 Hi, good morning, welcome back to another vlog. I have been trying to step up my vlogging game and post videos more frequently and consistently. So I hope you guys are enjoying that. It is currently Tuesday afternoon, which Tuesdays are sort of like my Monday because of the way my work schedule is. So I spent the morning getting computer work done, but now I am getting ready because I am also working at the salon this evening. I'm doing a front desk closing shift. So I'm gonna be there from three till about eight o'clock or just whatever. We're done with the last client. I'm gonna add a couple waves with my beach waiver. This is the bed head away we go. Because my hair, it was getting all tangled, so I had to brush it out, but now it's like all poofy, so. And it's kind of dirty, but it's not like so terrible just yet. I feel like I can still get away with wearing it down another leg day or two. So I'm just gonna add a bunch of dry shampoo. This is the Kenra Volume Dry Shampoo, one of my all time favorites. I'm just gonna like touch up a couple spots. I do have a couple updates though. Number one, the hair extensions. I've been getting asked about that. I still have them in. I still have my two rows of like the beaded weft extensions, and I still love them. And I haven't been having issues. Like I know in the beginning, I was saying that they were kind of itchy and like they'd bother me, especially when my hair was dirty. And at this point, I've done one mini move up so far. I feel like ever since I did the mini move up, they've felt fine. And actually I'm going to get another mini move up in a few days, this coming Monday, less than a week from now. I don't know if it's just that like I got used to them now or what, but they feel good. And I'm planning on keeping them in. I may be thinking about when I do go in for my mini move up on Monday, maybe having her take one of the rows out, just because the one that's on top comes in a little bit closer. So when I wanna pull my hair back in like a tight high ponytail, the corners kind of stick out. I know how I am in the summertime. I like to be able to just pull my hair up. The bottom row that I have though only goes from like here to here. So it's completely undetectable. And then my other update is fitness related. I was like going through kind of a weird slump the last few weeks where I was just like not feeling as motivated and I was feeling kind of discouraged to be honest and feeling like I just wasn't making enough progress, wasn't making progress fast enough. But this morning I was looking back at some of my old YouTube videos because I referenced an older video in the one that I was editing this morning. So like I went back and I was like, wow, my face looked so much chubbier and rounder. And this video was only from a few months ago. So then I was like looking back at other videos and I was like, yeah, wow, I really can see the difference, especially in my face. So then I decided to weigh myself because every month at the beginning of the month I've been keeping track of my progress. I've been weighing myself, taking photos, taking my measurements, but this month I was just like not, I wasn't feeling it. So I just didn't even want to bother doing it because I was like, I don't know, I haven't been like as consistent the last like couple of weeks. My nutrition's kind of been off and whatever. But then after looking at those YouTube videos, I was like, wait, let me, let me, let me check. I'm just curious. So I weighed myself and I actually lost three or like three and a half pounds since last month. And then I took some body photos and compared them to the beginning of January when I first started. And I really can see a huge difference because my goal is to not just lose weight, but I'm trying to also like build muscle and just kind of gradually reconstruct my body composition as a whole. It's a little bit of like a slower, longer process which can get kind of discouraging sometimes. If you're just looking at yourself in the mirror every day you might not notice it. So it's so nice to take photos and be able to literally hold them up next to each other. So I got like a renewed surge of excitement for this whole journey and like motivation and all of that. But anyway, I am going to take Benny out for a walk really quick and then go to the salon. Good morning. I actually ended up being at the salon till 8.30 last night. Just came straight home, had dinner and went to bed shortly after that. Today I have the day off. I probably will end up editing a video at some point later, but I don't have anything like pressing that I have to do and I don't have to go work at the salon. So I have the whole day to myself which I'm excited about because the weather is really nice. I just wanna go work out at some point. I have some laundry and just like a little bit of straightening up that I wanna do around the apartment. And then my friend and I are gonna go meet up at the beach and burn our dogs and let them run around. That's all we got on the agenda. It should be a nice chill day. I'm setting up my new Dirt Devil steam mop. I'm so excited. They just sent this to me and I'm using it for the first time. You just have to snap the pieces together. It's super easy to assemble. Then you have your little cloth pad on bottom and now I just need to fill up the water tank. And by the way, Dirt Devil is sponsoring this portion of the vlog. So thank you so much to them. So this is the water tank and you can just fill this up with regular water. It just uses water and heat to deep clean your floors and it's meant for hard surfaces. So like hardwood, vinyl, tile. And I'm really excited because my apartment is mostly carpet but I do have, I think it's laminate flooring in the kitchen and the bathroom but they're such small areas. It's not worth it for me to fill up a whole bucket and use a mop and all of that. It's like for just like such a small area, you know, that's such a pain. So this is gonna be really nice and convenient because you just fill it up with water, plug it in and go. So this does come with this steam water. It says it's de-mineralized water with fragrance and it's in the sense spring meadow. We'll try that, why not? And they give you this little funnel. So you just pop it in there and fill up the water tank and then pop it in super easy. And then it does have three different settings depending on how much steam you want. Oh, there we go. I don't know if you can see the steam coming out. Yay. Oh my God, that is so satisfying. And it smells so good. So those three different steam settings, low is for delicate floors, medium is for regular cleaning and high is for durable floors or sticky messes. I just used mine on the highest setting and the cloth pads are machine washable and it comes with two of them. Let's go do the bathroom now. Now I can just pull this off. Look at that compared to the clean one. Ew. So if you guys want to check out the Dirt Devil steam mop, I will have a link in the description. Thank you so much Dirt Devil for sending this over to me and working with me on another video. Let's get this laundry going. I am about to go to the gym. I got my Stanley cup filled with