You can get really results with the new home-coloring products. They have become so easy to use that they’re practically fool proof, and ever so natural-looking.
Home Coloring Tips
Deep condition before you color
Healthy Hair Care
- Wait two days after shampooing before coloring. The color will adhere better, since your scalp is more sensitive after shampooing, it will make the process more comfortable. Plus the natural oils in your hair will protect it.
Long Hair Care Tips
- Try to avoid sleeping with very tight braids or pony tails. The tightness and the stress can cause breakage and even hair loss.
- If your hair is braided or has a pony tail, try to use a specially treated band or scrunchie which can help prevent the breakage. Limit your use on clips, bows and untreated bands.
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It’s about time to close the door on 2008. Hard to believe, isn’t it? This past year has been wild politically, economically and – perhaps – even personally. Chances are that there will be many things out of your control in 2009 too, but there are some promises you can make to yourself. Consider the following pledges.
2009 A New Year, A New You
I promise to honestly evaluate my budget by:
- Looking realistically at the numbers and paying off credit card debt.
- Taking advantage of coupons and deals offered by businesses such as Salon Trendz in Chicago, which provides free bang trims between regular haircuts for loyal customers.
- Cutting back on unnecessary spending. (Try bringing coffee from home instead of making the daily pilgrimage to the local cafe.)
- Visiting the vintage clothes boutique to supplement the wardrobe.
I promise to expand my horizons by:
- Trying something new such as learning how to swing dance or taking a cooking class.
- Getting a makeover – anything from Japanese hair straightening to getting pretty highlights added to your hair. If you haven’t ever tried brow threading, Salon Trendz offers a $15 special for first-timers.
- Paying attention to current events and starting discussions with others.
- Reading at least three books on the best-seller list.
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CHICAGO – The holidays are upon us. Family get-together, office parties, school festivities and shopping for
Great Haircut for Holidays & Makeup To-Go
gifts will soon be vying for our attention. The season will either bowl you over or it will make you merry. With a little preparation and a detailed calendar, you can multiply your good cheer and avert stress – a sure-fire beauty buster!
Before you do anything else, make an appointment for a good haircut. Photos are a fact of life, especially during the holidays, so tackle that potential stress factor by getting the best haircut you’ve had all year. Get some flattering foil highlights or hand painted balayage color put in and take care of your overgrown brows before someone posts a horribly unflattering phone photo on Facebook. Find a good brow threading artist and take care of that stubble lickity-split.
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The Green Movement is an international phenomenon, stretching from the United Nations to the far corners of the Earth. It’s a response to warnings about global warming, increased energy costs, diminishing natural resources and growing evidence that our future wellbeing depends on immediate changes in our behavior now.
Hair care and cosmetics
How to respond to grim predictions can be overwhelming, but taking baby steps can help us overcome our inertia. Start small. Do something – anything – and you will have already begun to reduce your carbon footprint.
Wondering where to begin? Chicago’s Salon Trendz Palos Heights suggests you begin going green in the master bath, where everyone starts their day. Changes in beauty routines can
make a “world of difference.”
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Most little girls go through a phase when they want to grow up to be princesses…and why shouldn’t they?
10 things that can rob you of your beauty rest
Jasmine and Ariel are smart and funny. Cinderella and Snow White are problem-solvers and aren’t afraid of work. Pocahontas and Mulan are always up for adventure. Those are all great attributes, of course, but when you ask a little girl why she loves her favorite princess, nine times out of 10 she’ll say, “…Because she’s so pretty.”
Princess Aurora was beautiful too, and her “power nap” may have been instrumental in her good looks. Aurora, the one and only Sleeping Beauty, had plenty of time to reap the benefits of enough shut-eye – a crucial component of looking your best.
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School has started and students everywhere are trying to adjust to their new schedules. Night owls have to
Makeup Tips
revert to earlier bed times or else risk sleeping through their alarms. College co-eds jostle for mirror time in dorm restrooms, wielding all sorts of menacing items to get them ready in time for class – sizzling curling irons, mascara wands, hairspray, blow-dryers, and flatirons hot enough to fry an egg.
Soon, the smart girls realize something’s gotta give. Campus life and hours spent on hair and makeup just don’t mesh. Morning makeup application will need to be cut down to a five-minute beauty blitz, and they’ll learn to either wear their hair “au naturel” to classes or shove it under a ball cap, emblazoned with the school logo. For the really smart gals, a third option comes to mind: a semi-permanent cure for the unruly mess – an appointment at a hair salon to get Japanese hair straightening.
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