Ulta Beauty: Show your style

I posted my new hair cut yesterday and I needed something for it so I picked up this set. It's called the Show Your Style kit. I purchased it at Ulta for $9.99. It contains five products to "create your own style with volume, texture, and shine."

PACKAGING

PRODUCTS

INCLUDED

MATRIX Biolage Waterless Clean & Recharge Dry Shampoo: 1.2 OZ

DEVACURL Supercream Coconut Curl Styler: 1.5 fl oz

RUSK Elixer Mist Thermal Shine Mist: 1.1 fl oz

CRACK Original Styling Creme: .75 fl oz

COLOR WOW One Minute Transformation Styling Cream: 1 fl oz

There are also two other sets. The Revitalize Your Hair Kit and the Pump Up the Volume Kit. They're all $9.99 so get them before they're gone since they're such good deals.

I have not used any of the items yet. I'm pretty sure though that I will enjoy them. I did take the photos at night so excuse the horrible lighting.

Haircut!

So, I went and got a haircut today. Not 100% satisfied but I'm one of those people who even if I don't like it I'll let it grow on me. Hopefully, it grows on me. FINGERS CROSSED! If not I'm going to have to get it fixed...or something. It's so short I don't think anyone can fix it any further.

I cut my hair because it was super long. Like down to my waist kind of long. This is the longest its been in like six years. Normally, I just trim it here and there but this time I decided it was time to just chop it. Probably should have picked an actual salon but I didn't. I went to Ulta which now I'm kind of undecided if I should of gone somewhere else.

BEFORE

Yes, I know you can't see the entire length of my hair. But it was almost down to my waist. I made an appointment the day before and when I went in the nice lady asked how I wanted my hair. I should have printed a photo of it for her instead of saving it on my phone.

SCREENSHOT OF WANTED LOOK

If this is your photo sorry I used it. If you want me to take it down I will.

This is the style that I wanted. Lets just say my actual hair didn't turn out like the photo. But I do partly blame myself for not printing an actual photo for her. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt because she only glanced at it. Her one flaw would have to be that if she wasn't 100% sure she should have asked to look at the photo again or have me leave it up for her to go off of. But like I said it was also my fault.

AFTER

Sorry for the makeup-less face. 

It basically looks like a regular BOB. Which is why I'm not super excited about it but hopefully once it grows out it'll look a little more like the way I wanted it to. Might have to get the ends clipped a little to look like the photo but like I said it's not super horrendous. However, when I spend 37 for a haircut I kind of expect it to look exactly how I want it to.

P.S. sorry for taking forever to post again. It's been a couple of crazy weeks with finals. Thank you for being patient with me.

UPDATE: I finally took a good look at my hair and wow...kind of upsetting. There are parts where my hair looks like there are bald spots around the back part of my head. Then there are parts where its longer than others. My husbands telling me it looks fine but if I can see it through a mirror it's probably pretty bad. I'll probably just wait it out and get it cut again once it's long enough to cut off the funky looking long/short/bald looking spots. The long parts I can fix myself but the short or bald looking spots. Going to have to wait for it to grow out.

DUP Wonder Eyelid Tape Point VS Extra

Everyone and their mother has heard of the DUP wonder eyelid tape. YAH!

But seriously, I've known about them for about a good six years now but never felt the need to jump at purchasing it. As of late I've been noticing my right eye has getting worse. I do NOT have monolids but it is heavily hooded. How I know this is because my left eye is a double because the crease is pretty obvious. I can see the crease on my right eye but the excess skin on my lid covers the crease making it look like a monolid. Thus the name a hooded lid. The main reason I know I have a hooded lid is because a few years back my mom had eyelid surgery because her hooded eyes were so bad.

Now...I will NOT be doing before and after photos or how to use the eyelid tape because there are so many on the web. However, I will show the difference between the Point and the Extra. I never purchased the Mild version since I didn't feel the need but I'm pretty sure it is somewhere in between the two.

DUP Wonder Eyelid Tape Point

As you can see the Point has 180 pieces in rows of two. They are rather short and rounded. I purchased mine off of Amazon for about $12 to $13 depending on who you purchase from.

When I purchased the Point I didn't realize they were so small but if you do accidentally purchase the Point you can do what I did and link together 2-3 pieces and place it on your eye. Another option is to apply one at a time and just overlap them until you get to the end of your eye.

DUP Wonder Eyelid Tape Extra

I also purchased the Extra from Amazon if you're interested. I paid $11.50 and as you can see it is a lot longer and kind of pointed at the ends.

With the Extra I use only one piece and it usually sits all day. My lids do get oily throughout the day but not overly oily to the point where my makeup slips off so I didn't have a problem. Even after I took it off my eye would keep its shape for a good amount of time. However, you do have to be careful when placing the tap on your lids. Because the tape is so pointy at the ends it can occasionally poke and irritate the inside corner of your eyes/skin like it did mine the first few times that I used it.

Shape and Size Comparison

Right: Point

Left: Extra

As you can see there is a major difference in the sizes and now you know why you kind of have to use two to three pieces of the Point to get it across your eye.

Left: Point

Right: Extra

For those of you who are not familiar with the size of the two they are about the size of two quarters.

Storage

Because the Wonder Eyelid Tapes are so small I was afraid that I was going to lose them so I put both of them inside a travel q-tip container that I had laying around. This way they stay together and I won't accidentally lose one...or both.