

Advice #10

(This is for you guys out there too)

You know who I'm talking about.

Him.

The one person you know that has the capability to take your breath away just by looking at you.
That grin he has.
That hair you just want to run your fingers through.
Those eyes, my god those eyes.


But here's the thing; he's just your crush.
And that's the hard part.

You have a couple of classes (all of them if you're lucky) with him. And my god they're the best classes of the day.

But you've never been more than friends. And that kills you.

Lately, I've been really crushing on, well...him. 

And we've never really been close, because honestly, he's too good for me. 

He's so gorgeous...he can be a jerk sometimes, but he's so funny. His eyes...

Well, anyway, he's popular. And like Taylor Swift, I'm melting as he walks by to talk to another girl. 

And we've been getting closer, which just absolutely makes my day so much more worth it. Those first two classes I have are with him, and they're the best classes of the day. He makes me want to go to school. 

Well, like I said, we've never really been that close (But closer than a lot of people there. He at least talks to me sometimes, which is actually really good considering he doesn't even talk to half the freshmen) but I've been slowly hoping we'd get closer. But then it dawned on me; what if we don't have any classes together next year?

So, as you can see, I've been getting my hopes up really high. Well, today on facebook, he posted that, "Talking on the phone to *insert pretty girl's name* makes me smile"

And it crushed me.

Why can't I make him smile? 

I've never understood why. And I've been doing all of these things, like getting up early to make myself look extra good, hoping that one day he'll finally notice me.

But he hasn't.

And...he won't.

Which leads me to advice #10; Letting him go.

1. Stop getting your hopes up for this guy. 

He doesn't notice you, and hoping he does every day is just gonna make it crush you even more when he doesn't. This is literally setting yourself up to break. 

2. Stop deeming yourself un-worthy. 

You are worthy. My god, you're so much more worthy of anybody than you could ever think. You are valuable; any guy would be lucky to have you. No, don't give me that. It's true. And I need you to know this. If he isn't going to notice anything you do for him, he isn't worth being around. Like I've said before, if you have to change yourself to be around him, you need to let him go.

3. Be yourself.

Yes, I understand you've been hearing this cheesy-ass saying since your days in pigtails watching Disney channel. But there isn't a better time for you to enforce this than now; just be yourself. Don't go that extra mile for anybody else but you. You're the only person that you need to make happy, so don't spend your days acting like an acceptable human being for the sake of how everybody else is acting. Do what you want, for your sake. If you be yourself, then you'll naturally attract more people. The less you care what others think, the better your life will be. 

4. Don't care what they think of you.

Going with what I said before, the less you care the better your life will be. If you decide to wear a dress for no apparent reason, and other people will judge you for that because it's "weird", do it. If it makes you happy, just do it. Other people are always going to be judgmental a**holes, so the less you care about what the critics say behind you, the more confidence it'll give you to stand up for yourself. If you're doing something to make yourself happy and get through the day, then who are they to say that's wrong?

5. Don't listen to taylor swift.

All of her songs are about breakups. It'll make it a lot worse.

Try to find some music that'll enforce happiness or talk about something positive, rather than hearing "he's the reason for the tear drops on my guitar" because that'll just make it worse.

One more thing before you carry on with your life;

don't compare yourself to the people he does talk to. If you do that, you'll just end up breaking yourself down and faking yourself to please him. As you do that, you lose who you really are, and as a teenager it's already hard enough figuring out who that is. So live for yourself, and put his picture down tonight. Focus on important things that'll actually end up sculpting your life, and give him something to be jealous of. Because while he's breaking hearts with a flip of his hair, you'll be changing the world. And that means something.

Stay yourself♥

~Evie

It's a sad day for the MCRmy.

I just can't see this as the end for them. This will probably just be a long hiatus. 

This won't be the last we see of MCR. 

-Evie

Playground Eyes

 This is a quote that really has me thinking lately. I'm actually really surprised I haven't seen it around more, because it really means a lot to me. And since I couldn't find really anything about how beautifully meaningful it is, I decided to make a tumblr-esque picture about it like most meaningful quotes have, and elaborate a little bit about why it means so much to me. ♥

So, I stumbled upon this quote when I was listening to My Chemical Romance's song S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, and as I was listening, the term "playground eyes" really caught my eye. Lately I've been kind of revisiting my childhood, revisiting memories of warmer days of innocence. And writing an essay about To Kill a Mockingbird didn't really help either - the whole book seems to be based on childhood nostalgia. So I decided that for this post I was gonna incorporate a list of little things that bring me back to my childhood and remind me of the days I've been missing for so long. So without further nonsense, here's a list of the beautiful things that remind me of my childhood:

1. Listening to a CD you used to hear as a kid

2. Seeing moments happen in slow-motion

3. Playing with your old favorite toys

4. Eating your favorite food as a kid

5. Summer

6. Hearing the flapping of a flag

7. hearing your parents call you for dinner

8. Watching the birds and the butterflies in Spring

9. Roadtrips

10. Staying up late with your friends

11. Ice cream

12. Popsicles

13. going swimming

14. finding that one toy that just made your life better

15. stargazing on summer nights

16. catching fireflies

17. BBQ's

18. Hopscotch

19. Hearing your parents sing 

20. Bubblebaths

21. Scavenger hunts

22. Finishing an amazing book 

23. Buying new clothes

24. Riding bikes

25. Hide-and-seek

26. Going to the arcade

27. Birthday Parties

28. Tire swings

29. Building "forts"

30. Watching cartoons

31. Drinking cocoa after a long cold day

32. The first snow shower of the year

33. Getting presents

34. Play-Doh

35. Baking cookies 

36. Wrapping things in newspaper

37. Making "time capsules"

38. Jumping off swings

39. Vacations to the beach

40. Your first rollercoaster

41. Making sandcastles

42. Hiding things in your yard

43. Easter egg hunts

44. Making your parents breakfast in bed

45. Chasing birds and squirrels and lizards

46. Your first time ice-skating

47. Taking pictures you'll remember forever

48. Going camping

49. Playing in the rain

50. Being free

I really hope you enjoyed my list.

Remember, when you're feeling down, just take a moment to see the world through your playground eyes.♥

~Evie