Money doesn't always guarantee happiness... or great hair, or good skin...

So as the title says, money doesn't guarantee happiness, or great hair, or good skin. You don't always get what you pay for.

Coming up this weekend is my friend's party, at which will be a lot of people from school I haven't seen in a year or two, so of course I wanted to look my best. I thought I'd get my hair done, invest in some new skincare, and turn up with a great 'do and glowing skin.

This is where I always go wrong - I haven never been able to get my head around 'if it's not broken don't fix it'. My dark-blonde hair was fine, albeit boring, and my skin, usually VERY troublesome and acne-prone, was the best it had been in a long time. But in my usually overly-ambitious manner I decided I wanted things even better and spent $120 on a supposedly 'high tech' moisturizer and $200 on what I thought would be simple highlights/ombre hair.

3 days later I had almost black hair with (no exaggeration) white stripes, and skin that had gone mental and broken out something awful. I booked in another hair appointment to fix the Cruella DeVille hair and it is now socially acceptable, but definitely not what I wanted and not something I look in the mirror and smile about. I'm planning to go back a third time this weekend, because all I want is to be able to look in the mirror and be happy with my appearance, but I've spent so much and I'm further from that than ever. And splashing all this cash within a few days may give you the impression I have a hefty bank account, but that is not true at all. I'm a student who works part-time, so all of this has left me broke.

Girl problems  :(

Who else has had a beauty meltdown? I know it's not just me! This week has been like an aesthetic horror movie!