DKO & The Blog

Sunday, 6 March 2016

Welcome back boos. I've been hiding these boots away for some time until I could style them as I wanted et voila. I am too in love, a total style steal and for a glorious £10...

I have endless amounts of black boots and heels as you may have already figured if you've followed this blog extensively, so I decided to switch it up! It's like now a days some girls forget that it's still okay to wear clothes that aren't from the most expensive high-street shop/ online store, who are charging £40 minimum for simple Chelsea boots. IT'S NOT THAT DEEP. One thing uni has taught me is to shop around. I'm a bargain lover so when I find one off boutiques and stores I will always without fail go in.

Always having been a fan of bomber jackets, I sold an old black one on depop so when I got my boots I decided to get one in wine to match ugh I'm a sucker for coordinated outfits, be it the shoes and bag or jacket and AGAIN ladies; I did not get it from a brand or high-street store but ebay. Ebay is like aliexpress where there are buried treasures among the junk, you just need to know how to look for it!

As for the bodysuit, I'm honestly not sure why I don't own more of these things, everything is so much neater no wrinkles or lines from tucked in anything. Lace up bodysuits especially have been everywhere and I'm all for free the nipple, just not on myself and so I keep my laces pretty tight, it's up to you how exposed you want to be...

And because I loved my new lip colour so much I had to throw in a selfie....

P.s my glasses are prescribed- benefits of being a comp sci undergrad.

Get The Look

Lipstick - MAC shade: Sin here

Bomber Jacket - Ebay here

Bodysuit - Fashion Nova here

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Friday, 19 February 2016

Guyssss. So I'm back and yes I've changed my hair yet again; you can never go wrong with a cute ass lob (long-bob) & after seeing RiRi's at the Puma x Fenty I had to work my own magic. So keep reading to see how I went from black to ombre blue...

I started off with reviving old bundles because girls its not everyday spend £1 million pounds on new weave. These bundles are about two years old and were still perfect; silky and healthy they merely needed a trim and deep condition in boiling hot water and we were good to go.

With help from a good friend - Shoutout to my babes Manal! - We bleached and dyed the hair using the products above. However I would advise if you're dying four or more bundles to get three bottles of peroxide and 3 tubs of bleach powder; not necessarily Trulites as any bleach will do but definitely a 12% volume along with a bleach neutralizer. Basically so your weave doesn't continue to lighten and eventually snap in half even after the bleach is rinsed out!!

We wrapped foil around the bleached weave with every partition and left it on for about 1 hour and a half (a lot longer than suggested on the box but even still some parts weren't fully blond). Once we took of the foil and washed the bleach out thoroughly we added the dye leaving that on for another hour and a half - again longer than needed just to be on the save side.

To Achieve the Colour

1) Adore in colour Indigo blue on the bottom (longest ) tracks

2) LA Riche Directions dye in Silver mixed with Indigo blue in the middle tracks

3) LA Riche Directions dye in Silver mixed with Atlantic blue just above the top of the previously dyed colours and any other blond regions on top

Once the colour was set we washed the hair until the water that run was virtually clear, added the bleach neutralizer which gave the amazing foamy colour above. Then we dried and styled the hair et voila...