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Enjoy hun...xxxx


Bag: Dune 
Clutch: Dune

EbonyB Real Hair- Brazilian Curly and Wavy Review

Just a reminder that today is the last day of my give-away.
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I've always been sceptical about virgin hair, especially because of the price, but I was just getting sick of beauty supply hair and wasting my money on it. I had scoured through the interenet trying to find UK sellers, watching reviews on YouTube, looking at pictures on Facebook pages, just so I could find the right one. We all know virgin hair ain't cheap, so I wanted to do my research so I won't buy any fake ones or hair that wasn't of the highest quality. I went out for dinner with a friend, who you can see in this post, she had the EbonyB Real Hair and it felt absolutely beautiful and I was literally dying over it, so I made immediate contact with the company.

DISCLAIMER: Just to clarify that the wavy hair is the one I paid for and the curly hair was the one I was sent to model for EbonyB's relaunch. If I mention "hair" I'm talking about the curly and the wavy and I have referred to the type of hair in particular if I said something specific relating to either just the curly or just the wavy. 

Pros:

1. EbonyB deliver the best customer service, I always have bad experiences when ordering online, but the people at EbonyB were so helpful, especially when I was having issues with another buyer I initially wanted to buy from. I had contacted then on new Years Eve through Facebook, but didn't expect to get an answer until Monday, however they replied back to me within 10 minutes. I must say I was rather impressed. Facebook is the easiest way to contact them if you have any questions.

2. The hair I purchased was wavy and the hair I received from them, which I modelled was curly. I love the waving patterns in the hair, it's so pretty.

3. A big Pro with this hair is that when you use curling irons/tongs/wand on this hair the curls last for DAYS. I can curl my hair on Monday and it will stay in throughout the whole week. I find that it works best when you have tight curls and then let the curls drop throughout the week, day 3-5 it turns into a nice wavy pattern, which is my favourite. 

4. The length of the hair is true to length if not longer. The hair when curly is true to it's length, but if you were to straighten the hair it would be like 2 inches longer.

5. The hair is at it's best in it's natural condition.

6. The compliments ;)

Cons:

1. Majority of the hair is soft to touch but I have experienced quite a bit of dryness with the the ends, I've been using all types of conditioners and different brands of Argan oil. I find in the morning it the hair feels abit rough, but when I put a bit of water and Argan oil through it, it  feels softer. I had to take out one bundle of the curly and replaced it with the wavy I had bought, because it was quite frizzy the curls weren't defined and every time I brushed the hair the curls would disappear. That was only with one bundle, the rest of the three bundles were fine.

2. As I have been experiencing dryness with the ends, it also causing the hair to be more prone to tangling, so I can get my hands caught in my hair now and again when I run my hands through the hair.

3. I've also been experiencing shedding, when I looked at the weft construction of the hair when I first got it,I noticed that the weft construction wasn't the best and that it could be stronger, so I sealed my wefts. However, because my ends have been tangling I have been experiencing shedding when I brush and wash my hair and I can loose up to 10 strands. 

4. A further issue I had was with the length of the wefts. The longer the inches of the hair the shorter the wefts, what I noticed was that my 14" was shorter than my 16" and 18". Having watched YouTube videos where YTgurus had shown hair they had received I always felt like the wefts where much longer than my own. Further to that I felt that the girls who had only installed 3 bundles looked so much fuller than my 4 bundles. I was also sceptical about the width of my 20", but I just dismissed it. However, when I'd received the hair I modelled I noticed that the 22" I received was double the length if not more compared to my 20" that I had bought previously. 

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This is my first time trying virgin hair, so I don't know if the issues such as the dryness are common with Brazilian hair. DISCLAIMER: You also have to take into account that not all virgin hair is the same and that it is just my experience, if you have read all the feedback from the links I gave you, you can see that the majority if not all are positive. I will keep conditioning the hair and see if it the ends get better, because when I had felt my friends hair it was really soft, if the ends get softer and more manageable it will in turn decreases the shedding. I am finding the more I condition it and put Argan Oil through the hair the softer it has become.
My recommendations are if you buy the hair is to wet it slightly and use either serum and Argan oil, through it, that makes the hair softer and also find that the hair is better in it's natural condition. They recommended Frizz Ease products to me, most people use Herbal Essense Hello Hydration, which I have used but I actually prefer the Proclere Hydrating Argan Oil Masque which you can get from Superdrugs, it's really nice and thick and i feel like it does more, including to Argan oil it also has Coconut Oil, Avocado Oil, Castor Oil and Olive Oil.
The winning part of this hair are the wave/curl pattern of the hair, being able to curl the hair with heat, do big hair and Kim Kardashian style hair, use bendy roller curls, and have the curls last FOREVER. I can spend like an hour making sure the hair is on point, but then don't have to touch it for the rest of week.

