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Flashback Friday: BLONDE & TAN!

Hi My Loves!!

I love old pictures, I also love looking at other people's old pictures. I think it's fun to see how much or how little people have changed throughout the years. Here's a little peek into my past if you feel like having a nosy around :)

This was my homecoming my Junior Year. I went with a date, it was ok. I was not really into dances in highschool... but I had a great time getting ready with my friends and going to dinner before. I think I wore a lot of black eyeliner.... I can't remember what else.

This was one of my Senior Portraits. I really loved my hair here. It was such a pretty color and looked super healthy. I had just gotten it colored and blow dried. I had thinner eyebrows than I have now if that's possible lol... Again with the black liner. I think that was the thing when I was in highschool. Just piling on the liner.

Here's me at Prom. I had platinum and dark red hair. It was very fried. I bleached it every 4 weeks! One time when I got out of the shower and took the towel off my head, my bangs came off in the towel. I cried. My Dad told me "I told you so" HAHA!!! I went with my boyfriend at the time (don't ask me what he was thinking with that cane.... haha. I think it was cool back then)

I tanned everyday for 20 minutes back then because I worked at a tanning salon and got free tanning. Sometimes I tanned twice a day and I always used the hot tingle lotion! I was obsessed! P.S. Please excuse my old lady hands (Yikes.... hand wrinkle cream here I come haha)

This was me at my brother's graduation. I still had the bleach blonde and red hair but I think I had chopped it off at this point. I was still tanning everyday as you can tell. It was hotter than anything that day in the bleachers. 

This was Halloween. I was a playboy bunny (that's why my fingers are up haha... they are supposed to be bunny ears). I was working at the hair salon and we all decided to dress up but I couldn't be too playboy bunnyish with everything hanging out, so I wore this haha!

My Nanny (Grandma) came to visit me for a whole summer and this was when I went to take her to the airport for her to go back to England. We were shopping in Sephora and she snapped this picture. That bra is horrible. I look like Madonna haha! I miss my Nanny so much, she's the best! 

  

This is actually one of my favorite old pictures of me. I think it's the blue jewelry making my eyes look super blue or something... maybe it's my hair. Notice the chopped out ex haha!!! I couldn't just throw out a good picture of me lol... has anyone else done that?? You are going through old pictures and find one with an ex but think... darn it I look good here! I know.... I'll just cut him out! Haha!!

My 21st birthday!!! My Nanny was there for it and got me all of these balloons and cute cards. She brought me flowers that morning and a little cake. It was super fun having her there with me :) I used to wear Bare Minerals foundation back then for years as it was the only one I could find to match my tan skin. I did actually really like it and can't remember why I stopped using it.... 

How tan was I here??? My goodness! This was 4th of July. I was at the beach starting from 7am and just baked myself in the sun with NOOOO sunscreen! We were going out to dinner before fireworks and I put my favorite white dress on at the time. I used to wear that dress all the time because it made me look tanner haha!! Can you say TANOHOLIC??

And here is where my new life began... and ever since then I've been the happiest girl alive :) Nothing better than being with your best friend and love of your life. I had never felt so comfortable with anyone else or even myself before until I met Jay. I'm so blessed to have found him so early in my life and I will always be so grateful for that. Shelly made my bouquet that day.... didn't she do a beautiful job?

So there is a peek into my past :)

Hope you enjoyed all the bleach blonde tan haha!!

Happy Thursday!

My Hair Throughout The Years!

 Hi My Loves!!

I was looking at some of mine and Jay's old pictures and I thought what a fun blog post it would be to do a "hairstyles I've had throughout the years" type thing :) I have had so many different colors, cuts, styles and I thought you guys might like to see! It was fun for me and Jay looking through them all. I actually forgot about half of them!

I categorized them into: Blonde, In Between Colors, Red, Brunette & of course my latest which was PINK :)

In each category I tried to put them in the order of the time that I had them. But they are not in the right time frame as far as the whole post goes. I had blonde, then dark, then blonde and short, then red etc...... :)

Let's get started with BLONDE!

This was my 21st birthday dinner :)  

For the platinum I would get heavy foils using Paul Mitchell Dual Purpose Lightener with 20 Volume for 35 minutes.

Pigtails :) This is one of Jay's favorite pictures of me.

This was when I went to England to visit my family. I stayed for 5 weeks and it was such a nice vacation! 

Halloweeny! I was a playboy bunny! 

BEST TIME IN MY LIFE!! I met JAY :) <3 This was when we had first started dating. 

I used to love the platinum :) My poor hair was so sad!

                           

I was tanner than the cast of Jersey Shore! 

A few months later, a little longer :)

                           

Then I decided to add lowlights :) We used Paul Mitchell The Color 1/3 6R, 1/3 6G & 1/3 6WB with 20 volume.

