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Mother Blogger is sitting in hair stylist extraordinaire Kevin Q's salon chair while her hair is processing -- processing her most authentic self, that is -- blonde!  What has Kev Q recommended to keep her expensive locks from fading?  Chi Organic Nutrient Therapy.

CHI OLIVE NUTRIENT THERAPY

Ancient Organic Ingredients Combined with Advanced American Technology

Nurturing Health and Wellness with Nutrients

The CHI Organic Olive Nutrient Therapy line is designed to bring ancient philosophies of health and beauty together with Advanced American Technologies. These Hair Care and Skin Care products are designed to promote wellness through the proper balance of necessary nutrients using Olive ingredients, herbs and essential oils. 

Mother Blogger packs the convenient six-piece Chi Organics kit which contains shampoo, conditioner, olive silk oil, glaze, and spritz, when she travels. The lovely lemon aroma perks her mood, while the olive oil keeps Mother Blogger's blonde strands shiny and healthy.

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Mother Blogger attempts to eat her five veggies a day, let the beagle take HER for a walk on a daily basis, and use a more natural approach to her beauty routine without sacrificing performance.  She recently discovered Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Collection, which provided her with a healthy alternative to hair care at an affordable price.

Nature Fusion Collection contains an advanced Cassia Complex that creates an invisible layer of protection against the friction caused by brushes and combs running through the hair while it's wet. Once dry, the Cassia Complex formula boosts hair’s shine. 

Anti-Aging Alert:  As Mother Blogger struggled to grow our the layers in her hair, she also noticed that the lack of shine in her hair was aging her!  Thanks to the cassia herb that's infused in Nature Fusion, Mother Blogger looked twenty years younger after using Pantene's new collection. 

Jamie:  Ahem, Mom!

Mother Blogger:  Okay, a few years younger.

Oh, Mother Blogger has tried everything to duplicate the sleek and straight hair that her salon artiste, Kevin Q, accomplishes in his salon, but to her dismay, her unruly cowlicks and her newly-obtained menopausal curls looked like a three-ring circus performing on her head.  But Pantene spokesperson Stacy London taught her a few new hair tricks.  

Learn how to create sleek and straight hair with Pantene and Stacy London.

Tantalizing Tuesday Giveaway:  The H2PRO 300 Special Edition ceramic flat iron continues their series of professional ceramic tourmaline flat irons.

Now available to the public, the 300 SE has the same features as the H2Pro Master Series and Nano Hi-Tech for frizz free, healthy styling - but with updated design, a smoother, sleeker body and better glide to give you more styling power.

So if you're looking for more power, more shine, the 300 Special Edition will bring you that and more.

With a wide heat range, damp to dry versatility and excellent on dry, coarse and damaged hair as well as regular hair types, H2PRO uses advanced PTFC ceramic heaters that heat up in seconds for conditioning heat that leaves hair refreshed and healthy.

• Nano silver & titanium oxide remove chemicals & bacteria as well. H2PRO Ceramic Flat Iron - 300 Special Edition
• Temperature: Variable 140 to 450 Degrees F Ceramic Plate Size
• 1" Sleeker, smoother new design Automatic Sense Recovery System
• Quickly recovers heat to the ceramic plates Multi Functional Hair Styling Iron
• Straightens, Curls, Flips, and capable of creating many different styles ON/OFF Switch with LED light Heat up time in seconds Efficient and cost effective to operate Swivel power cord will never tangle 1 Year manufacturers warranty

 

You can purchase the H2PRO Cermaic Flat Iron from Misikko.com.

ENTRY RULES:    

Giveaway expires on midnight EST on March 25, 2009. You may enter every day.  One winner will be picked randomly by Contest Machine and will be notified by email.  The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email.  If there is no response, Contest Machine will randomly pick another winner. 

The winner will receive a H2PRO Ceramic Flat Iron ($195).   United States and Canada only. Please see our site’s Terms and Conditions of Use for a complete list of our Contest and Giveaway Rules. This promotion is void where prohibited by law.

CONTEST CLOSED.

Congrats, Chichi.

 

Beauty Product Review:  L'Oreal Paris EverPure Sulfate-Free Color Care System - EverPure Moisture Shampoo and Moisture Conditioner

L'Oreal Paris has created an anti-fade system of shampoos and conditioners that are affordable, accessible, and completely sulfate-free.

According to L'Oreal, EverPure features the following:

• L'Oreal is the first to feature shampoos and conditioners that protect your hair with anti-fade ingredients while at the same time caring for your hair with nourishing ingredients. 
• No harsh sulfates, surfactants, or salts that fade the color of hair.
• Shampoos feature a blend of five naturally-derived surfactants that give the formula a high density, creamy foam unlike some other sulfate-free formulas on the market, currently limited to a small number of professional and "natural" lines that may not have a rich foam or dense lather.  Also features silicones for additional color protection and nourishment and cationic polymers for more conditioning.
• Extra nourishing with deep moisturizers and Vitamin E.
• No dulling build-up.
• Milder on hair's surface.

