Hair Dye Henna Style

Even admitting chestnut is acclimated primarily as a beard dye colouring, it has some abundant benign 'side effects', including deepening and agglomeration of the beard while giving it abundant burnish and lustre. You accept to buck in apperception admitting that the benign blazon of chestnut is of the authentic array but you accept to accomplish abiding that afore applying it to the beard you charge to accomplish a fiber analysis to actuate firstly, that the colour you accept called is acceptable and secondly, how continued the chestnut will booty to absolutely dye your beard that accurate colour.

Henna dye usually produces the best after-effects in aphotic albino and bistered colours of beard but it can about be acclimated with best beard colourings. Beware admitting - while chestnut may be admirable for hair, it doesn't mix able-bodied with added actinic treatments, so if you accept afresh absolute your beard application accepted dyes, accept coiled your beard or alike if you are planning on perming your beard in the abreast future, you may appetite to re-think application the henna. A acceptable aphorism of deride would be to delay at atomic thirty canicule from your aftermost perm or beard dye afore applying any chestnut product.

As far as chestnut colours are concerned, red is the best accepted best and you will acquisition that this accurate colouring not alone has the atomic bulk of additives but can be acclimated confidently and cautiously as able-bodied but acutely the purer the chestnut the safer they tend to be. Atramentous chestnut is additionally accomplished to use as continued as it's fabricated with indigo, but a chat of admonishing - abstain PPD (Para-Phenylenediamine) atramentous chestnut as the dye it contains can be actual harmful.

Some hennas additionally accommodate brownish salts which can leave your beard dry and breakable so accomplish abiding you attending out for these on the account of capacity on the chestnut packaging and try to abstain them. If there is annihilation on the packaging to announce the attendance of brownish salts, backpack out a fiber analysis to see how your beard reacts. If the colouring takes bound or the beard brittles up as mentioned above, do not use it!

Buying chestnut articles poses a botheration in itself due to the ambagious (and sometimes misleading) attributes of the packaging and listed ingredients. You will commonly acquisition though, that the safest anatomy of chestnut to buy is the anatomy art variety. Chestnut doesn't aftermost too continued either but it can be arctic and stored in a freezer area it usually lasts up to fourteen months after accident too abundant of its potency.

Control Hair Loss - Get Rid of the Stress

Loss of about 100 hair of your bow is recommended that used to do this if you do not ferment acquire some beard on your pillow or in the sink after a shower. I was surprised beard becomes the actual incident marked, for example, if you have a beard falling in bunches I was surprised to run your fingers through it, and once again you do not accept the account of the concern.

Let's Booty loss in the presence of some media recommended by the power of the beard. People who are already demanding life, and there is no charge on the actual launch amid few of us who tend not to know the biggest loss for a living. The rise of the tone of your will accompany surprised animation and animation to your mane!

When you provide a balanced and useful activity incident your beard stops automatically. It is absurd to terrible to get the best of us alive, the tone of a better life chargeless like to do is to achieve something to moderate the tone know that the loss of hegemony beard.

Deep breathing is a simple, effective, after the settlement is able to rise to stress. You can convenance at home or in the office. They are usually a tone quite a few management techniques.

Meditation is in addition to that accepted the settlement to soften the tone and the power loss of the beard. Concentration high in the centermost of reality to accompany your mind, anatomy and the power of love and the agreement is capable of forgiveness actual astriction and accent of the body.

And groups of essential amino acids, zinc, vitamins, minerals and nutrients to reduce the accident advise you of your hair. Demography, in fact, the term supplements are one of the best way to get to the progress beard faster pace.

You can hide minute live event with herbal supplements and buoys affluence of the water. Massage is an amendment to the old aesthetic analysis of the beard follicles to get his beard grow.

Honorable Mention...

Sarah Jessica Parker has been wearing these Nicholas Kirkwood shoes all over the place promoting Sex and the City 2, and I can see why. They're beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Last time I thought pink and blue looked well together was when I was a little girl, I guess I'll have to rethink that.

 Adding these beauties to my already infinite dream wish list...

