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Emily Elizabeth Jewelry Launches Golden Girl Collection for Holiday

Posted on 04 November 2009 by Angelique

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Sweetie Headband - $90
Perfectly sweet and pretty.
Emily Elizabeth Jewelry is happy to announce the launch of the Holiday 2009 Golden Girl Collection. The Golden Girl collection includes both jewelry and hair accessories, which are done in 14K gold plate and/or leather.

Designer Emily Kolins was inspired by the hope, glamour, fun and positivity of the holiday season. Prices range between $22 and $125.

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Ahola Ring - $125
Truly beautiful. Whether for a party, as a promise ring or a gift to yourself for your right hand, the Ahola ring is a wonderful option when looking for a bold yet elegant ring.

View the full holiday collection today at emilyelizabethjewelry.com

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White Sands Hair Products Backstage with CW’s Vampire Diaries Actress Nina Dobrev

Posted on 03 November 2009 by Angelique

With one of the most attractive casts on TV, it is no surprise the debut of CW? Vampire Diaries pulled in more viewers than any other new show launch in the network’s history. Thanks to series hairstylist Randa Squillacote and the #1 product line found on today’s top TV and movie sets, White Sands Hair Care products, staying beautiful has never been so easy in the midst of the good and evil battle between vampires.

Looking for the juicy, backstage secrets on how to copy the hairstyles of your favorite Vampire Diaries beauty? Randa Squillacote shares her on set tips to achieve their star style with ease.

Actress Nina Dobrev as Elena

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Nina has medium thickness and a natural wavy pattern to start.

To achieve this look:

1. Shampoo and condition hair with White Sands Vegan

Volumizing Shampoo and Volumizing Conditioner for a clean canvas.

2. Blow dry hair with a large round brush, spraying sections with White Sands Liquid Texture Medium Hold for its thermal protection and color enhancers. This technique creates volume and shine with just a round brush in hand.

3. Using White Sands Liquid Texture Firm Hold, flat iron hair in sections starting at the crown and lift

Stay tuned for Candice Accola and Katerina Graham hairstyle tips.

Purchase White Sands Hair products at whitesandsproducts.com

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Enter for your Chance to Win a Makeover and year Supply of Pantene Products!

Posted on 14 October 2009 by Angelique

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Change your hair from “Everyday” to “Glam”. Enter for a chance to win a makeover and year supply of Pantene products!?Ǭ† The makeover will happen in either LA or NY PLUS there is a $1,000 shopping spree!?Ǭ† Just go to the Pantene site?Ǭ† and fill out the entry form.

But wait! There is more! The Pantene Pro Secrets site is the destination for must see hairstyling tips with video how tos by Celebrity Stylist Hallie Bowman. Videos include:?Ǭ† The Swept Back Updo, Everyday Volume, Cocktail Curls (which is gorgeous!), Everyday Smooth, and Bohemian Braid. There are also style tips for wearing Ethnic hair naturally. Just click the “stylelist videos” tap on the homepage.

Have a “Hair Emergency?”, share your toughest hair problems with Celebrity Stylist Hallie Bowman.?Ǭ† Check out other questions she responded to from other Pantene Fans.

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Fashion Week Hairstyle Tips with Frederic Fekkai at Alice + Olivia

Posted on 02 October 2009 by Angelique

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?¢‚Ǩ?ìThe hair for Alice+Olivia is a crossroads of edgy and girly; we created a look for funky, confident women?¢‚Ǩ¬ù ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Frederic Fekkai

Lead stylist, Andred Rodman for Fekkai - The look of Alice + Olivia
Andre Rodman, lead stylist for Fr?ɬ©d?ɬ©ric Fekkai added a fun, punky edginess to the sweet, girly looks at the Alice + Olivia show.?Ǭ† To get the look Rodman twirled crimped hair around a double barreled iron in a figure eight pattern.?Ǭ† He then pulled the front piece to the side, smoothed it with Fekkai Coiff?¢‚Äû¬¢ Magnifique Ultra-Light Finishing Cr?ɬ®me and secured it neatly with jeweled pins.

