Hi Foxy Friends! Today I'm linking up with The Blended Blog and we're sharing all of our beauty hacks. I figured I'd make it an odd number and do 5, 3 seemed not enough, 4 seemed weird...so 5 it is.
If you want great curls in the morning, a quick hack is to curl your hair with a thin curling iron (I use a 19mm wand) and I make 6 big spirl curls. I leave them as is, hair spray them and sleep in it. Don't need to wrap it or anything, when you wake up, use your fingers to comb through your hair and you'll have soft curls.
This dry shampoo puts all other dry shampoos to shame. It gets rid of the grease and it lifts your hair from the roots, unlike other dry shampoos that somewhat get rid of the grease, but leaves it a little flat. Trust me I've tried all different kinds of dry shampoo, up until this week my favorite was this one, but no longer, I'm ONLY going to buy the IGK one. Seriously it looked like first day hair...although didn't feel like it, but it would be the perfect time to do a fancy hair style with the grit and lift that it left. Okay I'll stop gushing, just go get it and you'll thank me later. It also comes in a travel size, add to cart! See this video on how to use Dry Shampoo.
If you have clean hair and you want to give it some texture and life you use this Amika Un.Done Texture Spray! Helps to give your hair some life without having to go 5 days of not washing it to get that look.
Now that your hair style is done, you have to use this, to tame those fly aways. You'll wonder how you went so long without this product in your life.
Next hack, I always thought you used a comb to tease your hair, but this teasing brush gets the job done way faster with way less steps! See this video on how to tease your hair.
Last hack, you need to get better bobby pins. Sounds easy, and not really hackish, but seriously once I started using better ones, my hair game went up, the styles I was doing was holding better and longer. They 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. Also did you know that the bumps go down? Yep, that's what holds your hair in place, those bumps, so take advantage and use those bumps against your head. See this video on how to use a bobby pin correctly.
So those are my 5 beauty hacks. Do you have any beauty hacks you want to share? Sign off below! Doesn't have to be about hair, can be about make up, clothes anything beauty related! Head on over to The Blended Blog to link up your beauty hacks.
A video on these beauty hacks. You can see it in action.
I am linking back up with Lizzie , Sierra , Danielle , Emily, and Lindsayfor 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. *Some of the links are affiliate links and I will either receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you click on it or if you make a purchase from one of these links, I may also receive a commission on the sale of the product. Click here for my disclosure page. 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.
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.
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.
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 mycurling 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...
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?
Happy Monday Foxy Friends! Today you're getting two posts from me. I know, crazy right? But I really like both of the posts, so I couldn't say no. I'm linking up with the Blended Blog for March Beauty Monday's and this week is all about hair. It's been a hot second since I've updated my favorite hair products, back in 2015 and then again in 2017. Then there was that year I decided I wanted to try and figure out how to do my hair, so I did my hair in all sorts of braids and was learning what products to use. These were my favorites back in mid 2016.
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After my hair challenge I wrote a post on 5 things I learned in my hair challenge.
Okay onto my favorite hair products...Some are the same as before some have changed.
| ONE |
The key extending your time between washing is find the perfect balance between your shampoo, conditioner and dry shampoo. There are some shampoos I cannot use because no matter how hard I try the dry shampoo does not work. Then there are others that I use that I could keep using dry shampoo forever. This is one of the good ones. And I have recently been using this one, it's a close second.
| TWO |
I have always said how much I like this dry shampoo, nothing has changed. I have tried 5-6 different dry shampoos and nothing beats this.
New to the list this year, is what I use to blow dry my hair. I spray this in my roots, and this on my hair ends and blow dry. I think it helps to extend the life of my time between washes too, and it makes my hair super soft and silky after washing it.
| FOUR |
I don't know why I haven't mentioned this before. But I love using my Paul Mitchell hair protection when I am going to curl my hair. I really believe that it helps my curls stay longer.
| FIVE |
I love 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!
You need really good bobby pins if you want to do your hair. The ones at the grocery store has nothing on the really good sturdy ones. Once you buy these, you'll wonder why you ever did anything else.
Those are my current favorite hair products. Anything that I need to
try? I love finding new products! Anyone have a good deep conditioning
product they love? Head on over to The Blended Blog to link up your posts!
Happy Monday Foxy Friends! If you're here from Monica's blog, Jersey Girl, Texan Heart, welcome! Glad that you could stop by. I am assuming you are here because you want to see a video of that hair tutorial. If so, you're in the right place! On the flip side, if you are more of a picture person, head on over to Monica's blog to see a step by step tutorial on how I got these two looks.
If you try out this hair style, let me know, or tag me @foxysdomesticside on IG.
On Wednesday I'm going to do an outfit post with one of these hair styles, it might involve tulle, so come back Wednesday to see that!
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 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!
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!