How Do You Style Your Hair On Rainy Days?

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It’s been raining quite a lot lately in Europe. I love rainy days…if I get to watch from inside my place, under my blanket. But rain on the go is not fun when your hair reacts to sky-fallen water on a fierce unnatural way.

I’m also never prepared enough for the rain, no matter how many times I checked the weather forecast and it confirmed a 99% chance of rain. I mean, I might be wearing the rain jacket but not the boots (I’ve never even minded to get rain boots!); one day I’d have an umbrella, but not the jacket, or I’d have a hat on, or no covering at all.

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And what about the hair? Well, I didn’t think much about how to fix my hair for rainy days until yesterday — when I walked outside to go to work, the only day this week I failed to check the weather, and it was pouring. No time to go back up a fourth floor and grab at least an umbrella. But luckily, yesterday morning, my hair was fixed in a bun.

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It was a little higher up than that in the picture and I had applied some mousse on the sides and the top, which helped it keep in place. The bun saved me from what could’ve been a very bad hair day at work.

So, other than buns, what other styles can a frizzy-haired girl-on-the-go wear on a rainy day? I can think of styles such as curls, braids, a handkerchief over her hair and slightly tied at the neckline (think vintage!). Or simply wear a hat. Speaking of which, I saw somewhere a plastic bag/hat designed specifically for that purpose, which gets the job done but may not be as vintage and glamorous.

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Hats are a big help for keeping your hair from growing in the rain. And it doesn’t have to be a rain hat if you have an umbrella at hand.

It will be raining some more here today, and possibly the rest of the month, so excuse me while I go dive in my closet to find the best suited hat.

I’m Bringing Tweezing Back!

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And, ouch! I had forgotten how much it hurts. I miss a good wax job done. I haven’t had one in seven months!

The thing is that I gave up tweezers a long time ago, utilizing it only for the most minuscule hairs that need to be removed (normally on my eyebrows) and cannot easily be removed with wax. I’ve always gotten mine waxed since then, and now that I’m a “castaway” and don’t know/don’t trust beauty salons for this matter Spain, I have gone back to tweezers. This doesn’t mean that tweezers don’t get the job done — I’ve seen pretty good eyebrows shape based solely on tweezing.

Even though eyebrow tweezing is an original long-forgotten DIY that is proven to work, I think waxing is so much easier—and long-lasting. Nevertheless, I might just be generalizing. Stores still sell tweezers like they’ve never gone out of style. I recognize that this is obviously because a lot of women still tweeze their eyebrows.

On another note, threading hair removal looks promising. I know it is probably a much older technique than the above, but I’m fairly new to it. I went to a threading salon on three different occasions (two of which happened in Spain) and I totally loved it.

The hair doesn’t grow back as thick and as quick, either! The only downside I found with threading is that I have to stretch my forehead and the part around the eyebrow in order for the esthetician to do her work more efficiently — and for me to experience “less” pain. This makes me more aware of what’s going on up there and it makes me a bit anxious. It’s an uncomfortable feeling I can’t describe.

What’s your experience with the three? Are you a tweeze, wax or thread kind of girl?

What’s Your Take on Going Shampoo-Free?

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So much is being said around about going shampoo-free. I noticed that there seems to be a bit of skepticism about this matter. There are people who think this method is “gross” and won’t consider washing their hair with anything other shampoo. Others consider the possibility of “harmful” detergents like shampoos to be just fables. And finally, there’s a whole group that challenges all of the above, highlighting reasons such as scientific proofs that it is safer and less expensive as enough reasons to go “poo-free.”

So, I wanted to do my own findings by polling you all Summerheads. What do you think?

Would you go shampoo-free?

  • No -- that's gross! (50%, 3 Votes)
  • Already have, didn't work out. (33%, 2 Votes)
  • Yes -- I'm all about safety first! (17%, 1 Votes)
  • Already have and loving it! (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 6

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Is That Your Natural Hair?

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I never thought about it before, but I think it’s funny when—showing up at work with my undone curly hair—people who’ve never seen it before say, “Wait, is your hair naturally curly?” ha ha! Do they really think that I purposely invest my time in teasing my hair to the point that it can touch my car’s roof because it is so frizzy and big?

Next time I’ll say, it’s only a natural disaster, people…a beautiful natural disaster. :-)

A good clay facial mask

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Have you ever tried a facial mask that made you go WHOA!?—in a positive way.

Rhassoul Purifiant facial mask is that mask for me.

I know little about it, but last month on my trip to Granada, Spain, my boyfriend and I stopped at a Moroccan shop and got this awesome Argan Oil face cleanser. We use a lot of Argan Oil products and I believe we had used a similar mask before, but I didn’t trust that this particular mask would be as great because it cost only 3€. I know—I should know that higher price doesn’t necessarily equal to better quality. I now realize that there are a lot of Argan trees plantations in Morocco, which borders with Spain, so it might be the reason Argan Oil products are so cheap there.

Well, after days of sitting in our bathroom cabinet, I gave the scrub a try. First I wet my face because the clay is very thick and then proceeded to apply the mask all over. It says to leave it on for 10 minutes, but I left it on for 15 (might’ve been 20?) because I had some serious buildup to take care of, if you know what I mean.

The results were amazing. Everybody does it differently, but depending on the type of facial masks, I remove it by patting wet cotton pads on my face first, softly scrubbing and wiping off the mask. Then I rinse my  entire face with warm water, pat dry and of course moisturize.

My skin is very dry and sensitive on the face and, really, any cleanser/scrub I try either irritates it or dries it more. But this mask cleaned my pores very deeply. My skin looked so bright, clean and rejuvenated afterward, I was amazed.

So what’s this facial mask made of?

Basically, it is a purifying clay facial mask and scrub with extracts of organic Argan Oil and Orange Blossom.

There are several brands in the market but may have the same composition. The one I got contains: water, Moroccan lava clay, glycerin, dehydoacetic acid and benzyl alcohol, Citrus bigaradia oil, argan oil and polysorbate 20.

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