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Hair can be such a beautiful thing! It can also be an over processed, fried, dried out, stringy situation that you cover up with a hat or better yet, do what I do and when in doubt, BUN. IT. UP! 

So here are some things I do to keep  my locks feeling and looking healthy, shiny, and bouncy! Vavavoom!

As you know, I am obsessssssed with coconut oil. I have color treated hair that I curl and kill all the time and then spray with a million products. So coconut oil saves my hair, it has so many benefits and uses, so of course I use it in my hair too. Just take about 1 TBSP of coconut oil into the palm of your hands and warm it up, then work it into your hair, massage it through, tie it up and go to sleep (lay a towel on your pillow for the oil since it will transfer). In the morning wash it out (it takes a few washes, coconut oil is a thick mask buuuut great for moisture buuuut thick) and your hair will be soft and bouncy again. 

 

For when I’m traveling or I don’t have time for an all night ‘leave coconut oil in my head’ kind of routine, than I grab for one of my weekly to-go treatments. You can do any of these in the shower, just work them through your hair after you shampoo, and then wash them out after you’ve shaved your legs! 

My favorites are shown above. Palmers deep conditioner packs – this is such a great brand because apparently they make everything I need in these convenient little ‘to go’ packs. Perfect for traveling, perfect for shower treatments, and hell – perfect for gifts! I put a few different packets into a basket with bath salts and they make the perfect ‘at home spa’ gift for someone 😀 These packs last me a few deep conditioning treatments, they wash out easily, and smell uh-mazing! I’m alll about the smelllll! 

The Olive Oil one is very rich, the consistency is similar to what you’d find in an avocado mask or banana mask you’d make at home. The Argan Oil mask has more of the same consistency to the coconut oil mask, less creamy, but just as hydrating to your hair. These two are my favorite to-go packs. 

Something I’ve always loved and it seems so simple yet I don’t know a lot of people who use it, but good ol’ VO5 Hot Oil works like a charm! You’re supposed to warm it up for a minute, but when I’m in the shower and don’t have access to boiling water I just put the oil into a cup with really hot water from the bath and let it sit for a minute while I wash my face. Then I put it all in my hair for another minute and rinse it out. My hair is always so soft and shiny after a hot oil treatment. 

The way that it works is, the heat from the oil opens the hair shaft and infuses your hair with moisture and shine. I mean….woooo! 

And keeping with the theme of deep treatments, beyond doing weekly night time leave in treatments with the coconut oil, I will alternate that with this deep treatment masque from Shea Moisture. It’s super rich and thick, smells like heaven, with argan oil and shea butter, and after this treatment your hair will look and smell angelic. This is a thicker treatment so you’ll have to wash it out a few times, but it’s my second favorite deep conditioner, my first being the coconut oil. 

Soooo if you want healthy hair, you don’t have to do the 80284759 things I do to my hair I promise. I do a lot to my hair because I do a lot to it to have to. But I do suggest a leave in conditioner and maybe a coconut oil mask every week to lock in moisture and repair any damage. 

I made a video about all of this a while ago, if you’re more of a watcher than a reader, have a looksie!

I’m doing a video soon about a mask for hair also, a DIY hot oil treatment, oh and that skin care scrub 😉 I haven’t forgotten. Soon my pretties!!!


xoxo

When I heard ‘Vegan’ nail polish I was like ‘oh man, nail polish just went all hipster on us!’ <—- true thought, is this an LA state of mind? But I really loved the colors so I gave it a go and hey, try before you buy right…or is that you break you buy? Whatever the case, this is my review of the Color Secrets Vegan nail polish and their lip gloss…pssst I’ll tell you if things suck when they suck, so here goes my thoughts.

• creamy
• goes on smooth
• has build able coverage
• will last you five-ever (that’s longer than forever)

• anti- shine core
• fraction of the cost

• one of my all time favorite concealer
• super creamy, rich, and smooth
• doesn’t settle into fine lines
• the kicker – it’s $32 for a small stinking tube

• you can get for half the cost and it is totally comparable to the Hourglass
• totally the same experience in my experience
• nice and creamy, nice AND cheap-errrrr

Why yes, that IS me in the photo above! Phhhh I wish! No, really, I have aging skin. Boom, there I said it. I’ll admit it dammit, I’m no spring chicken. I’m raising a sixteen year old, and I have student loan debt, AND the California sun to age me and drain suck the collagen right out of my skin!

Luckily, I do about umteen trillion things to my skin daily and I will share my secrets with you here because lets face it, we are all going to age. We are all going to get old but I’ll be damned if I don’t slow the process as much as I can until I wake up as Freddy Krueger one day! 


So the silk peel…. first let me tell ya, I’ve done all the peels. Salicylic acid peels, at home peels, pineapple enzyme, dermadoctor, blah blah, all of them. 

Then I saw on Instagram some glowing bomb shell on the popular page with her skin just oozing youth and glow and I was like okay what is she doing to her skin because she looks young – hey if you’re young, you’re like a fetus and have plump beautiful skin! 

She was holding up a bottle that looked like coconut water with pulp in it, then proceeded to explain that it was her skin! IN the bottle, after a silk peel. Ewwwww! I mean wow! So naturally I googled it! haha. NO really I did and then I took it a step further and called my nearest dermatology skin center to make an appointment to try this sucker out. Yes, it sounds crazy I know.

Apparently, the skin peel works with microdermabrasion so that it exfoliates your skin and at the same time infuses it with a serum. 

The serum stimulates new cell growth guys! Aka collagen, aka plumper younger looking skin, aka omgyes! I didn’t know about any of this until I researched it a bit and then when I went in for my peel I asked a bazillion questions. 

I was given the hydrating serum since my skin is like the Sahara desert and refuses to even create oil. The whole facial / peel, took about 30 minutes and it was relaxing and not painful at all. I never get professional facials or skin care treatments done because 1) they’re expensive and 2) I’m afraid it’ll be painful or cause more damage. 

But honestly I would do this again, I bought two more peels (you can find steal on Groupon or Living Social otherwise they run about $150 a pop and no thank you for that price!) and I’ll go again in about 3 weeks, maybe this time I’ll add an oxygen treatment or collagen booster because what the hell. 

I don’t have horrible skin, but it’s definitely dry, it’s definitely aging, and the peel made my skin softer and made it visibly more hydrated and plump. I had a lil glow going on and the pores on my cheeks were smaller, not that it was even a big deal to me, I just want my raisins for skin cells to become full blown grapes again. Also, according to the sites I’ve been reading, this peel is great for acne, wrinkles, sun spots, and dryness. My goal is to prevent gravity from taking me down so that’s why I did it.

But hell, if someone told me to put manure on my face to keep it young, I’m pretty sure I would. Secretly. And then blog about it. 

So this is my face below from earlier today. I had the silk peel done yesterday. No filters in this photo, to my dismay, just the light from my big ass window, and some mascara. Because I’m human and had to do human things today that made me not want to go for a 3rd day without makeup on. But other than that it’s bare, and as you can see I have some discoloration going on but that’s what all this skin care stuff is supposed to fix, so we’ll see what I look like in 12 years. For now I feel glowy and girly and I like that. I did this for me and there should be no other reason you do anything. Tell everyone to suck it if they think you’re getting old.