10 Life Changing Hair Products

I am linking back up with Lizzie , Sierra , Danielle , Emily, and Lindsay for Girl Chat. This month we're talking our favorite hair products. I never get tired of talking about this, that and make up. So here we go.

Back in 2016 I decided to intentionally learn how to do my hair. I tried some pretty awesome hair styles during the year long challenge. 

But what I bought a lot of, was hair products, I needed to figure out what the best was for everything. So here are my favorite products to date.

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Best Shampoo:

I have found that this shampoo works best with my dry shampoo, because we all know that dry shampoo is life. I've tried different combos of shampoo with dry shampoo to find the most effective way to extend between washings and this is it, right here. I love this stuff!

Best Dry Shampoo: 

Hands down best dry shampoo is Amika brand.

A close second would be Living Proof Dry Shampoo, but I prefer the Amika one, but this one works too.

Related: How To Use Dry Shampoo

Best Hair Mask:

This is a new category, I had tried this one, but didn't feel like it worked all that great. So after finishing that container (which took forever when you only wash your hair once or twice a week) I wanted to try something else. I needed to get to free shipping, and got this hair mask and oh my goodness, so awesome! It makes my hair so soft and shiny. You won't regret this purchase either.

Best Hair Oil:

I don't even know if I can make this a category, and I, myself have to get better about using this product, but I do find that it works pretty well for dry hair. I'm busy and sometimes can't get to a hair cut as often as I would like, so I try to use this on my hair each day, to try and give my hair some moisture. And it smells really good too. If you want to try it out first, buy the mini, that's what I did, and quite frankly am still using it a year later. 

Best Products for Doing Your Hair:

I know strange category, but if you are wanting to do your hair, these products I found to be the best. 

First thing...if you want to do hair, you HAVE to get better bobby pins. The ones from the store don't even come close to as awesome as these are. And they aren't too expensive. I started trying to do my hair in 2016 and 2.5 years later I'm still using the same tub of bobby pins. The come in bronze, silver and black. I'm sure you can get quality bobby pins at Sally Beauty Supply too, so bottom line...drop the drug store bobby pins and get something better.

Related: How To Use A Bobby Pin

Next thing is dry wax...this is so important for taming those fly aways. Seriously, I don't know what I did before this discovering this stuff. I have to admit, I haven't tried any other dry wax, spray. I also have a dry wax gel, which I use for doing braids, I put on braids, so those little hairs don't fly out, but the dry wax is great for when you're done and you have those fly aways...spray this on, and you're good to go.

Related: How to French Braid Your Own Hair

When you're too lazy to actually really do anything to your hair, and you just want some fun curls? I found that if I use this on my hair first, then curl, my curls last longer. What I do is use the heat protectant, curl my hair, hair spray it and leave it to completely cool. Usually I do my make up, then the last step after my make up is done, I come my fingers through, spray with a little more hair spray and I'm done. 

What do you do if you are wanting to do your hair but your hair is too clean. Or if you have thin hair...and want some volume, what do you use?  Amika Un.Done Texture Spray! This stuff is the best, it gives you that grit without feeling heavy or grimmy, if that makes sense. It just gives you hair a little bit of texture, so when you're trying those hair styles out, it's not slipping all over the place.

And I think the last favorite hair product is my curling wand. I was using a regular curling iron and nothing made my curls last, but after using this, I can go between washes and have the curls last up to 5 days! There is almost always a coupon code out there to get them, and you don't need to get that set, I just got it because it was on sale, and I don't even use two of the barrels...

Related: How To Curl Your Hair

What is doing your hair without your favorite hair spray. In 2 years I've gone through 2 bottles already....I've tried so many, and this one is my absolute favorite.

Here is a video where I describe everything with a little more detail.

So those are all of my favorite hair products. What is something you love that I have to try?

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Two Summer Hair Styles

Hello Foxy Friends! If you're hopping over from one of the other ladies today, welcome! Thanks for stopping by my little neck of the woods. For those of you starting here, today I have a bit of a different post, in that I'm linking up with some other fabulous bloggers for a summer time blog hop, topics range from fashion to crafts to food, so get to looking and find some fun summer themed posts, after you read mine of course (insert smiley face here).

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Hair Style #1

When Stephanie first suggested this blog hop, I thought, of course I'll do a summer hair style! What's better than one? Two summer hair styles! Actually I did one last week, but it was because I was doing this and I didn't want to post two videos on the same day to my YouTube Channel.  Last week I did a simple pony tail, but I gave it a twist, by adding a braid and made the pony tail fuller by added these clips to it.


First you want to part your hair on the far side (either left or right), then you want to create a small french braid, when you get to about where your eyebrow ends, stop adding in sections and braid it regular till it can reach a pony tail.

Then you want to pancake the braid, don't pancake the French braided part, as it doesn't really work. Once you are happy with the pancaking you'll want to either clip it off with a Croc Styling Clip or a small elastic band, both will be removed soon, so either will work.

Next you want to create a pony tail, put it where ever you feel comfortable, can be high or low. Most likely the placement of your pony tail will be dictated by the angle of your braid. Create the pony tail and just before you put the rubber band around your hair, add in your braid.

After the pony tail is set, use the mini clips, and add them into the base of your pony tail. I bought a pack that came with 3 black and 3 browns. For the first one, I seperated 2/3rds of my hair, and fliped it forward, and added a clip to the base. Then I flipped over half and added two clips, then I flipped over 1/3rd and added the last black clip.

