Hair Care
May 17th, 2012 at 12:00pm
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Curly hair textures need a little extra love. Although no product is perfect for every curl type, we rounded up seven must-try brands that target everyone from the loosely waved to the kinkiest naturalistas. Expand your hair care horizons - and curly hair repertoire - with some of our top picks. View Slideshow ›
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May 3rd, 2012 at 09:44pm
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Thank you for baldingblog, a wonderful source of information on hair issues. My wife just started on chemotherapy for colon cancer with a drug known to cause hair loss. She wrote this to a friend about her chemotherapy and the Cold Cap experience and with her permission, allowed me to send it to you to post on your site. – “The chemo was on Tuesday – and I slept through the entire event. I thought to call Dr. Rassman and thank him for the reference to this cold cap therapy. He is among the most caring people I know. They loaded me up with lots of anti-nausea meds and some Benadryl which really made me sleepy. Now you might wonder how one can sleep with a turban at -24 degrees Fahrenheit on your head – well I did. In part to counteract the cold, you wrap yourself in an electric blanket set to sizzle – and that put me right to sleep. My husband had to wake me every 30 minutes or so to trade the cold cap for a newly chilled one. You keep up the cold caps till 4 hours after chemo is done so I didn’t really wake up till about 6:15 PM on Tuesday – that included the drive home. We were quite the spectacle at the clinic and had many doctors and nurses coming in and out to see the changing procedure. I actually think my husband was enjoying the attention. Almost everyone at the clinic knew about cold cap but none had direct experience with it and all were very interested to see if they work. Needless to say I am too. I did hook up a small group of patients in a support group, a couple have used the cold caps successfully for their chemo. It is more involved than just the turbans – there is a lot of extra hair care but all say that it is worth it. So we are “all in”. We did look like we were moving in to clinic for a week wielding our two coolers on a rolling dolly, a rolling suitcase filled with the blankets and extra needed accoutrements (including welders gloves to handle the dry-ice), and an extra bag of layering clothing. I am feeling ok – I wear out easily and then crash hard. I am still not sleeping well – what they have given me is helping a bit but I don’t get more than 5 hours of solid sleep and then doze as best I can. Today is the last day on the heavier anti-nausea meds and when the steroids will wear off – they say that tomorrow is the trail day.” I try to get involved in the lives of my patients and have developed many close friends from this group of wonderful people. I’m glad I could offer some help to this patient and his wife, and I wanted to post this so people considering using Cold Cap Therapy during chemotherapy might know what to expect. There’s a good article about this treatment here . This reminds me of another time that I wanted to share, when a hair transplant patient got a routine heart scan on my recommendation and found that he had an aortic aneurism. This is a time bomb that kills almost everyone when the aorta (the main blood vessel that exits the heart) leaks and bursts. I helped him find a great doctor who brought his body temperature very low at the time of surgery, stopped his heart, and replaced the blood vessel with a cloth one while everyone hoped that his brain would function after they restarted his heart. He lucked out and survived, brain fully intact. Right place, right time. Tags: hairloss , hair loss , cold cap , chemotherapy
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May 3rd, 2012 at 07:51pm
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Thanks for taking my question. I am a 23 year-old who had the OCD scalp-picking issue you mentioned in a previous post. I managed to completely quit the behavior approximately a year ago after doing it for about 2 years at varying levels of severity. As a result of the disorder, I have hair pulling back on one side of my head much more aggressively than the other. I also have hair that is thinning all over, but the thinning is not yet visible when dry. I also have a very dry scalp, which I have read may cause hair to grow thinner. I wear my hair at a medium to medium-long length. Could you please provide suggestions? Suggestions in all aspects of hair care are welcome. (Shampoo, hair regrowth treatment, etc.) Thank you very much for your time. Best Regards Many people who reported to me that they stopped pulling their hair out, were not being honest with themselves. The good news is that if I examine you, I can tell you if you have pulled hair out in the past 3 months. Minoxidil might help — try it for a full year before considering it a success or failure. There’s no shampoo that will regrow your hair. Even with medication in a best case scenario, you’re not going to get back to where you were before your picking or pulling began. Hair transplants are a known and proven option, but this requires you to visit a specialist in this field as it can not be done by just anyone. Tags: trichotillomania , dermatillomania , hair loss , hairloss , pulling
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April 23rd, 2012 at 05:34pm
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Is it time for your annual springtime cut? If you have long hair, don’t let your strands go to waste; donate them to a good cause with the help of Pantene . This Friday the 27th, the hair care company will hold the first-ever National Donate Your Hair Day to benefit its Beautiful Lengths program. With the help of wig-makers HairUWear , Pantene builds real-hair pieces for women undergoing cancer treatment. The wigs are then distributed by the American Cancer Society wig banks for free. See how you can help by getting all the details now.
