 Good morning, welcome back to another vlog. I literally just ended the last vlog last night. So we are just picking up where we left off. I am just getting ready to go work out. You already know the drill. I know I posted a picture on Instagram at the gym with like, I thought was a cute little fur delicious caption and then a few people were like, yeah, we know, like you're always posting every day about being in the gym. Okay, I got it. It's probably annoying because I do feel like it's just become such a big part of my life lately. And I really, I truly think I've become addicted to like the endorphins I get when I work out. And I don't know, like it just, I just really love lifting weights. It just feels good to be strong. And it's at the point where I look forward to going and I have to like kind of force myself to take rest days, which is crazy. It used to be the opposite. If it's annoying and you don't really wanna hear about it, that's fine, let me know. But if you do wanna hear a little bit more and you want me to share more, I'm happy to do that as well. I'm excited. I have the day off today. I posted a video this morning. So now that is good and taken care of. We're starting this new vlog. I'm not working at the salon today and it's supposed to be in the 80s. Like the highs would be in the mid 80s today and it's supposed to be sunny and it's gonna be the perfect beach day. So I'm gonna go and get this workout in. And then by the time I'm done, hopefully, it'll be nice and hot out. And it's also my friend Haley's birthday today. So I'm gonna go hang out with her. My gym essentials, Stanley cup with ice cold lemon water, wireless headphones. These are from Amazon. I will also link them down below. They're amazing and they were super inexpensive resistance bands. I got a pack of three of these also from Amazon. I will also link these down below. Also very inexpensive. It came with a light medium and strong resistance. I'm gonna take the medium one with me. I've been using this to warm up and phone, of course. Back from the gym. Now I'm getting ready to go to the beach real quick and I gotta hurry up because they are already there. Today is supposed to be like the hottest day that we've had in a while. And it worked out perfectly that I have off today and that it's my friend's birthday. And hopefully because it's a Tuesday it won't be too crowded. And I'm gonna bring Benny with me. Wish me luck that that goes well because you just never know. He's pretty well behaved. I really tried my best to train him well but he's not perfect and he's still fairly young. So like there are certain things when we're outside. Like when we're home he's militant but when we're out in public there's certain things where like the instincts take over and I don't exist. But I do wanna bring them with me because I know he would enjoy it too. It's already so hot outside. And yeah, no I did not shower. You can judge me if you want but I'm going to the beach. I'm gonna get hot and sweaty and sticky and sandy and gross anyway and have to shower when I get back again. So that's what deodorant and perfume is for. And speaking of which, this portion of the vlog is sponsored by Scentbird. They're a perfume subscription company. You go on their website, you fill out a quiz, answer some questions about what kind of scent you like and then they will select a few that they recommend. And then every month you can pick what fragrance you wanna try and you will get this eight milliliter size bottle. And it's perfect for traveling or to just throw in your bag. You just unlock it and then you can spritz it like this. And then you pop the case open and this is what the actual bottle of the perfume looks like. And then you can just swap out your new perfume each month in the little case. 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Thank you so much Scentbird for working with me on this video. Okay, so I'm bringing my beach blanket. Gonna bring that perfume. Let me grab deodorant too. Deodorant. I also need sunscreen. Duh, I almost forgot that, that would have been bad. Especially because, I mean I wear SPF all the time anyway but especially because it's been winter and I haven't like laid out in the sun. My skin is definitely gonna be more sensitive. This is the Neutrogena Ultra Sheer SPF 70. I really like this for just like an everyday basis and it's like a pretty glow to your skin. But then I'm also going to bring this copper tone sunscreen and I'm gonna apply this all over when I get there. I'm gonna bring my Stanley cup. I have Benny's water bowl in the car. Here's what I'm wearing. The bathing suit is from Aerie. Nice and simple and these pants I've had forever. I wanna say they're from H&M. I've literally had them since like 2013 or 2014 or something like that. I'm back from the beach. I got some color. I was there for probably like two hours or so and I have to say I'm very pleasantly surprised and proud of myself that I didn't get burnt because I don't usually burn but