To Shampoo Or Not To Shampoo

Beth asked a seriously great question! 

I've heard that shampooing your hair every day will damage it and when I take the time to blow dry and straighten my hair, I try to make it last 2 days anyway. What about the days that I put product in my hair to make it curl? Can I still skip a shampooing? Do I only condition that day or nothing at all?

I get this question a ton and my advice is that washing your hair hair everyday is a bad idea. Your hair goes through a lot of trauma and is at it's most fragile when it's been washed and is sopping wet. Then add brushing, blow drying and styling to that everyday and you are putting your hair through a lot of trauma. Also, when you wash your hair you are washing out the natural oils in your hair therefore drying it out. 

My weekly routine:

Sunday-wash hair and style for church

Monday- wear same style as Sunday

Tuesday- wear a cute up style (usually one of these)

Wednesday- wear in a cute up style

Thursday- wash and style for the weekend

Friday- wear same style as Thursday

Saturday- wear in a cute up style

I only wash my hair about twice a week. By washing your hair as few times as possible throughout the week you are not only saving your hair from breakage but you are allowing the natural oils to help keep you hair from becoming dry and brittle. If I feel like I still have to much product in my hair from the day before, I'll do an up style instead of washing. I do know that not washing your hair everyday is not an option for a lot of people. If you need to wash everyday I recommend carefully towel drying your hair, combing with a wide tooth comb and air drying, and putting in a leave in conditioner or shine serum to replace your natural oil. 

We already looked at up styles for long hair here, so let's look at a few cute do's that you can do with shorter hair!

Jennifer Aniston's hair isn't short but her braided fringe would look so cute with short hair. 

source: Redbook 

This upside down french twist would be so cute on short hair!

Any hairstyle with braids is cute and easy!

tutorials found here and here. Plus her blog has a TON of cute tutorials for short to mid length hair!

Volume Recipe

How do you get volume? I get this question a ton and I must say, I have a pretty darn good answer! Start by holding up sections of hair where you would like volume and spray the roots with a dry shampoo. I like to use Tresemme's Fresh Start Dry Shampoo, but use your favorite brand. Rub the dry shampoo into your roots, it will leave a white film on your hair but rubbing will help blend it in.

find it here

Now on to teasing. Take sections of hair where you sprayed and hold hair vertically with one hand. Take your teasing brush in the other and brush straight downwards to the root (got it? clear as mud?). You want a teasing brush made with boar bristle, those stiff bristles are essential for getting an amazing tease and then help smooth over the top.

 find it here

Lastly, you need to smooth over the teased hair so that you don't have any of your teasing underneath visible. So who knew, dry shampoo does more than just hold you over until your next wash! It gives you some incredible volume!

Poor Mans Product- Shampoo

 My all time favorite Shampoo is Redken's All Soft. Your hair feels AMAZING after you use it! It's great for all hair type's and leaves your hair soft and silky. Of course being a professional product it cost's an arm and a leg. A 300 ml. bottle runs from about $13-15 dollars! 

find at Redken

My poor man version? Tresemme Moisture Rich shampoo and conditioner. Tresemme's whole line of shampoo's and conditioner's are fantastic! They are the only non professional brand that I have felt measure up to the professional one's. My favorite is the moisture rich but they have several different type's and you can choose the one that matches your hair type and needs. And is definitely more budget friendly at $3-5 for about 900 ml.! 

find at Tresemme

So why should you use professional products? I have a few times when I really try to squeeze some professional shampoo into my budget

• If you just colored your hair darker. You just spent a lot of money getting your hair done so treat it well! Non professional products are harsher on your and you will see your color fade faster. If you can only afford one choose a good shampoo over a conditioner.
• I do like to try and use professional shampoo more in the winter time. My hair get's super dry and it's worth the extra money to buy it. However when I do buy it (especially when it's colder) I try to wash my hair only a few times a week. You are saving shampoo and your hair doesn't get as sweaty and dirty as it does in the summer. 
• If my hair is very damaged. If I just highlighted or damaged my hair in some way I will use professional shampoo. In this case a good repairing conditioner is more important than a shampoo, but I'll usually try to use both if it's extremely damaged. 

