#94 (Healthy-hair talk aka my journey back to blonde)

Hellooooooo

me again!!

thank you everyone who told me on my tumblr that they enjoy reading my blog posts ヾ(´･ω･｀)

And also on my latest blogpost i got so many positive comments on that blonde wig, so that I decided to dye my hair back to blonde again!! I had that in mind for a long time already but I didn't dare to do it because bleaching isn't really the best thing for your hair...

Aaah that wasn't easy, since my hair was reddish before （；￣ェ￣）
I decided to consult my hairdresser and together we found a solution for the problem.

My hair used to be something like this color before we started bleaching

Since my hair grew long and i didn't want to cut it, i searched for a solution to bleach without a lot damage. 

We decided to bleach it only a little bit, then wait for a month and repeat it. 

We used 1,9% H2O2 and bleaching powder and left it in for about 1 hour.

Normally, for bleaching your hair you use up to 6% but that's much more aggressive and bad for your hair. So if you use 1,9% and just leave it in longer, it almost has the same effect as 3% or 6% left in for half an hour. (but that's just what my hairdresser told me, i don't really have a clue myself)

to get a more even result, my hairdresser first applied the bleach onto the length where the red was stronger, and then did the roots later. Because otherwise my roots would have been much lighter than the rest and it looks really stupid. 

We applied a repair hair mask after that since the hair was very dry. 

It wasn't as light as i wanted it to be but I was satisfied so far. I knew it would get lighter later on. 

It looked something like this maybe a little bit more orange in normal light. more like the gif down there. 

It would be a lie to say my hair wasn't damaged after that. It was! but I found a good thing that made it better. A lot better!!

The thing is called "Coppola Keratin Complex Infusion" and it is keratin treatment, that you put into your hair after washing. 

It's a little bit expensive but I heard good things about it so I gave it a try. And let me tell you, it worked WONDERS. my hair looked and felt a lot better after a few times of using the stuff. 

This is what it looks like 

The old version had a see through bottle so you could see the pink stuff inside, the new one is white. Mine looks like the second one but sometimes you can still get the one above. 

The serum is pink and looks like cream. You apply it into dry hair and then blow-dry your hair. It's important to use HEAT, because this way it kinda melts into your hair. 

I don't know how it actually works but it does! 

this is what the official homepage says about it:

Keratin Complex Infusion is a unique formulation with advanced infusion technology. This high Ph replenisher automatically opens the cuticle and enters to infuse Keratin proteins and emollients into the hair. Its deep penetrating action repairs and revitalizes hair during blow drying or ironing and closes the cuticle to entrap nourishment. Optimized for use as a daily maintenance to the Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy Natural Keratin Treatment.

My hair was in good condition after a month. Even the hairdresser was surprised. 

I ordered the keratin complex infusion on amazon.

Last thursday we bleached my hair again and I ordered new clip-in extensions!

Yesterday I was invited to BBQ and my best friend Julia styled my hair. 

TA-DA!!! 

I'm a barbie girl again. 

It's still a little bit yellowish on some parts but I can fix that with silver shampoo.

Also I got the results of my exams and I did really well this term! all the studying was worth it! 

I achieved an A in japanese!

I started watching the Anime "Shingeki no Kyojin" and i can really recommend it. I love it!

In two days (on monday) I'm flying to Japan with my dad!

I really want to blog more this time but maybe i'll be lazy so definitely check out my twitter and instagram for updates and pictures!

My nickname is hiki0318 on both platforms. 

See you!!

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#92

Hello!

Oh it's been to long I updated huh?
Well what's new?

I was able to successfully finish my third semester at university. Stuff's getting serious now! :0

Currently i'm in Austria, chilling at my parent's home. It's really nice.

I didn't post the pics of my pink wig here so I think I'm gonna do that now.

(yeah that pic's edited, my skin is a mess D: but I'll post unedited pictures later too! But this pics shows the color best! )

I really like the color of that wig, it's somewhere between light pink and grey and it's really voluminous.  I cut it into layers so that I could style it the way I wanted. 

Here's a before and after styling pic and some phone selcas:

(i used my camera for those two so they are lighter, still the color is always different in pics than in real life D: pics are taken in the bathroom with the crappy light that's there.)

 

(taken in natural light with my phone)

Also, I changes my natural hair color! I was going for a light red brown first but I didn't like it so I tried a light copper color for the first time in my life. (It was much more reddish in real) Also I bleached a part of my hair for some contrast. 

I'm not sure but I think I want to let my fringe grow again. I'm not sure if it suits me... 

At the end of february we went to see the MircoHead4n's live in munich. It was really a good life, I was surprised by their performance! I even spent my last money of that month for their CD ;A;

(Tsukasa autograph! u cannot imagine how attracted i am to this man!)