that very first time being out in the sun that always gets me. So I came home, had some lunch, took a shower. Now I'm going to my friend's house and we're just gonna chill and hang out there. And then later we're gonna go out for dinner and drinks I think. Like she said, she's not really in the mood to like get all dressed up and have like a fancy dinner or anything. So we're just keeping it kind of casual but I don't know, I just kind of felt like putting a little something on my face just to like even out my skin tone. So I just thought concealed with the Nars soft matte concealer in the shade Custard and now I'm gonna apply that Ilyas skin tint that I showed you guys in my last vlog. I just got it yesterday and I have yet to actually wear it out of the house. I just tested it out yesterday inside and I really, really liked it. So we'll see how it holds up when I am out in the heat. I'm gonna do a little bit of Nars radiant creamy concealer under my eyes and then some Rare Beauty blush. This one is in the shade Bliss. And then I'm just gonna do a little bit of brow gel and that's it. This is the Sephora brand brow gel in deep brown. I like to use this one in like the middle and tail of my brows just to fill them in a little bit. And then this is a holy grail product for me. The Shwarf's cough got to be brow gel. I'm pretty sure you only can get this on Amazon at least if you're in the US. The hair is not too terrible. I'm just gonna put some dry shampoo in it and I'm just gonna use my Dyson flat iron and I'm just gonna smooth it down and like throw a little bit of a wave on the ends. And just smooth down the top where it got frizzy. I am so excited that it's so warm out. And it's so funny because back in PA where my parents live, it snowed last night. Can't tell from my face. I just woke up a few minutes ago and it's 6.30 in the morning. I didn't vlog at all yesterday because it was just a very uneventful day. I just went to the gym and then I went to work. Today, I'm working at the salon again. I have a shorter shift and I am opening. Hence why I'm up so early. So I'm gonna go in at eight, only work till 12. But I thought I'd show you this hairstyle that I'm about to do. I did this yesterday as well. This has kind of become like my go-to. I want my hair sturdy, but like I still kind of want to make it cute. But I don't feel like doing anything too complex and time consuming. Put it in a ponytail. You kind of saw what I was doing. Just holding it back and then just brushing and smoothing everything back in the direction that I wanted. And I like to keep a part sort of when I pull it back, but you could do it however you want it. And then I just split it down the middle. You want to make sure that you obviously brush through your hair and take out any tangles first. And then I just split it in two and I just twist the two pieces around. And you can like pull it forward and do it like this if that makes it easier for you. Should grab it, but you just keep twisting. So simple. And then when you get to the bottom, just take a little rubber band and there you go. It looks like a cute little braid, but it's like the fastest simplest thing. And you don't have to actually know how to braid. So here's my outfit. This top is actually a bodysuit from misguided. I got it a couple of years ago. These jeans are from Abercrombie and these shoes are from Aldo. That's my look for the day. The sliding is really bad. Sorry, but I am going to make a protein shake to bring with me. This is the protein that I really, really like. I get it at Trader Joe's and then for my liquid, I love the so delicious unsweetened coconut milk. Scoop of protein powder. Then I add spinach in it. I feel like anywhere that I can sneak in vegetables, I try to do it. I just do a big handful of spinach. And then I was adding a little bit of peanut butter, but I'm using powdered peanut butter instead because it's just like one of those little areas where it saves me a good amount of calories. Like two tablespoons of this is 50 calories two tablespoons of regular peanut butter is like 200. But this is really good and it gives you that peanut butter taste. You can get the PB2 brand name stuff, but I just get the Walmart version. So I'll do like one to two tablespoons of that depending. And then ground cinnamon. If you like cinnamon, obviously, I love it. And I just feel like it's so good with the peanut butter. And then if you want to, sometimes I will add half a frozen banana. It'll make it nice and cold. It adds like a little bit of extra sweetness too. Or you can put like just a little tiny bit of honey or like agave. I think I'm just gonna do like just a tiny splash of that. This particular protein powder, and it tastes pretty good, but it's not like the sweetest. So that's everything. I'm gonna take Benny out for a walk and then head to work. And I'll see you guys when I get back. Oh my God, it is almost nine o'clock. I'm exhausted. And you know, I really thought that today was gonna be a