I have a lot going on Saturdays, and my days start early. Ideally, I’d like to get up late, take a long, hot shower, let my hair dry in the sun as I read a book and sip endless cups of coffee. This is not how my day starts. I get up at 6. I am out of the house by 7:15. I come home mid-afternoon, sometimes later.
And to be perfectly honest, I don’t always feel like staying up later on Friday night or getting up earlier on Saturday morning to wash my hair. This Saturday was one of those days. In fact, I didn’t get out of bed until nearly 6:30, and by that time I needed to rush out the door. The problem was that my hair was a greasy mess.
That’s when I sprayed in a good dose of Bumble & Bumble’s Hair Powder. Hair powder absorbs your hair’s natural oils, leaving you looking like you had a fresh wash. I went from greasy to glam in a matter of minutes.
I know life comes at everyone too quickly sometimes. We all have late nights and early mornings, and these are the days that are just right for hair powder.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Lashes to Dye For
As a pale-lashed beauty blogger, I should have known about lash tinting a long time ago. As it happens, I didn’t decide to get my lashes tinted until two months ago, after my brow waxing wonder woman started telling me about the miracle of lash tinting. She promised it would make my lashes long and dark. I was headed to Hawaii for two weeks, and the prospect of dark lashes without mascara streaming down my face after swimming sounded heavenly.
Lash tinting takes about twenty minutes. The first step is to apply a petroleum-based product and a protective sheet around the eye area. Although you are supposed to keep your eyes closed throughout the whole process, these preventative measures stop you from having black-rimmed eyes if your eyes do happen to fly open during the process.
Carefully (or one would hope), the aesthetician will apply the lash dye. Then, take a deep, calming breath, relax into the bed, and wait. One may experience occasionally stinging, but on the beauty-is-pain scale, the stinging is minimal.
After twenty minutes or so, the aesthetician will remove the lash dye, leaving you with dark, stunning lashes that will sustain ocean water with ease. And there really is nothing better than waking up in the morning and seeing yourself with the look of a full coat of mascara without the raccoon rings under your eyes from, sigh, sleeping in your make-up yet again.
Last tinting should cost you around $30, and it will last you 4-6 weeks.
Lash tinting takes about twenty minutes. The first step is to apply a petroleum-based product and a protective sheet around the eye area. Although you are supposed to keep your eyes closed throughout the whole process, these preventative measures stop you from having black-rimmed eyes if your eyes do happen to fly open during the process.
Carefully (or one would hope), the aesthetician will apply the lash dye. Then, take a deep, calming breath, relax into the bed, and wait. One may experience occasionally stinging, but on the beauty-is-pain scale, the stinging is minimal.
After twenty minutes or so, the aesthetician will remove the lash dye, leaving you with dark, stunning lashes that will sustain ocean water with ease. And there really is nothing better than waking up in the morning and seeing yourself with the look of a full coat of mascara without the raccoon rings under your eyes from, sigh, sleeping in your make-up yet again.
Last tinting should cost you around $30, and it will last you 4-6 weeks.
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