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Joseph Mullen, NYC Color Expert Gives Summer Hair Guidance

It may be your favorite time of year, but when it comes to humidity, sun and “hot” summer hairstyles, you’re left with a dry frizzy mane and an endless list of summer hair questions.

NYC Colorist, Joseph Mullen at Blackstones Salon gives some advice, and answers the most pressing questions of the season.

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Q. How should I protect my hair color this summer to make it last longer?

A. Preserving your hair color during the summer is easy, with the added help of some conditioning products. Joseph Mullen, Lead Colorist at Blackstones Salon in New York, recommends trying a product with UV protection or a leave in conditioner.

Apply product as directed and make sure to comb through to ensure uniform coverage. To help minimize fading, Mullen recommends a conditioner with a color enhancement. (more…)

Have you heard of all the different “poo” treatments for your hair?

The word “poo” is actually a shortened version of shampoo.  Poo is often used to reference no-poo, pre-poo, diluted poo and post-poo, to name a few of the more popular poo combos.

The poo treatments are very popular in some segments of the hair world because certain types of hair require special no-poo as well as pre and post poo treatments to keep tresses strong, healthy, soft and with minimal damage some shampoo treatments have been proven to cause.

What is a Pre-Poo?

Pre-poo isn’t a new concept.   Jennifer Aniston made news many years ago on Friends when she revealed she often utilized different pre-shampoo nourishment oils on her naturally wavy tresses to keep them shiny and soft.

Pre-poing involves utilizing some sort of a pre-shampoo treatment (hot or lukewarm oil, conditioning creams or protein masks) applied to hair and/or scalp before applying actual shampoo.

Some hair consumers only apply a pre-poo treatment to the most damaged sections of their hair while other apply it from the scalp to the roots. (more…)

I have been using this hair conditioner for years. During my teens I wanted to go blonder. I was born with butter blonde hair but by high school it was the dreaded (shiver) dirty blonde. A girl in class turned up after summer with her version of dirty blonde instantly transformed to rich buttery blonde. She told me it was “from the sun” and lots of “vinegar” rinses. Being a naive grade school girl, I bought it hook, line and sinker.

Of course I bugged my mom to buy me apple cider vinegar as well as white vinegar and I started experimenting with home hair recipes. Did this make me blonder? Heck no. And I later found out that the innocent Susie had transformed with the help of her mom’s hairdresser who applied professional blonde hair color to her strands.

DUH…how dumb could I be? No lemon juice, sun or vinegar was near that girls hair.

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Shame on me for not putting all my homemade beauty recipes in one place. The advantage of this blog? I can store all my little tidbits of hair, beauty, skin recipes and notes that I have had squirrelled away for the past 10 years.
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