HAIR

Having a bad hair day? Well here are some tried and tested fixer uppers to have you looking like you just walked out of the salon. Let down your hair and do it instyle!Mix a teaspoon of honey with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, then beat in an egg yolk. Massage on hair in small sections. Wrap head with shower cap for 30 minutes. Rinse and shampoo. This is a great treatment for keeping split ends away.Instead of shampooing, massage handfuls of baking soda into the hair and scalp to absorb oil and to loosen dead skin on scalp. Rinse thoroughly, use no other shampoos. While initially the hair may seem dry, after several weeks, the dandruff will be gone and your hair will be smooth and shiny.Cook an un-peeled potato in boiling water and let it cool slightly. Dip a pastry brush or cotton ball in the cooking water, cover and saturate hair, being careful not to get any on skin. Leave on hair for 20 minutes then rinse out. This rinse works over a period of time to subtly colour and add highlights to the hair.

Home Remedies for Skin

Beautiful You & Home Remedies
FACE Contrary to popular belief, acne is not a skin problem that only adolescents and teenagers face. In fact, many adults have it as well. However old or young, a commonality between the two lies in finding the ultimate solution to solving this painful condition. Here are some economical home remedies for clear and glowing skin.Garlic has well known antibiotic properties making it an excellent treatment for pimples and acne. Peel and mash eight cloves of fresh garlic and apply to face avoiding the area around the eyes. Leave on for about 15 minutes and wash off with a warm cloth.Dilute some lemon juice with water and dab on pimples to kill germs, cool inflammation and improve blood circulation.To loosen and cleanse blackheads, make a paste of oatmeal, honey and an egg white. Apply to the skin, massage for 10 minutes then rinse with lukewarm water.A mask of grated apple mixed with a little honey is an excellent remedy for pimples. Most facial masks can be applied to the skin for 15-20 minutes then washed off with warm water, followed by a cold rinse.

Waxing

I started waxing years ago when I lived in Pittsburgh. I was so afraid I would wax someones whole eyebrow off. Plus it looked like it hurt so bad when I did it. Then one day I went to a waxing class downtown. The guy was teaching us all about waxing and who you could not wax and who you could. Certain medicines that people take you can not wax them. He showed us if you put a little baby powder on your wrist and then rud a little where you are waxing the hair will pull off better. It works because it takes the oil off so the wax pulls easier. And you can apply it so much better getting all the hair at one time. I have never seen any one else use baby powder for waxing and when they tear the strip it looks like the skin is going to pull off. So next time you wax your eyebrows ask for a little baby powder and it will make it easier.

Beauty inside

Beauty where does real beauty come from I think from the inside. I have been doing hair for a long time but everyone that sits in my chair I can always find the inner beauty. I have noticed since I got older and I started selling Mary Kay not long ago women are looking for something that lifts. Eye lift lip lift, cheek lift, timeless, ageless and on and on. when I look in the mirror I go man I look like my mom. There are a few wrinkles but for the most part I have perserved well. But my inner beauty, my heart is so big and I love so deep. All of this is because I love the Lord so much. Beauty comes in all sizes, colors and ways. I just want to do the best I can everyday on everyone I work on. I pray on my way to work Lord let everything I do today be good and pleasing to You. When cleaning the face always rub up. When applying make up apply rubbing up. Use the best mositurzier, cleansing cream perserve everything so it will last. And in the morning when you get up apply Jesus and walk in His beauty.

Oily Hair

I forgot how bad my boys hair got in the summer. When they sweat and play outside boys or girls their hair gets oily and smells bad, just the facts mam. When my boys were young they would come in from playing and hte first thing I made them do is bathe and shampoo your hair. As they grew even the same problem until one day I found out that Apple Pectin concentrated fortifying shampoo was the miracle of ll miracles. Finally yea the oil was gone the smell was gone and my little boys could hug on me without me pushing them away. For years even their girlfriends would ask me how do I get the oil out of my hair and that was always my answer Apple Pectin shampoo. Here is the bottle they should ask me to be a spoke person for them.

This week at Bible study one of the girls came up and her mom pointed out to me the same problem and I told her about Apple Pectin shampoo. After all these years I wondered if they still made it. Why not? If it works keep it going. She looked everywhere with no avail. So I went to Sally's this afternoon and sure enough there was my Apple Pectin shampoo. It has been 28 years and as a hairstylist I am proud to say they have not changed one thing. With all the foo foo shampoo out there it is nothing but fragrance but if you or your child needs oil free hair Apple Pectin is the answer.

Here we go

Another post I fiqured I could write on beauty and ways to contain it. Since I have been a hair stylist for 30 years. In that amount of time you have a lot of remembies under your belt. Someone always has a story or my mom said do it this way or I will do it that way. I can tell some beauty hints and some funny stories myself. All thru the years the things I have done is amazing someone has not left and never came back to me. But no matter how much I have messed up they always come back. When I started out in the 80's I did not want to do womens hair men only. I learned at an early age women are very hard to please. But as time went on I said ok the money is in the women. So I went thru the process to get my cosmotology licenses. I was the oldest one in beauty school in Pittsburg good thing I only had to go 4 months are I would have been to old to graduate. lolol When I first went to work in a barber shop I learned a lot of things I did not need to know.
One thing was when the town drunk comes in and drinks all your Jeris hair tonic and proceeds to pass out in the front door but he was on the outside against the door and we could not get in and no one could get out. Sounds funny but at the time I was scared I thought I was going to jail because it was my tonic. Poor man he is dead and gone now the police took him to jail that day. It amazes me how someone like that leaves a story behind and you never forget it. I have a lot of stories my second book should be stories behind the barber chair. Hey that is a good idea. THis blog will be funny, sad and inspiring on beauty inside and out and how to stay that way. So drop by and see what I say next. See ya