silver hair 101

I never did anything remotely wild with my hair before I started bleaching it last year. I just forever dyed it blonde. I have to say though that the bleaching process has been quite an adventure and there are a lot of things I wish I had known before I decided to go all ice queen on my hair. So to prevent you from making the same mistakes I listed some important things that the gorgeous Instagram photos and quick YouTube tutorials never told me.

the endless wait for a tour announcement and how to deal with it

It's kind of a strange moment in Bon Jovi world to be writing about them. We know a lot is going to happen. They keep telling us a lot is going to happen. But all we see is pictures of Jon running in a t-shirt he's had for ten years or of him at some fancy event, of which I have no clue why he is there half of the time. David is always out there somewhere playing music with his buds and Tico, well we don't really see him but we accept that he is probably playing golf or making art under the sun. But every now and then, when we really start to accept it's not going to happen any time soon Jon goes and mentions it in some interview. "It's happening and it's going to be big."

So we trust him like we always do, even though he has proven more than once that sometimes we shouldn't. Next month could easily mean next year, or somewhere in the next six. And let's not even talk about how he still believes leathers shirts are a good look for a man in his fifties. But apparently unbuttoned leather shirts and an acoustic remake of all the songs we love are forgivable so we wait.

I'm not saying it's easy and I'm definitely not saying we do it patiently. But there are a few things that I feel make it a little more bearable for us so I decided to list my favourite things.

a new direction

You know what, as with anything in my life forever, I already changed my mind about this blog.

What? Really? You only wrote one blogpost.

Well, yes, but I guess I just realised I am never going to be one of those perfect, sophisticated, beauty bloggers. Who was I even kidding. If I have to be at work before 10am, I am going to show up with no make up, in whatever sweater I found on my floor. If I take slightly aesthetic looking photos of products, I take them on a sheet of paper or my bed covers and just turn the brightness up to a level where you can no longer tell. And let's be real, why would I want to be one of those bloggers. There already are many, many people doing that exact same thing. And way better as well.

There are however two things that really excite me in life. Bon Jovi and make-up. And when I buy my 600th red lipstick in the exact same shade as the other ones I want to write about it. But when I said I only ever did a successful blog about Bon Jovi, I should have realised that I am only ever going to make a frequently updated blog if Bon Jovi is involved.

So here's what we are going to do. I am going to blog about beauty and Bon Jovi because those are the things I want to write about. And I know the combination is odd but it's right for me.

So from now on you can expect updates on the Bon Jovi things that are happening in my life (which at this moment are only very few, yes Jon, I am side-eyeing you and your non-existent tour dates so hard) and updates on beauty finds, make-up favourites and anything else that has to do with those two subjects.

I'm also not going to change my mind about it this time. Ask anyone I met in the past 16 years, they are still waiting for me to realise there are better bands out there than Bon Jovi. (Which of course, if absolutely, definitely, not true.)

xx Anjelica