What are your favorite products?
The October issue of Fitness has a huge feature surrounding their 2009 Beauty Awards.
You can check it out for yourself, but among the winners are some of my faves, like Maybelline Lash Stiletto mascara, and Olay Professional Pro-X.
To celebrate this fabulous help – MUCH of the stuff on the list is drugstore brands! – we have a Fitness Magazine giveaway!
One reader will receive a Fitness-centric prize package, including a subscription to the magazine, cosmetic bag, umbrella, apron, floppy hat, notebook, massager, and baseball!
To have your chance at this fabulous prize package, please share your favorite beauty, …read more

Looking to stock up on some of your faves?
Check this out – Beauty Brands is holding their in-store $11.98 Annual Liter Sale.
What does this mean? In short, super value. During the sale, you can up to $30.00 on more than 80 salon brands of shampoo such as Redkin, Biolage, Joico, Chi and Sexy Hair.
(I LIVE for Sexy Hair’s Chocolate Soy Milk Shampoo!)
The sale lasts until August 16, so you can pace yourself…but don’t let the good stuff pass you by!

Last week, in between fashion week craziness and nasal faux-pas, I had one high point: I finally got to experience the new Schick Quattro for Women product – Trim Style – a bikini trimmer and razor all in one!
This new razor is battery-powered and waterproof, which is cool enough – but it also is dual-sided! One side is a razor, the other side, a bikini trimmer.
Obviously, this is a good thing – how many of you have tried to use a regular razor in those “sensitive spots” and ended up having the scars to prove it? This way, you can …read more

We all know that wigs and hair extensions are very popular, especially at formal events. but if you are going to wear one (as Alicia quite obviously is here), do not do so in a way that is quite this periled – as in this case where it is slipping forward and down her forehead!
This happened to me at quite a few Halloweens – but I am no movie star, and that was an evening of fun and joking around. I do not mean to jeer at Alicia – I think she rocks – but, maybe do a better job …read more

On days when your curls just won’t cooperate, do you:
a. Don a scarf
b. Pose for a picture
c. Let them run wild
d. Dive for the flat iron
e. Visit NaturallyCurly.com to take their weekly poll!
NaturallyCurly.com has expanded its popular weekly polls to include a series of questions sponsored by Bumble & bumble.
When asked: “On unruly days do you…don a scarf, pose for a picture, let them run wild or dive for the flat iron,” a huge forty-nine …read more

ELLE.com has just posted a story on how to gussy up your hair for the holidays. Here is the link,  there’s really some great advice.

‘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!
http://www.elle.com/beautyspotlight/15198/holiday-hair.html

Philip Pelusi, celebrity hairstylist and hair care product extraordinare – is fabulous for the lovely locks he provides (even once upon a time to me!), and was kind enough to offer his expert advice on what’s going to be hot and what’s not so hot for hairstyles in 2009.
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 …read more

Looking your very best for the holidays is essential: especially when it comes to your hair!
According to Asha SalonSpa, the largest Aveda Lifestyle SalonSpa in Chicago, this year’s trend for holiday hair is a casual look with a loose, soft appeal. Gwen Liska from Asha SalonSpa says: “Guests are coming to Asha to recreate the looks seen by today’s Hollywood elite, and they realize that these looks are easy to replicate themselves to look just as glamorous.”
Asha Salon Spa’s expert stylist, Gwen Liska, divulges the secrets to readers of how to create the look that will be sure to have …read more

Are you using the right brush on your hair? Most of us have no clue as to what brush we should be using to curl, straighten, add volume; or simply brush our hair with.
Olivia Garden, a leader in the haircare industry, shares their tips on what brush you should be using for your hair type or style:
• Brushing wet hair is a big no-no.
However, there is one brush that you can actually use that won’t damage wet hair: Olivia Garden’s Ceramic + Ion XL Pro. Featuring a soft ionic cushion and ion charged bristles with comfortable ball point tips, …read more

I keep on getting emails with how-to’s on how to blow out your hair. I am grateful..and yet, I know that many of us cannot learn such an invovled task simply by reading a few paragraphs!
I just discovered MonkeySee, though, a free how-to video site featuring real experts offering instruction, demonstrations and advice on almost any topic imaginable. Turns out there’s a whole channel devoted to this sort of thing, and one is … blowouts!
How to Blow Dry your hair, Mona Harb, salon and spa owner: