Quick Fix For Oily Hair: Tresemmé Dry Shampoo

Product:Tresemmé Fresh Start dry shampoo

It's the perfect product for second or third day hair. It's not good to wash your hair every day, because you wash out too many of the essential oily that need to get from your scalp to the rest of your hair. Usually I can withstand a day in between washes, but sometimes when I wake up my scalp is too oily and my hair is really flat. Dry shampoo is the perfect fix. It's really fast and exremely effective.

Process: You just have to lift up sections of your hair around your crown and the front of your head, and shake the bottle and spray into the roots. Shake the bottle before everytime you spray. Let the product sit in your hair for a a minute or tow. Then you can rub it into your scalp and brush through; you can style it however you want from there.

Results: Your hair is left with volume, and not looking oily. Your hair looks as if it was just washed, without having too wash it too often or having to wait for it to dry.

Overall: This product in no way can replace your regular shampoo. This product really is amazing for the price; it's the perfect drugstore option among all the expensive, salon brands. The nozzle tends to clog up and won't dispense anymore product. When this happens, you run the nozzle under hot water for a minute. After that it works perfectly fine again.

Zipper Nail Design

This design is really quick to do, and you don't need a lot of colors.

1. Paint all the nails with one or two coats of black nail polish or another base color, until opaque.

2. Using a small paint brush or nail art brush, paint the "zipper" on using a white or silver nail polish. Make small dashed lines going back and forth on opposite sides to create the zipper. On another nail, start off the same way, but then mid way through the nail separate the two sides of the sipper with diagonal lines to create an opened zipper effect. 

3. Fill in the triangle at the tip of the nail, the open part of the zipper, with a color of your choice, with a nail art brush or very carefully with a regular nail polish brush applicator. 

4. You can do this design on as many nail as you want. I chose to do a closed zipper on my ring finger and open on my pointer on my left hand, and the reverse on my right hand. You can finish off the look with a topcoat to protect your design. 

Penguin Nail Design

This is a really easy, quick design perfect for the colder months.

1. First apply one to two coats of a black nail polish, until it is an opaque black color. Clean up any smudges on the edges of the nail with a Q-tip dipped into some nail polish remover. 

2. With a white nail polish carefully make a small, rounded half circle shape on the tip of each nail. The half circle/ovals should be slightly more vertical then they are wide. 

3. Drop some white nail polish onto an index card. Using a toothpick make two small dots above the white rounded tip. These are going to end up being the eyes. Make sure the dots aren't to far apart, otherwise the penguins end up looking a little bit crazy and hypnotized! 

4. To finish off the eyes, wait for the white dots do dry. Then add a smaller black dot (more towards the bottom otherwise they can look a little hypnotized again if they're too much int eh center). Add another even smaller white dot again onto the black. 

5. Using an orangey yellow (or a yellow-gold which is what I used because I didn't have a yellow/orange) make little half circles at the ends of the white part. Also, using a nail art brush, make a small triangle with the point towards the white and the straight edge below the eyes, to create the beak. 

6. Wait for all the polish to dry, add a top coat, and your done! 

Cupcake Nails

I got inspired to try out this look from a picture on pinterest. The design is really cute and easy.

1. Apply one or two coats of a nails polish on all of your nails. I used Sinful Color's Oasis. 

2. After your nails are completely dry, apply a light pink tip on your ring finger. 

3. While you wait for the pink tip to dry, add white globs of "icing" onto the tips of the other nails. To do this carefully make circular tips on the nail and making uneven curves to create the look of icing on a cupcake. After the pink tip is dry, add vertical stripes using a a darker color with a nail art brush or toothpick, onto the pink tip. 

4. Drop some white nail polish onto an index card. Using a nail art brush, or an old eyeliner brush, carefully create a half circle, mound shape above the pink tip on the ring finger. Fill in the half circle up to the pink tip. Then using the tip of the brush and a small amount on polish, carefully drag the polish down over the pink tip, to make the illusion that the icing is falling over. 

5. Drop small amounts of pastel colors onto the index card. Using a toothpick, pick u the colors and create dots on the white "icing" on the nails. This will make it look like little sprinkles, and add more color to the design. Add a larger red dot on top of the "icing" on the ring finger, to look like a cherry. For this dot I used the back of the nail art brush. 

