Luscious Locks

Summer's lazy days come with its advantages: hot weather, gorgeous sun, tan skin; but those sunny rays aren't all fun and play. The damage that the sun has on your hair is evident; making hair dry, brittle, and lackluster - yuck. During the year, I like to experiment with my hair -- curling it, straightening it, and adding countless new hair products whenever I feel like it. Towards the end of the school year, my hair tends to look rather dull. Since my hair is thin and stick straight, I always struggle with finding the perfect shampoo to liven it up a bit. Fortunately, my search for the perfect product is finally complete! John Frieda's Root Awakening Strength Restoring Shampoo is my summer essential this year. After just one use, my hair completely transformed! It's shiny, super soft, and it looks a whole lot healthier. I haven't tried out the other products in the line yet, but I suggest you try it out! Since my hair tends to break easily, I use the one for breakage - prone hair. Check it out here. And another thing -- if your hair is anything like mine, the more product you add to it the greasier it looks. A great way to eliminate damage is to use a clarifying shampoo, like Ion's Clarifying Shampoo. This will eliminate all the buildup in your hair, and is gentle so it will deeply cleans your scalp as well. I use this once in a while when my hair looks dull and oily. It works like a charm!

Hey There.

So school's officially out, and this fresh feeling of freedom has got me totally inspired. As I was sorting through things on my desk, I came across my unused copy of "The Teen Vogue Hand Book". A few months ago, I had the opportunity to volunteer at a Teen Vogue event that was being hosted at a mall near me. Being a religious Teen Vogue reader, the thought of volunteering at an actual event seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. Although my job wasn't as glamourous as I had hoped (I basically had to greet every person that walked into their store and hand them free stuff), I still managed to leave with this coveted hand book and a few other goodies. Despite my eagerness to read the book -- and my happiness over the fact that I didn't have to pay a single dime for it -- I never managed to get past the first chapter. But with school out of the way and no more tests or projects to worry about, I decided to give it another try. I'm glad I did it, because the advice found in this book is extremely useful! Being a normal seventeen year old girl that aspires to someday work in the world of fashion, this book is a must-have for me. So starting now, I'm going to follow its advice. With so much free time this summer, I hope to accomplish more than just lazy days and routine nights spent with friends. Following the advice of my hand-book, step one on my summer-to-do list is to start a blog. What am I going to write about? I truly don't know -- anything and everything I suppose. So here I go; enjoy :)
xoxo.