P.S.- Hope everybody has a very happy Thanksgiving!

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

I promise this is the last Twilight post! I finished the third movie, Eclipse, Sunday and went to see Breaking Dawn with my sister on Monday. I will say this much about Breaking Dawn.... I didn't think it was any worse than the previous 3. Take that statement as you will :)

Edward was looking pretty good in Eclipse hair wise, although his makeup and contacts were not very flattering some of the time. 

I really don't know what to think about Bella's hair. It looked to me like instead of a hair piece or extensions that blended with her natural hair color (or more like didn't blend) she just wore a full wig. It wasn't very bad most of the movie except the very beginning, she has her hair down but combed back showing her hairline and it looks like they either used makeup or some kind of editing trick to blend her hairline with the wig. It seriously drove me CRAZY! I don't know why things like that bug me but they totally do! 

Alice's hair style just gets better every movie, she looks adorable in this one. Jasper's hair looks horrible in this movie. His hair looked way better styled back with more volume!

I didn't really like the way Rosalie's hair was styled and Emmett just looks like he didn't brush his hair that day!

I thought Esme and Carlisle looked okay. Esme hair is a lot darker in this one, can vampire's even dye their hair? 

Jacob looked pretty great this movie. Let's just say after reading the books I was team Edward, but after watching the movie's I am leaning more towards team Jacob!

all photos were found at MTV

So there you have it! It's been a fun filled week of Twilighty goodness and I FINALLY got to see Breaking Dawn. It seems like I have been waiting forever for it to come out. Have any of you seen it yet? What did you think? My favorite part was the wedding! Everyone looked SO good. Perfect hair, flawless makeup. Alice's finger waves were dreamy!

New Moon, New Looks

I watched New Moon last night and in my opinion the movies get a little bit better with each new one. New Moon was a LOT better than Twilight. The acting was getting better and the looks were more polished. 

Let start with Bella. Her hair was much better this movie. It was styled better and her hair extensions weren't as noticeable. Although there are times when you can still see the poorly matched extensions underneath her natural hair. You can kind of see it in this pic, she has a lighter reddish brown natural hair color, then the darker extensions underneath. I felt like they weren't as distracting in this movie. Laurent also looks quite a bit better. His dreads are lightened at the ends and looks more like natural dreadlocks. 

I actually liked Edwards hair better in the first movie. It's a little bit shorter in this one and I think it looks better a little longer :(

I'm liking Alice's hair much more in this movie.It's a little bit longer and styled better. The makeup in this one is sometimes downright awful! They went WAY overboard with some of the characters white makeup and it looks really bad. Although some scenes (like Bella's birthday party) they looked great. 

Everyone else has pretty much the same look as Twilight, just a little more sleek and polished. I loved Esme's hair in the first movie, but it's fun to see her with a different straighter style. She looked great in this one!

Jacob looks about a billion times better in New Moon. His haircut looks amazing (among other things :))!

 Tonight is Eclipse night! I'm getting ready for Breaking Dawn which I'm going to see Monday. Have any of you guy's seen it yet? When are you going to see it? I decided to wait until after the weekend in hopes of avoiding most of the crowd.

Hello, my name is Marie and I'm a Twilightaholic!

I have a love hate/relationship with the Twilight movies. I read the books before the movie was even conceived and fell in love with them. They are a series that I can read over and over again. The problem I have is that before the movie was cast I had my own Twilight world created in my head. I knew what Bella and Edward looked like and acted like and let's just say the cast of the movie was NOT what I had imagined in my head. Actually just one of the cast, Bella. I just CANNOT see Kristen Stewart as Bella. I'm sure she is a lovely girl, she just isn't Bella to me. The rest of the cast is great, my personal favorite is actually  Billy Burke (Charlie). He was not AS big of a character in the book, but Billy Burke was so funny and lovable in the movies! 