Here is the finished look. Truth be told when after I had the kids and my hair was growing back, this was my go to style for the gym. Except I didn't add in the mini clips, but when you French braid the "bangs" it got all of those newbie hairs out of my face.

This is a pretty awful angle for my poor chin, I promise you I have one

Here is a side by side comparison.

Here is the final look, I love that it gives the regular pony tail something a little more.

Here is the video in case you are a more, I need to see it live in person.

Hair Style #2

This next one is a fun casual half up do. I like it because it makes you look like you tried, when in all reality it is two braids, super easy right? I did this for our Niagara Falls Tour when I went to Canada.

I personally like curling my hair first, but you can do this style straight if you prefer. First you are going to do another far part in your hair. I part my hair on the right. Take a large side chunk of hair on the side that has more hair, for me it's my left side. If you want to go fancy, you can do the same french braid like you did for style #1. I personally like to leave some hair to cover my ear, but you could take all of the your hair before your ear. You want to braid enough so that it can reach the others side of your head.

Then pancake your braid, tie off with black elastic, or clear elastic depending on your hair color.

Then braid the other side of your head, if you French braided the first side, no need to do it on this side too, it looks weird.

Pancake this new side as well, ultimately you want to have the pancaked braids about the same size.

Now you have two pancaked braids that look like this:

Take the smaller side braid and cross behind head and pin to the other side of your head, bobby pin, try to keep the bobby pin horizontal to the floor, so the bobby pin will ultimately go through your braid.

Then take the larger side braid and cross to the other side of your head, tuck the end under the first braid that you crossed over.

Try to bobby pin this second braid so that you cannot see the pins. Since you tucked it under the first braid, you should be able to hide the pin with the first braid. This is your finished hair style.

I also did this style with straight hair. Here's how it came out.

For those that want to see a video, here is a full video of this hair style.

I hope you learned something from one of these hair styles. If you do try one of these styles out, tag me in your photo @foxysdomesticside on IG and @foxysdomestic on twitter. Now go check out some other fun Summer Lovin' posts!

 

Mary | Summer Skincare

Johannah | Summer Lovin' Blog Hop {Grilling Recipes}

Dara | 10 Ideas To CompleteThis Summer

Sarah | Two Summer Hair Styles

Lindsay | 4th of July Fashion

Heather | Red, White, & Blue Sangria plus a Summer Salad

Emily | Summer Lovin'Blog Hop- Fourth of July

Tacy | Crafting Our Way Through Summer Art

Jess | Summer Lovin’ Blog Hop 

Stephanie | 10 Must Read Books for Summer

Usually I have a fashion link up, but because I'm doing this blog hop I am taking the week off. However The Blended Blog is still doing it, click here to go enter your fashion/style post!

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Shorts and Ruffle Tee And A Fun Summer Pony Tail Tutorial

Happy hump day Foxy Friends!  I haven't done a hair tutorial in a while, so I thought I would share one this week and one next week for a fun Summer Link Up I'm participating in, heck I might get crazy and do another one the week after. But not let's get crazy here.

When I was thinking about Summer time, I thought what is the quintessential hair style, a pony tail came to mine right away. So I figured I would show you a slightly different take on your normal pony tail.

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These shorts are my new favorite. They are the perfect length and they are stretchy, so you don't get that feeling like it is cutting off circulation. The top is a light weight tee, but it has ruffles so it gives it some interest.

Shorts // Tee (6 colors) // Wedges (Similar here, here and here)

It usually pretty hot in the summer, so I thought I would show you an easy fancier ponytail to make it look like you tried a bit, but in reality it's still a ponytail and it's off your neck and out of your face. Here's a video on how I got this hair style. On a side note: when I was growing back all of those baby hairs, I used this style, minus the clips, for the gym, got those annoying hairs in my face way so I could work out.

Here is a picture of the pony tail without the clips in.

Here is the after...it's it crazy how much fuller it is? This is a must if you want to make it look like you have a ton of hair. You could probably tease it a bit to get it more full, but I found that I had enough hair I didn't have to do that. It gives it just that little bit of poof that makes it look a little more interesting. Please ignore all of the split ends, I have a hair appointment at the end of the month. I used these mini jaw clips. 

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Black Floral Cold Shoulder + A Top Knot

Happy hump day Foxy Friends! I hope you are having a great week and you're not suffering too much from an Easter candy hangover. In full disclosure I went to Target on Monday and bought a bunch of Easter candy on sale...yep I'm that person who dragged to kids to Target to get candy...and I walked out of there only having spent $15, win in my book!


Today I'm sharing the same pattern in a different style, because when you find a dress you like you buy different things in the same pattern right? I can't find my exact dress, but this and this are the same pattern.

You guys I think this is the best I've ever done a braided crown. I think it was a total fluke, but it looked so good it was hard to take it out...you know how it is, when you get something so perfect and then it just hurts to take it out...

The lipstick is two Kylie lip kits mixed together and I can't for the life of me remember the combination I used. I want to say I mixed Valentine with Maliboo.  But don't quote me on that one.

Even the back came out good, usually I cut the braid weird up my head or something, but not this time...now if only I could do this again.

I didn't record how to do this hair style, I think this one would be hard for me to do, since it never comes out the same way twice. I thought I would do as many easy hair styles that I know before I start trying to break down the harder ones. So this time it's how I do my top knots. Super simple and works for when you're on day 3-5 hair...and just want to go one more day before having to wash it. We've all been there right?

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