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How to Get Hair Volume with OOKISA Nighttime Follicle Renewing Serum

April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If you are a soon to be bride, it’s time to start thinking about your bridal hair style. Unfortunately, you may not be able to whip your hair into the style you’ve been dreaming about without a little trial and error in the weeks and months prior. Now is a great time to try some products and techniques geared towards getting the perfect bridal hair style.

There are two problems that I think most brides encounter: hair that is crunchy and dull due to products and hairspray, and lack of volume. Both can take your fabulous locks and make your bridal hairstyle look less than picture perfect.

You know about OOKISA Nighttime Follicle Renewing Serum from our review of the OOKISA line. It’s a great product for styling, and I think it has special value for brides.

First, it is weightless and touchable. Second, it gives fantastic volume at the root. Third, if your bridal hair style requires day-old hair, Follicle Renewing Serum can be sprayed onto dry hair to get great touchable volume

How to Get Bridal Hair Volume with OOKISA Nighttime Follicle Renewing Serum

Here’s a quick how-to: starting at your part, pick up one inch sections straight in the air and spray Follicle Renewing Serum at the roots. Then, still holding the section up, blast the spot with a blow dryer for about ten seconds. Lay hair to the opposite site while it cools (aka across your part), and repeat with each section. Once you are finished with all 1 inch sections on a side, flip that half of your hair back, light tousle, and repeat on the other side of your part.This technique works especially well if you have long layers. If you have especially thick hair, try 1 1/2″ or 2″ sections.

Get OOKISA Nighttime Follicle Renewing Serum at OOKISA.com!

How To Use Retinol When You Cant Tolerate Retinol

February 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Want to be glowing by Saturday? Try this at home facial tonight:

This works best if you have prescription retinol at home (Retin-A, Retin-A Micro, Renova, etc), but any cream that has retinol in it will do.

Wash your face and wait about a half-hour.
Apply the retinol. If you are using Retin-A and typically use a pea-sized amount, and use a little extra. Let it soak in for a few minutes.
Add a deep hydrating mask or cream over the retinol – we like:
- CeraVe Moisturizing Cream
- Caudalie Vinosource Moisturizing Cream-Mask Face and Eyes.

Both these products contain ingredients that leave skin dewy and protect the skin while the extra retinol performs a mini-peel.

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream has three key ceramides to hydrate and protect the skin barrier. Ceramide 3 is highly moisturizing. It also contains Hyaluronic Acid that holds moisture and plumps skin. It is non-comedogenic and non-irritating. If you suffer from eczema or aging skin, CeraVe helps skin tolerate Retinols. It is unscented/fragrance-free.

Caudalie Vinosource Moisturizing Cream is deeply hydrating and absorbs well. It sacks redness, tightness and flaky skin with nourishing Grape Seed oil and soothing Squalene. There is a very light pleasant scent.

To make sure that your skin is more dewy that flakey the next day, really slather on the moisturizer. Leave it on overnight, and wash it off in the morning (try using a Clarisonic for extra smoothness). Your skin will be glowing and bright all weekend long!

Now, obviously retinols are a long-term skincare commitment, but if your skin needs a little extra boost after a long week, this mask does the trick!

Can’t tolerate daily Retinol use? Try this retinol and cream mask trick once a week to buffer and build a retinol skin tolerance.

How to: Benefit Cosmetics Mr. Bright Kit

February 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Benefit Cosmetics Finding Mr. BrightI love adding brightness to the skin, be it on bare skin or with makeup.

Stephanie from Benefit Cosmetics has a great Youtube tutorial on using the products in the Benefit Mr. Bright kit – pay particular attention to her techniques – once I had the makeup artist at my local Benefit counter show me these tricks, using the products became so much easier!

Enjoy!

How to do a 10 second updo

January 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The good folks at Lock & Mane just posted a vid on how to do a quick and chic updo with this adorable Jennifer Ouellette Satin Covered Button Hair Stick. I couldn’t figure out how to wrangle my hair into a French Twist until I was sitting behind a girl in class who quickly put her hair up with this technique and a hair stick (yes, I was easily distracted from the lecture when there was important hair instruction to be had). Check it out: