On Saturday night Aussie & 1000 Heads held a pampering session for their ‘Aussie Angels‘, a group of girls who all blog about beauty or fashion. So far they have hosted treasure hunts all over the country, and several evenings of pampering at various salons.

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A friend of mine, Hayley from Ceriselle.org, was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the fun & be an Angel – and I was lucky enough to be one of the two friends she was asked to bring along to the salon on Saturday!

After a day full of puppy sitting on Saturday, James drove me into the city centre to drop me off & collect Hayley & Helen‘s bags. After turning up at the Salon an hour early due to some crossed wires, we headed to the Briar Rose Whetherspoons to grab some food and a quick drink. As I’d already eaten I had the chocolate fudge cake instead… because it would have been rude to sit there watching while they ate their dinners, right? Exactly. Besides, I needed my hands busy so I wasn’t too tempted to strangle the screaming children running around near our table!

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7 O’clock arrived, and so we headed to the wonderful Bad Apple Salon in the Burlington Arcade to be greeted with glasses of champagne & some nibbles, and invited to relax on an incredibly comfortable sofa. Hayley & Helen were whisked away to have their hair washed & conditioned whilst I had a chat with the hosts & sipped my champagne. 10 minutes later I was handed over to Aid & his assistant who did her best to wash & condition my mane of hair in the slightly-too-small sink! I have to say that I spent the entire time sniffing the air – I’ve never used Aussie before & it smells so good.

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Once my hair was clean & smelling wonderful she wrapped my hair up in a towel that was definitely too small – the fact she managed to get it to stay in the towel for about 30 seconds before it collapsed was quite a feat! She led me to my seat & I settled in for the long haul, warning the stylist Aid that my hair takes an age to blow dry. He reassured me with a ‘Don’t worry, it won’t take long’, and started to sort me out. Meanwhile, Hayley & Helen were having their hair blow dried into lovely curls in the seats next to me – I was a little bit jealous of them as I didn’t have any options of what they could do to my hair, it’s so long that anything other than drying & straightening it would have taken all night! Not that my hair would submit to being curled – it’s very stubborn like that, any styling just falls straight out!

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Eventually my hair was blown dry, proving Aid wrong about how long it would take.. I don’t think he realised how thick it is, straightened & spritzed, and I was pronounced done! It only took about twice as long as everyone else’s did… hehe. I was very pleased with it because it is a bit of a mission to get completely dry & straightened by myself, so I hardly ever manage to do it, and certainly never that well! The three of us looked rather fab! We proceeded to sit around watching the other Angels have their hair transformed, drinking our fizz & eating the lovely chocolately nibbles. There was some good girly gossipping with the other bloggers & our glasses were never allowed to be empty – they had to make several trips to the local Tesco for more bottles (Tescos actually ran out we drank so much.. oops).

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Once everyone had been primped and we were all looking fabulous, we were given some Aussie conditioner (I got a bottle of luscious long 3 minute miracle conditioner as well – yay!), and we headed to the Red bar. The three of us had a very yummy Green Cocktail each… I think it was supposed to be an Apple Martini, but they ran out of Apple Schnapps so we ended up with extra Midori & Vodka instead, oh well! It was incredibly tasty but very strong.

At this point I feel very sorry for my poor husband, as he was called by his very drunk wife to come and collect us. We then proceeded to sing ‘Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini’ in the car at the top of our voice. Amongst other things. I’m sure at the time I thought we were fantastic, but watching James’s face when we were talking about it the next day… I’m not so sure! The four of us collapsed on the sofas at our house to eat chips & watch the first Glee episode, and giggle a lot. James dragged me to the car about 1:30am so we could get back to the dogs & go to bed. After my rendition of the Grease Megamix in the car on the way, of course (poor, poor man!). The next morning I got away with just a hangover in my head, instead of feeling like my stomach was in chaos.

To sum it up: it was a fabulous girly drunken evening which I loved! Thanks so much to Aussie & 1000 Heads, and to Hayley for inviting me along!

I’m gonna go back to Bad Apple Salon sometime soon to get my hair cut (Aid gave me a 25% voucher, yay!)… And as for Aussie shampoo, I’m buying some on Friday! It smells so good and my hair was lovely & shiny for days, it’s definitely going to become a firm favourite of mine.

Check out more photos at 1000Head’s flickr set & mine.