So enough about my thought's/rant's about the movies, let's talk about the hair! I'm going to do a 3 part series about twi-hair and it's evolution throughout the 3 movies. I'm having a Twilight marathon before I go see Breaking Dawn next week!

Let's start with Bella. I did like her hair. I think it only helped Kristen Stewart better portray Bella. It's long and simple, and I love her headbands. The one thing that drove me batty (and maybe nobody else noticed this) but she obviously wore a hairpiece to make her hair longer. The problem is that the hairstylist didn't match the hair piece to her natural color very well, so she has reddish brown hair on top and black hair underneath. You really can't notice very often, just in certain lights, but it seriously made me crazy! :)

Now on to Edward! Obviously his look was a BIG hit since pretty much every female on the planet want's to now marry Robert Pattinson. His hair cut and color were perfection in this movie and totally made Edward officially swoon worthy!

 My little boy even rocked the Edward look for a while (minus the ice cream mustache) :)

Carlisle and Esme were just how imagined they would be. Carlisle with his blond neatly styled hair and Esme with a beautiful old fashioned but modern style. 

Rosalie AND Emmett are actually not how I pictured them in the book. I didn't like Emmett's buzzed hair at all. Nikki Reed is probably the last person I would have picked for Rosalie! She has naturally dark hair (anyone remember her from the O.C.?) and I think her dark hair suits her more. Her blond hair just doesn't look natural to me. But she is stunning and her hair is styled beautifully. 

Alice and Jasper are JUST like I imagined them! I really like Jasper's hair, although I wish it was highlighted less (I mean come on, he is supposed to be from Civil War era!). Ashley Greene is a PERFECT Alice. Her hair is cute but I like it the least in the first movie. That annoying little flipped lock at the bottom of her hairline drives me batty, I just wanna take my scissors and snip it off! 

Jacob... oh, Jacob. Long hair is just not for you! I know it's long in the book but this long wig even makes Taylor Lautner look not so hot! Luckily he ditched the wig in the next movie and he turns in to a hottie to rival Edward! 

 Wanna know my favorite hair in the first Twilight movie? Hands down, Victoria. Her hair is beautiful and EXACTLY how I imagined it in the books. The cut, color and style is perfection.

source: All photo's are from MTV

So what do you guy's think? Are there any other twihards out there? How do like the hair in the first movie? Any character's that didn't live up to your own imagination?

Mature Women

Do you ever think about what you will be like when your older? Will you be conservative? Will you sport the "classic grandma" short hair cut and perm (not that there is ANYTHING wrong with that)? When I think of myself I'd like to think I would be like my Great Aunt Dottie. She is in her 80's and a total fireball! She showed up to my wedding with bright red hair, a huge fur coat and lots of big beautiful jewelry. I'm cursing myself right now because I can't find a picture of her anywhere! She is amazing and totally what I want to be like at that age! 

What really got me thinking about this was an older lady that sat in front of me at church on Sunday. In a sea of short, permed old lady hair this woman had purple hair, PURPLE! She had a short, cute cut that was styled spiked out and looked amazing! I was so mad that I didn't have a camera or even my phone with me to take a picture. She was by far one of the coolest old lady's I had ever seen (except for my Aunt Dottie of course!).

Here are some more inspiring older woman with big personalities!

Patricia Field is 70 and a fabulous costume designer. She has styled the cast of Sex And The City, The Devil Wears Prada, Ugly Betty among many others.

source:styleite

Betsey Johnson is another awesome mature woman at the age of 69. She is an AMAZING fashion designer with a big personality, and is known to end her fashion shows by doing a cartwheel down the runway!

 source: the fashion informer, fashionindie

These ladies are so inspiring! Who says you can't still have fun with your look when you get older? What do you guy's think? Short and permed or spiked and purple! :)