Hair
Beauty Tip of the Day: Avocado dry hair remedy
For severely dry locks, try this super easy (and inexpensive) DIY concoction:
Scoop out half an avocado and toss it in the blender. Add a teaspoon of olive oil to allow it to blend easier. Don’t overdo the oil since you will have to then use more shampoo, which will end up drying out your hair! Blend to a paste.
It works best if the avocado is just ripe and soft — if it’s too hard it’ll be more difficult to make that pasty blend, and you’ll end up with little pieces in the mixture.
Beauty tip of the Day: Get Silky Hair with Grapeseed Oil
If your hair is dry and brittle, consider saturating it with grapeseed oil (the type meant for cooking, not in the capsules). It has the same moisturizing benefits as olive oil, but doesn’t leave you smelling like a giant plate of dolmas.
Wet hair in the shower, eliminating excess water. Then, comb a generous amount of grapeseed oil through hair and wrap a towel around it. Leave the towel on for approximately 20 minutes so the oil penetrates the hair shaft.
A visit to Angus Mitchell’s debut salon in Beverly Hills
Angus M. Salon in Beverly Hills
“I approach everything with a socially aware mindset as my father [Paul Mitchell] did decades ago. I plan to take the industry to new levels of excellence with a promise of beauty.”
– Angus M.
When a kid looked up at me with curious eyes and pointed to my roots before asking, “Why is your hair black on top?” (while the rest of it was clearly not), I knew it was time for a trip to the local salon. The problem is my “local” salon is 3,000 miles away. Not only did I leave my heart in NYC, but I left the one stylist to whom I have been most faithful. Since I can’t afford to jet back to New York every other month, I’ve decided to finally test the L.A. waters. So, when I heard Angus Mitchell, son of legendary Paul Mitchell and a successful hair stylist in his own right, opened up his first signature salon in Beverly Hills, I was there.
Beauty Tip of the Day: Febreze – a breath of fresh hair?
I always thought it was cute that my little cousin, Zayan, is obsessed with Febreze. It’s the cherry-on-the-top to all his house cleaning. I can appreciate his love a little more ever since my friend Nada shared her own beauty tip with the odor-eliminator:
“I went to a hookah place after dinner, and when I came home, my hair wreaked of smoke. I didn’t have time to wash it before work the next day, and realized spritzing a little Febreze on my hairbrush was the equivalent to freshly laundered hair — the smell was gone.”
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If only every at-home dye job could be Nice n’ Easy…
By Sarah Khan
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I only discovered the world of hair color a few years ago. Before then, I was staunchly anti-dye, but I eventually jumped on the highlighting bandwagon, adding touches of auburn or light brown to my almost-jet-black tresses. Highlighting gave way to full color, and somewhere along the way I wound up… blonde?
