Since I was given a sample of the Number 4 Sugar Spray ($22), I’ve been obsessed with it—helps give my hair volume and waviness like the beachiest hair, without any stickiness. I use it when I want my hair straight too, it just helps add body. One spray for beachy waves and/or volume?! Yes. So…
Here’s the faux-celeb part of my life—glitz and glam at OC Look 2015, hosted by Orange Coast magazine at a private residence in Newport Coast (where the real celebs live). The glam started with my gorgeous girldate and blowouts at Drybar, where they no longer serve champagne much to our chagrin, so we had to pop…
“I love your wavy hair!” exclaimed a friend over dinner. I launched into how a coworker had bought me this discontinued stuff that was amazing and I was so sad it was discontinued but my coworker thought it looked so good on me that she gave me two bottles from her stash when this friend…
I have recommended many hairstylists over the years, and perhaps that’s because my tastes have changed as my tastes have changed. Over the holidays in Austin, my family got to talking (read: gushing) about Victor, who cuts my dad’s hair and my brother’s hair and my cousin’s hair and all these other people’s hairs. They all…
Dubious. There is no other word to describe how I felt about this IDEA than dubious. Watch this video (scroll to the bottom for full vid) to see how it’s done, or read on for step-by-step instructions: 1. Wet hair. 2. Place a stretchy headband horizontally around your head. (The front should cut across your forehead, all…
Thanks to Walgreens for underwriting this post. I was paid as a member of the Clever Girls Collective, but the content is all mine. Visit http://www.discoverbeautywithin.com/ The lingering residue of my past as a beauty editor is that I’m constantly experimenting with beauty looks, BUT I can’t ignore my roots as a ponytailed, low-maintenance jock…
When you get an email with that subject line, you know it’s gonna be good. I know my life has changed since reading The Beauty Department Tutorial on doing your own blowout (truth: that nozzle attachment IS the difference), so I can enthusiastically recommend getting yourself to a session to learn how to do a…
This post was originally meant to be about DeVille at Bella Salon, but it turned bigger than that. Sorry bud. No offense to the ladies, but I’m probably getting my hair cut by men from now on. They don’t even have to be gay. First it was visiting badass Vinnie of Proper Barbers LA, my “brother”…
… and failing? It’s not a failure per say. But it does not exactly look like LC’s Rainbow Tips. Nor did it ever. First, I bleached the bottom three inches or so with Manic Panic bleach. That went well, I was very platinum blonde. Then, I added Manic Panic semi-permanent colors to the ends, in…
I wrote about loving the tie-dye trend last week. When TheBeautyDepartment.com, Lauren Conrad’s beauty site, posted about dyeing the tips of your blonde hair different colors, I voted DO IT! in their poll about wether LC should dye or not. Well, she has. There’s a beautiful tutorial on the site here. I hear Lauren used…