Kiss and Tell

February Favorites

Kellness — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:48:50 -0800

Enzo Milano - 25mm curling iron

Perfect curls made easy!

Moroccan Oil

If ever there was a secret holy grail for soft hair, this would be it.

Rohto Hydra Eyedrops

My eyes feel super awake after a few drops of these soothing eye drops. Perfect for 8am classes.

OPI - Lincoln Park After Dark
This is my go-to dark nail polish color. It's not quite black and looks good on almost every skintone

Dandelion $28 - Benefit
This is the perfect barely-there touch-of-pink blush for everyday.

Mircle 7 Miracle 7 Leave-in Conditioner $12 - Sally Beauty
This leave-in makes my hair super soft and eliminates tangles.

Rock Star Soap $7 - Lush

This soap brings me right back to highschool with its bubble gum candy scent

How to Care for Damaged Hair

Kellness — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:35:04 -0800

Over-processing, heat styling and lack of proper care can leave hair feeling dry and damaged. There’s plenty of products out there to prevent damage and breakage, but what do you do when your hair has already reached the point of being dry and damaged? Its time to pull out the big guns for some serious hair repair and deep reconstructing.

The Basics:

When hair is damaged and breaking from over-processing, heat styling, highlighting etc. chances are its lacking in protein. Protein is what keeps hair strong and elastic and prevents it from breaking. The highlighting/bleaching process involves removing color and proteins from the hair giving it a pale-yellow blonde appearance. Remove too much of the protein and the hair is left damaged and easily breakable.

The Solution:

Restructure hair by adding back protein to strengthen hair and giving it moisture to soften and add shine.

Read on

New Hair Product Obsession Alert!

Kellness — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:17:24 -0800

So over the holidays I was in desperate need of a root touch up and a micro-trim and unfortunately couldn’t get an appointment with my regular stylist whom I absolutely love and fly all the way to Canada just to visit.

So anyway, I took a risk and went to a salon to see a stylist my friend recommended and suffice to say, wasn’t too pleased with the results (wrong color, way too dark and awful toner job) but my hair felt really healthy after she put this oil in my hair before blow drying. I wasn’t totally sold on it right away, as usually hair always feels amazing when you leave a salon so I skipped on buying it and made a mad dash to my regular stylist to see if she could save my hair from bad hair color hell (which of course she did and it looks amazing) and when she pulled out that same oil treatment and used it on my hair too, leaving it once again super soft, I knew I had to get ahold of a bottle of my own.

The price was a bit steep at ~$30 for a 3.4oz bottle but you only really use a little so it should last a while. I use a dime-size amount on damp hair before I blow dry, the company claims that it shortens drying time which I have noticed my hair dries faster but it could also be because I did get it cut shorter. It smells really, really good which, although not necessarily important, is something I really like in a good hair product. And it absorbs really quickly and is not greasy at all as some other oils can be (coconut or jojoba) which can weigh the hair down. But the best part is this leaves my hair really shiny and feeling super healthy, like I can’t even believe it’s my own hair after all the damaging things I put it through.

All in all, great conditioning product, leaves hair feeling healthy without weighing it down or leaving an oily residue.

Moroccanoil Oil Treatment (3.4 oz)