 Hello, good morning, welcome back to another vlog. So it is currently Thursday, which is podcast day. So I posted a new episode of my podcast this morning. If you're not already following it, it's called Girls Who Get It Podcast. I will have a link in the description. Definitely go check it out. I do it with my best friend Julia, who is coming to visit me tomorrow for the weekend. I'm so excited. And then I watched the new Kardashians episode and now I am ready to get cleaning. I just wanna do like a nice deep clean of my apartment. I do this every week anyway, but especially because she's coming, I just wanna make sure that it's nice and clean before she gets here. So the kitchen counter is a little messy and cluttered. I have some dishes in the sink that I need to put in the dishwasher. And in the dishwasher, I have some clean dishes I need to put away. I have garbage over here I have to throw out. The living room is not too terrible, but I do need to vacuum the floors and I wanna shampoo all of the carpet because I haven't done that in quite a while. My bedroom is also not too bad, but I have some stuff up on the dresser that I need to put away. And I want to wash my sheets and I have some laundry back there that I need to do. And then we need to clean the bathroom. Not horrible in here, but you know, it's just time. The floors need to be cleaned. The tub needs to be cleaned. So we are going to put on a podcast. I'm gonna put on Crime Weekly. One of my favorites. They have two new episodes that I haven't listened to yet and they're two hours each. So that should be perfect. On the evening of June 17, 2013. It feels so good to have it be nice and clean in here. Nice and clean in here. Oh my God, it looks amazing. I still am working on the laundry. So, gonna wash all those sheets. And this stuff I'm leaving up here because I'm still figuring out if I wanna keep these shoes or not. So, feels so good. Everything is so nice and clean and it smells so good in here. I'm just waiting for the carpet to finish drying. It's already almost dry. Leaving that door open and I have the ceiling fan on. So hopefully it'll air out and dry pretty quickly. And then I'll put the coffee table back. It's about 2.30 now. So I'm just gonna spend the rest of the day getting through the rest of that laundry and just relaxing a little bit. I'm gonna take a shower at some point. But right now I'm going to make myself something to eat. We're gonna do eggs. I have some tomatoes I need to use up because we're gonna go bad pretty soon. And some potatoes. I'm just gonna do like an egg scrabble kind of thing. But I think I have some, yeah, I have some cheddar cheese. So I'll throw that in there too. I'm still hanging out with the guys from the streets for my hometown. I'm humble. I'm not too big for them. It's a few days later. It's currently Monday. I've been sitting here editing everything that you just watched so far. I was fully planning on vlogging the entire weekend. Like I said, my friend Julia came to visit, but it was just like kind of a shit show of a weekend. So Friday night her flight ended up getting delayed and she didn't land until like 1.30 in the morning. And the airport she flew into is about an hour and a half away for me. So we didn't get back here till after 3 a.m. And at that point we were super hungry. She had been stuck at the airport waiting to depart for like almost five hours. So we ended up going to Waffle House and we were literally there at 4 a.m. And then by the time we got to my apartment it was five in the morning. And then Saturday it was just very go, go, go because she came in Friday night and then left Sunday evening. So she really only had like one full day here. So we really wanted to make the most of Saturday and do as much as we could. So despite getting here at five in the morning and not actually going to sleep till close to six we were up and ready to go by 9 a.m. So we were running on like three hours of shitty sleep. I just kind of tried to show her around town a little bit. We went to the beach and the Fort Fisher area which is one of my favorite places ever. I love it. Then we grabbed lunch and went to Cosmoprof because she's been talking for months now about wanting to make her hair ginger. And she asked me if I would do it while she was here and I was like, yeah, let's do it. So I did her hair and I did record the process. So I'm gonna insert that here. I know this vlog's a little bit random but I'm gonna insert the process of me doing her hair. Enjoy. I haven't recorded myself doing hair and done a voiceover like this in so long. Oh my God, I missed it. I feel so good. But here is what Julia's hair looked like starting out. She's naturally a pretty dark brunette and she did have some old color on the ends. I think, I mean, she had obviously pre-lightened it at some point. I don't even remember what exactly she's done to it but luckily she did go to Cosmetology School. That's how we met. So everything she's ever done to her hair has always been done properly and like with professional good quality products. So I knew her hair would be fine to handle lightning. So I used Wella Blondor lightning powder which is my favorite. I mixed it with 20 volume developer and I literally just went through and I foiled her entire head. Just did slices. I didn't go all the way up to the root because I knew that her roots would lift very easily and very quickly because it's fresh regrowth and it's right by the scalp. The reason I did this because when you are trying to go a gingery color or red color, usually you can just do color with a high volume developer if you're doing it on virgin hair but I didn't know, like I said, exactly what was in her hair and I didn't really know how it was gonna take and if it would come out even and if it would lift enough if I just did color. So I thought the safest thing to do would just be to lighten her all over, get all that color out, try to get her to like a more even starting point first. So that's what I did and then I just kind of went section by section and started pulling the foils out just so nothing was over processing. I didn't wanna get her hair super, super blonde because that wasn't necessary and also the lighter I got her hair and the more warmth I removed, the less her hair would be able to hold the red color we put on it. So I wanted to make sure I wasn't overlifting. She ultimately wanted to be a level eight so I just tried to lift her right to a level eight. So yeah, here I am just pulling those foils out and you can see she actually lifted pretty nicely considering how dark she was starting out and here's Benny, literally mood. That's how tired I was feeling at this