I dyed my hair blue again today, I know, I know, I just dyed it a couple weeks ago, but I botched it a bit (I am awful at dying my own hair) and needed to fix it. Now it is bright cobalt at the roots that fades to a deep indigo at the tips. I am happy with it and hopefully won’t have to alter my hair for a while, except to trim my bangs of course. Now if I could find some way to tame my crazy cowlick!
Today’s tea is a tea for anyone who suffers for insomnia, Raizana Tea’s SleepyTea. A blend of passionflower, Valerian, Blueberry Leaves, Chamomile, Lavender Flowers, Rosemary, Spearmint, Lemongrass, Stevia, and Natural Orange Flower. A very colorful pile of flowers and herbs! The aroma is a great blend of plant matter, mixing herbaceous notes, floral notes, and straw notes. The lavender and lemongrass is quite strong, a strange blend of smells, but not an unpleasant one.
Once steeped the wet leaves are quite sweet, a bit fruity and a bit floral. There is also a strong citrus and herbaceous tone, I am assuming from the lemongrass (my arch nemesis, we meet again) there is a hint of chamomile straw notes that actually calm the lemongrass down, it is a neat effect, there is this kick of lemongrass and then it is soothed by chamomile. The liquid is mostly the straw like aroma of chamomile and the green yet lemony aroma of lemongrass, there is a very delicate finish of lavender.
The taste is really quite sweet and lemony, the taste reminds me of Lemonheads but without the really sour aspect of that candy. The lemony sweetness fades to a mellow floral blend of lavender and chamomile with a finish of herbaceous. There is not really a mint taste to the tea, but it does have a nice cooling quality as it goes down the throat. I am not going to say this tea knocked me out and put me to sleep, when my insomnia is acting up it takes powerful sleeping meds and even that is not consistent, but this tea was very relaxing and certainly took the edge off.
For blog and photos: http://ramblingbutterflythoughts.blogspot.com/2014/03/raizana-teas-sleepytea-tea-review.html
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Nice photos, but I was hoping there’d be one of the blue hair!
Here you go https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203467889042208&set=pb.1362711512.-2207520000.1395516103.&type=3&theater it is still a little damp and the lighting is garbage, but you can see the blue :)
Haha! Awesome. Thanks for posting!
:) Welcome!
Awesome hair!
Nice photos, but I was hoping there’d be one of the blue hair!
Here you go https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203467889042208&set=pb.1362711512.-2207520000.1395516103.&type=3&theater it is still a little damp and the lighting is garbage, but you can see the blue :)
Haha! Awesome. Thanks for posting!
:) Welcome!
Awesome hair!