The hair blogs

 I shall begin at the beginning! My hair has been truly abused over the past 6 years. It's been dyed, stripped, bleached, straightened, crimped and curled. I have changed colour more times than I could mention. The most recent of which was in 2008-2009 when I was blonde. It was a pain to get there from jet black, taking 4 professional dying sessions.

So! Here I am back to black and desperately wanting change. I'd like my hair baby pink!

I discovered 'colour b4' while claims it shrinks the dye molecules in the hair so you can wash them out reveling your natural hair colour. I read mixed reviews but decided to cut my losses and give it a go. I emailed the director asking what his suggestions would be, he emailed back quickly with a lot of great information, and even better he sent me two boxes of 'colour b4 extra'! They retail at £11.99 each so I was very grateful. 

After leaving the product on for the allocated 60 minutes I rinsed for 10 minutes, lathered rinsed and repeated. I was left with a brown chestnut colour which is rather nice! I was hoping for a lighter colour but I am being advised by email on what to do to achieve what I want.

I was rather pleased with the lightening and emailed photos as promised to show how well the product worked and asked how I could achieve the blonde that I was after. He subsequently told me that the lighter colour looked great on me and that he'd send another box free of charge to try to lighten my hair some more, and also another product which will remove the silicone and pollution from years of dye. 

I am currently awaiting the arrival of the next lot of product which I will gladly smother on my hair and see what happens next! 

Watch this space.. things could get hairy! 

He arrived

Dylan Alexander Thomas was born on Thursday 13th October 2011 at 12.06am weighing 8lbs 13oz. Contractions began night of Tuesday the 11th. I honestly thought what I was feeling was a trapped nerve in my leg, but it turned out to be the real deal. I went into hospital where I was examined and told I was 4cm dilated and not dilating fast enough to keep me in. I arrived back home at 4am on Wednesday morning and growled through my contractions until I needed some pain relief. I sat in my beloved glider chair for hours timing contractions, and then decided to make the move to the hospital at 6pm as I couldn't get through them without screaming.  When I arrived at  LCH I was greeted with a welcome dose of gas and air.  I was 6cm dilated and very relaxed!

The night passed quickly and at 9pm I was given an epidural which worked fairly well up until the last hour of labour, at that point Dylan's head was pressing so hard to get out I was in agony again. After a lot of screaming I told the midwife I needed to push. She examined me and I was indeed 10cm and ready to give this a go! All it took was 10 minutes of insanely difficult pushing and Dylan was born.

He was the most wonderful little thing I had ever seen, like a wrinkled pink peach. I stared at him in awe for several minutes before realizing I was still in pain from labour. 

 

                                                                            5 Mins old

My boys

Today my little Dill pickle is 7 weeks old. That's 49 days.. I am still in shock. He get's more beautiful by the day, and recently learnt to smile at Ben and I. All in all, I'd go through hell and back for him, he's my entire world and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life adoring him.