Beauty products:effective ingredients are what matters, not cost.
Even the dollar store has products that are top of the line performers. When shopping for effective anti-aging skin care products, look for skin transformers like retinol, retinyl palmitate, niacinamide, peptides, hexapeptides, tetrapeptides, and water retainers like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, ceramides, essential fatty acids, sodium PCA, amino acids, asorbic acid, or glycosaminoglycans that improve the barrier function of the skin by attracting and binding water to it. An easy way to remember is
A B C D E.
Vitamin A- retinol
Vitamin B - niacinamide
Vitamin C - asorbic acid
Vitamin D - important for rebuilding hair, skin and nails
Vitamin E - moisturizing
A B C D E.
Vitamin A- retinol
Vitamin B - niacinamide
Vitamin C - asorbic acid
Vitamin D - important for rebuilding hair, skin and nails
Vitamin E - moisturizing
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Hair Glorious Hair
Hair. Next to our faces, for most of us, it is the feature of our persona that we care about the most, especially for the ladies. I grew up in a generation where we had live theater and music about that subject alone: hair. When it was in, it was long, messy and a sign of youthfulness and rebellion. Hair has always played a major part in how we evaluate the appearance of others. It is felt that thick, healthy hair is a sign of virility and reproductive potential. The way we choose our mates on a primal level. The bald men and women who are thinning would tell you that they wish it wasn't so! We need to take good care of our hair for all sorts of social and psychological reasons.
I want you to be sexy and healthy and proud of your hair, whether you have thick or thin locks, short or long. It needs to be beautiful, flattering and functional for your lifestyle. Period. We don't want cheap to harm your follicles. Never.
That being said (sounds like a politician doesn't it?) you can have lovely, healthy hair at value prices.
I would love to know what others think about this subject. Please feel free to add your own comments.
When my sons were little, I invested in a set of hair clippers and assorted guards. I got fairly skilled at the buzz cut, short and tapered on the sides, a little longer on the top. And they were very handsome boys no matter who cut their hair. One evening, just before the fifth grade class pictures at school, I was tidying up my oldest son's hair. The plastic guard fell off as I firmly buzzed right across the top of his head. Without a guard on it, the clippers are nearly as close as a razor. I sucked in my breath sharply. My son hadn't felt it, but he heard me and asked "Mom, what's wrong?" I'm looking to see how much it might show in the lense of the camera from eye level.
Honestly, I don't remember what we did after that, but I do not have any bald-spot pictures of this handsome boy, so it must have turned out alright. I was traumatized and I bet he was too. Moral to the story is check your attachments for security, buy a quality instrument that won't get loose on you. You will make back the purchase price over and over again on a simple boys haircut. Unless you are very talented, girls and long layered styles are a lot harder. Go to a real salon. It is the price we pay for being the pretty things that we are, gals. I don't know too many fellows that want their females to walk around in a homemade buzz cut.
1. Check out discount salons who have younger beginning stylists who can be quite talented and motivated to please you.
2. See if there are beauty schools in your area for more discounts.
3. Wear your hair longer. You can extend the time you go between trims.
All of the "Products"
This to me is an area very similar to makeup. There are ingredients that are very effective. You can find the same things in very inexpensive products that you find in the high priced designer varieties. This is an area where marketing is constantly changing the way things look and smell and it is hard to keep up with. Just remember: hair is a length of dead cells. It is only alive at the root. It picks up dirt and oils from your skin and the environment. It is stressed by chemicals and heat, but it is dead cells that you are just coating with whatever is left after you shampoo. That is the logic of what you need to pick. It isn't going to make your hair any better than what has grown out from your scalp. Clean, condition and a good cut is all most of us need.
So you want clean. You want not too dry. You want shiny. You don't want tangles.
OK. Depending on what your hair is like, you can select a knock off shampoo and conditioner that will do the trick 99% of the time. I currently love the new SAUVE products and would put them up against any salon product. They are very nicely affordable and GOOD. If you have color or special skin conditions that need a medicated variety, that is another discussion, OK?
Don't buy your shampoo at the grocery store. It is most expensive there. Go to the Wal Mart or Target or similar discount store for your toiletries. The grocery store is for food.
Try to discipline yourself to use up what you have on hand before you splurge on the neatest new hair goo. I think my daughter has $200 dollars in unused hair products stacked up around the shower. It does add up over time. Use it up and then move on to what you would like to try next, if you need a change.
Finally, let's talk about CONDITIONERS. I can't believe I didn't think of this before. If you are anything like me, you use up the shampoo before the conditioner. So after a time, you have half full bottles of conditiner that are actually going to grow something creeppy before you can use it all up.
DID YOU KNOW THAT HAIR CONDITIONER IS A GREAT MOISTURIZER FOR SHAVING YOUR LEGS? It really works, and it feels as if you just put lotion on after a shave, very soft and nice and smooth. So there you go. You can skip buying the leg shaving junk, use your hair conditioner and keep it all fresh.
So there you go folks. Have beautiful hair, don't fall for the advertising hype and enjoy
I want you to be sexy and healthy and proud of your hair, whether you have thick or thin locks, short or long. It needs to be beautiful, flattering and functional for your lifestyle. Period. We don't want cheap to harm your follicles. Never.
That being said (sounds like a politician doesn't it?) you can have lovely, healthy hair at value prices.
I would love to know what others think about this subject. Please feel free to add your own comments.
When my sons were little, I invested in a set of hair clippers and assorted guards. I got fairly skilled at the buzz cut, short and tapered on the sides, a little longer on the top. And they were very handsome boys no matter who cut their hair. One evening, just before the fifth grade class pictures at school, I was tidying up my oldest son's hair. The plastic guard fell off as I firmly buzzed right across the top of his head. Without a guard on it, the clippers are nearly as close as a razor. I sucked in my breath sharply. My son hadn't felt it, but he heard me and asked "Mom, what's wrong?" I'm looking to see how much it might show in the lense of the camera from eye level.
Honestly, I don't remember what we did after that, but I do not have any bald-spot pictures of this handsome boy, so it must have turned out alright. I was traumatized and I bet he was too. Moral to the story is check your attachments for security, buy a quality instrument that won't get loose on you. You will make back the purchase price over and over again on a simple boys haircut. Unless you are very talented, girls and long layered styles are a lot harder. Go to a real salon. It is the price we pay for being the pretty things that we are, gals. I don't know too many fellows that want their females to walk around in a homemade buzz cut.
1. Check out discount salons who have younger beginning stylists who can be quite talented and motivated to please you.
2. See if there are beauty schools in your area for more discounts.
3. Wear your hair longer. You can extend the time you go between trims.
All of the "Products"
This to me is an area very similar to makeup. There are ingredients that are very effective. You can find the same things in very inexpensive products that you find in the high priced designer varieties. This is an area where marketing is constantly changing the way things look and smell and it is hard to keep up with. Just remember: hair is a length of dead cells. It is only alive at the root. It picks up dirt and oils from your skin and the environment. It is stressed by chemicals and heat, but it is dead cells that you are just coating with whatever is left after you shampoo. That is the logic of what you need to pick. It isn't going to make your hair any better than what has grown out from your scalp. Clean, condition and a good cut is all most of us need.
So you want clean. You want not too dry. You want shiny. You don't want tangles.
OK. Depending on what your hair is like, you can select a knock off shampoo and conditioner that will do the trick 99% of the time. I currently love the new SAUVE products and would put them up against any salon product. They are very nicely affordable and GOOD. If you have color or special skin conditions that need a medicated variety, that is another discussion, OK?
Don't buy your shampoo at the grocery store. It is most expensive there. Go to the Wal Mart or Target or similar discount store for your toiletries. The grocery store is for food.
Try to discipline yourself to use up what you have on hand before you splurge on the neatest new hair goo. I think my daughter has $200 dollars in unused hair products stacked up around the shower. It does add up over time. Use it up and then move on to what you would like to try next, if you need a change.
Finally, let's talk about CONDITIONERS. I can't believe I didn't think of this before. If you are anything like me, you use up the shampoo before the conditioner. So after a time, you have half full bottles of conditiner that are actually going to grow something creeppy before you can use it all up.
DID YOU KNOW THAT HAIR CONDITIONER IS A GREAT MOISTURIZER FOR SHAVING YOUR LEGS? It really works, and it feels as if you just put lotion on after a shave, very soft and nice and smooth. So there you go. You can skip buying the leg shaving junk, use your hair conditioner and keep it all fresh.
So there you go folks. Have beautiful hair, don't fall for the advertising hype and enjoy
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