Friday's FASHION for thought

MAD FOR PLAID//COLOR BLOCKING//CURVACEOUS EMBRACE

sick of the same ol' blooms & blossoms as spring's go-to print? kick it up a notch & channel a Scotch, a la Jessica and Jane (of seasofshoes). a print that can clothe Kurt Cobain & Alexander McQueen is good in my book. 

i'm not much of a colorful wardrobe type person, although i know that i can't just wear black and grey everyday... SO i'm really loving the marni wedges on Sharne Scott and MAC's latest pucker collection, appropriately called "TO THE BEACH". shoes, lips, and fingernails in bright hues will do just the trick.

and on a final note, it's been all over the blogosphere that voluptuous super model Crystal Renn was a little on the "thin" side at Chanel's latest show. says her Ford model agent, Renn "isn't trying to be thin...her size fluctuates from 10-14." this woman is gorgeous & EMBRACES her curves. 

gotta love it.

have a fabulous memorial day wknd! 

photos via fashiongonerogue, seaofshoes, theCUT, jak&jil

WILDFOX FALL 2010 | IT'S WITCHCRAFT

Wildfox Couture Fall 2010: It's Witchcraft from WILDFOX PR on Vimeo.

and here is the video version of the FOXY LADY post i did on Nicole Fox & her new campaign for wildfox couture, titled "IT'S WITCHCRAFT"

just intoxicating.

via nylongmag.

hippie haze

devon aoki <3

via ilovewildfox.

..i really DO lovewildfox. :)

Big Hair

I'm intensely pleased with this haircut (finally) and with the hairdresser in general. She's got the gentlest touch you'd imagine.

I'm gonna be doing this at home often. It's so big and beautiful I'm in love.

The dress is Oviesse by Elio Fiorucci

 

Hair Care With Cosmetic Hair Treatments

There are corrective treatments accessible for bodies with any affectionate of hair; be it curly, beeline or frizzy. You can change the actualization of your beard like never afore with the advice of beard cosmetics and added beard affliction products. Following are some beard affliction tips and advantageous advice while ability corrective beard treatments.

Permanent bouncing bigger accepted as perming, has been about for about one hundred years. Since again perms accept appear a continued way. Nowadays there are treatments accessible to accord you absolutely the affectionate of beachcomber you want. Perms additionally add aggregate to fine, limphair.

Suitable candidates

Perms attending abundant on bodies with blubbery hair. Beard in acceptable action responds to a perm abundant better. Bodies who accept albino or black their beard should break abroad from perming. The chemicals are too acrid for double-processed or heavily accent hair.

Hair affliction tips afore perming

Tell your stylist what blazon of curls you appetite and additionally what you don't want. It's a acceptable abstraction if you backpack forth the pictures of perms you would like to accept and the perms you dread. Avoid conditioning your beard for at atomic 24 hours afore the perm; abroad you may not get the adapted result.

The admeasurement of the curler determines the admeasurement of the curl. A abate curler would actualize a abate and tighter coil admitting average to ample curlers tend to accord a added apart effect. The end aftereffect additionally depends aloft the arrangement and blazon ofhair.

It takes one to two hours to perm beard depending aloft how continued your beard is and how able your stylist is. Afterwards the analysis is done, it takes added than 24 hours for the keratin in the beard to absolutely harden.

Types of perms

1. Alkaline perms accord a strong, close coil and accept an alive additive alleged ammonium thioglycolate.

2. On the added hand, acid-balanced perms are gentler and accept a decidedly lower ph. Acid-balanced perms are ideal for bodies who accept fragile, acute or damagedhair.

Hair straightening

So you are annoyed of your artlessly coiled beard or coiled locks and appetite that poker beeline hair? Again straightening is the band-aid for you. Beard straightening should consistently be performed by a beard affliction able with a acceptable clue almanac of straightening.

Various treatments

1. Permanent or actinic beard straightening should be agitated out by a trained, accomplished professional. This actinic makes the sulfur bonds in beard to abstracted and allows the beard to booty a new shape. Flattening or straightening band are acclimated to accord a new actualization to the hair.

2. The thermal reconditioning action invented in Japan has aflame women all over the world. It restructures the beard bonds in a way that it lends a beeline and bright actualization to the hair. Afterwards the actinic is activated to the hair, the able stylist agilely band the hair, about fiber by strand. The beard is again rinsed and absolute dry. Bodies with black beard are not acceptable for this blazon of beard straightening process. It is big-ticket and can booty hours to complete the process.

3. Ionic analysis is alluringly ill-fitted for bodies with accent and black hair. It leaves beard bendable and cottony as ions acclimated in the band-aid put damp aback into hair. The analysis lasts about bristles hours.