point. So this is the formula that we used for her red. Everything was from Wella Choleston Perfect which is a permanent color. I look like SpongeBob. You do. Like that's how a yellow. You are SpongeBob yellow right now, yeah. So for the formula, we did equal parts of the eight, four, one with the six, four, three and then like a third of the seven, seven. And I mixed that with 20 volume because I didn't lift or I didn't pre-lift, I should say her roots. So I wanted to make sure that I could get a little lift with the color on her root area because she did want it to be one solid color. She didn't want to keep her dark roots. So I went through and I applied it to the roots first so that they would sit on the longest and then I pulled it through the ends. And I also was thinking that the 20 volume would help to even everything out since some parts of her hair didn't get quite as light as other parts. And it was honestly a miracle because we really did not think we were gonna end up having enough color and at this point in the night, the store was already closed. So we ended up having just enough. Like I was literally scraping the bowl by the end of this, but we made it work. And I don't know if you can tell but we did end up dampening her ends a tiny bit just to help the color glide a little bit more so that we could stretch it as much as possible. And I used a comb to comb it through so that we got full even saturation. And this was the final result. It came out so beautiful and really perfectly even. So yeah, it actually came out really good. It's always tricky whenever you're formulating like reds and gingers, especially like a more natural red. It can be tricky like getting the perfect formula. And I feel like it sometimes is like a little bit trial and error and it takes a while before you can find like that perfect formula that's like exactly the shade that you were going for. I'm not gonna take credit for it. She picked the colors at herself and she formulated and mixed it. She's also a cosmetologist and used to do hair. So she knows what she's doing. And I was very happy with how even it came out despite the fact that she had like some old color on her ends and wasn't starting with an even base. But yeah, it was really pretty. And she was a little bit nervous because she, like I said, had been wanting this color for months and months but she didn't know how it would look on her especially because she has such dark features but I think it looked really good. She's debating whether or not she wants to color her eyebrows and lighten them up a little bit too but I actually like the way it looks with the dark brows. So comment down below to let her know should she lighten her brows or should she keep the dark brows with that hair color? But yeah, by the time we finished doing her hair because it was such a long process and she has a lot of hair, it was pretty late. So we just ended up door dashing some food. I don't even think I got any clips of that because we were starving. So we just, we got some sushi, scarfed it down really fast while the red color was processing. And then we just ended up passing out afterwards. And then Sunday we went to brunch and then we went to the aquarium and then I drove her to the airport and literally as we were pulling up to the airport she got a text that her flight was delayed again. So we had three hours until her flight and we were already at the airport at that point. We went to the Myrtle Beach Airport. So we were like, fuck it, we're here, you know, we're like right down the street from the boardwalk. So we went to Myrtle Beach. We ended up getting dinner and sat outside right by the ocean. It was so nice. And then I went and dropped her off at the airport. Like I said, I really wanted to vlog it but there was just so much going on and I was so exhausted the whole time because of Friday night. It was honestly just the last thing that I felt like doing was worrying about like filming and getting good shots and all that. Cause we had such limited time too to do everything. Next time she comes down she definitely needs to stay longer but we still had a good time and she is coming to my birthday celebration which is coming up in a few weeks. So I'm gonna see her again really soon. So now I'm just trying to do some editing. I need to straighten up a little bit. Luckily we were barely in my apartment at all, all weekend, so it stayed very clean. I just kind of need to put some stuff away. I still have the air mattress out here. I need to fold that up and put it away. And then I have some of the color that we use to do her hair still out. I wanna do some laundry. And then she is gonna be calling me in about an hour and we're gonna record a new episode for our podcast. We were planning on recording an episode together while she was here but based on how the weekend went we just did not end up having time. But anyway, let's straighten up before we have to record this podcast. Is this shirt? Julia got it for me. She went to see John Mayer live in concert and he is like one of my favorite artists on the whole planet. I am obsessed. It's like the softest, comfiest shirt ever. And the back, let me show you. I got a big shirt. John Mayer tour baby. I've been wearing it like all weekend. Look at that ginger hair. I gotta vlog it. Beautiful. Oh my God, who is she? I'm in my bathroom recording because the fucking dirt bike guys are out right now. I literally like just put everything down in my room and then I heard it coming from a distance. And I was like, no. I'm jamming. Just finished recording. It is 8.48. That was a really fun episode to record. But now my throat feels so dry from talking so much and I am just so hungry. So I am making myself some dinner. I got some water boiling. I'm gonna make pasta and oh, oven is heated up. Let's put our shrimp in. Making shrimp Alfredo because I'm actually leaving to go visit my family in my hometown and I'm gonna be there for a few weeks. I'm gonna be celebrating my 30th birthday up there and just so excited to see my family and all my friends. So yeah, my fridge is very, very empty right now but there's no sense in me grocery shopping because I'm gonna be gone and anything I buy is just gonna go bad. So I'm trying to just kind of use up what I have. So I had some frozen shrimp. I have some pasta. I have some fresh Parmesan cheese. I have butter. I have milk but I'm gonna wrap up this vlog here and I'm gonna start a new one tomorrow. So stay tuned for that and then I will be vlogging a little bit of my trip. I definitely wanna vlog my party. So more content to come. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you really soon in my next video. Bye.