 Good morning guys welcome back to another vlog excuse all of this. I have my morning voice still This is like the first time I'm speaking this morning by the way Look how tan I look oh my god if you guys saw my last vlog my friend Paige was in town visiting this past weekend and We spent a lot of time outside. We had a beach day and then yesterday as you just saw a couple clips I decided to have a work day by the pool so I got even more color yesterday And I didn't even notice how tan I looked until I was just looking at myself in the viewfinder So my plan for today have a little bit of a chill morning have my coffee Watch a YouTube video or two. That's what I love to do. That's like my morning routine Then I have a therapy appointment. It's actually my first one in a while The last time I went to therapy was before I moved down here I feel like I probably should have reached out sooner because I was really going through it for a while there I guess better late than never so I reached out to her recently and we're able to do a virtual like FaceTime session So that'll be nice. I'm looking forward to that. I'm gonna call my friend Julia So we can record our podcast and then I have a video that is already edited and ready to go I just need to upload it and then submit it to a brand for approval because it has a little sponsored portion in it Then I have to edit the podcast episode at some point then I have some straightening up that I need to do in here Just got done with therapy It was so good that our flew by highly highly recommend I know therapy is like not the most accessible thing and I feel very fortunate that I Can afford to do it, but if you can afford it or your insurance will cover it Highly suggest now. We're gonna record the podcast How are you feeling? Okay, who's going first and I'm Sam I'm so bummed because she was supposed to fly down and visit me this coming weekend Not everyone to compromise about things. Good morning. It is the next day. It's Thursday I'm getting ready to head out. I have a wax appointment In a little while and then I'm meeting up with my friend Haley and we're gonna go for a walk It's a really beautiful day outside. So I'm looking forward So that I finished editing the podcast last night I was listening back to it this morning as I've been getting ready I'm almost done listening to the entire thing and then once I do and everything sounds good, which It usually does I have yet to catch any mistakes in my editing Luckily, but I always like to just double check to be on the safe side before I actually like Publish it live. So yeah, I'm gonna finish listening to the last few minutes of that. It's already like uploaded I just have to hit publish, but I am putting this IGK rich kid coconut oil air-dry styler In my hair. This stuff's been pretty good. I'm honestly though I'm not like blown away by it. So I don't see myself repurchasing it once I finish it, but I don't hate it either. So I am just gonna Use it up. So yeah, just scrunching that into my hair. I Think I'm gonna diffuse it a tiny bit. I don't think I'm gonna have enough time to get it fully dry Because I have to leave soon, but just so this way it's not like soaking wet and I can kind of cut out a little bit of The frizz this way. So I'm using my Dyson blow dryer. I'm gonna put it on high heat low speed Now I'm gonna flip over It's mostly dry at this point. I would say it's like 85 to 90 percent dry good enough for me But I love using the diffuser because I feel like it just gives my hair like that extra lift And better curl definition versus just letting it air dry. So yeah, that is how I style my natural curly hair Super easy literally one product And I know like I've seen a lot of other people's like curly hair routines They use like a whole cocktail of multiple products. It's funny because I'm a licensed hairdresser So you would think I would be like all about the products and having all these steps No, girl. I like to just keep it nice and simple like one product two max and I'm good I'm gonna do a little bit of concealer and brows Maybe like a tiny bit of mascara because I feel like my face just looks very dead later tonight We are gonna do a lash lift and tint or attempt to do one And then I also need to tint my brows because I feel like my browser is looking like very very light And my lashes like I just feel like everything is like meh so before After Simple but like what a what a difference right just a little tiny bit of under eye concealer I use the Tarte CC corrector just dabbed a little tiny bit under my eyes put a very very light coat of mascara and Benefit gimme brow brow gel through the brows looks so much more alive, and here's my outfit It's like a loose oversized v-neck from airy. I tied it up with a little rubber band to give it a like a little more Shape airy leggings Adidas sneakers and key aviator sunglasses. It's actually the next day I'm so excited. We are about to have a full beauty glow up I got my lash lift kit. I got my lash tint stuff. I got my brow henna tint I have some wax strips my little face razor Tweezers we're about to go in on this