My New Hair

Sorry for my slackness recently in updating this blog.  It has almost been a week... I've just slapped myself on the wrist and told myself not to leave it that long again.

I'm sure you're all very interested to know what happened with my hair.  I booked an appointment at Essensuals in Guildford.  Now you might find it a little strange that I live in London and took a train for 40 minutes to the suburbs just to get my hair done but this hairdressers has saved me from a variety of mistakes in the past and so I knew I was in safe hands.  

I donned my prettiest pink dress, and off I went.

                         

(Excuse the, quite frankly, RANK hair but I was about to get it done so didn't feel the need to go all out)

I arrived and explained that I wanted to be blonde again, that I missed it and had to have it back.  I also opted for a little trim as, let's be honest, I haven't had a haircut by a professional hairdresser since The Millennium.

My original hair:

The result:

(shamelessly taking selfies on the train home - creep. Also excuse my no make-up face and rather perplexed/indifferent expression)

It is certainly no where near as blonde as I had originally intended but I'm going on holiday soon and it'll definitely lighten up in the sun.  It also looks so much darker in photos (with flash) than in natural light which is quite weird:

But all in all I am happy with the result.

What do you guys think?!

On another note please do check out Meg's Simply Beach give-away here - she's giving her readers the chance to win a £50 voucher.  Not too shabby hey!

To Blonde or not to Blonde....

...that is the question my fellow bloggers.

In just a few hours I am off to the hairdressers and 90% sure I shall be returning to my former blonde self.  What do you think?

My current hair:

As you can see the sun has lightened it up quite a bit since the first picture was taken.

And here is my hair when I was blonde:

I really miss being blonde so I think I'm going to head away from the dark side.  Thoughts?!

Sickness and Flowers

I haven't been on here in forever as I was pretty sick last week which kind of threw me!  Everyone at work seemed to come down with the same thing at the same time so I was in bed for the whole of Thursday and had to call in sick which I absolutely hate doing, but there was no way I could physically work!  When I went in the next day a few people had to leave because they felt so awful and I found that the day I'd called in sick four people were off too and two other people had to leave earlier than they were meant to... not good!!  Have any of you been sick too?

Anyway, I'm fine now I believe and the boy and I have just booked a last minute getaway to Greece over the Jubilee week....so excited!!  At first I thought it was a little un-British of me to want to go away during this time but I am craving sunshine and fun so I think it's the right decision.

This weekend I didn't do much.

I wondered about how to control my undeniably messy hair (looks so much more controlled in photos than in life):

I enjoyed the sunshine in London when I could:

I wore this little ASOS dress to catch up with a friend:

Drank too much of this:

(Source: Ying & Yang)

(that is cider not beer for the record!)

Booked a holiday here:

And slept far too much.

Now the 1 week holiday countdown/exercise regime begins....surely I can be bikini ready in 7 days?!  Gah!

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend :)