Archive for July 7th, 2006
Trust me, it takes guts to walk away from a career to do what you love. But it is worth it. Sometimes I wake up and have to pinch myself for having the opportunity to work from home in my bunny slippers and sweats.
I know many of you are living a life of misery in one of those corporate cubilces . . . ish! Don’t be afraid to step outside of your comfort zone and start a buisiness on your own. There are tons of opportunities out there for women, the New York times did a great article in January about a few of the inspirational “You Go, Girl” stories that are out there. My hubby Gary teaches a bunch of entreprenurial type classes at Online Class Source and has begged me to put together an online class for women entrepreneurs. What do you think? Are there enough of you out there that would be interested in such a class? Help me put together a wish list of what you’d like to see in such a class. Leave me a comment.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand here is an inspirational press release from a lady who had the guts to quit her day job and start a line of hair care products for all of you curly heads out there. If you’ve struggled with curly hair issues, give her products a try. Give a boost to a new start when she needs it the most.
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Mom Entrepreneur Creates Salvation for the Frizzy-Haired
NORMAN, Okla., May 31 /PRNewswire/ — If you have curly hair, you wish it was straight. And if you have straight hair, you wish it was curly. Business owner Kelly Foreman, who grew up with tight, corkscrew hair, is hoping to help adults and children who aren’t happy with their frizzy, fuzzy or hard-to- handle hair.
Growing up in humid South Carolina and Texas, Foreman was called “Fuzzy” by her classmates. “My friends thought it was cute and funny,” Foreman recalls. “But for a young girl, it was crushing.”
She dreaded rain and swimming and subjected her curls to the ravages of blow-dryers, hot rollers and chemicals. Nothing she tried could tame her mane. “The solution always seemed to be, ‘Cut it shorter,’” she said. “When I was 16 and on the dance team, I still looked like a boy.”
Now 37, with three daughters of her own - including a 3-year-old curlyhead - Foreman hopes to help young curlyheads of the world feel confident about their curls. To that end, she has launched the MopTop line of products - a sulfate-free, alcohol-free, silicone-free, wax-free line specifically designed for curly, frizzy hair.
MopTop currently offers five products and recently introduced a new line of children’s products called FuzzyDuck. The products moisturize and define dry, frizzy, unruly hair.
The line pampers chemically treated and color-treated hair, too. A gentle clarifying shampoo and daily conditioner restores moisture. An herbal detangling spray reactivates even the frizziest hairstyle. A lightweight gel fights frizz without crunch, and pomade adds sheen while setting style.
“We’ve been blessed with curly hair,” said Foreman. “I want adults and kids to embrace their blessing so they can be self-confident and happy with who they are.”
Foreman, who has spent years working in sales, never envisioned that her curly hair would become the inspiration for her new career. She was 30 before she began to accept her curls. Looking at her damaged hair, her hairdresser encouraged her to wear her hair natural.
Before creating her new line of products, she tried a wide range of products - from inexpensive drugstore brands to exclusive salon brands. She became a student of curly hair, reading everything she could on the subject. As she struggled to find the ideal combination for her curls, she began concocting product in her kitchen.
One day, she called up a friend in the cosmetics industry and said, “Hey, I have a wild hair. Do you know anybody that could help me make some samples?” She then spent a year working on different formulas that would moisturize and defrizz without building up on the hair.
“For the first time in my life, I LOVE my curly hair and I am excited to have the opportunity to help others feel the same way,” she said.
For more information about MopTop and FuzzyDuck products, Contact:
Kelly Foreman
409 Flint Ridge Ct.
Norman, OK 73072
Phone: 405.556.1591
Email: info@moptophair.com
Web: http://http://http://www.moptophair.com
July 7th, 2006
Would Look Best on You?
By Erinn Morgan
For many of us, the most important aspect of choosing eyeglass frames is how they look on our face.
You could try on every pair of eyeglasses in the store to find out how each one looks, but narrowing down your choices in advance can save you a lot of time and aggravation. To do so, you simply need to determine your face shape and coloring, and read about which eyeglass frame styles and colors would look best on you.
Matching Eyeglass Frames to Face Shapes
According to the Vision Council of America (VCA) Envision Yourself program, there are three keys to choosing the correct eyeglass frame for your face shape:
The frame shape should contrast with the face shape.
The frame size should be in scale with the face size.
Eyewear should repeat your personal best feature Eyewear should repeat your personal best feature(such as a blue frame to match blue eyes).
Also, while most faces are a combination of shapes and angles, there are seven basic face shapes: round, oval, oblong, base-down triangle, base-up triangle, diamond and square. Here is a further description of these face shapes and which types of frames work for each (information comes from VCA). A good optician can help you use these guidelines to choose your new eyeglasses.
July 7th, 2006
A visitor to www.visual-makeover.com asks . . . I colored my hair about 4 months ago and now I would like to go back to my natural color. Any advice?
First of all you need to let your hair get some roots, anywhere between and 1.5 inches to 2 inches would be good. The salon color uses numbers or levels of hair color. Most salon color brands go from 1-10 or 1-12. 1 being the darkest and ten being the lightest. If a customer wants their hair lifted above a level 10 or 12 (depending on brand) that has to be done with some type of bleaching product.
This doesn’t concern you since you want to go natural. The first thing that needs to be done is that the stylist needs to examine your roots to determine what your natural level is. Then they need to determine what the level of the artificial hair color is. Now here is the thing about hair color that the boxes don’t tell you. If you have color on your hair and you want to go to a lighter color, you can’t use hair color to lighten it because artificial hair color will not lift artificial hair color that is already on your hair.