2nd february we went to see the "Distant Words - Music from FinalFantasy" concert. It was very beautiful. 

OH and I bought myself a new laptop!! FINALLY !! I had to work like 5 month to afford it ;A; it's a macbook air. dreams came true. 

Right now I'm waiting for my BugLug live DVD to arrive... man it takes aaaages. 

also i started playing Persona 4 on my PS2. I'm glad I can only play in the kitchen and my mum usually won't let me play there because she wants to watch TV. I'm really glad about that because otherwise I'd just play all day and do nothing. Like this it's limited to 30 min or 1 hour a day. 

I finally finished my homework for university but I still have to study like 300 new kanji /cries/

On the other side, it's good because the more kanji I know the less i have to look up when I read texts in japanese. But I'm such a lazy ass... 

I'm currently planning my next trip Japan with my father. This time he's going to accompany me for two weeks. We want to spend the first week in Ôsaka and travel to Kyôto, Nara and Nagoya. After that he's going to stay a week in Tôkyô with me, we finally want to visit Fuji-san, visit Yokohama and Kamakura. 

After that I'll stay some more weeks in Tôkyô to attend a japanese language school again. At that time my friend Seita, who came with me last year as well, will be joining. 

The date isn't fixed yet but it's around the beginning of august. 

On a site note, it's my birthday next monday.... 

Alright that's it for today. See you again! 

xoxo

Hiki

#89

Hair talk!

so, I was interested in dip dyed air for a while now but my own hair is too short.
So I just descided to dye my extensions.

I dyed them with directions "lavender".

okay this doesn't look very pretty on this pic so I'll show you a pic of me wearing them instead. 

I'm so surprised that my extensions are still in good condition. They are really good quality.

Just to remember you, I have them for over a year now and I dyed them a lot already!

When I got them they were platinum blonde, then I dyed them middle brown. After a while I dyed light blonde highlights into them and used blone spray to make the brown color lighter. 

And now I dyed the tips. 

Of course the extensions got a little bit thinner from all that brushing, curling and straightening but that's absolutely okay. 

So I really recommend these extes to you~

If you are german speaking, consider buying your extensions at Ursi's Haare. I have only good things to tell about them. Good price, fast shipping, good quality! 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask <333

xoxo, Hiki

#87

heeey long time no see~

I'm sorry I wasn't in the mood for blogging... and there wasn't really an occasion either :(

After I came back from Japan, I went to Italy with my parents and after that I mainly stayed at home, met friends or studied for university.

University starts next week!
And I probably told you already that I got a new appartment in munich. Last week we went there and made the appartment ready for me to move in. We bought some new furniture but mainly used the ones I already had in my old room.
I will show you the pictures of my appartment next time okay? :3


Theeen I wanted to bring some color in my hair recently and this was the result.

But I dyed with "Directions" and they usually wash out really fast so after I washed my hair for two times the color was almost gone. But I will do something like this again~ I'd like to do something with pastel pink maybe.

I also found time to draw something again! wow that's been a while

It's Yumehito from Ayabie~!

And I also sent the picture to him via twitter and he replied instantly!! I was so happy ♥

Maybe I should draw more.... but I'M SO LAZY!!

Last weekend Juliet and me helped our friend Snii. She needed some Oshare-kei outfit pictures and for an article for the german magazine "Koneko". So I finally had a good opportunity to wear oshare-kei again~ 

I admit, I haven't put on gyaru make-up or gyaru clothes since I came back from Japan. There was just no reason for me to do it because it's too much work if you don't really go out.

Recently I'm also interested in pastel goth and soft grunge and my tumblr is full of it!
Also reached the 500follower mark on tumblr, thanks a lot dears!

Okay that's it for today~
Next time I'll show you my appartment!


xoxo and keep smiling~

Hiki ☆

#78

Hello~

my exams are finally over yay!! No I'm waiting for the results.

And there's some news to tell :)

I got myself a grey/silver wig recently and this is how it looks:

the wig setting is not finished yet I still have to cut some layers and work a bit on it. 

recently I hate pictures where I have no cellphone in front of my face. I dunno but my face becomes weirder the more weight i lose and I'm not satisfied with it at all :(

On Sunday Seita came to visit me and we went to Anli Pollicino and A(エース) live at Feierwerk in Munich.
Surprisingly it was more fun than expected. Especially Anli are really cool and their Music is so much fun. 

But yeah we also had some Alcohol before to be honest xD 

We met Dodo and Kou at the concert! I was so happy to see them again. ♥

Also met Yuki, Yu, Jin and Kizu and saw many other people I knew *-*
Sorry I couldn't talk to you all, lives are always stressful for me I don't know how to handle a bigger number of humans.

