Independence day is tomorrow, for today & the holiday curly hair is on my mind … free loose curls. There is a tutorial below on how to do this with your hair.
Happy fourth!
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
XO Carey
Have a beautiful Sunday!
Yes, I do love summer! Bring on …. the sun, longer days with no routine, summer reads, and trips away. This past weekend marked high school graduation’s in our town, those babies will soon be off to college, and less than two weeks until to the end of school year for everyone ( Thank God ).
I can’t wait!
For today a couple great looks going into the summer …. the high bun for whiling away on the beach or a night on the town. And the textured layered haircut that gives wave to your hair when left undone ( yes even when it’s straight ), and when styled you have a great summer look!
Every summer has a story. ♥
Monday is here & this is a great look to try on this week. The side swept pony is refreshing, has passion, & style. It’s easy to do, check out Foxy’s how-to video below. She is using clip-in extensions but you don’t need them to get this look. Follow her lead, get to work, and look great while you do it!
XXOO
I hope you have an awesome Memorial Day & weekend. Hopefully you are headed out-of-town, hanging out with friends or just relaxing. Today is my last day at the salon for the week and I’m looking forward to letting my hair down with some girlfriends.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation’s wars.
~John M. McHugh
Hello,
Today let’s look at sweeping the hair up loose, sexy, and free … style.
I attached an easy how-to video. Be sure to give it a try. It works on all hair types, and it’s a fantastic look for anytime & anywhere.
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got, and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
~Sophia Loren
Cheers & Happy Mother’s Day to the beautiful strong women who share their bodies, hearts, and minds to create and care for so many.
Don’t forget to pamper yourself and enjoy your loved ones. I hope you have a beautiful weekend.
XO Carey
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I am feeling inspired by these looks today & this poem.
Beauty
And a poet said, Speak to us of beauty……
We have seen her leaning over the earth
From the windows of the sunset….
She shall come with the spring
Leaping upon the hills
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting
Nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart inflamed
And a soul enchanted.
It is not an image you would see
Nor the song you would hear;
But rather an image you see though
You close your eyes and a song you hear
Though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark,
Nor a wing attached to claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom
And a flock of angels forever in flight.
Beauty is life
When life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing
at itself in a mirror,
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahil Gibran
Whether you are barside or at the races placing bets … mint juleps, hats & hairstyles … that charm will be making an appearance today at the 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Here are some sure bets for your hair with or without the hat.
Oh & gotta love Rosie.
Have an awesome weekend.
XO Carey
A quick tutorial on how to do the low messy side bun.
Oh yes, sideburns have no boundaries. Race car drivers, politicians, comedians, musicians, athletes, and heart throbs alike sport this look. I’m not sure which one I like the best, but they all get points for the super manly quality added to their hairstyle by working the burns.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Have a beautiful weekend. It’s a great time to test out growing in these looks.
Mirror mirror on the wall…
Your friend and/or your enemy.
After years of watching clients sit in my chair, talk about their hair, their frustrations with it, the things they like, don’t like or don’t want to change. There is always a moment when you notice how a person sees themselves in a one-dimensional mirror. How this flat perspective can be deceiving to the person on the other side.
First, most people do not get this flat view, or see you when your chin is down or when you’re looking at yourself with a tilt of your head, focused on things you don’t like. With mirror’s and photograph’s we build our ideas of how we look and yes to some degree they are true.
This view is hardly ever animated with a true smile, a look of happiness, compassion, or eyes filled with moment. Which is how the rest of the world gets to see you. From the side, from the back, from all the angles and more than that … you … caught in a moment; whatever that moment may be. These moments are always a perspective mostly unseen by you.
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown
I wrote this post ages ago not ready to publish it when I saw this video it completed my thinking.
I love the weekend. Let your hair blow in the wind.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
~Oprah Winfrey
” I am thinking about bangs?”
“Side swept, straight across, heavy bangs or light?”
I’m not sure, I have just been thinking about them, What would look best?”
We have all wanted them. Most of us have tried them at least once, bangs were a hot topic this week in the salon. Maybe because of Michelle Obama or spring is making people antsie for change. I love bangs and I say go for it! But unless your Taylor Swift they usually work like this. You get them cut, you love them for at least the first two weeks, and then your trying to figure out ways to brush them back with the rest of your hair.
Suggestions Bobby pins are cute, head bands, alot of hairspray, embrace & enjoy them they still look great.
