Story Time! Early 2014-2015

 So, as promised in my last post, I am going to share a bit of my life from the seven years since I was last active. I'm sure I have no viewers left but that is hardly going to stop me! This photo here was taken probably about a month into 2014.

I left school in December of 2013 due to personal reason, this was also the time in which I abandoned this blog. Anyway, I took a bit of time for self-reflection before finally feeling stable enough to enter the workforce. It was nothing fancy, simply working the front counter at a fast food restaurant.

It was a fast paced job which honestly didn't help my anxiety in any way imaginable. Still, I stuck with it before ultimately deciding that going back to school would be the best route for me. It might seem odd as I had just come back from school a few months prior but this time around I made the decision to stay in my hometown.

This was a great decision as it gave me a support group while attending school; something I hadn't had the first time around.    

At the advice of my mom, I decided to take hairstyling. I will admit that I didn't have any sort of grand moment where I discovered this was my life's calling. It was fun and I did enjoy it. There were others in the class that seemed to live for hairstyling and I envy them, to find something that you love and can profit from is something beautiful.

I did come to genuinely enjoy cutting hair, while I could really leave the colouring and updo's to the others. This posed a bit of a problem because it is a hard thing to find a place that will hire you for just doing haircuts. 

I didn't let this get me down though, I finished school with honours and in high regard with my instructors. I met some great people and I did ultimately find a job within a few weeks of graduating. The job I found ended up being at a men's salon. 

There would be the odd client that would colour their hair but it was far and few between. I did eventually come to love doing short haircuts. I don't mind working with longer hair but working with shorter more 'masculine' cuts was where I found I had real talent.

I will get more into my life after school in later posts. It has been over five years since I graduated from hair school so there is lots more to tell. Instead I will leave you with some photos taken from my time as a student!

The above is probably from somewhere within my last month of schooling and the one below was taken at some point while I was in class, clearly after I had just coloured my hair purple.

Common Beauty Tips That Don't Work For Me.

I see a lot of people post beauty tips.  I like to read them to see if there is anything new I can try.  Some work great and others just don't seem to work for me.  So here a little list of common beauty tips that I have tried but do not follow either because I saw no difference and I'm too lazy to continue without noticeable change or because they back fired completely.

I've been really missing my pink hair so I'm just going to randomly post the very last photo I took of it.

Wash Your Face Twice a Day.
This one is probably the one I see most often and it makes sense, your face is oily when you wake up and it gathers dirt and oil throughout the day, therefore you should wash your face both when you wake up and before you go to bed.  I'm not sure if I just have strange skin or if there are other out there with the same problem as me but washing my face more than once a day will make my face resemble a pizza.

I had always just washed my face once a day and only got the occasional pimple, but after reading I should wash my face twice a day I figured well maybe those occasional pimple will disappear and my skin will be perfection!  Wrong, my skin turned absolutely horrible.  At first I thought my skin was just dry from the extra washing but even with moisturiser my skin was still breaking out.  I went back to only washing my face in the morning and I have returned to only getting the occasional pimple.

Only Wash Your Hair Once Every Second Day
I did this when I was dying my hair bright colours to help preserve the colour.  At first all was good, then I noticed the places where my hair touched my face were starting to breakout from the oils in my hair and on the day I went without washing my hair it would start to feel greasy around 4pm.  This works for many people but for me it was not something I would go back to doing, I think I would rather subject my hair to a few extra dye jobs.

Ex-foliating Will help Get Rid Of a Tan
I don't ignore this because it doesn't work, because it actually does help, I ignore it because when I get a tan I am excited as fuck.  Seriously, I have pale skin that just wants to burn and flake away so when I get a tan I am overjoyed.  I'm not one of those goth girls that are like ew tanned goths, I actually like the look of dark skin and have always wanted an olive skin tone.  don't get me wrong I don't go out and purposely tan, but that mostly because I am paranoid of getting premature wrinkle or skin cancer.

Anyway, there a few beauty tips that I don't follow, if you have any common beauty tips that don't work for you feel free to leave a comment.