Cosmetics Galore

Watching a video of how former Victoria’s Secret Angel model Kylie Bisutti hung up her angel wings because of her Christian faith and belief that her body was solely for her husband’s eye, it got me thinking “how do the Victoria’s Secret model get their hair to looks so beautiful?”

They all have really great hair. One common theme is that it’s very long, but it’s also very glossy and seems to always lay right. So, do all the Vickie’s Secret gals just have great genes when it comes to their body and their hair, or do they use certain hair care products to make their hair look long, lustrous and full of body?

Or maybe they wear extensions?  That could be it, but I still think they also have naturally beautiful hair too.  I can tell you one thing, two of the Victoria’s Secret hair styling products are pretty good, and they do give you a bit of that “sexy hair” look that you see on the  models on the runway – the likes of Gisele Bundchen (and her Super Bowl gaffe in tow), Tyra Banks, Adriana Lima and more strutting around with their wild mane of hair.

One of the products is their “So Sexy Wave Enhancing Spray”.  It’s a pump spray that looks like it’s half oil, half water. Of course, it has a trademark heavy Victoria’s Secret scent, which I could definitely do without because that means it’s loaded with chemicals, but it does work to make your curls and waves bigger, bouncier and shinier.

I do like the product, but I’d like to use something that works the same way without having all the heavy scent in it and chemicals.  It manages to make you hair curl more easily when you put a large barreled curling iron to it, and it makes the curls and waves stay better while also making them bigger and more springy and bouncy.

You can truly have “big hair” if you use this product at night, dry your hair, then wrap it tightly in a high bun on your head overnight.  You have instantly huge body in your hair when you wake up.

Another good product they make is the So Sexy Smooth Straight and Silky Styling Mist. This one is great for those days where you don’t want waves and curls, but instead want a smoother, straighter look. It does lend itself to smoother hair. Again, there is the strong scent, but it does seem to help tame frizzies as well as smooth and straighten the hair better when combined with my FHI hair dryer and my Sedu flat iron.

I think that to get hair like Victoria’s Secret models, you do have to grow it very long so you can get that wild look. This may take the use of hair growth vitamins to help accelerate the process, and great hair care. When I’m trying to grow my hair out, I limit my trips to the hairstylist because they tend to whack off more hair than I want them to.

I usually will just have my husband give my ends a very light trim with our professional hair shears for several months to keep the ends healthy.

When I first started watching the guilty pleasure reality TV show “Jersey Shore” I wondered how all these girls could have such long hair. I mean it is loooong!  I wondered how they grew it out that long. I mean, were these girls all on some sort of super hair growth vitamin or what?  Or are Italian girls really that apt to have long locks so easily?

Jenny Farly, aka JWOWW, Nicole Polizzi AKA Snooki, Deena and Sammy Sweetheart (I believe Sammy Giancola?) all had really long hair. I mean, it’s pretty and all, but was it all real or were they all sporting expensive weaves or extensions to make it look longer?

Apparently they all have extensions. I finally got confirmation of that when season 4 in Italy aired. My husband and I are just now watching this season on DVD now because we never watch it live. We like to watch it uncensored because believe me, it’s a whole lot more juicy when it’s uncensored. You think these people act crazy on the tv show, wait til you hear how bad their mouths are when it’s all censorship free!

The gang was all put up in a really nice townhouse style apartment in Italy (probably much to the chagrin of the local businesses as I hear they caused quite a stir while there).

The outlets are all different over in Europe, so if you have, say a kick butt Sedu hair straightener or a really great ionic hair dryer, you can’t use it over there unless you have an adapter or unless you bought it over there with their special plugs.

So one of the girls confirmed that they all have extensions when she mentioned she didn’t know how a bunch of girls with extensions were going to style their hair without their styling tools.

They must’ve ended up getting some help from the producers though, because soon their hair all looked just like it did when they did their other seasons here in the states.  Now if only they’d use some better natural shampoo to make their hair look softer – but maybe extensions require special hair care products, that I’m not sure about.

God help me, that show sure is addicting!

I’m so happy. I’ve finally figured out a formula for natural shampoo that actually makes my hair look fantastic. It makes it bounce, shine and never look dried out like so many SLS-containing shampoos do. SLS, by the way, is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, and it is found in thousands of shampoos, soaps, cleansers, industrial cleaners (yeah, and you may use it on your precious skin or hair), and a variety of other heavy duty cleaning uses.