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April 5th, 2012 at 05:13pm
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Natalie Portman and Dior team up for charity – InStyle See inside the bathroom cabinets of beauty experts – Refinery 29 Three spa facials that will restore your skin for Spring – Stylelist Does Jessica Alba have a new rose tattoo? – HuffPost Style Easter-themed products for the beauty lover’s basket – The Fashion Spot Charlize Theron is very Betty Draper on the cover of British Vogue – The Cut Are you sandal-ready? Salvage cold-weather-worn feet with these creams – Real Simple How to make sure your nail polish isn’t hurting Mother Earth – Beautylish Attempt this heavy metal eye trend from the runway – Beauty High Revamp your routine this season with new hair care buys – Real Beauty
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March 28th, 2012 at 10:04am
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Ever wonder how to incorporate a scarf into your hairstyle? It’s Sebastian Professional and Alice + Olivia to the rescue. Using elements from the clothing brand’s Spring 2012 presentation , the companies have partnered to create a limited-edition gift set ($25). The mod-style scarf, designed with concentric circles in black, white, and baby blue, is also packaged with the hair care line’s moisturizing Drench shampoo and conditioner. There are even step-by-step styling tips from celebrity hairstylist Thomas Dunkin (who has worked with stars like January Jones , Rachel McAdams , and Eva Mendes ) included so you can be sure to have haute hair whenever you want. It’s available in May at Sebastian salons and select beauty retailers.
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March 20th, 2012 at 05:05pm
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Pantene is going retro in more ways than one. The hair care brand is bringing back some of its discontinued products, and it’s simultaneously heading back to the ’80s in this Funny or Die video. Catch allusions to movies like Risky Business , Working Girl , Pretty in Pink , Sixteen Candles , and The Breakfast Club (oh, Molly Ringwald!). And no all-in-one movie spoof could exclude beauty trends of the past like big hair, feather headbands, and over-the-top blush. Now all we need to make our ’80s nostalgia complete is a pair of fingerless gloves and a Walkman.
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February 16th, 2012 at 06:43pm
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Hi I went to see a few trichologists in London. The first was a free consultation by [ name removed ] at The Westminster Practice. He told me I was losing my hair and it would get worse and I should pay £2200 upfront for a year treatment of Vitastim and Biostim and hair care products. I saw 2 other trichologists who couldn’t see a problem with me except I have naturally fine hair. They had never heard of the products and I have since researched both those and [ name removed ] (who is not a registered trichologist) and found every single mention of these products online was written by [ name removed ]. I also found on the ITN website he was on a program called ‘Salesmen from Hell’ and he was recorded trying to push expensive products and was fired from his position for fraud. I was very very close to handing over the money a few months ago until I took a second opinion and need to share my experience with others. However, he instilled a seed in my head that the products he mentioned could thicken my hair and give me a “curtain of hair better than I had before” and I am unable to put this seed out of my mind. Are these products available anywhere else under a different brand name? Many thanks I blanked this person’s name because it is our policy not to slander anyone. I am free, however, to reference publications like newspapers or official news releases if they are in the public domain. You did the right thing to research the person who was selling you a line. Don’t believe people when the promises made are outlandish and not realistic. £2200 (around $3500 US) is a lot of money to gamble on a sales pitch. There’s no magic product that will give you better, fuller hair than you had before you started losing it… particularly for women, since they have more limited treatment options. Tags: hairloss , hair loss , female hair loss , scam Paid advertisements (not an endorsement):
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January 30th, 2012 at 08:33pm
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Perfume commercials are always trying to be provocative and sexy to attract consumers, but the new ads for Paco Rabane Black XS seem to be reaching out in a very different way: specifically, to glam rock fans in the early punk era. What else could possibly explain this frenetic new ad, which has everything a young David Bowie could want: Iggy Pop sensuously wrapping himself in an American flag, models licking a Damien Hirst-y jewel-encrusted skull, a couple writhing in money like a couple of proto-punk Scrooge McDucks, etc. It’s as if someone turned Velvet Goldmine into a perfume. As big fans of Mr. Stardust and his spiders from Mars, the campy elements of the ad are pretty appealing to us. But given the otherwise small overlap between perfumistas and ’70s-rock aficionados, this ad seems pretty niche indeed. Still, it’s always nice to see Iggy, and maybe now, with a perfume campaign under his belt, he can finally fulfill his beauty destiny by starting a hair care line.
