BEAUTY MUST-HAVES

HOW TO DIFFUSE CURLY HAIR

Hey curly girls! Have you met the diffuser? If not, it’s your new best friend. Allow me to introduce you. If so, then read on and let me know if…

WHAT IF YOU JUST ACCEPTED YOURSELF?

“What if you just accepted yourself as you are?” is a question I’ve been challenging myself to answer lately. As in, what’s the worst that could happen if you were…

BEST ATLANTA SALON: MELROSE & McQUEEN

Finding a salon you love is hard work, especially when you move to a new city. It took me a full year to find one here in Atlanta! But I…

BLOW DRY TOOLS AND TIPS YOU NEED

Let’s face it. Achieving a salon blow out at home is impossible. There. I said it. Impossible. I’m not even going to claim that there’s anything you can possibly do to achieve it because that is simply a lie. Unless you grow a third arm, you cannot get the same volume, tension, bounciness, curls, or whatever you want with just a brush and a dryer. BUT, there are a few things you can do to achieve a good enough blow out. Let me explain….

HOW TO GET THE HAIR COLOR (AND CUT) YOU WANT …

Have you ever experienced this: you go to the salon so excited to get your hair colored, and you walk out liking it but not loving it because it just wasn’t quite what you wanted? You’re not alone! This happens all the time and the reason why is because YOU, the client, didn’t walk into your appointment fully prepared to ask for exactly what you want.

AFFORDABLE HAIRCARE

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post focused on haircare – partly because I’ve been so uninspired by my hair products lately! Here’s why – my hair has changed dramatically over the last year. It used to be off-the-charts curly and very voluminous. In fact, I could get away with washing it once a week (no joke). Now that I’m solidly in my 30s, the natural curl has turned into an unpredictable semi-wave, it gets greasy after one day, and it is thinner. Then one day it’ll curl out of the blue after a shampoo, and then back to flat the next day. All of my expensive uber-curl products are now mostly useless to me, and I certainly can’t afford to spend tons of money on all-new expensive products. Any of you other ladies out there dealing with this weirdness?? Fortunately, I’ve found a couple solutions that you can buy at Target that I’m recommending today.