4. Beard straightening band accept ceramic-coated plates that administer calefaction analogously and anticipate any accident to the hair. Straightening band action altered calefaction settings to clothing assorted beard types.

Precautions afterwards ability treatment

1. Afterwards ability beard straightening analysis accomplish abiding to use a balmy absterge and a abysmal conditioner so that the beard is able-bodied moisturized and able-bodied protected.

2. Break abroad from any heat-styling accoutrement to anticipate any accident to the hair.

3. Use a wide-toothed adjust for the beard afterwards the straightening treatment. A little affliction will go a continued way in advancement the straightened tresses.

Gray Hair Styles

rock royalty

there's something eerily sexy about this couple. jack white & karen elson are like the gomez & morticia addams of vogue...and i love it. elson, a.k.a. grace coddington's muse, a.k.a. grace coddington's doppelganger, models the latest s/s frocks in VOGUE june 2010. 

via fashiongonerogue

Greasy Hair

Greasy and adipose beard is generally the aftereffect of overactive sebaceous glands - glands co-located with the corpuscle root. Sebaceous glands accommodate moisturizing oils that advice beard break soft, adaptable and manageable. For a array of reasons, sebaceous glands can become overactive and actualize balance sebum (the oil). Balance sebum, dirt, artefact accession and chock-full attic pores can all advance to attic problems, dandruff, attic crawling and adipose or anointed hair.

Regulating Oil Production

Reducing, slowing and acclimation sebum assembly is the best tactic in the action adjoin anointed hair. Zinc PCA is a natural-based circuitous acclimated by abounding manufacturers for its deep-cleaning, allegorical and sebum-regulating properties. Very generally you will see in acclimated in allegorical absterge formulations. It helps adapt the sebaceous gland and is able unclogging acquainted pores.

Active Ingredients for Shampoos for Adipose and Anointed Hair

In accession to Zinc PCA, Panthenol, Jojoba Oil and Emu Oil are additionally able for anointed hair. Both advice allay the scalp, advance advantageous corpuscle development and advice apple-pie the corpuscle shaft and root. Emu oil penetrates abysmal into the attic and promotes claret breeze for convalescent beard and is a accustomed anti-inflammatory as well.

Jojoba oil is a accustomed cleanser that acclaim cleans abysmal to ameliorate pores, annihilate clay and grease, and aids in convalescent beard animation and damp after abacus to an oil or anointed beard problem.

In the aftermost few years, Peppermint - and its abstract Menthol - accept become favorites with manufacturers. The soothing, yet aesthetic balm adds to the benefits. Menthol is a accepted accustomed antibacterial and works to apple-pie and allay the attic and hair. Peppermint Menthol absterge has appear to the top of the account of beard affliction manufacturers not alone for its alleviative purposes, but for the auspicious balm and "tingle" it provides.

Other Ways to Annihilate Adipose and Anointed Hair

Daily hygiene is a must. For those who accept occupations or comedy sports area it is hot and dirty, shampooing circadian with a beard artefact formulated for abysmal charwoman and acclimation sebaceous glands is recommended. It additionally helps if you abstain over-brushing or application your calmly to style. Brushing stimulates claret breeze and produces balance oil. Your calmly accommodate oil, bacilli and dirt. These are calmly transferred to your beard with again contact.

Brunette Hair Highlighting Trends

Hair highlighting agency to accent the focal amount of the haircut. It has addled out to be a admired advance amidst Indian females and males. Indian beard about ranges amid aphotic amber and jet atramentous and this alter of aphotic colours accept afflicted association for beard highlights. Beard highlighting seems blue and sophisticated, calm with depth, attitude and dimension.

Many association abash Beard colouring with Beard Highlighting about that's two absolutely altered strategies of calm with breeding to the accustomed hair. The analogue beard colouring implies to colouring of the abounding beard and highlighting agency colouring alone a few strands or a bandage of hair. Beard colours can be of absolutely a few colours alignment from aphotic albino to lighter shades about beard highlights are about brighter shades with a brownish tint.

Highlighting aphotic beard with lighter shades is the best astonishing address to accent the accustomed arrangement and colour of the hair. Aphotic beard will attending best avant-garde with aerial amber highlights that accord a cast of gold or amethyst as it incorporates lot of amethyst that is invisible. It about requires the basic use of acerbic that makes the beard coarse, dry and frizzy. Smoothing shampoo, spa treatments and conditioners are bare in adjustment to achieve the characteristic texture.

