APPS WE LOVE… Real Racing 3

Hey! 

Today we are starting a new section on the blog. 

/ A P P S   W E   L O V E /

We will be sharing some apps we have on our iPhones that we are really enjoying, whether it be a game, style app or editing app! Please feel free to let us know what your fave app is and if there is an app we should try out!

(taken from the web!)

Hey guys! NayMay here, so today I am sharing with you one of my all time fave gaming apps! But be warned, if you do try this you may become a little addicted 🙂 speaking from experience…

I will admit that I absolutely love car racing games. If there is any opportunity, whether it be at the arcade, stealing a friends phone to play a game or just downloading a bunch of apps, I will happily play. (Please tell me I’m not the only one!)
But the one that has stood out for me is Real Racing 3 on the iphone and ipad.

‘Featuring all-new licensed tracks and a robust lineup of licensed cars from all-new manufacturers, Real Racing 3 delivers a rich, next-gen racing experience with the most beautiful and authentic circuit racing available on mobile devices.’

Engines a ready.

I first fell in love with this game on my tiny iphone 4S screen, my Real Racing buddies (yes, yes I do have racing buddies) would laugh at how bad the graphics were and so jolty, but once I downloaded it on my ipad mini it all changed. It was so clear, big and smooth and made the game so much more enjoyable and slightly more obvious when I played it!

Within the app you have a series of races to complete at different levels, Amateur, Pro/Am, Pro, Expert, Master, Elite and Legend. Within a series you have different challenges to complete, a traditional cup race where you are up against 22 other fancy cars, ‘Elimination’ (a favourite) where a car gets eliminated every 20 seconds, and you have to come in first to survive, Endurance, Hunter and so many more to explore and have favourites of your own.

Two of my favourite types of races.

A great feature of this game is that you can play with your friends with ‘Time Shifted Multi-player’ It works by recording the time it takes for you to do a lap in each race, then when you go online it recreates that time lapse, when you play opponents in multi-player mode it is reproducing the laps raced by real people at another time. This is a great feature, but when playing with friends you tend to get a little competitive and won’t stop racing until you have thrashed them and all they can see ahead is the dust of your tracks!! Maybe I have stayed up a little too late trying to beat everyone I know, because c’mon a girl racing against her male friends has got to show them who’s boss!

My favourite site to see, but my car is pretty much destroyed at the end of each race. I’m a little reckless!

I will admit, one night having an epic sleepover with The Emily’s as they were checking out blogs and watching films, I was there, sitting with my phone plugged into the wall racing a friend until the wee hours of the morning, it is that addictive.The Emily’s weren’t too thrilled with my sudden anti-social behaviour but it happens to us all right?

Time can quickly go by when playing and it actually keeps a record of how many hours you spend racing, and no I haven’t spent a grand total of 70 hours 42 minutes and 13 seconds!

There is so much content in this game especially if you love a good ole race. Just make sure your not living and breathing RR3.

You can play anywhere…literally.

Ombre to dye for

Well hello there!

Today I thought I would share with you about how Em and I ombred our hair in the summer. (is ombred even a word ? )

Firstly, I have always wanted to ombre my hair and my caring mum always told me that “dying your hair is not good for you, your natural hair is a lovely colour” and so on… But me being an impressionable Pinterest loving 18 year old ombre hair was legit and Pinterest was full of awesome hair and styles that I just *needed* in my life. And I at least wanted to try it…

Well my mum allowed me to ombre my hair! (#breakthrough) And in true Independence day style, on the fourth of July, Em and I bought the necessary hair dye and hair bleach and were ready for it!

Em previously ombred her hair and it looked great! She has shorter hair than mine, so her ombre was more noticeable while mine was mainly the ends below shoulder length, so if I wanted to cut it off my hair was still pretty long. Anyway, our plan was to bleach the ends, maybe 2 inches, then dye the next 2 1/2 inches with blonde hair dye.

So in preparation we made makeshift bibs by making holes in a bin bag and wearing them as a shirt ~ classy.

I was first and Em started by putting the bleach on the ends of my hair, the smell felt like it was stripping my nose from ever being able to smell again, however it was just stripping my hair of everything good for it.

We then put the hair dye a little higher by using our index finger and thumb and running it down strands of hair. I then hesitantly did it for Em apologising throughout as it was my first time dying hair.

Then we waited, and waited. As we both have brunette hair you couldn’t see a drastic change in our hair colour while it was wet. After rinsing the ends of our hair in the sink, we were quite surprised by the outcome, being no huge difference! The blonde hair dye didn’t even show up on our hair! However the bleached ends did show. So we were left with a thin blonde line at the bottom of our hair. But by this time we had to rush and go see the fireworks display for July fourth! WOOP!  But it looked a little strange as only 2 inches of our hair was actually a different colour and was a straight line round our head, so the next day we had to fix it!

The next morning Em’s dad ran to Wal-Mart to get more bleach, and outside, with a wooden chair and our classy bin bag bibs we were ready for round 2 using the same technique, this time going further up our hair and making it less straight and more messy and natural around our whole head.

Well we both loved it! It turned out great! And finally my pinterest-turning-reality dream was real and actually worked to really well! We were both super pumped!

However, once the novelty wore off ( which did take some time) I realised how brittle and dry it made my hair, from looking at the natural brown hair to the blonde it was a noticeable difference in the health and dryness. Back in England where the weather can be dryer my hair looked so unhealthy, especially when straightened it looked frizzy and again really dry.

So after three months I got it cut off and have been taking Biotin ( a vitamin for hair, skin and nails health ) I have noticed a drastic change in the fullness and vitality of my hair and how dark my natural hair colour is! …

// I would definitely ombre again but maybe not with bleach //

So the moral of the story, maybe my mum waaas right and I should hold off wanting to dye ALL my hair as thankfully with ombre you can just cut it off! However Em’s looked awesome and she is rocking the ombre look!
But the beauty about hair is that if you don’t like it you can always chop it off!

Thank God for hair growth, am I right?!

– Em J –

Turned out pretty good

Em rocking that hair