My Virtual Hairstyle Experience .. Seeing is Believing!

So I haven't had my hair properly done in ages. I used to haunt the hair salon on a monthly basis, spending hours at a time getting bleached, snipped, and styled to perfection. Then I realized that the monthly visits were obnoxiously expensive without being entirely necessary. My recent bank balance fully agrees.

BUT hair still grows, and the split ends of my splits ends now have split ends. Yes, it's that bad. I'm also sure you've noticed my color is a little funky looking, a lot lighter on the bottom two thirds, with a brassy undertone. It definitely needs to be done, and soon.

I know I want to grow my hair really long (haven't had it that way since grade 7), but of course I still want layers, and something needs to be done about the color situation that is going on.

With high hopes, I headed over to none other than the COSMOPOLITAN website (ha!) to use their groundbreaking and revolutionary "virtual hairstyle creator". I was excited beyond belief at the chance to see what my hair would look like before actually taking the plunge. Shear Genius, right? (pun intended)

WRONG..

I was asked to upload a straight on closeup pic of my mug, which was easy enough..

Enter straight on closeup pic of my mug ..

With continued optimism, I clicked "upload"and watched my blurry face come into focus on the screen. A bevy of celebrity beauties with silky mains appeared on the left, just waiting for me to test their hairstyles.

Excitedly, I clicked the style that was the longest, flowiest, and prettiest of the bunch. I hit upload and waited gleefully to see how beautiful I would look...

Then I watched in sheer horror as THIS tainted the screen ...

I'll take her cleavage, but the hair!? Me thinks my face looks a little distorted! And is my nose really that honkin' big?!
I know it's virtual but COME ON Cosmo, this is ridiculous!

Not fully deflated quite yet, I decided to try another. Surely my face would be a match with another long dark style?

WRONG AGAIN!

Ok, now it just looks like I've had a stroke. (Pardon my political incorrectness). Is this not the creepiest picture you've ever seen?!

At this point I knew what the tool was good for - a laugh! I continued to test out the ugliest styles offered, and sure enough, my face followed suit.

Third chin, anyone?

I look like a BUG, and an ugly bug at that!

Isn't a tool like this all about making you feel beautiful, and giving you hope? I'd much rather walk around bald if it meant not having my face look like it had been folded in half and stomped on, then unfolded and dropped in acid.

I thought perhaps if I tried a different picture it would work out better ...

Nope! Just as bad! Although I do quite like this color with my skin

Oh Cosmo .. you failed me. I had high hopes for you to select the perfect personal style for me. I could just waltz into a salon with the printed version, and walk out an hour later looking and feeling as good as my fave celeb.

Looks like it's back to hair magazines and simple trust after all ..

Weekend In The Mountains

Happy Monday! I thought I would share with you some pics of me and my man on our little vacation this weekend. It was Canada Day on Thursday, so we headed to the Rocky Mountains for a couple days of hiking.





This is where we stayed. It was an old fashioned B&B; so charming!







Unfortunately it was cold and rainy the whole time, so we didn't do much hiking. Instead we stayed inside by the fireplace, drinking wine and eating good food.

They had the best traditional British food ever ...

While it poured outside, we spent a lot of time just wandering the hallways aimlessly, looking at all the weird and random British antiques.



Ryan with an old school typewriter.

A pocket full of PosesWith A Marilyn Monroe movie poster.Creepy antique Dolly!

I can't wait to buy a house with a jacuzzi .. I could live in one.

Next day we went shopping in the town site, and I of course got some bath stuff.

O'Canada Soapworks is a really good company that has great product for CHEAP. I got two packets of bath salts and this giant soft bar of soap for $15.

Posing in the phone booth.





On the way back .. what a pretty lake.

The nice thing was, we still had two days left of weekend after our jaunt to the Rockies before heading back to work.

Yesterday was rainy again in Calgary, and I spent the day watching movies. I watched Coraline, which I loved! I bought it at the Blockbuster bargain shelf about three months ago, but had yet to watch it. Yesterday's rainy and grey weather was perfect for the whimsical and eerie flick.

Then we watched Alice in Wonderland, but I fell asleep. It seemed like a good movie, though. After that, I did a bit of homework for a couple hours, and started reading *gasp* some of Eclipse! Yes, I put the series to rest a few months ago, but as always, when the movie comes out, my curiosity peaks and I decide to take another chance. I still find it quite boring, but seeing as how I'm over halfway done the series, I'm thinking of finishing it. I just want to get Breaking Dawn in softcover. I hate lugging around bulky hardcovers to the gym, and holding them in the bathtub; they are way too heavy! They had softcover Breaking Dawns in Mexico when I was there, and I should have gotten one. They might have them in the states, but I haven't seen any up here.

I'm glad this week is another short one for me; I'm going to the Calgary Stampede this Thursday with some friends for opening night, so it should be fun!

After this last weekend though, I'm definitely cutting back on the junk food and booze, if I keep this up, I'll be a balloon by summer's end.

Thanks for reading =)

MAC Beachbound, Lazy Day, and Smashing

Bonjour, Poupees

I know I'm a little late with doing a To The Beach post, but it took me awhile to get my hands on these. I had gotten a little of the loot over a month ago, but ordered these two below lippies online. It took about a month for me to finally get them; apparently the delivery van couldn't get into my condo complex/mailbox, and they were resent about four times. Finally I called them and just had them ship the parcel to my parents house. So these lipsticks have been back and forth all through Canada, but are finally safe and sound in my makeup drawer =)

Personally, I am very fond of this collection; I love the packaging with sea shells and sea horses, and the colors are perfect for summer.^Left is Beachbound/Right is Lazy Day^

Above: Splashing Lipglass

^Lazy Day with Splashing over top.

Lazy Day is a really nice, neutral pink, and is described on the website as a light, dirty blue pink. (Lustre)

Beachbound is my fave. I didn't think I would like it that much when I first applied it, because it was so light. But it goes great with my fair skin tone.

Sheer, frosted pale peach (Glaze)

Here I am wearing Beachbound.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

I went away for a couple days with Ryan, and will post pics of our little getaway tomorrow sometime

Have an excellent week!