 

Scent: The fragrance is a mixture of rosemary, juniper and mint.  Admittedly, the scent is stronger than our current salon hair care wardrobe, but we didn't find the scent offensive.

Results:  Unlike many so-called eco-friendly, organic, or natural shampoos that we have tested, EverPure has a luxurious lather.  We are convinced that some of this is psychological, but we felt our hair felt really clean after shampooing. As a matter of fact, we skipped two days in between shampoos, which is a rarity. EverPure Moisture Conditioner left our hair looking extaordinairly shiny.

Other Review Comments:

• EverPure is affordable.  According to a recent study, an average person will use 20 bottles of shampoo a year.  With EverPure's suggested retail price of $6.99 to $8.99, you will only spend approximately $139 a year compared to the pricey salon shampoos where you can pay two to three times the price of EverPure.   
• EverPure is highly accessible.  You can purchase the hair care products online (www.lorealparis.com) or from chain, drug, food and mass market retailers nationwide.
• EverPure is 100 percent vegan-- not tested on animals, no animal by-products.  You can see a list of ingredients here. 
• EverPure can be customized for your hair type.  Use EverPure Moisture for extra nourishment, EverPure Smooth for frizz fighting, and EverPure Volume for volumizing.  For additional UV protection, you can add EverPure UV Spray.  

 

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Infiniti Nano Silver by Conair creates its own niche in the premium hair care appliance category. With the introduction of deep conditioning ionic steam, this straightener surpasses everything else out there in performance and style. Micro-particles of nano silver coat the straightener's surface. The fusion of ceramic and tourmaline gives the plates optimal resistance to the highest temperatures and guarantees the integrity of the surface. Your hair glides through the plates effortlessly, without friction. The integrity of your hair is preserved.

Automatic multi-level steam function: Allows the user to adjust the steam flow according to the degree of conditioning desired

3-position detangling comb: Spreads the hair strands evenly between the plates to detangle while straightening, providing uniform results from roots to ends

1-1/2” wide Nano Silver Tourmaline Ceramic coated plates: for clean, shiny and healthy-looking hair

• Voted "Best Performer Overall" by Consumer Reports
• Gently detangles
• Automatic on demand steam
• Infuses hair with moisture
• Retractable Nano silver tourmaline ceramic coated detangling combs

 

Extra: comes with the cutest silver pouch, that will double as my NYE clutch...no joke.

Less than a week before Christmas.  Get some Holiday Fa-La-La now!

I know most of my beauty and fashion blogger colleagues are chatting up Black Friday this morning, but I have a more important issue at hand.  I have been having a bad hair day -- year!  My double cowlicks have been battling for territorial rights.  Working with my stylist yesterday, I thought we might have conquered the dreaded enemy, but to my dismay, upon arriving home and arming myself with my big hand mirror, I gasped in horror when I saw the back of my head.

"Agh!"

There was hair spiraling like a tropical cyclone on the top left and hair coiling like a snake in a basket who had been hypnotized by a snake charmer on the top right and down the back of my head, a straight part that halved the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere of my brain.

On top of that, there was an Alfalfa cowlick sticking up like the middle finger on a hand giving the world the bird.

And it didn't take much coiling for me to see my Buster Brown bangs carved on the front of my forehead either!

Did I say I have been having a bad hair year?

On top of this, I discovered that gravity -- Hasn't the wicked witch of menopause already exerted enough gravitational pull on my body? -- is playing a dirty trick with my hair.

One of my cowlicks is a bit lower down the back of the head; hence, the hair that wants to grow and lie forward toward the front of the head has to fight against gravity. Because it's fighting gravity, it's not lying the way it wants to. When hair doesn't lie the way it wants to, it will stick up.  Hence, my middle finger, Alfalfa look.

I'm trying to be grateful that I HAVE hair, knowing that gratitude is the key to peace and happiness, but c'mon, I now have Buster Brown bangs and double Alfalfa cowlicks for Christmas.  And all I wanted was my two front teeth -- veneers.

Ah, but knowledge is power, and I'm going to kick my cowlicks' butt with knowledge.

Researching my options, I came up with five ways to tame cowlicks.

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With my fine, limp hair, I have been using dry shampoo for years. It's a little known beauty secret that dry shampoo adds volume to limp locks -- even when it has been freshly shampooed. I recently gave Ojon Rub-Out Dry Cleanser a test-drive, and this dry shampoo oxymoron is real treat. The coconut and vanilla notes reminds you of a day at the beach. (Sephora $10.)

To use Ojon Rub-Out, spray it throughout your hair and scalp and massage gently from root to tip. Unlike other dry shampoos I have tried, Ojon feels hydrating. For my eco-conscious friends, it is also kind to the earth.


Mother Blogger

P.S. When I was visiting last weekend, I klepto'd -- with my mom's permission -- her Ojon for my gym bag. It gets rid of the post-workout oil in my hair and smells heavenly. Oh, it's colorless, too, so it won't stain your gym bag or your hair color.

The Working Girl

 

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(Image: Sephora )