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Today starts “Low Blow Dry July” here at Style Chicks, but if you still need some heat styling, try the new Oscar Blandi Pronto Dry Styling Heat Protect Spray. It protects your hair from damage by heat tools upto 450 degrees via a dry spray formula that contains keratin to replenish hair and make your hair oh so shiny.
Find it at Lock & Mane for $22.
I spent a couple of months this Spring speculating how long it would be before it would be warm enough that I could leave the gym with post-shower wet hair. There is just something kind of liberating about washing your hair, putting it up with a hair stick, and heading on your way. And over the past month or so, Lyn and I have started drying our hair less. Sometimes we let our hair air dry all the way, sometimes most of the way and then a quick style with a blowdryer, sometimes we pull out our handy dry shampoos.
So in the month of July, we’re embarking on a “Low Blow Dry July” – looking for ways to minimize using heat tools and letting our hair get some rest! We’ll be talking about products with which to style hair without blow drying, dry shampoos, and hair styles conducive to easy summer style.
If you want to join Lyn and I for Low Blow Dry July, feel free to leave us a comment below and check back letting us know what you’re doing with your hair this July!
Take a look at this picture of Angelina Jolie in the new Louis Vuitton ad. Of course our eye immediately went to her hair – it’s a soft, touchable, movable, easy style, which are all things you want in your summer hair. Here’s how to do it:
1) Wash and condition your hair. There is a lot of wear and tear on your locks over the summer – the sun, surf, and air conditioning can all do a job on your hair and/or color. Keeping up with conditioning and conditioning hair masks is crutial.
2) Use a volumizing product on wet hair that gives volume yet keeps hair soft. We love Oscar Blandi Hair Lift Instant Thickening & Strengthening Serum. It will immediately thicken your hair yet won’t feel like you have any product on your hair.
3) Let your hair mostly air dry. What makes this style elegant yet casual is that it sort of looks like you didn’t spend all morning under the blow drier. That’s because you don’t have to. It’s hot enough already – the last thing you’ll feel like doing when it’s 95 degrees out is blasting hot air at your head. Let your hair air dry most of the way, and then while it’s still damp, just dry it a bit to activate your volumizing product and style it. And if your hair is still slightly damp, let it be – it will dry fast enough on its own.
4) Keep up with your layers. Even easy summer hair has upkeep. Make sure that the layers around your face don’t get too long or this look won’t work. And absolutely keep the ends trimmed – your hair should be thick all the way to the ends.
Angelina Jolie for Louis Vuitton, WWD.com
My hairstyle formative years were in the 1990s. Add to that the fact that Lyn received constant comparisons to Julia Roberts circa Mystic Pizza at the time, and I received constant comparisons to Lyn (though not to Julia Roberts), and let’s just say any product that delivers volume was good in my book.
Fast forward to today, and while my style has taken on a far more relaxed and wavy look, I’m still on a constant hunt for the latest and greatest in volumizers (what woman isn’t?). So I happily tried Serge Normant Meta Lush Volumizer when the lovely ladies at Lock & Mane sent it to us. (Ms. Roberts is a fan of the line and the spokesmodel). It definitely lives up to it’s lush name.
I have used it on both wet and dry hair. On wet hair it is a fantastic styling agent. I thought it was interesting that a few minutes after spraying it on my wet hair, the sections of my hair that I would have to manually separate out to dry started to kind of naturally fall into place. My hair dried with each section full of bouncy volume with only a rough blowdry. This is a great product to have on hand when you are short on time as the amount of volume it adds and the coiffed look you get would typically take far longer to style without it – a definite go-to product.
On dry hair, I love Meta Lush Volumizer for a quick and highly effective volume boost. Pick up a section of hair, spray it, repeat with each section, and then tousle your hair a bit and you’ll have mega volume in no time.
I get soft, perfectly defined waves and amazing volume when I used it in conjunction with Oscar Blandi Hair Lift – the two are really a great combo together. My hair moves beautifully, and gives off the slightest luscious scent when I turn my head. While I’m not the biggest fan of scented hair products, I love the scent of Meta Lush Volumizer. Not too heady, but definitely a luxurious scent.
All in all I really look forward to using Serge Normant Meta Lush Volumizer each day. It gives a polished full volume look on a consistent basis, wet or dry. It also contains great ingredients that improve the condition of your hair with repeated use, as well as a UV filter (huge bonus). I’m looking forward to exploring the Serge Normant line further and trying out new styles with Meta Lush Volumizer. I have visions of a lushly full yet perfectly sleek French Twist…
Find Serge Normant Meta Lush Volumizer with Extracts of Nopal & Cedar Bark at Lock & Mane for $23.00.