How To Maintain Healthy Hair

Everyone wants storng, healthy, shiny hair. Here are some tips how.

1. Limit the amount of harsh chemicals and products exposed to your hair. One major thing to stay away from is sulfates. Sodium lauryl sulfate is one of the first ingredients listed on many shampoos. sulfates can strip the hair of importnat nutrients, and can iinhibit growth of hair.
2. Even if you are using a sulfate -free shampoo, it is important not to wash your hair everyday. Although people think that clean is better, your hair produces immportant oils at the root and those oils need to have the chance to migrate down towards the tips. Instead, wash your hair every other or every two days. Days that you don't wash your hair, put it up in a shower cap so that it doesnt get wet. If you think that your hair is too oily not to wash every day, that fight the urge to shampoo it by using a dry shampoo.
3. Limit the amount of heat your hair is exposed to. Personally, I think that this is by far the hardest rule to follow. Like most people, I feel the urge to always straighten or curl my hair. But the level of heat that most heating tools give off is extremely harsh on the hair. Instead, try to find heatless styles to limit the amount of heat. Simple buns and braids are a fast and easy way to fix a bad hair day, without damaging the hair too much.
4. Protect your hair! If you are going to use a heating tool, you should deffinately use a heat protectant!! This counts for all flat irons, curling irons, blow dryer, hot rollers....any hair tool that emits heat needs to be protedcted agains by a heat protectant. And never use a hot tool on wet hair! Hair must be completely dry before beign styled with heat, except for a blow dyer of course.
5. Get your hair trimmed regularly. This is another rule that I find ard to follow, but hair wont be healthy with split ends. Although the rumor that hair that has split ends wotn grow is false, your hair will only keep splitting farther up the hair shaft.By not getting hair tirmeed regularly your goign to end up needing to cut more off when you do get it cut.

Recommended Products:
L'oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Shampoo and Conditioner

Tresemme Heat Tamer Spray

Redken Satinwear Blowdry Lotion

How To Wear Bright, Colorful Eyeshadow

The basic rule to follow is to only play up one feature at once. If you are going to go heavy, or bright, with eye makeup then keep everything else relatively simple. You could either do a bright eyeshadow on the lid, or a bright eye liner as a pop of color on the lower water line. 

If you wear two, or more, bright colors on the lid make sure that the colors coordinate nicely together. Pat the colors together so that there isn't an obvious line of where each color ends, but don't over blend the colors because it'll become a muddy color. To ensure that the colorful look doesn't only make a statement, but also remains flattering, add a thin line of black liquid or gel liner to the upper lash line.


To do a pop of color on the water line, keep the eyeshadow on the lid pretty simple and natural. Use soft beiges, browns, and other earthy toned colors. Then, add a bright colorful eyeliner to the lower waterline. To set the liner put a similar color eyeshadow over the liner, then smudge the eyeshadow a little bit under the water line. 


With either look, keep the rest of the makeup simple. Go for a sheer blush color, to give a wash of color without making it the focus of the look. Use a sheer lip balm or gloss to add a little bit of color and balance the look, without overpowering the eyes. 


Recommended Products: 
Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow & Liner, Eye Candy Collection (for your eye color) 

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil

Patriotic Nail Design For the 4th of July

Products you will need:

Red Nail Polish

Blue Nail Polish

White Nail Polish

Thin Brush White Nail Polish

Toothpick

Start with polish free, filed nails

1. Apply  abase coat of blue to you pinky and ring finger on your left hand, and red nail polish to the middle, pointer, and thumb. On the right hand apply blue to the thumb and pointer finger, and apply red to the middle, ring, and pinky finger. 

2. Once the base coats of blue and red are dry, Use the thin brush white polish, to apply two stripes to the nails with the red polish. 

3. Put a drop of the white polish onto an index card, and using the toothpick pick up some of the polish. Then use the toothpick as a dotting tool to make white dots on the blue nails. 

4. If you want, you can add a top coat to all of the nails. Make sure that they are completely dry first so you don't smudge the design. 

Product Rave: Physicians Formula Green Concealer Stick

This product is amazing! It hides facial redness amazingly well! It can be used to cover blemishes as well as just all over facial redness. How I usually use it is after I wash my face and have moisturized, I let the moisturizer sink in for a few minutes. After that, I apply the concealer on each cheek with a few stripes. Then I blend it in. The green cancels out the redness. My face is left looking a little bit pale, but not red anymore. After that I follow up with either foundation if I want heavy coverage, or tinted moisturizer or powder for lighter coverage. 

$5.45

This is the perfect product to cover facial redness; it's also the one of the cheapest products that claims to cover redness. I highly recommend it!