6. Wait for the nails to be completely dry, and add a top coat. Make sure the nails are completely dry because you don't want all of the colors to blend together. 

Get the Look: Rachel Zoe

Rachel Zoe is one of the most important names in the fashion world, but not only is her style breathtaking, but her modern, effortless beauty look is simple yet makes such a strong statement. 

Hair: Rachel's Tousled Waves
1. Start off with day 2 hair, so the style holds up better. 
2. Spritz a heat protectant all over the hair, concentrating on the ends. Brush it through the hair. split hair int a middle part. 
4. Once the hair is completely dry from the protectant and brushed through, pin up sections so that you can curl one section at a time. 
5. Using a 1 1/2 inch curling iron, wrap the 1/2 inch sections of hair around the barrel, facing away from your face, and hold it for about 10 seconds. Drop it into the palm of your hand and let it set for a second. curl the rest of the hair. Use smaller sections and hold them for longer round the front of the face sot hat the pieces framing the face are more defined. 
6. Finish off the hair by spraying hairspray into the palm of your hand and scrunching up the hair a little bit. this will tousle the curls, but in a beach-y, piece-y way, rather than a soft look. 

Makeup: Rachel's Modern, Natural Look
1. Start off with a perfect base. Using your favorite foundation and concealer cover your skin until you have a medium to full coverage. don't set the makeup with powder because Rachel always has a dewy look. 
2. Highlight cheekbones and use a bronzer on the cheeks but not to contour the cheekbones, but blend it on top of your cheekbones. 
3. Put a cream eyeshadow on your eyelids in a nude, shimmery color. Line the inner rims of the eyes with black eyeliner. 
4. Curl lashes and apply two coats of a dark black mascara and the upper lashes, and one coat on the bottom lashes. 
5. To get Rachel's typical deep, maroon, red lips, you'll need to apply several coats. Start off with lining the lips with a shade deeper then your lips, and smudge it onto the middle of the lips as well. Apply a red lipstick on the lips, then blot with a tissue. Apply the color again and blot off more. This is gonna create a strong, stained, matte look. 


Recommended Products: 
Conair 1 1/2 inch curling iron 

Strong Sexy Hair long hold hairspray

Benefit High Beam highlighter

Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero

Put on your biggest, darkest sunglasses to complete the Rachel Zoe look. 

NARS EXPRESS YOURSELF: THE NARSissists: Look 4: Rebecca Klar

NARS EXPRESS YOURSELF: THE NARSissists: Look 4: Rebecca Klar


I entered the NARS Makeup Your Mind Contest. It would mean so much if anyone voted for my entry!!


To get this look I used similar colors to the ones used on the model, but with different products. First I used a Revlon cream shadow palette and put a creamy white color on the inner half of my lid and the brow bone,  and a brown matte shade on the outer half and into the crease. Then i used the green from the Stila Fabulous in Fiji palette. Then i missed in some of Urban Decay's smog and darkhorse to deepen the crease. I ket adding more of the green, and more of Smog and Darkhorse to add depth to the crease. I blended out the colors until i got the desired look. I also blended the crease color in farther towards the bridge of my nose, as the model had in Nars' picture. Then i added Urban Decay's Virgin as a browbone highlight. I took a bright, shimmery, lime green to the inner corner and below the lash line on the inner third. I added the green, smog, and darkhorse under the lash lien as well. I liner the inner rim with Urban Decay's 24/7 glide on pencil in zero; curled my lashes and applied two coats of Maybelline One-byOne.

The lips and cheeks were pretty neutral. I used a little bit of the NYC sunny bronzer on the cheeks. For the lips I used Revlon Pink Sugar lipstick.


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Back To School Fashion: Pairing Basics

Instead of buying more clothes to create new looks, pair up the basics you already have with different pieces. Accessories can change the whole look.

Look #1: Floral dress, layered with a black cardigan, scarf draped over the shoulders, and a belt going around the waist over the whole outfit.

Look #2: Floral tube dress, with a black lace shirt under it; gold bracelet.

Look #3: Crop top over black lace shirt, with light wash slouch cuffed jeans; feather earrings.