The two bands also gave signs and too bad I drank alcohol and behaved retarded in front of the members.
I only wanted to go to Anli to get signs because I didn't have anything to sign for A and passed the A guys and Rookie Fiddler was the first and he looked at me, frowned and asked "don't you want signs?" and I said "no, I'm sorry your fotoset was too expensive." He laughed. And the same thing with every A member. They all expected me to give them something to sign and I just stared at them and threw some random japanese phrases against them.

Woah and about that Rookie fiddler guy. I was so shocked because his head was sooooo big. I mean a lot of Japanese people have big heads but really... this was the biggest head I've ever seen. 

The Anli Pollicino guys were all so nice. They thanked their fans so much for coming and Takuma said he really wants to come again. Yo-1 is such a cutie, he smiles like the sun! Shindy looked beautiful. When I stood right in front of him I was amazed. I was nervous about what to say to him and I ended up making a compliment about his hair, lol. 

Anyway it was fun!

This was my styling: 

I decided on some visual-kei inspired styling and wore my red wig and styled it a little bit.

herpderping with le seita:

Oh Oh I got a present from Kou!

It's a flip-flap-flower!! 

Too bad I forgot to make a picture ><

anyway it looks like this:

and when the suns shine it starts flip-flapping from one side to the other, yay *A*

It's a totally useless thing but it's so cool!

On monday and tuesday I had tests and on wednesday we had a short byebye-party for our Japanese teacher Murata-sensei.

She won't be our teacher next year because she will be the teacher of the first years again ;_;

I will miss her very much. She was a very good teacher. 

We gave her a present we all made together :)

and that's her ^^

The twins made muffins! They were so cute and really deslicious ♥

On thursday I had to move out from my old room and my dad came to munich to bring my furniture to my new appartment. Well at least we could store them at the attic there since I have to wait until september until I can move in.  Thanks to Seita and Daddy for helping me moving ♥
After that we went back to my hometown. I'll will stay here in Austria until the end of September. Well in August I'm in Tokyo anyway. 

Speaking of Tokyo. ONLY 11 MORE DAYS!

I can't believe how fast time passed. 

Okay that's it for today, 

Keep smiling! 

HiKi ♥♥♥♥♥

#71

Hello~

I finally recieved my new contact lenses!

G&G King Size Circle Brown

Diameter: 14.5mm

pic is a little bit blurry I'm sorry it was the best I took >_< 

I'm really satisfied with those lenses. They are so comfortable and have perfect enlargement!

I wore them a whole day at university and I didn't feel them at all~ 

Best thing is, that when I'm wearing them, it's not so obvious that I'm wearing circle lenses, since they match perfectly with my eye color. 

So what else? 

I tried to style my hair a little bit "VKish"again. Just felt like it. :"D

finally my own hair seems to grow a little bit longer. It took me over one year to get the length I have now! ;A;

Some people say this looks better on me than gyaru, others say gyaru suits me more and some say they like both. xD

I really don't know. I love VK but I preferr being "girly" lately I guess. 

So what's new?

aaah yeees~ A guy came into my life! no not really... 

There's a japanese boy I'm having a lot of contact to lately. He wrote me a message on ameba and that's how we started talking. 

And now we are mailing daily, sending each other pictures and stuff. He's a really nice guy and talking to him helps me improve my japanese a lot. He corrects my wrong sentences and is really patient with my crappy japanese, always telling me how to write the sentences proplerly. 

I'm not thaaat bad I guess, but I keep mixing up the particles constantly ;___;

anyway that's it for today ne~

Keep smiling guys <3 I love you all

Hiki

#70

Hellooooo~~~~~

How have you been?

This will be a short update on my new wig~

It looks really "real" (xD) and it's so soft~ Also it has two colors, one side of the pony is a little bit darker (but you can't see it that well on the pictures, dunno why ;_;)

also, I tried to make myself bottom lashes by cutting upperlashes. But i'm not really satisfied... 

I really need good bottoms, but I don't have money for that right now... ordered too much last month.

I think in this picture you can see it better that one side of the wig is a little bit darker~

Aaah, it was midnight when I started doing my make-up... that's why i looks messy. xD I always have the worst times for working on eye make-up.

wheee webcam picture spam from midnight~

so what else?
Recently I'm writing a lot with some japanese bandmen, haha. One of them told me that he likes "koakuma" gyaru styles and that it really suits me.
I was happy to hear that~~~

Koakuma is really cool~ Especially the hairstyles.
But it would be hard to focus on koakuma because... it's a style you can't really wear every day.

Ah, talking about outfits, this was my favourite outfit from last week.

I've gained some weight recently but I just can't stop eating! ;_____________;

I feel pregnant ;_; (but impossible! xD)

Now I have to finish my japanese homework!

See you next time~
Keep smiling :)

xoxo Hiki

#67

Hellloooo~~  (ﾉ◉ω◉)ﾉ♥

Yesterday I bought myself a new styling tool!