American beauty culture is teeming with rules. Always do this, never do that, and for the love of God, don’t ever do the other, and herein lies the rub, literally and figuratively. Americans in general take very little time for massage, facials and other bodycare; in my experience over the last decade, well over half my clients view getting facials as a special treat rather than a legitimate practice for their overall epidermal health. What’s more, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 60 countries far surpass us in vacation time, whether paid or unpaid, and anyone who has ever worked in a service profession knows that there’s a tacit implication that it’s noble to work while sick, despite all evidence to the contrary. We get less sleep than most countries’ citizens, thus cementing Americans in our position among the least kind to our collective epidermis, instead always searching for the quickest fix.
We are inundated with an ever-burgeoning glut of celebrity dermatologists’ cutting-edge procedures, technologies, and newly minted game-changers in the constantly churning active-ingredient market. I love a great moisturizer with retinoids or glycolic acid; however, I am skeptical of products that claim to do 10 things; surely if those 10 benefits existed in one product, at least three of the active ingredients would contraindicate each other. It’s just not feasible that a single moisturizer could contain a stable, and therefore realistically productive, combination of active ingredients in high enough amounts to actually do something.
I am not saying that nothing works, nor do I suggest that products shouldn’t be tested cautiously. In fact, I try almost everything; I’m a shameless beauty-product addict, having long ago become an aesthetician to parlay my obsession into a profession. I consider it part of my job to discover the next jewel in the rock-pile of What Works. To some, the mere thought is exhausting. To me, good times. Therefore, here are the five things that are tried and truly excellent for your skin—and to us overworked, stressed-out Americans, may feel positively decadent:
Eat guacamole as often as possible. Avocados are high in good fat and oil, and your face will thank you.
Get a facial at least every three months. This isn’t terribly expensive, and the more massage, the better; tell your aesthetician that you really enjoy the massage portions of your service. Facial massage stimulates cell turnover, circulation and collagen production. Plus, it feels really good, and you need that in your life, right?
Get more sleep. As I’ve mentioned previously, your skin does its best work as you sleep, making your products optimally effective and promoting fresh, bright eyes (and firming the surrounding tissue).
Put on a little weight if you’re thin. Your face loses volume as you age, and it can cause you to look haggard and more wrinkly (I got really skinny when I was injured a couple of years ago, and I can definitely attest to this.) The gorgeous and timelessly stunning actress Catherine Deneuve is rumored to have remarked that at a certain age, a woman must choose between her butt and her face. My face wins that hands-down. A lot more people (probably) see your face than your rear end.
Get down, make love. Sexologist and southern belle Dr. Gloria Bramer claims that having sex increases blood circulation, encourages cell turnover and amplifies collagen production, among many more epidermal bonuses. Just having an orgasm plumps lips, as well as producing dopamine and other happy hormonal bursts, all of which also increase cell turnover and circulation. Not to mention the sexy flush it brings to your cheeks!
So sleep late, get a facial massage, have some sex and eat guacamole I say it’s our duty as Americans to change our all-work-no-play image.
Thank you Arika Casebolt
Baltimore-based aesthetician Arika Casebolt knows good skin in every season.
Easy, right! Whats good for your Skin translates to good for your HAIR. So I think you know how to do all this, but here is some avocado 101 and my two favorite ways to eat them plus Rodan and Fields skin care line that I am in love with.
Avocado’s…
Considered an aphrodisiac by some, this fruit is also high in good fat and packed with vitamins and fiber.
In addition to their high oleic acid content, avocados are a good source of dietary fiber and vitamin K, vitamin C and vitamin B6, as well as folate, copper and potassium (half of a medium avocado has more potassium than a banana). Studies have suggested that the fats in avocados may speed the absorption of carotenoids in other vegetables, another good reason to include them in salads and salsas.
Avocado, goat cheese, lime, & mint or simply the best way cut in half sprinkled with sea salt eaten right out of the skin.
A thick slice of toast smothered in creamy avocado and spiked with fresh herbs and citrus is happiness on a plate to me.
Serves 2 for breakfast or lunch
Ingredients
2 thick slices of your favourite bread
1 avocado
Juice of 1/2 a lime
2 teaspoons chopped mint, plus a bit extra for presentation
60g goat cheese or feta
Olive oil
Salt flakes and freshly ground pepper
This is great stuff.
Have a awesome weekend! C
Carey L. Thompson 