Products used:

Fekkai Coiff?¢‚Äû¬¢ Contr?ɬ¥le Ironless Straightening Balm: A miraculous, non-chemical balm that provides weightless straightening while you blow dry.?Ǭ† This creamy balm contains special featherweight silicones for sleek, chic hair that resists frizz and fly-aways. This balm delivers a salon-like blow-out, sans stylist.?Ǭ† SRP: $25.00, 3.4 fl. oz. bottle

Fekkai Coiff?¢‚Äû¬¢ Magnifique Ultra-Light Finishing Cr?ɬ®me: This airy souffl?ɬ©-like formula floats through layers to add definition and style.?Ǭ† Simply ?¢‚Ǩ?ìrake?¢‚Ǩ¬ù cr?ɬ®me through the hair concentrating on the ends to whip hair into its softest, sexiest shape.?Ǭ† SRP: $23.00, net wt. 1.7 oz. Jar

Fekkai Full Blown Volume Lifting Hairspray - This lightweight formula holds volume to lift the roots and delivers powerful fullness that is never stiff or sticky. SRP: $20.00, 5oz

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Fashion Week Do It Yourself Hair Tips: Twist It Up

Posted on 29 September 2009 by Angelique

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As the bun become the new fall trend, why not mix it up with a funky twist.?Ǭ† Philip Pelusi and his Tela design team, created a sexy, chic look for over thirty models at the Kati Stern?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Venexiana Mercedes Benz fashion week show.

Wanna try this look??Ǭ† Below are step by step tips to create this great look- perfect for a night out or the office.

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1. Make a side part and take three inches of the hair closest to the front and pin to the side.

2. Take another three inches from the crown of the head, right behind the section of hair you just marked off and pin?Ǭ† that to the side as well.

3. You should be left with two sections of hair on both sides of your head.

4. Take the hair from the right section, and twist hair into a low ponytail, you should go from your temple to the nape of your neck.

5. Take the hair from the left section, and do the same but make sure you keep hair on an angle.

6. You should be left with 2 ?¢‚Ǩ?ìrolls?¢‚Ǩ¬ù on each side of you head.

7. With the hair in the low ponytail, you should coil pieces together and allow them to fold into each other, just use pins to hold hair in place.

8. Take the top section from the crown of your head and twist that piece loosely like a rope and pin it to your head.

9. Take the last section of hair and fold the hair into the rolls with your finger and pin all loose pieces with your finger.

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Aveda Botanically-Based Hair Products Promotion

Posted on 24 September 2009 by Angelique

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Aveda creates high-performance, botanically-based products that are safe for the user as well as for the planet. If you shop now, you can Receive a $15 Aveda gift card with online purchase! The first 350 people to make a $100 purchase on aveda.com will receive a complimentary $15 gift card with their purchase. To receive your $15 gift card, please enter code 15forFall at checkout.

*Offer ends on 9/30/2009 at 11:59 pm EST. Offer available to U.S. residents only on Aveda.com. The applicable purchase amount does not include shipping, handling, sales tax or gift wrap charges. Only authorized orders will be processed and shipped. Offer is limited to one per online order and available while supplies last. Aveda Gift Card redeemable at participating Aveda locations.

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Frederic Fekkai - The look of Rag & Bone Spring 2010 RTW

Posted on 12 September 2009 by Angelique

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Lead Stylist, Teddy Charles for Fr?ɬ©d?ɬ©ric Fekkai the look of?Ǭ† Rag & Bone
Teddy Charles, lead stylist for Fr?ɬ©d?ɬ©ric Fekkai, created a rough and tousled look full of texture and volume for the Rag & Bone Spring 2010 show.?Ǭ† After a few spritzes of Fekkai Tousled Wave Spray he rolled hair to make it piecey.?Ǭ† He then wrapped and teased the hair into messy tendrils with Fekkai Full Blown Volume Lifting Hairspray.?Ǭ† He completed the look with the Fekkai Au Natural Dry Shampoo to create a matte finish.

