This week I’m working with the charming hair and makeup artist Chase Aston. He’s also the global spokesperson for The Body Shop and had introduced me to this wicked eyeliner, Kajal - it’s very smooth so it goes on easily and actually stays on!
Ever spend time straightening your hair only to walk out the door and watch it turn into frizz central? I have been a long time sufferer of ‘afflicted sudden frizz’. I’ve lost count on the number of times I’ve spent styling/straigtening my hair, only to have it turn into an unruly mess because of bad weather. Well, I heard about the hair treatment called the Brazilian Blow Dry and I had to try it out for myself. I wanted the best so I went to see Tim Furssedunn one of the International Creative Directors for Tony & Guy at his salon on Gloucester Road in London. My hair was washed, then the special conditioning treatment was massaged into my hair. Next my hair was blown dry with the product left on my hair and then straightened with a flat iron.
After the process, I wasn’t allowed to wash my hair for 3 days which felt kind of gross by the end but the first time I washed my hair, it was glossy and super smooth. It felt like silk and I didn’t have to use my GHD’s! This treatment didn’t destroy my natural wave or the body in my hair like some intense straightening treatments do but it just eradicated my frizz and it can last up to 4 months – oh the heavenly hair bliss! No wonder Nicole Ritchie is a fan of the Brazlian Blow dry!
We are constantly being reminded to use it but most of us don’t really know what it means. SPF is a laboratory measure of the effectiveness of sunscreen. So if a suntan lotion is SPF30, your skin will not burn until it has been exposed to 30-times the amount of solar energy that would usually cause the skin to burn… not 30 minutes until you need to add more sun cream which believe it or not is often a common sun lotion misconception.
Today SPF is found in a lot foundations, but I’d suggest using a touch of a separate sun cream first like Paula’s Choice SPF 30 underneath foundation or tinted moisturisers, especially during the sunnier months for full effectiveness. Sun cream with high SPF factor is very important to have in my makeup kit for an outdoor shoot. I remember one shoot in particular, where we spent the entire day in a lavender field up in Norfolk in August. We were shooting in a set up in one direction and some of the crew that didn’t wear any SPF were sun burnt on half of their faces! Luckily, I made sure my model had a good layer of SPF under the makeup and she was ok.
When I was a kid in the 1980s I used to love the Ban De Soleil commercials. A beautiful exotic woman wore a bathing cap and a full piece bathing suit would elegantly tan herself by the side of a pool. A true 80’s icon for any kid craving a touch of Mediterranean Sun cream glamour! I still love Ban de Solei Sun cream. It smells like tropical vacations…
Ugli is actually a citrus fruit grown exclusively in Jamaica! I saw this "fruit" at a grocery shop and couldn’t stop laughing because it’s really not that good looking, and I thought that at least they labeled it appropriately.
I didn’t buy one to try it because that would have involved touching it.
Love this video Defragmentation of Beauty from 25 Magazine, Spring 2010. The whole concept of the "editorial" is changing. I love the fusion of the video, the print story with the illustration and the filming of the shoot day.
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This week I’m working with the charming hair and makeup artist Chase Aston. He’s also the global spokesperson for The Body Shop and had introduced me to this wicked eyeliner, Kajal - it’s very smooth so it goes on easily and actually stays on!
Ever spend time straightening your hair only to walk out the door and watch it turn into frizz central? I have been a long time sufferer of ‘afflicted sudden frizz’. I’ve lost count on the number of times I’ve spent styling/straigtening my hair, only to have it turn into an unruly mess because of bad weather. Well, I heard about the hair treatment called the Brazilian Blow Dry and I had to try it out for myself. I wanted the best so I went to see Tim Furssedunn one of the International Creative Directors for Tony & Guy at his salon on Gloucester Road in London. My hair was washed, then the special conditioning treatment was massaged into my hair. Next my hair was blown dry with the product left on my hair and then straightened with a flat iron.
We are constantly being reminded to use it but most of us don’t really know what it means. SPF is a laboratory measure of the effectiveness of sunscreen. So if a suntan lotion is SPF30, your skin will not burn until it has been exposed to 30-times the amount of solar energy that would usually cause the skin to burn… not 30 minutes until you need to add more sun cream which believe it or not is often a common sun lotion misconception.
