Dawn's Journal: September 2017

To Everyone Struggling Right Now

Hi there! This blog is dedicated for you. Yes you, you opened this blog for a reason and I know it for sure, you are struggling right now. You wouldn't have opened this if you weren't.

May it be your career, relationships, family or yourself, struggles always come and go.

I don't take struggles very easily, I let it defeat me for most times. I let it devour me, I let it in my system for so long and I take a lot of time before I snap out of it.

I am writing this because I felt the need to. I've been struggling for so long that I compromised my career, the things that I love doing especially blogging so I thought that this might be a good opportunity for a comeback.

I keep letting that struggle be my identity, but you know what? I forgot what my real identity is, is that I am a daughter of God. I am His princess, I am His.

I haven't been expressing my faith in Him for so long that I almost forgot how it felt to feel His love like I'm flying through the clouds.

Until someone very unexpected reminded me of that. My partner and I have been very idle on our faith so I thought he didn't care about church anymore, he didn't care about anything related to that. Until I asked him a question, "do you think God is unfair?" short fact about him, he has faced tons of struggles in life, I mean tons but you know what he said to me?

"I don't think He is unfair at all. Yes I may have faced a lot of struggles in life but I needed that to become who I am today. You don't have to think or question the things you don't have, you just have to be thankful for what you have"

That's very basic but it's too hard to apply in our lives. He said that he was thankful that he is living and well, he has food to eat everyday, he has shelter to live in and so on. Throughout our conversation, he just stated every little thing that he appreciates. We rarely talk about serious stuff like these but when we do, it is more than meaningful.

He helped me get back up and to deny the identity that I was becoming.

Setting the story aside, what I'm trying to say is, talk to someone who you trust and who you think can help you with your struggles.

I don't have the advice or the answers to your struggles because only you know the answers. You know how to end this but you keep on holding on to your defeat which I understand. Get back up, pull yourself together.

That's all for today. I hope you enjoyed this and if you need someone to talk to, I don't care if you're a stranger, I am not a professional but if you need someone who could listen, let me know. Because sometimes, all we need is someone who could listen.

If you like a series of personal issues to be tackled on this blog, don't forget to share a comment below. :)

Smile! Have a wonderful day ahead.

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, by Dawn Flores

Mediheal Secret Change Color Cream [Ash Grey] Review

Hi everyone! So my most awaited package arrived and I got so excited to try them out. I ordered this permanent hair color cream from Ms. Saeli because the colors are so hard to find in the market. I purchased Ash Grey and Ash Brown. I was planning on mixing these two but as soon as I get to the process, I thought that the colors won't really show because the mix would've been bad so I only used the Ash Grey.

You can see on the chart above on how the colors will look depending on your current hair color. Mine was the first one from the chart.

I didn't want to bleach my hair and I don't want to take that risk because I've experienced super freezy and ugly hair so I don't wanna go back to that road again. LOL.

Once you open the box, you'll have four packets, two developers and two hair changing color cream. The instructions are also printed inside the box which I don't have any pictures of anymore.

How to Use

1. Mix 1 part and 2 parts at the same ratio and apply the mixture evenly over the entire hair.
2. Leave the room at room temperature for 20 minutes.
3. Thoroughly apply the rest of the cream to the roots where it has not been applied for 10-15 minutes.
4. Rinse well and shampoo over time.

What makes this product unique:

1. The colors!!!!
2. Affordable and has treatment or repairing components

Personal Experience:

Now, I think I made a mistake by ordering one box of Ash Grey because my hair is medium long but it's thick so one box is not enough for me so color didn't really pop.

It did remove the brassiness of my previous hair color which I like and somehow turned a bit ashy copper brown or something. If that's even a real color. Lol.

Here is a before and After photo:

BEFORE AFTER

As you can see the before picture is ewwy, it's brassy and orange-y and I don't like it when my hair turns into that color. On the left side, nothing much has changed but it's a bit ashy and the brassiness is gone so yayyy.

To better understand the product, let's go through the pros and cons

PROS:

Easy to apply
Affordable
Great variety of hair colors
Somehow has this treatment components
Didn't damage my hair much
The best part: IT'S NOT STINGY

CONS:

Not easy to find in the Philippines
The color didn't really pop (this is because I think I didn't use enough product so be sure to buy two boxes if you have thick and long hair)

Rating: 4/5

I like this hair changing cream, I just think that I didn't do justice because I only used one box. LOL. But as you can see from the picture, it gave a lot of colors for one box, what more if I had two? I think that would be very pretty. And what I really love about this product is that it's not stingy on the roots which is why I really liked this product. I really hate it when I'm uneasy because the product is stinging my roots so thats a plus plus points for me.

That's it for now, I hope you liked it! Let me know in the comments if you have any questions, or if you'd want me to try a product before you buy it.

Till next time, byieeee!