My 5 Favorite Hair Products

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.

Related: How To Use Dry Shampoo

| THREE |

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!

Day 1 of the curls

Day 3 of the curls

Related: How To Curl Your Hair

| Bonus |

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.

Related: How To Use A Bobby Pin

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!

 

Linking up here

Hair Challenge Results

Happy Hump Day! Today Vanessa and I are posting the results to our hair challenge! I ended up doing 6 days of the hair challenge. Since it was party week (a term lovingly deemed/made-up by Mr. - means a week of he doesn't see me because I am crafting my butt off the week of the party), I didn't have time to get all the video's edited. I did edit some of them however. So I'll post them as I get them done, deal?

I thought I would start easy on Day 1, I tried to follow this video.

I thought it came out really cute, but looked nothing like the video. I think I just need a LOT of practice. This was the first video I edited, so you get to see how I did this look first :)

Day 2, I got a little more creative, not sure why I was feeling so brave, but I wanted to do a halo braid. Crazy right? For only day 2? But I thought it turned out great and have done this style two more times in the past week! I got so many compliments on it. Unfortunately I somehow lost the front facing video, so I only had the back of my head. Of course it was for a video that I really wanted to show you! But, I did do a quick video of the back of my head so you can see how  I did this look.

Day 3 was date night with Mr. so I decided to do another updo. Shoot should have saved this one for that night. Oh well! Apparently I can take an in focus picture for this one. These were the best, oops!

Day 4 we didn't have a lot going on so I thought I would do something simple...so yea, this was not simple and looks NOTHING like the picture. I do however think I know what I did wrong, I was tightening the braid and pushing it up like she was saying. This is definitely my least favorite hair do of the week. Plus Mr. doesn't really like my hair up...at all, he likes it long and down, such a typical guy right?

Day 5 I really just wanted to try this hair style out to see how it worked. I can see from the picture that I did one of the loops the wrong way, oops. But you can see how it would look if that one loop was facing the other direction. Cute, but really for a date night or girls night out, since a side ponytail with kids just isn't my thing. I ended up taking it out like an hour later, I couldn't handle it.

Day 6 last day. It was about 104 degrees out and I had a ton of errands to get done for the party, so I did my trusty messy bun with my favorite side braid.  Quick easy and off my back and it's not a pony tail...win in my book.

I did do a video for each of these hair styles, hopefully by next week, I'll have all of them done for you, so if you wanted to actually see a normal person who can't do their own hair do it. The beauty Youtubers make it look SO easy...it's not!

So it's your turn? How did you do on your hair challenge? Did you do anything different? Tell us what you did in the comments below or link up with us! So happy to have you.


What was your favorite style of the week?

Also don't forget Alison is doing her Fall Challenge! Don't forget to sign up*, it's going to be a blast, plus as soon as you sign up you get the list and can start shopping. I'm going to see if I can only add 1 or 2 pieces to complete my Fall wardrobe...wish me luck! I can do it!

Also linking up with Tucker Up, Because Shanna Said So,  On Trend Tuesday, Cappuccino and Fashion, Sydney Fashion Hunter, Pampers and Pearls, Happiness at Mid Life, The Pleated Poppy,Shopping My Closet, Get Your Pretty On, Let It Shine, More Pieces of Me,  Pumps and Push-Ups, A Lovely Little Wardrobe

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Hair Challenge Announcement

Happy Thursday, one more day of work, woo hoo! So I can finally officially make the announcement that Vanessa and I are doing a hair challenge. We both decided that we're tired of our hair down/pony tail rut and that we were going to try to do our hair everyday for a week.  Enter the Hair Challenge:

Hey what do you think of the graphic, my first one really....it's hard being creative...Major props to Deena for constantly doing great graphics for all of the Style Me Bloggers soon to be The Blended Blog graphics.

I knew this was coming up, so I practiced the other week in preparation for this...I can do this!

I bought these*bobby pins and hair texture spray* (apparently they're pretty awesome according to this lady). I have used the hair texture once and OMG it's amazing. I have really straight and slippery hair, no hair styles stay on me, but using this spray gives my hair some texture so the hair style has something to grip to, it's amazing.

The only real problem that I see is that my hair is blackest of black, so it's going to be really hard to see it in pictures (see above), but I'll do my best to show you. I've contemplated taking video of me doing my hair...mess ups and all, what do think? Along with pictures of course.

Anyway, join us in this hair challenge, even if it's just one style, get out of your hair rut and get to styling! These are the ones I'm thinking of trying:

The Knotted Waterfall

The Crochet Braid

The Braided Halo

So join us on this hair challenge journey. Even if it's just one style, at least it's one day of non-boring hair. It's amazing how I felt so much more put together, with just putting my hair in a messy bun.

Now you have two weeks to try a few hair styles. I'm aiming for 5-7 (since I have next week off, going to try and wake up before the kids to do it). We're doing a link up on September 16th with any hair styles that you do, and of course if you do something #hairchallenge2015 on IG or Twitter so we can see all the awesome hair styles as you go! See you on IG/Twitter and on the 16th!

Also linking up with Amanda, for Thinking Out Loud and Vanessa and Penny for Thinking out Loud,Lulia, Stephanie and Sarah for The Ladies Collective, Annie and Natalie for Thoughts for Thursday and Joey and Kristin for Stuff and Things

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