Beauty Days

(Warning: Don´t read unless you´re interested in girly stuff lol)

Carla and I first came up with the idea of having a beauty day over a month ago, when we were walking out of the campus and this girl stopped us. She offered us this "deal": We had to pay her $80 in cash to get an invitation to get our hair done at this new hairdressers. It seemed like a reasonable price so we decided to go for it. It wasn´t after reading the invitation more carefully that we noticed we had to pay additional $60. Naturally, having already paid over half of the price we couldn´t cancel it. (Don´t tell me to read all contracts through before singing anything. I know!) So, since we were going spend that much on our hair we decided to have a proper beauty day with everything else, as well.

On Thursday we started with manicures in Chinatown. This lovely Chinese lady treated us and it felt so nice getting my nails cleaned and cut properly. We both went for the french manicures, which look cool! Then we took a bus to the Pitt Street Mall. Instead of being a mall building it´s a street full of stores. Carla was looking for a dress to wear at the Harbour Cruise the following day. She didn´t find one for the cruise but ended up buying this most beautiful evening gown! When walked into the store we both fell in love with the same dress - a black, long one with a chiffon skirt and sequins - and tried it on. Unfortunately I hadn´t the money to buy it even though it was on sale. We also had coffee, cake and ice cream at this nice indoor street cafe. Usually stores close as early as at 5-6pm here (as well as everything else: museums, cafes etc) but Thursday is late night shopping. It´s only on Pitt Street, though, which we didn´t know and tried to go to the Wynyard Mall, as well. Anyways, I was good saving my money and only bought a brown bag to go with these shoes I got some weeks ago.

Getting my nails done

Indoors shopping street at Pitt Sreet Mall

Our beauty day continued on Friday after lectures and going to the gym. We had booked make-up sessions at the Myers on Thursday. In order to get free make-ups we had to purchase products worth of $35. I needed a new lip pen anyways, so it was a good deal. These ladies worked on our make-ups for almost an hour: They did everything from foundation to lips. I love getting my make-up done by someone else, and it turned out looking good. From Myers we crossed the street to the hairdressers. I´ve never been to such a big and posh hairdressing place! There were over 10 people working there. I´m used to having a same person doing everything but these people were taking any available tasks. So I had different people choosing the color, dying my hair, giving me a scalp massage (which was really enjoyable) and cutting my hair. I went for a single brown color and got my hair cut quite a lot shorter than it used to be. The hairdressers was a really posh place! All the workers and customers were so trendy they almost made me feel like out of place. There were three men hairdressers and you could tell all of them were definately gay. One of them had moved here from Stockholm and we talked a bit in Swedish. They were offering customers champagne and chocolate covered strawberries, but by the time I was asked if I wanted to have anything they had run out of them. I had a nice cappucino, though. After our ultimate hairdresses experience we took some pictures outside the place, at an empty mall, before a security guard came to tell us to leave.