face right now. I guess I should like wax shave exfoliate do all that First yeah, that would make the most sense right clean up the brows And then we'll do all the lifting and tinting and whatnot So I'm gonna wax first and lately I've just been using these Sally Hansen wax strips so much faster and less messy than like Having an actual wax pot and all that so I'm gonna do my upper lip and then along my like chin and jaw area because I've noticed that like These little I mean it's peach fuzz. It's like very very fine and light, but like when certain light hits it you Can see it and I can feel it It bothers me so and I just washed my face You want to make sure your skin is nice and clean and be careful Obviously if your skin is like super super dry super sensitive if you use a lot of like retinol products and all of that You want to be careful because you could actually like get pulling and like Rip off the top layer of your skin, which I've done before it doesn't feel good. It doesn't look good So you just rub these between your hands To heat them up and then you get wax on both sides Oh, yes, so satisfying and then if there's any like wax residue left on my skin. I just go back over it and The wax on here picks it right up. Oh There was a dark hair in there I don't know if you'll be able to see that And then sometimes there'll be like a couple little stragglers like right in the corner of my lips so those I'll just Tweez out Tweez my eyebrows now. I'm just gonna apply a little moisturizer To like the sides of my face because I just have like the tiniest peach fuzz and I'm going to just Kind of derma plane to get it nice and smooth. Oh That is disgusting and this way if there are any little hairs That I missed with the wax I can get those To I don't do this that often. I would say like honestly only once every like a couple of months or so But it definitely gets to a point where I can just visibly see like okay, I Need to do this like I'm seeing more hair Then I want to Makeups not going on as smooth Skin's not feeling as smooth, but you know, I try to not like do it too often and overdo it Wash my face now. I'm gonna put a Nice thick moisturizer. This is the Nivea cream. Love this stuff so much It's literally like a holy grail product for me. And I'm just gonna put a real thick layer of this bottom half of my face Where I removed most of the hair But I'm gonna leave everything up here clean obviously because now we're gonna do brows and lashes I'm gonna do brows first because this has to sit on longer this way It'll just be on there and I'll have to worry about it. This is what I use to henna tint my brows It's from the brand Elibana. I use the shade natural brown I just make sure that my brows are like nice and cleaned up I'll show you before of them The henna not only coats the hairs and makes them look like Darker and like a little bit thicker, but it also can stain the skin a little bit So it just makes them look like they're kind of filled in so it comes in a Bottle like this and the henna is just a powder and you just mix it with water And then I just brush my hairs up and then just Fill them in I Like to go in all directions so that I'm like fully coating the hairs and really getting underneath them and Staining the skin and it looks absolutely insane when it's sitting on there but It looks so good after You take it off once it's done processing As long as like the color that you get isn't too dark. That's why I really like the natural brown color because I Feel like it's right in the middle It's not too warm not too ashy not too dark So this stuff has to sit for like 30 minutes But it can stay longer than that. It's like minimum of 30 minutes in the meantime We're gonna do our lash lift and tint which I am Nervous about so I am a licensed Cosmetologist in Pennsylvania and North Carolina and I'm certified in lashes lash extensions lash lift and tints I Used to do this on clients for a living and I've done these more times than I can count and I've also had them done on me Multiple times, but I have never given myself one. So I know what I'm doing. I'm not afraid of Like ruining my lashes are messing anything up necessarily But I'm just nervous that this because I've never attempted to do it on myself I'm nervous. It's gonna be like more of a pain in the ass and like trickier than I Think it's gonna be but I have no idea So this is the kit that I got from Amazon. Hopefully this is good This is everything that comes with it and you get this little tool. You have lift pads Which these are like your rods. So there's a few different sizes Depending on the length of your lashes and also the type of lift or curl that you want so in here we have iPads and Some mascara spoolies and little cotton tip applicators So a lash lift is basically the same thing as like a perm for your hair If you've ever had one of those done on you same exact concept You have your perming solution then you have your neutralizer. So it's two steps The rod is what you're gonna wrap the hair around to give it that new permanent shape. So That's exactly what these are my lashes are actually quite