My friend Gypsy over at Beauty Maintenance is having an awesome contest and I urge you to go over to her blog post with all the information about it and enter!
Hurry though! There’s only 6 days left to enter!
She has some great prizes from some really impressive sponsors:
Beau Monde Boutique
Blinc (the only liquid eyeliner and mascara I swear by!)
The Brush Guard
Glittersniffer Mineral Eyeshadows
GothCupcake
Groupie Glam
It Cosmetics
Man Glaze
Red Cherry Lashes & NYX lipsticks from MzCuppycake
Pin Up Cosmetics
Zann Clips
For more info click her blog and check out her video below!
I for one am going to enter! How can you not?
Hmmm…. what should I do?
Blondie or Madonna? Or should I opt for an older era? Decisions Decisions!
I just wanted to take a quick minute out and personally thank Spell Cosmetics for including me in their contests on BlogTv last night. It was GREAT fun and we had such a blast. We gave out great prizes and all in all had a fun time.
If you haven’t been over to their site, please do so! Especially now! They are having a great weekend of sales, give-aways and all kinds of great stuff. Complete customer appreciation and great service.
Subscribe to their youtube and you can win things. Go to their blogtv and when they have a live show you can even win some of their great products!! Seriously, how can you not win
I finally posted an ACTUAL video on my channel today. Yes- I did
I hope to get back to the swing of things and do some reviews, a couple tutorials, and a fun collaboration with a friend of mine from YT.
Today I posted a video I did about my hair ritual.
Since I have thick and “ethnic” hair, I usually do not wash more than twice a week. When I do wash my hair- I either do one of two things. I either let the curl/waves that I naturally have, bounce around by air drying or diffusing. Or I let it air dry and then I straighten it with my Chi 1 inch Pink Dazzler. I usually only straighten my hair once during those two washes. I try not to use too much heat on my hair therefore I do not use a blow dryer before straightening it.
Another thing I like to do at least once every 4 to 6 weeks, is a hot oil treatment. Hot oil treatments are essential in my own hair care rituals. Simply because damage is done to our hair on a daily basis. Brushing, curling, straightening, dying, use of hair products, pollution, humidity, and the list goes on. Basically, everyday we cause small if not decent amounts of damage to our hair. It’s important to give your hair a hot oil treatment from time to time if you want to restore moisture, shine and all around scalp health.
Another reason I decided to do a hot oil treatment, was that I had tried a new shampoo. Now, I will not reveal that shampoo simply because I could rant about it all day long and the point of this entry is to talk about hot oil treatments. Let’s just say this shampoo left me not only PO’d about all the hype, but left me itchy and my scalp was quite flaky. Once I did my hot oil treatment, my scalp was moisturized, clean and happy. My hair was shiny, and had much more life and bounce.
I also show in the video below my new Chi Flatiron that I purchased for my birthday on Amazon. I bought it for $70 from an independent seller on their site. Please read the sidebar of the original video , because I give that seller’s information (They still have a few Chi’s available for very decent prices) as well as giving you information on how to find a reputable seller of decently priced hair care tools, as well as how to spot a fake Chi. Yes- they are out there unfortunately.
Anyhow- kitchen cupboard beauty tip, you ask? Yes- let’s get to that shall we?
Hot oil treatments come in all ready packaged containers such as VO5’s well known hot oil treatment that will run you about $5 and some change. Very inexpensive and so worth every penny. If you want to do it yourself and rather not spend that five dollah, I suggest using the at home alternative. Soybean or Olive Oils will do the trick nicely.
Micro way:
Get a large, microwave safe bowl and add about half a cup of Olive or Soybean oil.
Stovetop Way:
In a pot add the same amount as above with your choice. You can add some rosemary and even honey. These will add a nice smell yet not cause any interference with the oil treatment at all.
Make sure the oil has come to a decent temperature and is nice and hot. NOW- DO NOT ADD THIS OIL TO YOUR HAIR OR SCALP YET. Disclaimer- use your brain and don’t burn yourself and then blame me, please. Thanks
After the oil has come to a decently warm enough temp, begin applying it to your scalp and work it in all through out your hair, ends, etc. Basically what you need to do is saturate all of your hair. Comb it through with a nice wide tooth comb. Wrap a towel, or scarf around your head and then put on a shower cap. You can leave this on anywhere from one hour to your entire day (if you’re just at home relaxing which is what I did). Once you decide the length of time, rinse the oil out and then wash and condition normally.
You will most likely feel the results instantly. A clean fresh feeling that is just one of those “Ahhh yes” feelings. And yes, it feels that good.
Usually I let my hair air dry and then style as I normally would hours later or the next day. If you try this, let me know what you think and how it worked out for you.
Below is my YT video talking about all these various things.
Take care and have a great week!
For those of you that follow me on Youtube as PinupCandy, you may know that I also am doing videos for a collaboration channel called “Fiverealwomen“.
I began doing the Friday video’s after Gloria aka Glowpinkstahfrom YT asked me to join her and three other fab ladies. I was happy to become the new lady of the bunch and named my Friday segments “WTFridays with Mari”. They are super fun to film, and we each have questions to answer and ask each week. Make sure to comment, and rate and always subscribe to the Fiverealwomen Channel. There is always something absolutely crazy going on.
And this week’s craziness had to be my absolutely HORRID video screen shot that Youtube found a necessity to make as the thumbnail to my uploaded video.
I mean, just look at this thing:
My friend Aprillesaid this via twitter: “HAHA your video still looks like you’re in a hysterical fit of misery! ;P”
Oh, how very right she was. I actually fell to the floor laughing in a hysterical fit of laughter after I saw that thing! When she told me I figured out why in the world people kept emailing me and commenting me with questions like “Why are you crying in your video?” … or…. “OMG are you ok? You’re video! You look so upset!”…When I saw the screen shot I literally fell out of my computer chair, onto the floor, and just laughed and laughed. Like- holding my gut and gasping for air laughing.
I then realized, that had this been a few years ago, I would have been crying and freaking out because “OH MAH GAWD! I LOOK HORRIBLE!”… Hey- youtube is good for self awareness and a good laugh when you look like a blubbering foo’.