Products Used:

Fekkai Coiff Oc?ɬ©anique Tousled Wave Spray - Create a tousled, wavy look with this lightweight styling mist. Touchable polymers help to form and rejuvenate waves with flexible?Ǭ† control.?Ǭ† $23,?Ǭ† 5oz.

Fekkai Full Blown Volume Lifting Hairspray - This lightweight formula holds volume to lift the roots and delivers powerful fullness that is never stiff or sticky. $20,?Ǭ† 5oz.

Fekkai Au Naturel Powder Clean Dry Shampoo - This naturally formulated product free of sulfates, parabens, dyes and synthetic fragrances, gently cleanses hair with a natural botanical blend, infuses hair with conditioning ingredients, removes excess oil and builds volume. Hair is left refreshed and revived without the use of water.?Ǭ†?Ǭ† $23,?Ǭ† 2.9oz.

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Hairstyle How to Get the Look: Megan Fox

Posted on 12 August 2009 by Angelique

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Universal City, California- Actress Megan Fox wins the award for “Female Hottie” at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, California.

Renato Campora for Frederic Fekkai created a young tousled, soft and sexy look for Megan Fox at this year’s Teen Choice Awards.

The Look:
Young tousled, soft and sexy

How to Get the Look:

In order to achieve Megan Fox’s soft and sexy summer look Renato started out by using FEKKAI COIFF?¢‚Äû¬¢ Strong Hold Volume Mousse on damp hair to create sexy texture that holds. He then air-dried her hair his fingers and used a one inch curling iron to make long soft waves and give the hair a modern and fresh feeling.?Ǭ† He then spritzed the hair with FEKKAI GLOSSING?¢‚Äû¬¢ Sheer Shine Mist to add shine and finished with FEKKAI Sheer Hold Hair Spray?Ǭ† to maintain the look.

The products all by FEKKAI: COIFF?¢‚Äû¬¢ strong hold volume mousse ($23) FEKKAI GLOSSING?¢‚Äû¬¢ Sheer shine mist ($23). FEKKAI Sheer hold hair spray ($23) available at Sephora, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Fekkai.com.

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Kim Kardashian’s New Hairdo is it A Wig or No?

Posted on 12 August 2009 by Angelique

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Reality star Kim Kardashian leaves Fred Segal in Hollywood showing off her new blond(er) look.

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Hairstyle How to Get the Look: Kristen Stewart

Posted on 11 August 2009 by Angelique

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Frederic Fekkai Celebrity Stylist, Adir Abergel styled for the Teen Choice Awards.?Ǭ† Adir was inspired by 60’s Rock and Roll pompadour with a spiky ponytail.

Inspiration:
60’s Rock and Roll pompadour with a spiky ponytail.

How To Get The Look:
Adir first started out by applying the FEKKAI COIFF?¢‚Äû¬¢ Nonchalant Piecing & Foaming Wax?Ǭ† to the palm his hands and then added the FEKKAI COIFF?¢‚Äû¬¢ Extra Control Styling Gel for extra texture and shine. He applied this to her damp hair until it was full saturated.

To get the right texture with short layered haircut like Kristen’s, you must apply enough products until you get it to look right and feels right.?Ǭ† It is important to fully saturate the hair with product.

Once the product was in the hair he took a blow-drier and hand dried into his desired style, directing all the hair with his fingers back to the nape of her neck.

To finish the look, he took the back of the hair and pulled it into a twisted ponytail letting the ends out and then spraying the front with the FEKKAI Sheer Hold Hairspray.?Ǭ† Make sure to leave random pieces out for a more chill vibe.

Products all FEKKAI: COIFF?¢‚Äû¬¢ Nonchalant Piecing & Forming Wax ($23) COIFF?¢‚Äû¬¢ Extra Control Styling Gel ($23). Sheer Hold Hair Spray ($23) Available at Sephora, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Fekkai.com

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