For those of you who follow me on Twitter already know this because SOMEONE (yes, I’m looking at you, L’Oreal!) upped and spoiled my surprise! Okay okay it was my bad for not spilling the juice earlier in the week when I should (I’ll never make it as one of ’em news-breaking journalists, so there), so let’s all pretend you don’t know nothin’ and act surprised, k? 😛

How It Started

On New Year’s Eve in 2012, when Tim and I were sharing new year’s resolutions with each other (I shared, he scoffed at the idea of making resolutions), I told him I wanted to do something big for the blog in 2013. I wanted to move out of my blogging comfort zone. On a whim, I told him I wanted to cover one of the fashion shows in Australia. Preferably the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF), since I already am in Melbourne anyway. He told me to go for it.

Man, I was gung-ho. I started to write proposals and stuff, something I’ve never done before. I was just about to send my proposal to L’Oreal on why I could be a suitable candidate to help cover the LMFF when the very next day, I received an invitation from L’Oreal to be one of their official bloggers for the LMFF!

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Are you planning a holiday this year? Lucky you! Are you planning to keep your blog running when you’re away at the beach sipping Mai Tais? Okay don’t tell me, I might just smack you out of envy. 😛

Blog planning before going on a break can be a bit of a pain but useful if you’d like to keep your blog running like usual whilst you’re away. I was so crazy busy the month before I left for Malaysia, and it wasn’t even about the packing. Packing took me 2 days, blog planning took me a full 4 weeks.

Here are a few ways you can keep your blog running when you’re not in front of your computer. At least, it’s how I did it. 🙂

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Now, Pantene and I, we’ve always had a good thing going on. There’s been so much talk about the high amount of silicone in Pantene haircare products for years. To be honest, it didn’t deter me. For such a big company (owned by Procter & Gamble), heaps of money gets thrown into the research of better technology for haircare. It’s one of the very few haircare brands I still love and trust today simply because it makes my hair feel and look good. It has for years and is still going strong.

When I was sent a box of the Clinicare Split End Fuser Leave-On Treatment for editorial consideration almost a year ago, it stumped me. I didn’t know whether to try it or even review it because I know that you simply cannot cure split ends. There’s no product in the world that can magically fuse split hair and make it like new again. Products that claim to heal split ends simply seal the split end temporarily to help it look healthier but the damage cannot be reversed.

After having this box in my bathroom cabinet for so many months, I decided to take the tubes out of the box and give them a try. I stubbornly dared it to defy biology. I wanted to see if these would “cure” my split ends.

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