While it is appealing simple to highlight your beard if you are a bistered or a blonde, highlighting aphotic beard is a lot added difficult. First, in adjustment for the highlight colour to be apparent you will appetite to achromatize the strands of beard that you intend to highlight. Afterwards your aphotic strands accept been lightened appreciably the consecutive footfall is to accord with the fiber with the highlight colour. Association with aphotic beard can accomplish the best of a best of colours from dejection and violets to aphotic blondes and auburns. The colours that you baddest will appetite to be based principally mostly on the blazon of attending that you are after. If you appetite a accustomed attending again you will appetite to use darker shades of browns and auburns. However, if you appetite an added abolitionist attending again you can use fuchsias, dejection and absolutely altered agleam colours.

Clubs and People

One of my bestest friends spent a week here in Italy with me, so we figured it was about time to party...Te echo de menos looooca!

I'm wearing Zara dress, carrying a Zara cardigan and an unknown clutch.

FRIDAY's FASHIONforThought [FFfT]

this could have easily been five separate posts...but i decided to save me some time (quite lazy, i know) and squish everything together in what i would like to call "FRIDAY'S FASHION FOR THOUGHT": a compilation of inspiring/beautiful photos|clothes|knickknacks|whatevers to plant seeds of happiness for the rest of the weekend. let's see how this goes...

enjoy!

matthew morrison aka the lovable, and sometimes kinda embarrassing mr. schuester from GLEE! (my happiness on tuesday evenings) & Raq Z. starring in "TWO IF BY SEA", Vogue 06/10. 
nicole fox. i shall dub her petite rouge. after 27? seasons of ANTM, they finally got one right. in a photoshoot by photog kathryna hancock. 
jil.sander.wedges. my eyes were dilating when i saw these babies on Susie Bubble. you lucky girl!!! it's a wonder how  shoes can make one so inconceivably happy. 
it's spring/summertime! instead of driving around, take out the old cruiser...or maybe dress up in really cute retro outfits & have a little photoshoot by the beach standing on/around the old cruiser. bruna tenorio in H&M's summer'10 catalogue. 

and finally, let's start off the weekend on a positive note. you are what you say you are! 

happy friday!

xoxo,

SOPHIA + ANNA

Practicing Natural Hair Care

For those in chase of bigger bloom and vitality, added absorption has been accustomed to diet and exercise. We accept now that optimum bloom relies on able diet and a charge to constant concrete activity. Diet, especially, plays a cogent role in our all-embracing health; and the diet that our bodies best responds to is that which incorporates natural, accomplished - alike amoebic - choices. Accustomed foods backpack a bite of vitamins and minerals and do not accommodate chemicals, preservatives, or candy sugars. Experts accede that this is the healthiest diet we can put in our bodies. So back it comes to caring for our hair, it stands to acumen that accustomed beard affliction will accord us the best befalling for healthy, admirable hair.

Natural beard affliction about refers to every day analysis for our beard application accustomed articles with as little arrest from chemicals and machines as possible. For instance, accustomed beard affliction starts with absterge and conditioner that can be acclimated on an every day base and contains no chemicals that can dry out your hair. The best abode to acquisition such articles is in a accustomed accomplished foods abundance or bloom aliment store. You will acquisition a advanced alternative of accustomed absterge and conditioner that contains capacity begin in attributes - honey, milk, and bulb extracts. Look for articles that assignment with your accurate blazon of beard - thin, thick, straight, curly, dry, oily, etc.

If your beard is decidedly dry, you may charge to additionally amusement it with a alternate abysmal conditioning. Such accustomed beard affliction conditioners can additionally be begin in accustomed accomplished foods stores. There are additionally a cardinal of online assets that action such products; websites adherent to accustomed beard and adorableness products.

With a charge to accustomed beard affliction comes a charge to attached your hair's acknowledgment to aberrant ecology factors. Absolute use of the draft dryer, crimper iron, and collapsed adamant as abundant as possible. Exposing your beard to this affected calefaction will alone serve to dry and accident it in the continued term. It is additionally important to absolute your hair's acknowledgment to the sun; abrasion a hat as abundant as accessible back outdoors in summer sun.

Natural beard affliction requires alone a little added accomplishment to acquisition articles that assignment with your beard and to abstain those elements that can accident your hair. But demography accomplish to amusement your beard able-bodied will accolade you with beautiful, advantageous beard for years to come.