Posts Tagged ‘Living Proof’

The Best Of The Best: Hair Care

Posted in Schmears on June 4th, 2009 by Lily – 2 Comments
Starlets rock soft waves at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards (image courtesy of CMM)

Starlets rock soft waves at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards (image courtesy of CMM)

Ahhhhh … Hair.  I don’t know a single woman who has mastered the art of making it look good each and every day.  After all, it’s the only feature that has its own designated “bad” days (has anyone ever heard of a “bad face day”?).  Face it, we’re all on a search for that magic product that will make styling our hair easy.

So, it was with great pleasure that some close friends (and fellow bloggettes) tried out new hair products and gave their opinions on the best for their hair type.

Opinions, after the jump!

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Give It To Me Straight

Posted in Schmears on February 24th, 2009 by AJ – 4 Comments

Dear Readers, I have a confession:  I am a fraud. A sham.  A charlatan.  For the past 10 years, I have spent endless time and many, many Benjamins in my quest to maintain the ultimate scam.  You see, I have curly hair.

That’s right; I am a curly-haired girl. Like really curly. Like Barbara Streisand as Katie Morosky curl.  Like Nicole Kidman circa Days of Thunder curly. Like Keri Russell as Felicity curly. THAT curly.  Not that anyone I’ve met in the past 10 years would know.  Oh no.  After years of testing creams, serums and Japanese hair straightening, I have settled on a carefully maintained regimen of a ceramic dryer, a wet-to-dry iron and the one-two, budget-busting combo of Kerastase OLÉO-RELAX and my beloved Phytodefrisant.  It’s not a perfect solution, but it has maintained the pretense well enough for me to have been loyal to it for quite some time.

Well, no more.  I admit this next thought is beyond superficial, but this little, nondescript bottle has changed my life:

You complete me.

You complete me.

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