Product Review!

Recently I purchased the (fairly) new Olia hair dye from Garnier Nutrisse. I have pretty normal hair, oily at the roots & dry at the ends. My real hair color is a muddy somewhat dark brown with golden/red undertones. It sounds like a decent color but its actually pretty gross. I will preface this by saying I had bleach blonde platinum hair for about 2 1/2 years before going to dark about 6 months ago. As a result, the mid-shaft and ends of my hair are drastically more dry than the average head of hair! Although I have kept up with proper grooming and trimming, (thanks to my best friend being my personal hair stylist *LUCKY*) the ends of my hair do not hold color as well as I'd like. Because my ends are like straw, color tends to fade A LOT more quickly than the roots; sad but true. This is the biggest issue I have with at home hair dye. I will say as of recent, because my hair has grown a lot in 6 months the fading at my ends have created an unintentional ombre effect-thank holy heaven that's still in style or I'd be in trouble! I will insert a photo of the platinum blonde I had before going to a deep chocolate brown.

I used to religiously get my hair color done at a salon professionally by my bestie. (Thanks, Liz!) In October my beautiful best friend got married & moved 2 states away making it hard for me to keep up with the bleach blonde so I box dyed a iced chocolate brown on my head. It ended up looking drab and terrible so I let it run its course and bought a better formula of Garnier Nutrisse color foam which was a dark intense auburn, a slight improvement. I've learned firsthand the importance of undertones and shades and how to judge darkness on a box vs. darkness on a actual head of hair! I am not picky with brands nowadays, I usually gravtiate to something on sale or with a coupon. This time I had a coupon for the new Olia which is marketed toward drier hair types because it is made from 60% oil, which we all know is the bomb dot com for dryness. WINNING! That's me! I picked mine up in the shade dark soft mahaogany, such a pretty color, and relatively close to my natural color so as to no cause roots a la Britney Spears circa 2007. 

My first impression of this hair color was YUM. This smells amazebeans! It had zero hint of ammonia stench and smelled yummy and natural. The cream developer and color were very easy to mix, nothing too different from the norm. The bottle was somewhat awkward to hold - especially with rubber gloves on - and I am anticipating the brand changing this in the near future. (In fact, I am calling it right now that in the next 2 months you will see all of the Olia line go on clearance and then come back with newer packing and newer bottle, you wait and see!) The coloring process was simple, I did notice it took a little bit longer to develop; I had to leave it on my hair for 20 minutes which isn't long, but longer than I'm used to. When I rinsed it out it wasnt as tangled as it got with regular creme hair dye. Normally I feel like half my head of hair is in the drain but this was not the case with Olia. The deep conditioner it came with is AMAZING. It smells like heaven and makes hair SO SO SO shiny & lustrous. I wish I could buy this conditioner on its own, I'd buy gallons. I've been using so sparingly because it makes hair so beautiful and healthy looking/feeling.

Overall I would recommend this product, I loved it more than I expected. I think the oil trend has really found its place in my heart. I have been migrating from cream products to oil and in hair dye Olia definitely won! Will you give it a try?

XOXO, Kimmy ♥

I just had to post this for fun. Back in the day, getting my roots touched up at Liz's salon.  Hair gangster.

Haul!

I just ran to the corner to grab a few things to prep for the upcoming weekend & picked up a few goodies. (Happy Friday Eve!)
I had a few repurchases; Yes To Blueberries facial wipes, Q-tip dual purpose applicators (lame) & Almay makeup eraser sticks. Also got some new fun eye-shadows I'm excited to try out! I have a few other shades so I know the formula of the Maybelline Color Tattoo is amazebeans and I had to have the color tenacious teal. Wow. In love. Next I grabbed the new Revlon Photoready Primer+shadow (which my oily eyelids do not trust, I will be using my usual Urban Decay primer) in the color Bohemian (its the blue & gold shadow in the photo). I also bought the Revlon Colorstay shadow quad in Seductive (ooh la la, you know me!) These are the purple shades shown. Last I got the new Simple brand eye make-up remover pads. Not gonna lie, I mainly picked these up because the packing is tiny and cute and miniature and I love miniature anything. I have used the regular face wipes from this brand and they are fab for sensitive skin. As for non makeup products, I needed shampoo. Desperately. I saw the new got2b oil-licious shampoo (not shown) and had to have it. It was on sale for $4.09 and came with a cute mini (& free) argan oil. Again, love the mini packaged items. I'll probably end up doing a review on this since I'm such a shampoo snob.
The main reason I ran to the store was to pick up a plant for a friend I am visiting out of state tomorrow. She's a mom, and mothers day is approaching, and I just love her to pieces so I got her a pretty lil' pink flower plant thing. I try to be classy. I strive to remember to bring a little something whenever someone is dishing hospitality out to me. I don't like to arrive anywhere empty handed. My mama taught me good!

XOXO, Kimmy ♥