1. A blog that I follow that is as funny as it is fabulous. Sonia is hysterically funny and doesn’t take herself too seriously, check her out. http://runwayhippie.com/2013/08/01/when-in-doubt-clean-hair/
2. Last week Stylist wrote about hair care. Kudos to the beauty team, their advice is always sound week to week.
3. Apparently next month Allure August, Kate Moss it quoted say ‘if in doubt what your hair’. * I don’t know as August edition hasn’t come to UK yet. Which is rubbish as we are ALWAYS a month behind, and it blooming hard enough to get a copy as Selfridges for £4.40 each month grumble, grumble grumble, moan, grumble some more……..
This is a topic that is close to my heart as a couple of months I had horrid itchy puss filled warts on my head. http://www.makedoandmakeup.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/shampoo-and-conditioner-for-spotty.html
The cause of this? Not washing my hair enough. For the record I have the greasiest scalp and skin in the world. The texture is fine, wavy and there is a lot of it. Here is me in my specs and just air dried hair. (I don’t blow dry my hair in summer, my hair hates heat so I generally bung is some serum/thickening cream and let it do it’s thang)
And here is me with my length of hair behind my back.
If you have a dry skin and wash your hair once a week then this post really isn’t for you. However if you have friends who do have greasy hair tell them to wash their hair more often people! For me I wash my hair every day without fail, and warts disappeared and my hair went back to its wavy, shiny, itch-free- self again. I have heard from friends there are magical formulas to get rid of spotty scalps, which incidentally is very common problem, but I just got a gentle formula shampoo for daily washing and standard conditioner. Bang problem sorted.
My mother from a young age would tell me the following:
“Don’t wash your hair every day as you are washing all the natural goodness out of your hair”
Well natural goodness is sweat, sebum and dirt, so no you really should wash that goodness out of your hair. However occasionally I do forgo a shampoo and just rinse my hair if it is feeling a bit on the dry/sensitive side.
“Don’t wash your hair during your period its ‘REALLY’ bad for you”
When I ask what ‘BAD’ will happen to me unsurprisingly she can’t tell me why it’s bad for me. As far as I am concerned these are old wives tales and I find it really annoying that these types of myths get bandied around like truths. There really aren’t any proper rules and regulations when it comes to beauty. The only one that really counts is
“If it works for you and you are happy stick with it”
We all have different skin/hair/colouring/preferences so what may be one girl’s/guy’s treasure may be your trash, or conversely the other way round too. There is many a time I have bought something and it just hasn’t worked on me, because my skin was too greasy. Or I have bought a shade of lipstick that wasn’t blue based because it was a trend amongst beauty bloggers. (Orange is a big no no noo!) So the point of this post, try new things, don’t necessarily believe what you Mum tells you.
Oh yeah and wash your hair often if you have spots on your scalp. What old beauty myths are mythbusting this week? Any good results?
Thanks for reading
Carrie x
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