The start of the year is bound to bring the cold and the wet, but just because I know it's coming doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. If I have to endure yet two or three more months of this, I might as well look good. When you wash your hands as many times a day as I do (gotta keep the money makers clean, who wants someone with dirty hands touching their face?) the cold weather just kills. KILLS, I tell you. I combat the urge to dunk my paws in a vat of extra virgin olive oil by slathering them when I can with hemp lavender lotion. The wet, on the other had, makes a joke out of my regular grooming routine. I, like most women, tend to heat, blow, and brush my hair into submission. Granted, I'm not trying to look like an Oscar winner every day, but I at least want to look like a hairdresser. If your a member of the frizz fighting force like I am then you know that the wet is just a big, fat, raspberry in our direction flat out disrespecting our hard-worked locks with it's humidity and ....wetness.
Count this as your get-out-of-jail-free card, today you get to be lazy! Since your not gonna win a bet against nature and the rain, join em. If your hair has absolutely any wave to it at all, you can use the raunchy weather as a curl amplifier. Towel dry that hair and work a curl amplifier into it, making sure you get from the ends to the roots. I really like ISO Bouncy Cream. No one wants hair that looks like uncooked Top Ramen, so ditch the crispy product. Bouncy Cream leaves the hair with all that awesome natural curl, but with that softness. If the stiffened ends of your hair could put an eye out, time to switch product. Those of you blessed with that perfectly straight hair, pull it back today. All us hairdressers got together and voted and looking like a wet seal is so not this seasons look. But you know your locks are lovely most other days, so this is your lazy day too. Put on a big soup pot and enjoy the rain!
Showing posts with label winter beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter beauty. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Winter Wedding Beauty
One of the greatest things about Las Vegas is that the weather is almost always perfect for a wedding! And even if those of us natives are shivering in our boots come December, pretty much everyone else from other parts of the world think it's pretty damn nice outside!
Regardless of your personal feelings regarding the temperature, it's no secret that the hard air and cold temps of winter and wreck havoc on your skin. If your a winter bride and coming up on that special day, here's some idea's to make sure your flawless no matter what the meteorologist says:
1) Keep hydrated. Ok, this one is a gimme, you should always keep hydrated, but water is especially important during those cold winter months when the wind smacks against your tender lips and face. The cold air wants to practically air-dry your skin out so don't let the lack of sun fool you into getting lazy with your skin care.
2) Exfoliate. Again, those pesky dry temperatures threaten to get the best of you and your skin. Exfoliating at least once a week helps remove all those scaly cells that have built up on the surface from your last ski trip. With the wind-warriors gone, your moisturizer can then penetrate full force and really get down to where you need it the most. Also, a build up of dry skin can make putting on makeup a rolling, flaking, cracking nightmare. Help your artist out. Exfoliate.
3) Accept the fact that you are going to be pale and stop trying to overcompensate for it. It's completely natural for us to lose our hard-earned tan during the colder months. If you wanted to be a beachy tan bride you would have planned a summer wedding, right? Instead of glooping on the self-tanner, embrace you porcelain skin and show it off with a rich, ruby lipstick and a dark winged eye. Use this as a time to play up your key features, something that is usually forgotten in the sweltering months where natural is sexy.
Winter weddings are so wonderful and special. The world is just a big prettier when every business and home is decked out, and in general people can be a bit nicer when they are in the holiday spirit. Congratulations on your winter wedding and here's to a very Happy New Year!
Regardless of your personal feelings regarding the temperature, it's no secret that the hard air and cold temps of winter and wreck havoc on your skin. If your a winter bride and coming up on that special day, here's some idea's to make sure your flawless no matter what the meteorologist says:
1) Keep hydrated. Ok, this one is a gimme, you should always keep hydrated, but water is especially important during those cold winter months when the wind smacks against your tender lips and face. The cold air wants to practically air-dry your skin out so don't let the lack of sun fool you into getting lazy with your skin care.
2) Exfoliate. Again, those pesky dry temperatures threaten to get the best of you and your skin. Exfoliating at least once a week helps remove all those scaly cells that have built up on the surface from your last ski trip. With the wind-warriors gone, your moisturizer can then penetrate full force and really get down to where you need it the most. Also, a build up of dry skin can make putting on makeup a rolling, flaking, cracking nightmare. Help your artist out. Exfoliate.
3) Accept the fact that you are going to be pale and stop trying to overcompensate for it. It's completely natural for us to lose our hard-earned tan during the colder months. If you wanted to be a beachy tan bride you would have planned a summer wedding, right? Instead of glooping on the self-tanner, embrace you porcelain skin and show it off with a rich, ruby lipstick and a dark winged eye. Use this as a time to play up your key features, something that is usually forgotten in the sweltering months where natural is sexy.
Winter weddings are so wonderful and special. The world is just a big prettier when every business and home is decked out, and in general people can be a bit nicer when they are in the holiday spirit. Congratulations on your winter wedding and here's to a very Happy New Year!
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