productive day because it was a shorter work day. But then when I got home, I made the mistake of sitting down on the couch and passed out. And I took a nice long nap. Ever since I woke up from that, I've just felt so tired and sluggish and I'm hoping if I just go to bed early tonight, I will feel more refreshed in the morning. I have lint in my hair. I took my hair out of that ponytail when I got home because I can't have my hair like pulled back super tight for too long, because it really starts to give me a headache. But isn't it cute like the waves that it creates too? So that could also even be a cute, heatless style. So yeah, definitely try that hairstyle out if you've never done it before, because it looks cute. And then you get these cute waves after too. Tomorrow I have the day off, but I am gonna go into the salon in the morning to get a couple photos because the girl who runs the salon's social media and does all of the photography and stuff for the website and whatnot, she is coming in and she just wants to get some shots of the salon and us working. So even though I don't have any clients tomorrow, I'm just gonna come in and maybe I'm one of my coworkers or something, just curl their hair just to get some pictures of me in the salon working, doing hair. I am excited for that because I need some updated content from my own Instagram page too. And then after that, I told my friend, the same one whose birthday it was earlier this week, she wants to dye her hair red. So I told her that I would go over to her house and do it for her as her birthday gift. Oh yeah, and here is how my skin is looking after like for almost 14 hours, having that skin tint on. I feel like my skin looks pretty good considering how long I've had this on for and the fact that I took a nap. My face doesn't feel like super greasy or anything. I just feel like sometimes with tinted moisturizer type products, my face just gets really oily and it'll end up looking really greasy and gross by the end of the day. But I feel like this still looked pretty good. So I really like that stuff. Highly recommend. I am all ready for photos at the salon. Here's what my outfit is gonna be just for the pictures. I love this dress. It's from Sheehan and it's so cute. It's like the perfect length because of like how the sleeves are. And I guess you could pull them up over your shoulders actually. Yeah, let me do that. That feels more secure. It like fits me so well all around but like the chest area where your boobs are supposed to go was like not really proportionate. I feel like to the rest of it. Like it's a little bit too small and it ties here and this is really like the only thing that's kind of keeping this like up and together because otherwise like it would just fall down. So I double knotted it really tight and I'm hoping it'll stay up. I did wear this once before to a little like med spa event that I went to and I was only there for like a couple of hours but it held up okay. I was like really nervous all the time. So I was like I feel like I'm gonna have a nip flip but it was fine. So I'm hoping it'll be fine. I wouldn't wear this if I was like actually gonna be doing hair because I feel like I'm a little constricted movement wise with my upper body. But I think just for pictures, it'll be really cute because it's just such a cute dress and I did my hair in the same ponytail. Then I'm bringing a bag with me with a change of clothes. I have bike shorts on underneath here. Then I just threw a like comfy bra and oversized t-shirt in there. Need to remember to bring my hair kit. I'm also bringing Benny with me and I'm so excited. He's gonna be so thrilled because he absolutely loves her dog. They are best friends in love with each other. So I'm gonna drop him off actually at her house first because her house is on the way to the Thlaun and then go to the Thlaun, take my pictures. It should be pretty quick but I will bring you along and it should be a good day. Are you excited? You realize where we are? He was just laying down in the back seat and as soon as we pulled into her neighborhood, he like got up and started looking out the window and got all excited, he knows. So I didn't end up getting any footage at the Thlaun doing the photos because it was so quick. I was literally in and out in just a few minutes. So then when I went back to my friend's house, this is what her hair looked like. She had it baliaged for a while and then a few months ago, we went back dark again. So I wanted to do a little bit of a bleach wash just to kind of break up that color. Most of it had started to like fade and lighten up but I just wanted to make sure that her hair would accept the red color. So I just took some bleach with like 10 volume developer and shampoo, put that all over her hair, left it on for a little while just to like lighten up her color a little bit. And then I applied the color all over. I did equal parts six, four, five with six, seven, four from Wella. Benny was watching me and