Ever since being a little girl I have always loved hair, I think every little girl looks at long pretty hair and just wants it more than anything. As I've gotten older I've experimented more and more with my hair styles, lengths and colours and I thought this would be a good opportunity to show a few to you lovely readers! I've always been pretty indecisive with my hair; one minute I want it down to my butt and then the next I want a choppy bob. One minute I want lovely natural brown hair with a natural ombre in it, then the next I want bright red hair. I literally cannot make my mind up on what I want and then when I do eventually do it I usually really don't like it, I'm too fussy for my own good!
I was a little bit naughty and got to about 12/13 and started secretly chopping my hair because I just always hated the outcome of a real hairdresser (my mum was NOT a happy bunny) and so I stopped and just let my hair do its own thing, then go to the hair dressers and hate my hair for a while again and it just basically carried on like this. I've never had a great experience with hair dressers; fun fact for you when I was 15 me and my friend decided it would be really funny to dye my hair blonde and it was really really funny and I still laugh at it because it was so worth the time and the effort we put in, just for the laughs we get now! Anyway, my hair dresser at the time told me that it make me look like a slapper. I was speechless and so after that I decided I did want to try cutting my hair, but properly this time.
So I went and bought two different pairs of scissors; ones for thinning and ones for actually cutting the hair itself and this time I actually told my mum what I was planning on doing thank god. By the time I started to cut my own hair I think I had just started sixth form and had honestly watched about 30 you tube videos and read about 20 different techniques. I can honestly say I love cutting my own hair as it is some much easier and simpler and A LOT cheaper if you have a rough idea of what you are doing and what you want to achieve. The first time I did it, I cut myself a full fringe (I couldn't find a picture sorry!) and it actually turned out really well and after that I carried on doing it myself. So I've been cutting hair for about 2 years now.
I'm also a bit of a bugger for dying my hair a hell of a lot, I once dyed my hair about 20 times in a month and I'm not exaggerating. I soon learnt my lesson after that. I'm glad that I was always allowed to dye my hair because I felt it gave my area experiment with my looks, mainly with colour is how I'd experiment as I HATE really short hair on myself. The shortest I would go now is shoulder length/ or just under my shoulders, I think short hair makes my face look really chubby and round and that isn't a look that I can rock very much.

If you are looking at making a change to your hair and you have a fear of hair-dressers like me then in all honesty you should give it a shot! If you can handle that you might not like it or make a mistake, then grab the scissors and give it ago. I'd say my main tips would be:

• Make sure you use good products and tools: I bought proper hair dressers scissors and look after them a lot and because of this they stay sharp and I have no issues with them. Also with hair dye I have personally found that more expensive hair dyes and research different types and read reviews! My favourites are the L'oreal Recital Preference dyes, the colours are amazing and the dye is such a good quality!
• DO NOT DO IT UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE: This is so important, if you are half and half on what to do I wouldn't recommend it because if you hate it you will be so angry. Ask other people for an opinion and really consider it before you do anything about it please.
• Look after your hair: This mainly applies to if you dye your hair; because it will get damaged no matter what. I have had some horrifically dead hair in the past and there are two options I've found. You either cut it ALL off and start from scratch or you work your ass off to get the condition back. I was told I needed to cut it all off but I didn't want to, so I trimmed it myself and used a whole mountain of products and home remedies (the smell of raw egg makes me sick to this day) to make my hair healthy and eventually it did without needing to cut it off!

So that's it for now! I hope you enjoy reading this, I know it's a bit of a ramble but by now any of you that religiously read my blog are probably used to this by now. Let me know if you decide to cut your own hair and how it goes!

I always thought I was really good because after wearing a full face of make up, I never sleep with it on. I always make sure to take it off and for this I was always quite proud of myself, until I realised using wet wipes and make-up remover wipes was not actually that much of a good thing. I've been trying harder recently to have more of a skincare routine and actually make more of an effort with my skin; which means ditching the wet wipes.

I thought this was a good opportunity for a few blog posts, one on a few make up removers I've tried and which one is better and also maybe a post on my actual skincare routine? Exciting times I know. ANYWAY, this post is on two different products I bought last week that are supposed to do that same thing more or less.

This product although I hate to say it, I really really didn't like. I had serious high hopes for it when I first got it and after using it I was just more like, "oh" it just didn't really make me think anything really. I found that personally it made my skin feel a bit oily and I HATE oily skin, it makes me feel really gross as I suffer with an oily T-zone so the fact that my skin felt greasy all over was something I really wasn't impressed with. I also have super sensitive eyes and I found after about 30-45 minutes of using it my eyes started to sting and itch which resulted in me furiously rubbing them, that was not fun at all.

Price wise it's pretty affordable so that's a plus, and I managed to get it on offer so I can't complain too much (although when I got home I found the lid was broken when I opened it and my hands got covered in oily mess- boo ASDA not impressed with you). In terms of packaging, I actually really liked it at first. Then I got the second make up remover and I preferred the packaging of that a lot more! One thing I did really like about the product is the smell, I don't know how to explain it exactly as I'm not the best with descriptive words. It was slightly floral I guess... I don't know, but either way it smelt really nice and subtle!

In terms of actually removing my make up, it was okay. There isn't actually much more I can say other than that, it was absolutely amazing but it wasn't terrible. It took it off eventually, but took some time to actually get it all off and even then there were still a few little bits left behind on my eyes. I think with this in mind I'd probably prefer to use wet wipes because its less fuss that this product was. It could just be my skin type that didn't like it, but personally I don't think I'll bother buying it again once I've used up this bottle.

L'Oreal Skin Perfection Micellar Cleansing Water-
What they say: "L'Oréal Paris Skin Perfection Purifying Micellar Water, high performance cleansing for sensitive skin. Used by make-up artists, the 'micellar' solution swiftly removes all traces of make-up and acts like a purifying magnet on skin's surface to capture and draw out excess oil and impurities. So gentle, skin feels soothed and toned."

This product is something I have a serious love for, everything about it I just really really like! First off the packaging of this product is great, its very simple but the silver and pale pink is just very pretty and nice and who doesn't love pretty packaging!? I'm a sucker for good packaging.
In most shops it retails for around about 3-4 pounds, which in all honesty isn't really that bad if it's going to benefit your skin so once again I can't really have a moan about the price as it's not 50 pounds so its really affordable if you think about some skincare ranges.

In terms of scent, I didn't really think there was any scent there. If there is it must be extremely subtle, so much so that I can't smell anything. Either way it'd be nice if there was maybe a little bit of scent there, but its not overly important as the product itself is so good!
When actually removing make up, I found it was a lot less harsh on my skin and my eyes especially which is always great because I get very stressed when my eye's get infected. The consistency of the product genuinely is just like water, its light and not greasy at all and doesn't dry out your skin either.

At the same time its not so light that it's not good at removing make-up, it still takes a while but because of how clean my skin feels at the end I really don't mind that it takes a couple of minutes to remove anyway as I do wear quite a lot of eye make up so it's understandable it takes a little while to actually get it all off.

Overall I prefer the L'Oreal cleansing water just because itself as a product is much better for my skin and more what I was looking for when replacing my wet wipes and I think I will be more likely to repurchase it over the garnier product.

Have you used either products, and did you prefer one?