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January 18th, 2012 at 11:03am
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Hair product can be a girl’s best friend, but when used incorrectly, it can look like you’ve stepped off the set as an extra in The Birds . Chaz Dean, founder of Wen hair care, explains a few things to avoid when applying your favorite products. Starting in the front : Since hair is more thick and dense in the back, product should be applied there first and then lightly diffused through to the front. If you do the opposite, the finer hair near the hairline can actually look weighed down and greasy – not a good thing. Overkilling the volumizer : “The less volumizer you use, the better,” says Dean. In fact, using too much can give the opposite effect. To get hair that’s more wowza than weighed down, he recommends spritzing a volumizer into the hands first and then lightly applying it to the hair. Allowing cream products just “sit” on your strands : Dean likens cream-based hair products to sunscreen. Would you just let your SPF sit on your face? No, you’d gently work it into the skin. The same applies for your hair lotions and creams: gently squeeze and press them into your hair for optimal results.
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January 17th, 2012 at 10:36pm
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The day before the Miss America pageant on Saturday, Chaz Dean, founder of the Wen hair care system (full disclosure: Wen flew me to Las Vegas for the weekend’s festivities), sat down with a group of beauty editors to discuss his process for keeping hair in tip-top shape. Lesson learned: if, despite your best efforts to keep it in prime condition, your hair is looking a little less than fabulous, the problem may be easier to remedy than you think. To see what Dean says you might inadvertently be doing to sabotage your hair, just keep reading.
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December 13th, 2011 at 10:08pm
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Eyebrows through history – The Fashion Spot Kate Winslet shows off her new makeup collection – InStyle These small skin luxuries are worth the price tag – Real Simple Classic Clinique Black Honey lipstick gets a makeover – Stylelist Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani on plastic surgery, Photoshopping, and sleeping 10 hours a night – Huffington Post Eat your way to better skin – Beautylish Glamour magazine is getting an overhaul – The Cut When to splurge on your hair care – Glo
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December 7th, 2011 at 09:22pm
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2011 has been a big year for Olivia Wilde . Along with nabbing roles in Cowboys & Aliens , Tron , and In Time , the 27-year-old actress became one of Revlon ‘s newest brand ambassadors. “It was exciting to join a company that wants to empower women through beauty and help them harness their inner confidence,” she said Monday in New York City. “We’re really in sync on that.” When asked about her beauty essentials, Olivia was refreshingly low-maintenance. “Sleep is like a beauty product,” she said. “If I could buy it in a bottle, I would.” Until that happens, though, here’s what Olivia reaches for again and again: Eyeliner : “It’s what looks best for my face and my eyes,” Olivia says. “All I need is to put some sort of definition on my eyes and it makes it appropriate for night. I wish I could be really good with shadows, but that takes a little bit more time and consideration.” Eye drops : Olivia prefers those with a cooling effect. “That’s actually a beauty thing that you don’t think about often, to have good eye drops in your bags,” she says. “Particularly if you’re working a 16-hour day and you need to take your look all day long.” Skin care : “I use the cheapest possible skin care – not because it’s cheap, but because it’s the best,” says Olivia. “Dermatologists have recommended it for years and I’ve never paid attention. But recently I started using Cetaphil cleanser and CeraVe moisturizer. They’re gentle and simple.” Hair care : Looking for glossy hair like Olivia’s? One of her regular red-carpet stylists, David Babaii, uses Couture Color Pequi Oil Treatment before red-carpet events.
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