Keep in mind that even if it has been four months since the last time you colored your hair, the chemical is still there. I hear this a lot from customers. “I haven’t done it for a while so there isn’t any in my hair.” This is false. Color fades, just because the color fades does not mean the chemical washes out, it is still in the hair. Even though you can’t go lighter you can however go darker. So let me give you an example. The color you have been using on your hair matches up with a level 6 (remember 1 is darkest 10 is lightest) and your natural level matches up to a level 4. Therefore, you are going darker and this can easily be accomplished. Now, you need to ask the stylist if they can use a semi or demi permanent hair color. This type of color is a deposit only color that has no ammonia no lifting and is not damaging to the hair. The only problem is it usually fades faster, about 6-8 weeks but it is worth it because it is so much better for your hair.
Now, if you go into the salon and your natural level is a level 6 and the color you have been using is naturally a level 3 then you are going to run into some problems. This means that you are going to have to go through and strip the artificial color off your hair and then deposit color to match your natural level. I don’t like to have to strip color from clients’ hair because it is very damaging (most of the time) and I have seen it cause major breakage. Additional Reading on getting back to your natural hair color.
July 7th, 2006
I live in a climate that frizzy hair is not much of an issue except for a handful of days each year so my strategy for dealing with frizzy hairstyles is pretty much “wait until tomorrow”.
But for those of you who live in high humidity or tropical climates this issue must be agony for some of you. For that reason I try to pass along as much information as I can that I run across on fighting frizzy hair. Here thanks to Myrtle Beach Online is one of the best articles I have seen in a long while on the subject on helping anyone with thick, wavy or curly hair deal with this troublesome issue.
“Tips to tame your stubborn frizz
Myrtle Beach Online
By Margo Millure
Anyone with thick, wavy or curly hair knows that with the coastal springtime comes the humidity, and with the humidity comes ‘the frizz.’
In humid locations, good hair days become a distant memory. Our best hope seems to be to invest in large quantities of coated elastics in anticipation of the daily ponytails that will be our hairstyle of choice clear through October. Wryly, we observe the shiny, flowing locked women on Pantene commercials and say to ourselves, ‘Yeah. Right.’
The good news is that hair products, styling utensils and techniques have dramatically improved in recent years. With a little professional guidance from your hairstylist and a dollop of patience you’ll be well on your way to having smoother tresses. We may still scoff at those unrealistic hair product commercials, but it’s nice to know there’s an alternative to feeling like an unruly shrub in need of a good pruning.
‘The biggest mistake that frizzy heads make is using the wrong products and taking the wrong steps with those products,’ says Marla Roth, hairstylist and owner of Vega Hair Design in Myrtle Beach.
Roth’s associate, Michael Williams, agrees, likening hair care to taking care of delicate fabrics. ‘Think about how bad your black silk shirt or linen trousers would look if you washed, dried or ironed them incorrectly. Hair needs the same kind of precise attention.’
Regularly trimming away split ends every six to eight weeks is the first step to combating frizz. If volume is a problem during the humid months, ask your stylist about using thinning shears.
The cut is of primary importance, but the shampoo and conditioner come in a close second. Look for products formulated for your hair type containing buzzwords such as ’shine,’ ’straightening,’ ‘moisturizing’ or ‘frizz control.’
Orlando Martinez, stylist and owner of Hair by Orlando in Myrtle Beach, recommends rinsing your hair in lukewarm water to begin closing the hair’s cuticle, which is the key to shiny hair.
Instead of towel-drying your hair, gently squeeze or blot out excess water before blow-drying. To prepare your hair for blow-drying, apply a leave-in. conditioner and light heat protectant designed for wet hair.
‘’When you add heat, it opens up the cuticle and when you take it away, it closes it,’ Martinez said. ‘What the products do to help stop the frizziness is locking down the cuticle of the hair right away.
Martinez cautions that most people have a tendency to use more product than necessary. He teaches his clients how to distribute the product, roots to ends, using the fingers.
After combing out your hair with a wide-toothed comb, the next step is to section the hair using alligator clips. The more hair you have, the more sections you’ll need.
Roth suggests that her clients use a nylon and boar’s hair paddle brush when going for sleek styles at home.
Begin the drying process at the back of the head. One section at a time, follow the brush with a hair dryer on a medium setting equipped with a nozzle to direct the heat down the hair shaft. This way you can concentrate on blow-drying one section of hair at a time while preventing hair from stirring around, which will only contribute to excess bulk and frizz. Take the time to dry each section of hair completely, finishing with a cold shot of air.
A flat iron used with the right product is essential in the pursuit of a smooth mane that will last between washings. Re-section the hair using the alligator clips. Working on one section at a time, spray with a heat protectant designed specifically for flat ironing.
July 7th, 2006
How to tame your beach hair with braids
by Rachael Nichol
Love braids, but don’t know how to make them? Grab a comb, clip, and elastic and get started now!
1 Part your hair down the center. Beginning on the right side of your part at your forehead, twist a one-inch section of hair away from your face.
2 Use a comb to separate a 1/2-inch section right below the first section along your face and twist that piece away from your face, combining it with the first piece.
3 Continue adding 1/2-inch pieces along your hairline down to your neck. Use a clip or a bobby pin to hold the hair in place at the nape of your neck.
July 7th, 2006