If you want the fast and easy routine for taking care of your skin, I would advise you to determine your skin type and then try the affordable drugstore options that are used for treating your needs.

• Dry/Sensitive – Your skin feels tight and dry and sometimes it is flaky or red.  You might react to products that you haven’t used before with rashes and more flakiness.  Your skin is slightly rough.  Most important skin care step: Moisturizing

• Normal – You don’t worry about using special products, and you never break out or have excessive dryness.  You have well-balanced skin that is soft and not shiny.  You rarely ever have bumps or blemishes.  Most important skin care step:  SPF

• Combination – The T-Zone is the T-shaped area of your face that includes the forehead, nose, and chin.  You often have shine and oiliness in your T-zone and dryness on your cheeks and eyelids.  Most important skin care step: Exfoliating

• Oily – You have oily skin that is prone to bumps and large blemishes.  You might have re-curring pimples and blackheads around the nose.  Your skin is shiny most of the day and make-up causes you to breakout.  Most important skin care step: Washing

Start be determining which category your skin falls into and you will have a much easier time finding the right products that will work with your skin.

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How To Determine Your Skin Type

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As many of you know, my hair is naturally curly, and while straightened, it still exhibits many curly hair personality traits!

According to Keneesha, hydrating is the name of the game. “As it starts to cool down curly hair (already prone to dryness) gets even drier due to the crisper hair. Counteract this by increasing hydration hair therapy!” One way to “pump up” moisture is doing frequent deep hair conditioning treatments and steam hydration. An at-home recession friendly (but still spa-worthy) experience is to towel wrap your deeply conditioned tresses for 20 minutes after at least every other shampoo before rinsing.

Keneesha’s product recommendation when deep conditioning isOuidad 12 minute Deep Treatment – this is one I’ve actually tried and it’s awesome!

Stay tuned for more tips soon – we’ll be ready for winter in no time! (At least our hair will be. Sigh.)

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Get Your Curls Ready for Winter

We had plenty of body cleansing type stuff, and shampoo, but no conditioner. This resulted in me having the choice of washing my hair unconditioned, or not washing it for 3 days – while in beach-and-heat conditions.

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I chose to not wash…and by the end of the weekend, was not all that attractive. However, I would have been if I knew this was going to happen and came with all my blowout-stretching materials at-ready.

The truth is, hair is healthiest if you do not wash it daily – it helps to distribute natural oils and is better for the scalp. But when you are on vacay, you sort of always want to look your freshest, too!

Some tips for what you should do:

Dry Shampoo!

Heidi couldn’t live without it, and neither can I. Find the brand you love and take it with you – or go even more affordable, and just use baby powder – it works great, and buys you at least a day.

No ‘Poo

Many people swear by the no ‘poo method of hair washing,..this is basically creating a rinse out of diluted baking soda andapple cider vinegar, it will last longer than shampoo!

Easy Does It

Hair is a creature of habit. Start to slowly increase the time between washes – eventually your every other day hair will be able to last 3 days! Of course, this works in reverse too – I used to be able to last 5 days, now I am lucky if I get 3!

Hide It
If all else fails, create a chic braid or pony – This way, you look sporty and casual hot – but actually are just hiding your limp locks. But don’t try to wear it down after you’ve gone the pony route – styling and messing around with your hair redistributes the oils, and just makes it greasier than it was in the first place!

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The Great Unwashed

1. Don’t wash it every day. The dry air in your house is going to suck all the moisture out of it as it is.

2. Let your hair dry naturally. This is the time to pull out those gigantic rollers so that you don’t have to flat iron it either!

3. Wear a hat outside. That will help prevent the wind doing a number on your hair as well. Also will help prevent tangling.

4. Moisturize or even better… use a leave in. Your hair will love you for the extra attention.

5. In tip #3 I mentioned wearing a hat… which is good advice, but don’t use it as a crutch. Wearing a hat ALL WINTER LONG can contribute to overworked sebaceous glands and that means that you will simply have to wash your hair more often than necessary which will dry it out. Nasty…

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Will Your Hair Survive the Winter?