Beauty Trend Alert: 5 Steps to the Perfect Scrunchies Throwback Hair

Carat & Roses October 25, 2014

It's the 80's/90's throwback Carrie Bradshaw would never see coming. From runways to celebrities and fashion bloggers, this throwback is making its what from high fashion runway to street style fashion. Style with 5 easy to follow steps, you'll be sporting this 90's inspired trend with modern inspired prints and styles.

1. Texture

Build thickness and add texture to hair by apply a volumizing moose to hair for added volume and easy styling.

Go-to product: Alterna Bamboo Volume Whipped Mouse, 22$

2. Back Comb

With a wide tooth comb, gently back comb hair into a high ponytail so hair is smooth and relaxed not pulled tight. Use small thin elastics to anchor hair style.

Go-to product: Aerin Large Gold Comb, 40$

3. Dry Shampoo

Lift roots and refresh hair between washes with a dry shampoo that provides volumizing texture to boost your scrunchie style. A dry shampoo will help maintain an alluring finish that will leave hair looking and feeling fresh all day and volumized perfect for day to night styles. Spray bobby pins before taming fly-aways for better hold.

Go-to product: SHOW Beauty Dry Shampoo, 50$

4. Scrunchie

Scrunchies are easy on your strands and quick to add to any style from a classic pony, topknot, bun, half-up styles or add to the end of a braided styles from sleek, chic or tousled and effortless on-the-go update to your favorite styles.

Go-to product: American Apparel Shiny Scrunchie, 6$

5. Hair Oil

Add a leave-in hair oil to the ends of your hair either on wet or dry hair and great for smoothing and taming fly-aways and giving moisture to prevent split-ends.

Go-to product: Show Beauty Pure Treatment Oil, 78$

Beauty Hacks: 6 Easy to Follow Beauty Tricks You Have to Try

Carat & Roses October 24, 2014

From multitasking hair, beauty and skin products, these are our favorite go-to beauty tricks that will have you looking glamorous on the go while also providing quick nourishing, protective and healing comfort throughout your day!

1. Use a Dry Shampoo to Repair Hair Fails

Spray at roots of unwashed hair when your out of time, after the gym or while travelling to refresh your hair between washes. Give curls a beachy loose look with an all over spray keeping them from clumping together, lift volume at roots, lock in a back comb, prevents bangs from sticking to your forehead, conceal dark roots in blonde hair and add texturing grip to bobby pins.

Go-to product: SHOW Beauty Dry Shampoo, 47$

2. Remove Makeup with Coconut Oil

Remove stubborn makeup including mascara. Try it as a facial cleanser or moisturizer. Its the perfect go-to product for all skin types including, sensitive and blemish prone skin and has multitasking properties that nourishes nails, hair, lashes and skin while also providing soothing comfort to sunburned skin.

Go-to product: RMS Beauty Raw Coconut Treatment, 18$ - 42$

3. Blend a Fragrance with Lotion

Try a few drops of your favorite fragrance mixed into a scent free lotion or body butter for an all over moisturizing scent that will leave you smelling fresh and feeling smooth throughout the day. Re-apply sparingly and use a gentle fragrance for a clean and subtle lingering all over scent.

Go-to product: Le Labo ROSE 31, 240$

4. Apply a Beauty Oil before a Shower

Enjoy the moisturizing benefits of a beauty oil that will leave your skin soft and hydrated all through the winter months. Use a generous amount, warm in your hands before gently rubbing into skin. Use a facial oil on your face and shower. Add some to the ends of your hair to tame frizz and keep hair healthy. Immediately follow your shower with a healthy organic moisturizer or your same beauty oil.

Go-to product: RODIN olio lusso Body Oil, 130$

5. Use a Sleep Mask to Fall Asleep

Get a good nights sleep by using an eye mask to seal out the light which helps to induce a restful and relaxing sleep by causing the production of Melatonin, the sleep chemical. Try the addition of a natural sleep remedy such as This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray for the perfect way to fall quickly to sleep and enjoy the overnight beauty benefits of a full nights rest.

Go-to product: This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray, 29$

6. Protect Heels with a Band-Aid Stick

Walk a mile in your heels comfortably with the Band-Aid Friction Block. Apply to the back of heels, top of toes and side of your feet before you wear your shoes for blister and pain-free all day comfort your feet will thank you for. And we do mean ALL DAY. Be sure to let the product dry a bit to keep fee from feeling slick in your shoes.

Go-to product: Band-Aid Friction Block, 5$

SHOW Beauty: 7 Steps to Get Victoria's Secret Bombshell Hair

Carat & Roses February 3, 2014

If your anything like us you want effortless causal chic that will take you from day to night and everywhere in between. From effortless waves to sleek pulled back ponies, get stunning Victoria's Secret models bombshell hair inspired by our friend Genevieve Lima, The Label, with these 7 steps using SHOW Beauty hair care products that are healthy and luxurious and prefect on the go. Free of parabens and sulfates in indulgent rich scents, glamorous black, gold and rose gold bottles, SHOW Beauty hair care products will leave you and your hair ready to take on anything the day throws at you! Also available on Sephora.

1. Protect

Start with clean hair and apply your heat protectant like Show Beauty's luxuriant Thermal Protect that defends your hair from intense heat, giving unrivaled protection while providing exceptional style and hold and begin to blow dry your hair using a round brush.

Promotes greater color retention of semi–permanent dyes and improving the strength and general condition of your hair.

Then begin to blow dry your hair using a round brush.

2. Volume

Blow dry your hair with your head down by applying a root lifting product to your roots such as this luxurious Volume Lotion by Show Beauty that delivers striking hold and control for an elegant shine that truly SHOWs.

Natural polymers lift hair from the root providing all–day fullness and hold giving you ultimate style and control. With UVA/UVB protection, soothing Pro-vitamin B and burdock root extract to prevents hair loss, bodifying proteins help reconstruct and strengthen hair.

Then blow dry with a round brush, apply big rollers to your hair while it's still hot. When you take them out, you'll have a nice amount of volume.

3. Texture

Section your hair off any way that you want and begin to curl your hair with your 1 inch curling iron, pining each section you curl. Curl your hair by taking 1 inch sections of hair, opening the clamp of your curling iron and wrapping your hair around the barrel, then closing the clamp. Be sure to hold the barrel upside down and to curl away from your face.

For a more tousled look, you could do some curls toward your face and others away. After you are done with every section (meaning the sections you parted at the beginning), lightly hairspray it so that it doesn't fall while your doing your other sections of hair with Show Beauty's indulgent Working Texture spray that provides instant character and volume, for a glamorous look worthy of any red carpet event. Pin each section after you curl it.

Create effortless up-styles without teasing, adding instant volume to blow dried hair. Creates lasting hold without drying out hair and protecting it from thermal tools.

4. Hold

Once all of your hair has cooled down, release it from the pins and start to finger comb your hair. After finger combing it to your liking, hairspray it with Show Beauty's extravagant Finishing spray that delivers a firm, weightless and buildable hold, to maintain a flawless look day and night. This unique patented polymer memory system keeps hair in place while providing a natural, flexible and brushable finish. AC Kerazyme protects hair against the intense heat of thermal styling tools, Pro–vitamin B repairs damage from chemical treatments and colouring while litchiderm lychee extract, enriching Argan oil and wheat protein replenish, moisture and repair the hair's natural texture.

5. Treatment

For VS Angel shine, they normally add a shine product in the model's hair, try Show Beauty's rejuvenating Pure Treatment oil with an elixir that restores your hair's luster and shine, leaving it strengthened, deeply nourished and infinitely desirable. A leave–in multi–use elixir, this lightweight antioxidant and nutrient–rich formula leaves hair fiber renewed, strengthened and deeply nourished. Often called 'liquid gold' by beauty experts, Argan oil penetrates the cuticle to strengthen and enhance the elasticity of hair.

6. Fragrance

For a light touch of indulgence try Show Beauty's beautifully rich Hair Fragrance that evokes a true air of mystique and awe through a delicately balanced and fragrant scent.

Lush rose water is combined with the lightest notes of coconut milk, caramel and almond butter, with a background of Madagascan vanilla, sensual patchouli and soft white musk.

Vitamin E, aloe vera and Ultracas G20, packed with essential vitamins and minerals, fight free radicals and color fade while jojoba oil enhances shine and restores hair's natural strength and beauty.

7. Maintain

Another way to achieve shiny healthy hair when your out of time and on the run is with Show Beauty's revitalizing Dry Shampoo that maintains an alluring finish that looks and feels beautifully fresh day and night for a volumized look that suits any occasion.

The colorless natural formula's patented polymers include tapioca powder and rice starch that withdraw impurities and absorb oil at the root, while a unique blend of botanical extracts including aloe vera, mango, kiwi and ginger lily condition and protect against moisture loss, elevating your style between washes.

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