Hair

Bumble & Bumble Color Minded Sulfate-Free Shampoo and Conditioner: Keep an Open Mind

Ever since I started coloring my hair, I’ve become conscious of ingredients in my shampoos. Not for health reasons. It’s pure vanity. I want to make sure nothing will strip away the color and highlights that I painstakingly sit through every few months (gray hairs be damned!). The latest to hit my shower: Bumble and [...]

The 5 Best Summer Products: Hot Enough For You?

Now that I’ve reviewed a whole powder room’s worth of summer products, from pre-sun to mid to post-sun, my sultry-weather arsenal is complete. I’ve pared down the goods to the best of the best, so you can combat the sun – and also enjoy it! – and meet September with a radiant face, super-smooth skin, [...]

Frederic Fekkai Helps Us Gear Up For Summer

Protecting our skin from UVA/UVB rays goes without saying, but more often than not most of us forget to protect our hair from the damaging effects of sun, saltwater, and chlorine. Don’t fall victim and let your mane turn into a frizzy mop!  Fekkai just launched their Summer Hair Collection and it’s tailor-made to fight [...]

Josie Maran Bohemian Waves Argan Hair Mist: A Shore Thing

There is good beach hair – naturally tousled, soft and flowing, very Brigitte Bardot in the sand. And then there is bad beach hair – ultra-gritty, over-salted worse than a bag of Lay’s, matted and tangled to the point of dreads (when that’s not the look you’re going for). I’ve tried more than my fair [...]

Malin + Goetz Peppermint Shampoo: In Mint Condition

Nothing feels better in the sticky summer heat heat than washing your gross, greasy hair with this peppermint shampoo. The cool tingling sensation will leave you refreshed, mentally and physically. The scent of peppermint clears the mind, and it makes me feel alert. Malin + Goetz’s peppermint shampoo synthesizes natural peppermint extract with an amino [...]

Summer Hair for the Man Snob: A Close Call

After growing out my hair for the past year or so, I decided it was time to tame this bush growing on top of my head. Humidity and my hair are not friends, and I know it was time to clean up. After a strong recommendation by a friend to trust the artists at John [...]

Alaffia Basics Unrefined Neem Oil: The Eighth Wonder of the World

The biggest deal in beauty products these days is neem oil. Not only does it seem to treat and cure every beauty concern you can have, it is incredibly cheap. It’s a vegetable oil pressed from the fruits and seeds of the neem, an evergreen tree endemic to India. The neem tree is also known [...]

Paul Mitchell INKWORKS: Are Cotton-Candy Streaks To Dye For?

Proenza Schouler gave their runway a pastel tint, so to speak, back in 2010. Then Ashley Olsen was among the first, followed by Kate Bosworth, and then January Jones, among others: shifting their hair into punk-meets-pretty territory with cotton-candy streaks. Whether they’ve committed to Smurfette tips or tried just a taste with a baby-pink highlight, [...]

GCB-Inspired Hair: Everything’s Bigger In Texas!

And you know that includes the hair. Dallas ladies wouldn’t be much without their big jewels and bigger wardrobes, but without their hair, they would be nothing! My new favorite primetime addiction has me coveting true Texas hair – and trying to decide whose locks are the most heavenly. Carlene: Her girlish golden curls speak of [...]

Music Festival-Inspired Beauty: Crazy for Coachella

The biggest music festival of the year is currently in full swing (last weekend marked the first half of the shows), so in honor of all the fun and festivities, I’ve narrowed down my picks for making it through a warm, wild weekend. Even if you’re not lounging and shimmying in the grass over in [...]