‘Tis the season to be jolly, so don’t let primping and prepping crimp your holiday cheer. Here, 10 ways to dress up your locks from now until the clock strikes 2009!
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Who says you have to spend hours in front of the mirror making hair look perfect. This year’s hottest looks, such as the beehive and bob are over, so let hair go in 2009 for a sexy, fun, “I just threw myself together,” look.

Oh no, my hair just naturally looks this good!

Style hair as usual and when finished, flip hair upside down and shake it up. First apply a drop of P2 Hair Honey hair-molding product. Next shake and scrunch hair. Flip right side up and lightly finger thru to calm down ends. Be careful not to make it too perfect!

Night out on the town

Randomly grab sections of dry hair and mist with P2 RefresHair, a light flexible setting spray. Twist each section down to the scalp and clip with a Bobbi pin. The bigger the section the bigger the wave, and let dry while you apply some sexy evening makeup. After dry, simply un-twist each section, finger thru and spray again. Hair curl pattern should be uneven and soft.

Messy Updo

Easily done with the right tools, first apply a hair-refreshing product to the entire head then lightly back-comb the whole head with a wide-tooth comb. Next apply a few silicone shine drops, rub hands together and smooth. Sweep hair up into a loose twist or ponytail and secure with a few pins. Spray on a light holding spray to finish. Try P2 RefresHair and P2 Fluid Spray.

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I used the Parissa Wax Strips again last night – I am still loving them!

Heidi left a comment yesterday about how they left a sticky residue on her arms. This can be a potential issue with all waxes – one way you can battle this is to lightly coat your skin with some talc powder. This also helps with pain a lot, because half of the pain from waxing comes from pulling the top layer of your skin off with the wax. If you use powder, it provides a barrier between the wax and your skin, and the only pain comes from the actual hairs being pulled out. Still a little painful, but a lot less than without the powder!

My skin is dry as a snake, and the dry skin just comes right off with the wax, and I sort of like it that way- I feel like I am exfoliating a little along with getting rid of that pesky hair. I am guessing Heidi does a better job moisturizing than I do and just doesn’t have that problem. I hope you will try my powder suggestion, it might just work.

Another waxing/pain related tip or two: Pull the strips off just as fast as you can. The faster you pull, the less painful it is. I have found my husband to be *quite* good at this, and I think he enjoys torturing me, just a little. Pull the strip off keeping your pulling hand parallel and close to the skin. If you pull in more of an upwards direction it will hurt like Hades, and won’t pull the hairs out like it should. Immediately after pulling the strip, lightly slap your skin, that makes the pain go away super fast too.

Hope that helps some, let me know if you have some good tips and tricks that you have figured out in your waxing history!

[Photo: Roseline's Spa]

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I do like glazes, and especially like that they fatten up my super baby-fine hair so that I get a little more cooperation in the styling department. But I have a question–in cases like mine, where one has both high and low-lights, what glaze color should you go with if there isn’t no-color, clear glaze offered? The glaze that matches your lightest color, so it won’t mask your darker tones?

Suzzann, yes, when doing temporary or semi-permanent color, especially to touch up and brighten color to extend the life of your color job for a couple more weeks, always go with the color that matches, or is a bit lighter than, your lightest color. This will brighten up your whole head of hair, give you some shine, and will not cover up what your colorist has worked so hard to achieve. Especially when you are dealing with things like highlights AND lowlights in your hair.

You should also consider the base tones in your hair. If you are unsure whether your hair has a yellow, ash or platinum base color, be sure and choose a glaze that is labelled neutral so you don’t wind up covering up the gold in your hair, or make your ash based color too brassy. I will talk a little more about those this week if you don’t quite understand what all of that means, so keep an eye out for that.

For now, always match the lightest color in your hair with a glaze for results you will be happy with! Thanks for the question Suz.

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