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The Oil Cleansing Method | Week 1 (& a half)

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Hi y'all! Today I wanna chat about The Oil Cleansing Method.  'Cleansing with oil?!'  I hear you say! - Yes cleansing with oil. About a month back I got my daily/weekly email from MichellePhan.com  with a post on oil cleansing. This piqued my interest, so I clicked the link and went and had a  READ.   The How To: The general gist is using a mixture of 2 oils, the main oil being Castor Oil. You mix this with your chosen carrier oil and massage in to the skin for a few minutes, allow to sit for 30 seconds to a minute, then run a face cloth under the hot tap, wring and place on your face to cool. Once cool wipe over the face and repeat another 2-3 times. Make sure all traces of the now 'dirty' oil has been removed. I started using this on/off after reading it then stopped. But decided I would give it a proper go a week and a half ago. My chosen carrier oil was olive oil (not the best to use I'll tell you why). What I did was mix about 3 teaspoons of castor oil t...

Angel Wing Braid

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Hey Beauty Lovers! A real quick hair post for you today. This is the Angel Wing Braid. Thus named for looking like an angel wing! Its basically a lace braid, but your adding more hair to the top strand. Here's where I learned this lil beauty: SecretLifeOfaBioNerd At the mo I am really loving this YouTuber! She is amazing! I have such an urge to DIY everything now! I trimmed my fringe the other day so its much shorter now so there's the odd sticky outty bit. To finish the braid off I just continued to braid past my ear then pinned into place. Its a really cute bo-ho look Hope you like and check out SecretLifeOfaBioNerd! Jeni x