this was her final hair. She wanted to be like a deep red but she kept saying that she was nervous about it. So I was like, let's add in a little bit of like that red brown just to make it a little bit more subtle so it's not so like fire engine red. And she was really happy with the results. So in the future, we can always brighten her up more as she gets used to it. Good morning, it's Saturday. It's another really beautiful day. The high is supposed to be in the high 70s. I'm just so happy. And even though I'm probably gonna be indoors most of the day, but it just makes me happy when it's sunny and warm out. And when I get to wear like more summery clothes and I'm excited to go to the salon I feel like I haven't really been doing hair as much like the last few weeks. We hired another front desk person. So I've been able to kind of cut back my hours doing that. So now I can do hair every single Saturday and I might eventually do more than just Saturdays during the week. I don't know, we'll see how things go. But it is kind of tough like having to rebuild a clientele being in a brand new area. Cause I was in Pennsylvania. That's where I lived my whole adult life and my entire hair career. And now I'm in North Carolina and I've had to start all over. But I hear you guys, I keep getting requests and like DMs asking me about starting over a new place, growing your clientele, all of that. I will do a separate video. So stay tuned. But yeah, I'm really excited for today. But I have two clients. They are totally brand new. This is gonna be my outfit. I feel like it'll look cuter once my hair and makeup is done. But this is just an old t-shirt dress from misguided. I have some light colored bike shorts underneath. And then this belt is from Target. I got this in store pretty recently. And then for my shoes, I'm gonna wear my high top Converse. So this was my first client of the day. I forgot to get a before clip, but she just basically had like a grown out balayage. And she just wanted to touch everything up, keep it nice and blended, rooted, low maintenance. But she did want it to be brighter and bolder around her face. So this was when I was toning her hair. And this is her hair after. She was super, super cool. And her hair came out beautiful. And as for client number two, the video here didn't really pick up her before color that well. It's like kind of hard to tell. It doesn't look as bad on video as it did in person. But you can see her natural color is like a dark blonde. And the stylist that she went to the last time she got her hair done, she said did like a root color on her. But the root color was very warm. And it just basically looked like she had these grown out like orange roots and then blonde on the ends. So it wasn't as blended and as low maintenance as she wanted. She kept saying that it looked like she had boxed out her hair. So I went through and I just did a bunch of like really fine highlights. And then I painted a low light in between to kind of blend out that orangey band. And this was her final hair. It's just way more blended. So it'll grow out softer and nicer for her. And I ended up finishing those two clients way faster than I thought I was going to. So I decided to do my coworkers hair. So this is what we were starting with. So she had just been getting like a full head of like very heavy, very blonde highlights clearly. And it didn't look bad. I mean, it was grown out at this point. We just wanted to create more of a blend, more of a transition area so that she could go longer between appointments. So I just did a full head of low lights on her. I got a color that matched up to her natural root pretty closely. And I just did low lights all over. And then I did do highlights all around her hairline because she did want to have like bolder, brighter, blonder on her face. And then I just did like an ashier, cooler tone, toner all over. So that way she would feel a little bit darker but still be very blonde. Just got home. It's 6.30. So as you saw, I had my two clients that were scheduled for today. And then my coworker, I think I mentioned earlier that we got a new front desk person. She is the cutest and she had really pretty blonde hair but she just kind of wanted to do something a little bit different and like have something a little more blended and low maintenance and darker. She said that she's always been like super, super blonde but I ended up staying, you know, obviously longer than originally anticipated. Luckily I have some leftovers that I can just heat up, chicken sausage, Brussels sprouts and rice. So I'm just gonna pop this in the microwave. Oh my God, I have to show you this beautiful sunset. Look at that. Oh my God, so pretty. I am gonna go sit my ass on the couch, eat my food and I'm gonna end this vlog here. I am gonna start a new one tomorrow. Make sure you're subscribed, turn on your notifications and don't forget to check the description for my link and discount code to Sunbird. I'll see you guys soon, bye.