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Protect Your Hair At the Beach
There are just two more official weekends left of summer, and you've already come this far protecting your hair from the sun and saltwater. So keep up the good work and don't damage that color that took your stylist hours to perfect. As soon as you get out of the ocean or the pool, apply a dime- to quarter-sized dollop of Helene Curtis ThermaSilk Moisture Infusing Conditioner to your wet hair.
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Bella Bargain: Buy One, Get One Free at Miss Jessie's
Just in time for gift-giving season, Miss Jessie's hair care is offering an amazing deal: buy one item, get another free. The product line offers styling solutions for curly, kinky, and wavy hair, including the cult-favorite Curly Pudding. Through Dec.
Mom-Me Time: Pick Up a Copy of The Help
If mama's got a few minutes to herself and is looking for something that will take her mind to another world, she needs not look further than this gold and purple hardback book. The Help ($12) is a quick read that will steal her attention and her affection and leave her wanting more. Kathryn Stockett's first novel, the book about the relationships between mothers and the women that help them (nannies in particular) will have mommy laughing out loud, tearing up in the eyes, dog-earring pages with special passages and thinking about how she relates to some of the closest people in her life.
Doing Drugstore: Palmer's Dark Chocolate Peppermint Lip Butter
I have a hard time going into Walgreens without picking up some sort of lip thing or other, and my initial purchase of Palmer's lip butter ($2) was no exception. I've always loved Palmer's cocoa butter — my dear mama swears by the stuff, and even sometimes sends me care packages with sticks of it — but I've only used it as a hair and elbow/knee moisturizer.
I assumed anything made with cocoa butter would be creamy and need a little heat to deliquesce, so I was pleasantly surprised by the lip butter's moist, gel texture (I think the result of added vitamin E).
Ask Bella: How Do I Lift Black Hair Dye?
Recently, a distressed reader contacted me about an unfortunate incident regarding a box of black hair color and the subsequent regretful results. Here's her story:
Three months ago I had an adult identity crisis and dumped a box of jet black dye on my naturally medium brown hair. Now I can't get it to lift out for anything — professionally or at home.
More Tips For Making Curly Hair Gorgeous
Years ago, when hair expert Keneesha Hudson allowed her curly locks to go natural, it proved to be a positive experience. "I feel a great sense of freedom wearing my own hair," she told me. "It definitely has a much more organic feel to it.
Good Hair Has a Greater Point
If you've ever felt as though you'll look bad unless you straighten your hair, get highlights, go blonde, get a perm, or cover your grays, you should see Good Hair. If you care about the effects narrow normative beauty ideals have on the people around you and the larger world, you should see it. Heck, if you've ever felt like you "needed" to do anything to be attractive or accepted, you should see it.
Link Time!
- Hairstyles of the last century — Life
- The new "she uses Botox" giveaway: bunny lines — Stylelist
- All about the "hair down there" — and it's not where you think — Lemondrop
- Benefit's holiday makeup offerings are super cute — Makeup and Beauty Blog
- Four things all dudes need to know about skin care — Future Derm
- Primate-kissing Paris Hilton wears huge fake lashes — FabSugar UK
- How to make Rihanna's makeup work in real life — Beauty Product Junkies
- Don't forget to share your Halloween makeup ideas here — Halloween Challenge
- A different kind of Avon lady — Glamour
- The nails at McQueen: in-sane — Allure
Check Out the BellaSugar Community. Good Times.
Have you had a look at our new BellaSugar Community section? There's something to help everyone tackle the wild world of beauty:
- Join more than 60,000 people discussing the latest in hair, makeup, and skin care in Beauty Product Junkies
- Share your spooky makeup and hair ideas in our Halloween challenge group
- Pinch your pennies, pretty, with ideas from DIY Beauty
- And check out Problem Solved for easy fixes for common problems
Why Are Invisible Beauty Items Credited in Magazines?
Magazines can be indispensable in identifying trends, and while looking through any given issue, I usually spot some hair and makeup ideas. (On that note, Freja Beha in this month's W is so dreamy. Why can't I look that chic when tomboyed out?) It's easy to understand why editors leave credits for certain things: hair products, lipstick, nail polish.
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