It's the BaByliss easy waves~

Recently, I preferr wavy hair over curly hair.

I got it at an electronic store and it cost about 50€. It's totally worth its' price in my opinion.
I tried other methods to get waves into my hair, but none of them satisfied me and most of them took really long. It's so much easier with the waver.

That's how it looks:

It heats up very fast! I was really surprised. It was hot in less than one minute. 

I tried it on my extensions~ This pic was made before I used the waver.^

and this is the result:

The waves look very natural and the hair gets really shiny. I love it!

I can't wait to try it on my own hair! ヾ(;☆ω☆)ノ

Thank you for reading~

See you again soon!

Keep smiling.

Hiki

Valentine (ﾉ◉ω◉)ﾉ♥

Hello my lovely readers <3

Sorry for not updating lately, I was pretty busy.
I'm going to a Japan convention the upcoming weekend, so I had lots of stuff to do.

Aaaanyway

I got my very first valentine!! I'm so happy!

Whoever made this, thank you so much! <3<3<3<3<3 I'm really glad you like the hair (although it's a wig, but I styled and cut myself and stuff...)

Today my new Ma*rs dress arrived! ykxjcrhgkujgwkjlhljhkl 

It's so pretty ;A; It's a little bit small but I fit into it when I don't wear a push-up bra. LOL

I can make a picture of it tomorrow :)

Oh oh oh I completely forgot! I bleached my hair a little bit lighter!  

So it's almost blond again :D 

Here's a recent pic 

I'm sorry for this pic, I didn't really put effort in my make-up/outfit this day because I was in a hurry. щ(ಥДಥщ)

But I think you can get an idea of the color. 

I hope to see you again soon~

Keep smiling :D

Wigs! Where to buy and how to style ♪(´ε｀ )

Hello readers!

First I have to say,
THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your positive feedback and WELCOME new followers! I'm very happy.

Yay, I finished all my exams at university for this term and now I have holidays *dances*
Today was my hardest exam. The japanese language exam.
I attended a 1,0 but I then found out that I made some mistakes... I still hope to get a 1,3 at least >__<
(1 is the best grade in my country btw)

Aaaanyway

After my last post I got a lot of messages from people, asking me where I buy my wigs.
Well, this is not really a secret.

I buy them from different cosplay wig stores on ebay. They are not really expensive, somewhere inbetween 20 and 30$ (30$ really is the highest amount I would spend on a wig and then it has to be reeeaally awesome)

However, there are two important things I look at when buying.

1) Seriousness of the shop.
There are some shops that look suspicious, because they have really maaany many different stuff at very low prices. So I look that I buy at a shop which specializes only in wigs or maybe in cosplay wigs and cosplay items. Check the rating of the shops and maybe some comments of previous buyers.

2) Fiber
I always buy heat resistant fiber, because it looks more realistic and you can style it with the hair straightener or the curler.

I never buy at a special shop, but if you message me, I can give you some links of shops where I've already bought my wigs

Soooo what is even more important than the quality is the styling and treatment!
I never wear my wigs without editing them. It always hurts my heart when I see people running around with their wigs without editing them.

1) Cut
I always cut my wigs. I make either layers or I just thin out the bangs our the tips, because without them they look so... well wiggy XD

2) Powder
I use hair dust oder volume powder to make the wig look less shiny and therefore less... like plastic. I apply it on the whole wig and brush the wig afterwards. You can also use dry shampoo or baby powder. This works as well.

3) Coloring roots
Sometimes I dye the roots in a darker color (use make-up or markers). This is really pain in the ass because it takes sooo much time. But it's worth it.

4) Styling
I style the wigs just like I would style my real hair. Teasing, flattening, curling, ect. I use hair wax and tons and tons of hairspray!

Well... that's it basically :D

I still have some wigs that are unedited, so maybe I will record video the next time I style one of them ;D


Sooo that's it for today~

Here's just one pic with my real haircolor

Thank you for reading~

Keep smiling  (ﾉ◉ω◉)ﾉ♥

Hiki

Wig styling + new shoes

Hello followers!

Right now I'm pretty busy with my exams at university but still, I found some time to try out new styling!

Rin-tan came to my place and she helped me to style my blond wig (the one I posted last time). Well she just wore them so that I could cut and style it.
Also a light version of sujimori hair on top :3
Then I put on tons of make-up and I even recorded a video! (but I'm not sure if anyone wants to see this lol)

So... I'm too lazy to write much so just enjoy the pics please~

I made all pics with my iphone and I'm surprised by the good quality of the first pics!

this is what the hair looks from the side. Light sujimori hair. 

Oh and the coolest thing! MY SHOES!

I fell in love with them at first sight!

sooo what else?

I want to dance parapara but I'm too busy with studying ;A; well... it's just one more week so it's okay.

See you again soon~

Keep smiling!