If you look at EbonyB's feedback page you can see comments from customers as well as comments on their Facebook page, which are all very positive. Also SugarPearlTV has done reviews on their hair, she had used their hair for 7 months and 3 installs. 

There is obviously a lot of positive feedback about the hair, so I just need to keep working with it. 

EbonyB are relaunching their website, which is why I modelled for them. They had talks with their suppliers to talk about the quality of their hair and issues such as the wefts, as previously discussed. Their new stock of hair should be available at the end of February or beginning of March, which I would like to try.

Website: EbonyB Real Hair

Facebook: EbonyB Facebook, check out the pictures of their clients

14", 16", 18", 20"- Wavy
This is what it looked like at the end of the day when I had put Bendy Rollers in, click here to see the wavy hair in it's natural condition.


14", 16", 18", 20"- Wavy
Wavy hair when wet.



14", 26", 26"- Curly
18", 20"- Wavy
Sixth day after beeing curled with heat, click here to see the hair in it's natural condition.

Thanks a lot...xxx

Gilet: New Look
Jacket: H&M
Riding Pants: H&M
Boots: Dune
Bangle: H&M 


I realised I've reached 900 followers and just wanted to thank all you guys, sometimes I wonder why you guys are here, which makes me want to work harder on my blog and put things that are off interest to you.
Starting off with a review of the Brazilian hair, hopefully sometime this week as well as my make-up routine.
If you have any suggestions of what posts you would like to see, do let me know.

I'm going to be closing my give-away at the end of Friday, so check it out here and enter if you see what you like. I will be announcing the winner either on Saturday or Sunday.
This give-away is just a thank you for all your support, but once I reach 1000 I will do another one, hopefully a bigger one. I can hear my purse crying already, but just want to show you all how appreciative I am.

A touch of the 70's

Poncho: ZARA
Jumper: Mothers
Jeans: Just Female @ ASOS
The jeans are making another appearance because I need to stretch them out abit
Wedges: Random Shop

Going to go to do some work for my presentation I have to do on how retailers can maximise sales and make effective use of the supply chain. Sounds fun, right? : /

To all those people who say Fashion is easy, EAT THIS.



Bag: Dune
You still have time to enter my give-away if you want to bag yourself (excuse the pun) some Dune goodies.

No Words

Jacket: H&M
Shirt: Primark
Jeans: Just Female @ ASOS
Boots: Dune

ZARA

Sorry for all the writing in advance, I talk alot.




Going to start from the right, with that floral piece. I quite like it cause the floral print is quite subtle with the black background and I just thought it would add a feminine touch to my oh so beloved leather jacket.

I'm getting more into white now and I'm even thinking of getting a pair of white trousers even though I'm bad with white as I just get foundation everywhere. But I'm going start off this white shirt, a minimalistic box shaped shirt, I've been looking for something for quite a while. I like all the subtle details that add interest to the shirt like the seam down the middle and pleat at the sleeves, which gives the shirt abit of structure.

And now to the masterpiece which is this Poncho, I've wanted something like this for quite a while but everytime I see something like that it's just at prices I am not willing to pay. I loved it once I put it on and I could feels eyes on me, I went to put it back because I wasn't sure about the price (I'm a cheapskate by the way). I'd already imagined what I was going to wear with it, like a fur stole and I ordered some high waisted jeans from Just Female on ASOS and thought they would go so nicely with it. I knew if I dropped it I would regret it. As I went to drop it a woman came up to me and told me how good it looked on me. I was sold.

Even though I was still uncertain about the price when I went to the till it turned out it had gone down nearly half of the sale price, couldn't hold in my excitement.




Also bought this case from ZARA, if you follow me on twitter you probably read my tweet from when I dropped my I-phone, I was so upset and now my phone has a little boo boo :(
I've been putting off buying a case, I'd already bought 2 of eBay and they turned out too look horrible once received.
I love the minimalistic feel of the iPhone and wanted something simple and chic to go with it and found this silver metallic case at ZARA.
I love it. I'm sure it's going to scratch easily so going to buy myself a backup as soon as I can. Because I know by the time I decide to replace it, it would have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Darn ZARA and their quick response strategy, my lecturer would be so proud of me using the lingo.

Don't forget to enter my give-away