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Phyto’s PhytoSpecific Extreme Shine Spray

This product is a sheer styling aid for curly, frizzy and relaxed hair.  It enhances everyday hair styles as well as formal up-dos with long-lasting luminosity. Karanja oil and chamomile create a sleek, brilliant finishing touch.  It has a nice clean scent which is not overpowering and it works great for dealing with fly-a-ways.

Phyto’s PhytoSpecific Extreme Shine Spray creates an extremely shiny, glossy look.  It can make blonde hair look golden while brunette or raven hair will take on an extreme shine.

People with naturally curly hair often find that shine sprays are just too heavy, but this is often not the case with Phyto’s PhytoSpecific Extreme Shine Spray.

Note: For more information check out:  Finishing Spray or Hair Spray?  What’s The Difference?

Description

This finishing styling aerosol style spray is nourishing, hydrating, calming and protective.  It contains ultra-light emollient plant oils such as Karanja oil which conditions the hair and provides stunning shine and luster.  Because the product is so light it provides lasting radiance without weighing tresses down. Continue reading “HB Phyto’s PhytoSpecific Extreme Shine Spray Review” »

One common myth about hair brushes is that hair should be brushed 100 times a day.  This is definitely not true and brushing can actually damage and tangle tresses over time.

Listed below are the best hair brush and hair brushing tips to consider:

1.  When it comes to purchasing a brush you always get what you pay for.

Invest in the very best brush you can afford in order to treat your hair with the very best styling tools.  Mason Pearson and Kent brushes hand crafted with 100% authentic boar’s bristle brushes will last for many years, offering your hair the very best styling tools.  If you can’t afford to invest in a Mason Pearson or Kent, search for a 100% boar bristle brush designed to be as hair friendly as possible.

2.  Never brush hair when it’s wet or damp.

Hair is most fragile when wet.  Strands can be more easily ripped, torn or snagged when brushed damp.

3.  Use a hair brush sparingly when finger picking won’t do.

Even the best hand made 100% boar bristle brush can still damage strands, even when completely dry.  It’s always best to use fingers lightly coated with coat, cream or similar moisturizing products to detangle, remove snags and arrange in place.  Don’t use a brush every single day unless absolutely necessary. Continue reading “Best Hair Brush And Hair Brushing Tips” »

Canopy hair is just another name for the top layer of the hair.   Hair aficionados who love to chat about growing their hair, having long hair or dealing with naturally textured hair (wavy, curly, kinky, coily) love to create new descriptive terms.

Canopy Hair Is The Very Top Layer Or Hair

Just as a traditional canopy is an overhead roof or some type of structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, canopy hair is the very top layer that covers the rest of the hair.

Canopy hair is the part of the hair which is most vulnerable to environmental toxins such as wind, heat, sun, rain, salt, sand or similar hair enemies.

(Hair by Barbara Lhotan – All Rights Reserved)

Canopy hair will also suffer the most damage from chemical hair treatments such as relaxers, straighteners, hair color or similar.   Natural or added color will often fade the fastest from canopy hair and when hair starts to thin it will often fall from the canopy area of the hair first.

When Canopy hair is damaged it’s most likely to break, split or result in frizz, fuzz or other misbehaving hair behaviors. Continue reading “Canopy Hair Definitions” »

I remember the first time I ever heard about Curlformers.  I was sitting in Celeb Hairstylist Robert Hallowell’s LA kitchen in May of 2009.

I was at Robert’s kitchen table drinking tea and he was sprawled out on the floor rooting through his massive refrigerator.  Robert’s precocious cat, Handsome, was prowling the space between Robert and where I sat at his table.  While I peppered him with my normal 1001 hair questions he would answer, stopping periodically to bark “no shopping” at Handsome as the adorable cat launched a sneak attack on some of the food temporarily displaced from the refrigerator.

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Curlformers Not Curlfarmers

Robert and I were discussing how to achieve gorgeous curls on wavy tresses.  With his head partially buried inside the bowels of the refrigerator he barked “Curlformers”.   I thought I had misheard him to say Curlfarmers.   A bit of hilarious repartee ensued until Robert had convinced me that Curlformers were these revolutionary patented curling tools that he absolutely adored and not curls harvested from a farm somewhere in England.

He explained how to use the new curling tool but I couldn’t picture how it worked in my head.  Jumping up he ran off into his home salon and came striding out with a few of the Curlformers in his hand.  He gave me a quick demonstration of how you use the hook to pull the hair through the Curlformer and how it naturally springs into place.  Impressive. Continue reading “Curlformers Make Dreams Of Gorgeous Curls Come True” »

I love catching Halle Berry on talk shows.  She seems to show a down to earth side which many celebrities don’t seem to be able to do.  I also like to see how she will be wearing her naturally curly hair, which she changes up all the time.

A short pixie coiffed Halle was hilarious on a recent Ellen when she made a point of showing Ellen her underarm pit stains which she said happened because she became nervous by Indian acrobats performing right before she appeared on stage.

Visit Halle Berry’s Celebrity Hairstyle Gallery
For more info on Halle’s hair check out:  Halle Berry Hair:  Always Changing

Ellen teased Halle for showcasing her pit stains which Halle said was “so embarrassing.”  Ellen noted that since Halle had pointed out the sweat stains “now that you’ve mentioned it that’s all we’re thinking about.”

In fact, the dress Halle was wearing was an exact match for the chair she was sitting in and Ellen suggested that Halle could have sat in the chair and lifted her arms and nobody would have really noticed at all.  However, since Halle pointed them out, it because a long discussion point. Continue reading “Naturally Curly Girl Halle Berry On Ellen” »