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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hair care treatments

Everybody is looking for the right hair care treatment for their hair problems. Whether you need one for dry hair or oily hair, coarse hair or scalp problems, you are looking for relief from the major issues with your hair. Dry brittle hair or an itchy scalp not only looks bad but are very uncomfortable to live with.

Here are some natural home hair treatments. When your hair needs strength, moisture and stimulation, use this avocado mixture. Smash up half an avocado and add 2 tbsp. of real mayonnaise and peppermint oil. Mix ingredients together and then massage into hair. Cover with plastic cap, leave on for twenty minutes and then rinse out.

For dry hair you should use olive oil. The night before you shampoo you can put olive oil on your hair and cover with a plastic cap before you go to bed. If you don’t have the time for that you could leave the olive oil on your hair for two hours with the plastic cap on, then shampoo.

One of the most important things to have healthy hair is to have a healthy scalp. If you add seven drops of each of these essential oils: peppermint, lavender, and rosemary to your conditioner, your scalp will be healthier. The peppermint opens the pores of the scalp. The lavender soothes the scalp from irritation. The rosemary increases circulation in the scalp. Perfume oils will not work in this way.

All of these treatments will help you have healthy and beautiful hair. An added benefit is they will cost less since the ingredients are readily available at your grocers and you’ll be doing at home. You don’t have to go to a fancy and expensive salon to have it done. When people ask you who did your hair, you can say, “I did it.”

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Great Wedding Hairstyles

Nowadays, wedding goers don’t have to be traditional in their dress or their hairstyle. Some people like to be trendy and have hairdos like their favorite celebrities while others like to stand out from the crowd. These steps to wedding hairstyles will show you how to get these types of styles without the salon cost.

Here are some ways you can do your hair at home.

Short and Curly

Wash your hair with a curl activating shampoo. Dry hair with a towel and comb hair gently.

Using a diffuser with picks (HAIRART T3 hair dryer attachment) pick up hair into the diffuser. Try not to touch hair too much. Mist hair with sea salt spray.

Spritz hair lightly. If ends are too frizzy, put a wax on them and crunch hair. You might want to try pins or clips with this style.

Waves

With dry hair use a setting or light hair spray. Work with about a one inch sections starting at the neck. Wrap hair around a large curling iron. Mists curls lightly, and then re-curl to hold and hold with a pin.

Use a large curling iron through the nape area, pin curling. After you reached the ear switch to a medium curling iron, then do the same pattern toward the front of the head.

When all the hair is pinned go to the first pin and start to take them out. Flip curls upside down and fingerpick curls. Use a shine pomade to finish ends.

Half Up Do

Wash and towel dry hair. Put a coin size amount of smoothing balm to damp hair. Go though to the end of the hair.

Blow dry hair at medium heat. Toss hair upside down and brush forward with paddle brush. Allow lift at root.

With dry hair use a heat protective spray. Use a ceramic plate flat iron (BABYLISS PRO Professional Porcelain Ceramic 1 inch Flat Iron with Extra Long Plate) in sections from neck to front, start the iron an inch away from the roots.

Part the way you want in the front and clip a 1 ½ inch section. From the section to the middle part of the head begin combing back.

Smooth hair with the back of the paddle brush, comb and fasten with bobby pins. Take clipped hair and fasten over the new pins. To “bling” it up use some pretty pins.