Wella Bossed Up The Girls At Haider Ackermann's Paris Show With Copper Streaky Hair

 

How perfect is the hair look at Haider Ackermann's A/W 2012 Paris show? This is how real bitches do fall. Now, handpainted copper hair streaks could've been a flaming nightmare (if you let someone like me attempt them). Thankfully they enlisted Eugene Souleiman, Global Creative Director of Wella Professionals, Care & Styling to achieve the look, which is so IDGAF meets Katniss Everdeen, Girl On Fire. By the way, Jesus, people! READ THE HUNGER GAMES, SO WE CAN CARRY ON A CIVILIZED CONVERSATION LIKE ADULTS! Or... young adults. As in 11-year-olds. Whatever. 

While I would actually wear this look, I will never, ever attempt to actually get this look, but that's only because I'm more of the "admire from afar and leave this shit to the pros" camp. But if you're the creative/ talented type and want to try it yourself, Souleiman used Wella Professionals Enrich Shampoo and Conditioner, Ocean Spritz Beach Texture Spray and Stay Essential Finishing Spray, pulled out sections of hair out around the frame of the face, clipped and covered them with tissue, sprayed wash-out black hair color onto the hair and pony tail, straightened the sections with an iron, then painted the individual sections, saturating at the roots and tapering off at the tips. Get it!

Er... You've Got Something In Your Hair

This horse fashioned out of a ginger's hair, from an Esquire mag piece, is easily the best thing I've seen all day. Hat tip to Beauty Blogging Junkie, via LaughingSquid, via Brock Davis, etc, etc, the Internet is just one big recursive loop k hole.

Kay, more blogging soon, this I promise you.

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But Can Your Hair Do THIS?

ON ITS OWN!?!?!? Leaving for the VMAs Wednesday. For SIX days.  #stressed #messed

This Braid Is Complicated To Say The Least

Via http://dirtyicecreamm.tumblr.com/post/6575933468

What... the?? I just can't. Points for effort, of course, but... there just need to be limits.

The Year In Beauty: These Are My Favorite Things, Part 5

Without further ado, here's the fifth and final installment of my and Beauty Blogging Junkie Amber's favorite beauty products of 2010. I figured 2011 is as good a time as ever to... post the last post in our series. Which I should've done in 2010, but whatever. I was busy watching "Hoarders" and not making resolutions.

Here are the beauty products we discuss. As you can tell, I veered off course and discussed my seashell shoes and a Marc Jacobs pen that looks like lipstick. Kinda counts, right?

Me: LA Looks Cashmere Curls Gel (the holy GRAIL of curly hair products), Lancome 020 Le Rouge L'Wren Scott Nail Polish (which is highly sold out, unfortunately -- I got the last one in all of Saks), Haus of Price Shoes,  Marc By Marc Jacobs Lipstick Pen, and MOR Cosmetics bath and body products

Amber: Sally Beauty Supply Femme Couture Mascara Set (with glitter mascara!), Beverly Hills Skin Care Advanced Youth Recovery Cream, Philosophy The Supernatural Superbeautiful Foundation SPF 20.

 

Oscar Blandi Raffinata Straightening Balm = Straight-Up Perfect

($19, Oscar Blandi, Sephora.com)

UPDATE: I'm using this on my curls now, and it actually works AMAZINGLY well as a smoother and defrizzer. I mixed it with my gel and applied (liberally) when my hair was still wet, and seriously, my hair looks better than it has in weeks.

I have had THREE hair cuts in the past month and FOUR blowouts (I have thick, curly hair that frizzes as though it were getting paid to do so) in the past 10 days (there's obviously a story there), and I've tried a handful of straightening products that just didn't deliver. Which is so not the case, however, with Oscar Blandi's Raffinata Straightening Balm. It's designed to minimize blowdrying time, but since, um, I've had my share of the blowdryer, I tried it out to see if it'd maintain and revive my blowout. Oscar Blandi and his unparalelled Straightening Balm instantly annihilated my frizz (and it's about 17,000 degrees in the shade here in New York right now), and smoothed out my layers without weighing them down or making them greasy, sticky, or too slick. My hair looked thick and wavy but polished. You only need a small dab of the cream-based product to achieve near-magical results. And it smells fresh and clean, like shea butter. Sold.