long and also the shorter thing about like even when you're curling your hair with the curling iron the Smaller the barrel is or the smaller the rod is the more of like a tighter curl You're gonna get whereas like the bigger the barrel. It's gonna be looser I don't necessarily want my lashes to be like super super curled because I feel like you don't see the length as much That way I just want them to be pushed up from the bottom and lifted But I still want you to be able to see Like the full length of my lashes pointing up I don't want them to like start curling back towards my eyelid. So I think I'm gonna do Either the largest or the second largest rod. Let me see so what you Want to do is place this down on your lid and Then see how that size is for your lashes And you don't want your lashes to go up past the tip of the rod here, so I Think large is probably gonna be good. Let me see about medium Yeah, I think I'm gonna do the large size because I think the medium is gonna like curl them back a little bit too much for my particular taste and then We have our glue This is going to glue the rods onto our lid and keep them in place And then it's also gonna glue the lashes onto the rod So you'll see what I mean by that in a second and then you have your step one Which is the perming solution? This is going to Break down like the structure of your hair. So that way the hair can take on It's new form and then step two, which is the neutralizer This is gonna lock it in place. So think of it as like step one is like Kind of breaking down the hair. It's opening up the cuticle so that then it can Take to whatever new shape you're giving it and then step two is gonna close everything back down So then it like permanently stays in that shape that you're trying to hold it in and then you have a Lash conditioner because this process, you know, it's a chemical process so it can leave your lashes a little bit dried out and then you also have The cleanser to make sure the lashes are like nice and clean before you do this, which obviously is really important I did just wash my face obviously, but I'm still gonna clean them with That stuff, especially because I was like touching them with my fingertips and all that so we're gonna take these eye patches I'm just gonna do one eye at a time because It's gonna be like really hard To see what I'm doing if I have both eyes like taped up at the same time Holding down the bottom lashes so that they're out of the way. So that way I'm not accidentally Gluing any of those to the rod. So I'm gonna dip this in the Lash cleanser and I'm just gonna go on my lid and brush through My lashes with this So that there's no oil or anything. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do this with my eyes open anyway And this thing keeps poking me in the damn eye and it's so annoying If you are doing this on somebody else You're gonna have them keep their eyes closed in which case you definitely need that to separate the bottom lashes But I obviously have to keep my eye like somewhat open to do this Let me see how long this has to sit for because depending on the brand that you're using Some of the lift solutions need to sit on Longer than others. Okay, 10 to 12 minutes. That's pretty standard. Okay, so we're gonna take the Glue and I'm gonna brush it on to The rod You want to get like a good coat like fully cover it, but you don't want to put too too much because Then it can get messy and not really stick as well and then give it a couple seconds to get tacky and then I'm gonna put this on my lid and I'm gonna get as close as I can to the base of My lashes And be careful not to like glue any of my lashes down Under the rod And I'm gonna hold it there let it stick This outer corner does not want to stay down. So I'm putting a little more glue Okay, that doesn't want to like fully stay down, but It's all right. It's gonna work. It'll be fine. Then we're gonna take the glue again and I'm going to Paint this on to The front of the rod now the key to doing this is you want to Give it a couple seconds again to get tacky and you want to go section by section if you paint this entire thing at once By the time you get to like the second half of the rod That glue is gonna dry So give yourself patience. This step honestly is the most time-consuming And the biggest pain in the ass Even when you're doing it on somebody else it sucks but The way you glue these lashes onto the rod and the shape that you Create is the way that they are going to be permanently. So it's super important to really take your time with this part and try to get them as clean looking as possible and you also want to make sure that your rod is like really glued down well onto your Lid before you start doing this because while you're messing with the lashes if that rod is not Really secured it's gonna start moving around and drive you insane the corners keep wanting to kind of lift up a little bit, but There we go lashes are all glued onto the rod They're not like totally perfect, but As close to perfect as they're gonna get so then we're gonna take the number one Perming Solution take