It is not good to use on the skin or hair because it is very harsh.  The hair’s natural protective cuticle gets “roughed up” when cleansed with high-lather, high SLS content shampoos, and that shows.  If you notice your hair is lifeless, looks frizzy and dry and doesn’t have much bounce, you can definitely benefit from trying a natural shampoo out.  It may even aggravate thinning hair.

I’m actually going to release this shampoo soon on my newly launched natural body care website, which I will tell you all about when it’s ready for launch.  The natural shampoo formulation uses a very mild, naturally derived foaming agent so you still get that light lather, and some other naturally moisturizing, hair-friendly ingredients and essential oils that add shine and luster to the hair.

My hair has seriously never looked better and I can’t wait to get all the packaging and stuff figured out so I can launch this product. Very excited!  Look for an announcement over the next couple weeks, it’s very soon.

I’m also looking into a formulation for a natural conditioner that contains naturally moisturizing ingredients and no parabens or any other chemicals that you find in abundance in most of the brands on store shelves, so I’ll be announcing that when it is all final.

Can’t wait to share this with the world and I’m excited to see what people think since I am so thrilled with the results   COMING SOON!

I’ve been using natural hair color for a while now. I have read too many deeply disturbing things about all the harsh chemicals that are found in most commercial haircolors.  Ammonia, peroxide, parabens, resorcinol, and a variety of other cancer-causing toxic chemicals are just a few of the reasons to avoid many haircolors.

Not only that, I noticed that these typical hair dyes were really starting to burn my scalp, and started to affect the health of both my hair and my scalp. My head was often itchy and dry, and my hair seemed like a dry haystack after coloring my hair with these chemical-loaded colors that I was buying off the shelves.

My first foray into the natural hair color world was a disaster.  I tried a henna hair color and ended up with hair that looked almost grey.  I decided never again was I even going to attempt a henna hair color. It left my hair looking worse.  Not that henna is a bad thing – it is contained in some natural hair dyes today, but I tried using just straight powdered henna and it was awful.

I also tried a couple other brands of “natural hair color” only to find that they burned my scalp and dried my hair just as badly as the other stuff.  This was because they still had several harsh chemicals in them.

I finally found Nature Tints hair colors online about a year and a half ago, and I’ve never looked back – it was one of my favorite hair care products of all time. I’ve actually tried several of their colors and landed on the medium brown as my favorite because it matches my natural color best and gives the best finish.

While the formula does have a pungent smell, it does not burn my head when I apply it. Nor does my hair look dry, dull and lifeless after I use it.  It actually looks healthy, bouncy and shiny, and it never did with the L’Oreals, the Revlons and the Garniers that dominate the store shelves.

I’ve never found Nature Tints on store shelves, I’ve always purchased mine online at Amazon, where I’ve found the most competitive price for this product.

I think that just about every woman I know has a little mini crush/admiration for Jennifer Aniston. I think it’s because not only does she have great, easy taste when it comes to fashion and manages to make a plain black dress look downright adorable yet sexy at the same time, but she seems like she’s the woman who you could have a conversation with. She’s “obtainable” that way, even though she is a huge mega star and has had her life repeatedly invaded by the paparazzi and her love life scrutinized, written about and speculated on for over a decade.

Let’s talk first about her fabulous hair. She has always had really beautiful hair, one of the most admired heads of celebrity hair there is. It always seems to lay right, and she wears it in the most gorgeous yet simple updos and side swept looks.  She can wear it wavy or pin straight and look really pretty doing it.

Her makeup is simple.  That’s why she looks somewhat like the girl next door – even though she’d be the girl next door that every guy wants to date.  She uses simple nudes, what looks like a small amount of natural foundation and shades of brown a lot and pink, which fits her naturally tan, fit look best.  She wouldn’t look good with caked on makeup, and she seems to know that and chooses the most elegant and simple, casual looks for her makeup, yet manages to look young, fresh and vibrant every time.

She has a look of “fun” about her. Like she’s the girl that every man and woman wants to be friends with. And that my friend, is probably more attractive than anything else – hair, makeup, clothes or any other physical attribute.  And she looks to have no cellulite in those photos of her in bikinis, which makes her the envy of most women.

I’m kind of liking her hair when she doens’t flat iron it.  It looks so pretty with the multiple layers of highlights that seem darn natural if they aren’t.  The waviness and texture really looks fantastic with her chocie of clothes and makeup too.