nice ice cold lemon water. I was always, I just can't drink plain water. Like it just doesn't hit the same. And then I have my headphones 25 bucks from Amazon. The sound quality is so good and they just completely cancel out all of the sound around you. And they hold a charge for a really, really long time. I've had them for a few months now and I've only had to charge them like one or two times. Gonna do some legs and then walk on the treadmill for a bit and then my friend wants to meet up to go to the beach at about an hour and a half. So I'm gonna try to get everything done in that amount of time. 7 a.m. or a little bit before 7 actually. I ended up having such a good day yesterday. The beach was beautiful, it was the perfect weather. The sun was out and it was so nice and warm but it wasn't too hot. We were able to go over to a completely clear open area so that the dogs could go off leash and just run around, get all their energy out. Oh my God, sorry for the morning voice. My body is like still waking up. I am working at the salon today. I'm doing front desk for a few hours in the morning and then this afternoon I have a client coming in. I think I'm doing a balayage. I don't remember, I have to double check. Anyway, I am gonna go finish getting ready. I will show you my outfit before I leave. Here's today's outfit. These pants actually are really old. They used to be my mom's. And then this top, it is from American Eagle. It's also pretty old. And then I'm wearing my Steve Madden platform sandals. So my client had came in for a reverse balayage. She wanted to be a really dark, chocolatey brown but not just like one solid color all over. She wanted to have some dimension. Now, I don't know how well you can tell from the clips here but I noticed that her natural color at her roots was actually quite light. She was like a dark blonde, light brown naturally. So we did a very thorough consultation. I explained to her how having such a dark color at the root is gonna actually be pretty high maintenance. She agreed that she was okay with that. So I did like an all over root application first with a four end color. And then I left a few pieces out in foils with conditioner and then I applied the dark color to like everything else that I had left out. So that way she had a pretty dimensional brown balayage and look how shiny and beautiful it came out. She was really, really happy with it and so was I. I am so happy to be home. It was a good day but I just feel tired and I'm just ready to eat some lunch and lay on the couch and chill for a second. So I was working for a desk this morning and as you saw, I got there and the phone and internet were both out and I was like, um, it turned out that they just had like a big outage on that whole side of town. It was out for the first few hours. Honestly, when I'm there, the phone rings so much. So a big part of the job is answering the phone and because I couldn't do that, I just, I don't know. Like there just wasn't too much that needed to be done. So I felt like I was just kind of sitting around and I was like, all right, well, this is really boring. And then I just had that one hair client and she was so, so nice. It was my first time doing her hair but her natural is like pretty light. So I was like, well, you know that when this grows out, it's gonna be kind of high maintenance because you're gonna be able to see your roots when they start to grow out. But she said she was okay with that. We did a really nice thorough consultation, went over all the options, discussed maintenance and how it's gonna fade and, you know, the reality of what that hair color is gonna be like long-term. And I think that is so important to discuss and really explain to your client because, you know, they might think they want something or see a picture of something and be like, oh, that looks really beautiful but how is the maintenance gonna be? What is it gonna look like after a couple of weeks? So that way they're not calling you up next week like, oh my God, my color is faded or it looks like this or that or whatever. I think a lot of people think, oh, I'll get a dark hair color because dark hair is low maintenance. It can be, but like, what are you starting out with and what is your natural color like? Cause if your natural color is a lot lighter, it's actually gonna be more high maintenance. And honestly, that part of the job, I think is my favorite. Like, I love meeting new clients and doing consultations. I just made a little chicken quesadilla. I had cooked up some chicken a couple of nights ago. So I put some of that in some Mexican blend cheese in a tortilla, toasted that up in the pan. So yeah, I'm gonna go eat this, sit on the couch, chill for a second. Good morning, seven o'clock. I've actually been up for an hour now. I had set my alarm for six because I signed up for a yoga class on the pier at the beach. A couple of my friends did it a few days ago and they really enjoyed it. I was just kind of laying there and I was like, do I wanna go? Do I not? I'm like getting all this anxiety about going. I also don't have a yoga mat. I was going to just borrow a mat from my apartment gym, but then I realized they don't have actual yoga mats. The mats they have are like shorter. So I don't know if it would work for what I need it for. But yeah, I just like kept putting it off. And now at this point, it's too late anyway. I would have to leave literally right now and I would just be getting there on time. And I feel all this guilt now because I'm like, oh, I signed up. I hate when I say I'm gonna do something and then don't. I would like to do it at some point though because that does sound nice. Like get up really early, start my day with some yoga at the beach, listening to the waves. Now that I'm up, I'm gonna try to just stay awake. Today I have the day off again from the salon. I have a little bit of YouTube work that I need to do and I need to get some photos for a brand. And then later this evening, one of my coworkers made a dinner reservation for her birthday downtown. I am gonna go to that. She's turning 21, which is so crazy. She is 10 years younger than me, which is so weird to think about because I feel like when we're interacting at work, it doesn't feel like we have such a big age difference. Done. I got my photos, submitted everything, posted when I needed to post. And now I'm all done, which feels really nice because now when I come home later tonight, I can just go to bed basically. I don't have to worry about like doing any last minute work. But let me show you my outfit. I'm wearing this set from Amazon. It's just like this kind of a shiny material. It almost looks like pajamas. Very comfy. And then these shoes are from H&M. And then I'm wearing the Abbey Hoops from Ana Luisa, which I love. I have a discount code 20% off, Sambey20. I'll link in the description if you guys wanna get anything from there. But anyway, I am going to leave now and I think I'm just gonna wrap up this vlog here and I'll start a new one tomorrow. Thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to check the link in my description for the Dirt Devil steam mop and I'll see you really soon in my next one. Bye.