the cotton applicator gonna put it right on The rod all the way To the base of the lashes be so careful do like a tiny bit at a time You do not want this stuff dripping into your eye and you don't want to get this on your skin at all So it'd be very careful. Luckily. This is like pretty thick of a product So it's not like super droopy. I'm gonna set a timer for It's to 11 minutes. It's a 10 to 12 so we'll do 11 the timer went off and take a clean applicator and remove that solution and then we're gonna take Step two the neutralizer and we're gonna apply this the same way using again another clean Applicator and this is gonna sit on for the same amount of time So I'm gonna set a timer for 11 minutes again And then once the timer goes off I'm gonna wipe this off too and then I'm gonna tint them before I take the rod off But I will show you that step when we get to it. All right timer went off another clean applicator Wiping this off By the way the directions for this particular kit did say while it's processing to put like plastic wrap on top I Was never taught to do it that way. I've never had it done that way on me and I also just don't feel comfortable Doing that on myself because I feel like putting it on my eye Especially with it open like this. I Just feel like it would move product around and I'm scared that it would get something in my eye so I didn't do that, but I Really don't think that it's necessary or that you have to do that. So Just wanted to mention that now I'm going to tint them I figure it'll be easier and cleaner to tint them while they're still on the rod And when I would do this on clients. This is normally how I would do it That way I don't have to worry about it like staining my skin and all of that. So this is the brand of tint I use Belma sale. So I'm putting equal parts Tint with equal parts developer applying this all over my lashes all the way up to the tips and This is gonna sit for 10 minutes and then I'm gonna wipe it off remove the rod and then we will have one completely finished lifted and tinted I And then we'll be able to compare it to the other side when I first glued this on it felt like really Weird and awkward. I was like, oh my god I could never be able to do both eyes at one time, but like now that I'm getting used to it sitting there I feel like I can see perfectly fine And I probably would have been able to do both eyes at once and it would obviously Take half the amount of time to do but I am glad I did it this way this way. I could like make sure that I Feel comfortable doing this on myself and it was like less overwhelming this way But also this way I can really see like a good before and after side by side But I think probably the next time I go to do this I will just do both eyes at the same time But I suggest if it's the first time you're doing this and you're doing it on yourself Do one eye at a time These look good. Oh, yes. I have a little bit of glue residue on my lid still. That's a little bit stained Um, I'll clean that up later, but look At that it literally I mean doesn't it look doesn't it look like I have mascara on And look compared to this eye like from the side I'm going to do the other eye and then I'll show you the final result and we'll remove these brows finally and Be all done. Both eyes are done My lid definitely got like slightly stained by the tint But you don't want to get the lashes wet For at least 24 hours after you do the lifting tint So I'm just going to leave the staining. I'm afraid if I try to get like too close up to the lash line to clean it I'm going to get the lashes wet. So I'm just going to leave it be for now, but I'm really happy. I think that It came out really good and I really really like this kit So I will link this in the description now. I just have a damp washcloth and I'm going to rub off These brows it's a little red looking now because obviously I was just rubbing it but It's a few hours later. I put a little bit of makeup on just like some tinted moisturizer concealer and bronzer, but nothing to my brows or lashes and it's just Amazing I will have all the products that I used linked in the description But I am about to head out. I have some dinner plans with my friends Let me show you what I'm wearing this little crop top is from h&m I just got it last weekend and then these pants I had thrifted a while ago And then these sandals are from target bag is from target Earrings and necklaces are in a louisa. So I'm going to wrap up this vlog here. Thank you guys so much for watching I hope that you have an amazing week and I will see you really soon in my next video. Bye Welcome to haley's kitchen today. We're making a whole new pasta. Yes. Thank you. Thanks for the intro Um today, we're making pasta. This is called the dry dry dry to dry dry This is called the This is called the perfect. This is called the Semi dry This is called pizzeria And this is called wait that one. I was talking about that one. That's pizzeria Oh, okay. This one's called We about to go to the desert to get to me And we're making pasta tonight. Cheers. Well, she's gonna make all her pastas into balls