We used to go to our pool all the time, I think this was a pool day hair :)

This was a few years later, so in between I had had long dark hair and wanted it to go back to blonde so I chopped it all off so I could bleach it without frying my hair off. I'm sure Jay hated it but he always said he liked it at the time ;)

                         

It was definitely the shortest my hair has ever been, a little bit hard to get used to but I did love it for  the first few months until it grew out to a mullet type thing :) But it was soooo easy to style! 2 minutes and I was done!

Here we bleached the whole head with Paul Mitchell Dual Purpose Lightener with 25 volume for 30 minutes, then toned it with Paul Mitchell 10CB with 20 volume & 3 purple shots for 15 minutes.

                          

                          

This was when it started becoming a mullet, the back grew out into a weird shape :( I had to pin it up all the time.

This was quite a few months later.... maybe 4 or 5. These were our before we get married pictures :) We took them a few weeks before the wedding :) 

My bridal shower! It was 50's themed, so I went as Marilyn Monroe :) So fun!

The day before our wedding :) Isn't Jay hot??? I love when he has a tan! What a beaut! Again this was just Paul Mitchell Dual Purpose Lightener with 20 Volume in foils.

Our Wedding Day! 

The wedding night back at the hotel :)

This was the day of our baby shower :) I had just highlighted my hair a few days before to try and get more of the orange out. We just used Paul Mitchell Dual Purpose Lightener with 20 Volume in foils.

OH THE VOLUME!

                           

Straight and smooth ;)

Loose waves

Up with curls.... cute and easy :)

Now the next category is the "IN BETWEEN COLORS" 

I didn't know what colors to classify them as, so this is why they are in this ;)

This was my 25th birthday, Jay and I went out to a fabulous dinner. 

You can see here my blonde was coming through with the red still on the ends.... Red was sooo hard to get out!

These were while I was preggy :)

Onto the RED!! 

This was Valentine's Day 2010. I wanted a change from the platinum, so Jay colored my hair for me the night before :) We used Paul Mitchell PM Shines 8RO to fill the blonde first, then Paul Mitchell The Color 1/2 6RR 1/2 6RV with 20 Volume for 40 minutes.

                           

Then I wanted bangs....

I loved the red. It was sooo shiny and healthy and beautiful but such a pain with the regrowth. I have naturally blonde ashy hair so the roots needed to be touched up every 3 weeks ;(

                           

Here is the BRUNETTE hair ;)

 I decided I wanted dark hair like my sister so Jay colored my hair for me :) We used Paul Mitchell 1/3 5R, 1/3 5G & 1/3 5WB with 20 Volume for 35 minutes.

                           

I actually really loved this color too. It was sooo shiny and I was amazed at how people treated me a lot nicer than I was used to. It's amazing the difference in the way people view you when you are brunette vs blonde.

                           

                           

                           

                           

Then I got more layers in it ;)

Of course I got bored and wanted highlights after the dark.... so I added some in using Paul Mitchell Dual Purpose Lightener with 20 Volume.

This was taken at the salon I used to work at. We were having a going away party for me as I was moving to Hawaii :) That's why I have flowers around my neck :)

Me and Moosh!!

The 2nd day we were in Hawaii :) SO AMAZING!!!

Me and my sissy were waiting for a table for dinner. She used to live there too :) And my baby brothor!

The hot & humid weather made me want to cut my hair, so this was the first chop.

And then came the major cut. LOL. Plus I did it dark again. Blow drying long, thick hair in Hawaii was not fun! But I did love this haircut so much!! It was so fun :)

Here we were at the Aquarium in Honolulu. My hair had grown out a bit and I added some highlights ;)

Still growing.

A cute little bob :)

Now onto the BEST of all! My very FAVORITE was the PINK :) Of course!!!

I did this for Breast Cancer Awareness, seeing as my Mom passed away from it when I was 14.

For the pink I used Scruples Urban Shock Pink in foils for 35 minutes.

Of course like always I got tired of that too. It's a good thing I don't get bored of Jay like I do my hair!! LOL

This wasn't my real hair, the bottom was but one of my subbies added the purple in for me on a photoshop thingy :) It;s so fun and whimsical, one of my favorite pictures of life!

Then I chopped my hair off again and went back to blonde.

And this is what I looked like a few mornings ago :) Haha... Moral of the story is, you mess with your hair too much, you end of looking like poop. No I'm only joking :) You guys know what my hair looks like now ;)

But this is probably one of the best hairstyles I've ever had :) Hahaha! Mommy bed head ;)

Here is Jay's exciting hair change.... LOL! The one time he let me do something different with it :) I though it was hot!

Hope you guys liked my "Hair Throughout the Years"

Sorry it wasn't organized by time.... it might be a bit confusing, but that's not the point. The point was to show you all my different hair styles ;)

Wonder what I will do next??? 

I never know until it hits me all of a sudden. 

Thanks for reading!

Happy Hair Day!

Sam

xxx