Boho Summer: 6 No-Fail 70s Inspired Hair for Your Summer Style

Carat & Roses April 20, 2015

The 2015 runways have been full of boho styling and 70s influences including great boho hair. From Lanvin's inspired single Brigitte Bardot braid to Chloe's Peggy Lipton straight middle part styles, these are our favorite off the runway boho looks to try and perfect for the summer months.

1. Single Braid

Simple, elegant and perfect for summer months, the Brigitte Bardot single braid on the Lanvin runway was Julien d'Ys inspired hair styling. Tie the end with a leather string or ribbon to add a chic twist to your style.

Go-to product: Leonor Greyl Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice – Volumizing Styling Mousse, 46$

2. Fringe Bangs

Antonina Petkovic rocked the 2015 fall fashion runway with fringe bang styling that are a great transition into summer. Try this distinct look reminiscent of Jane Birkin, in a natural wave or straight style. Be sure to keep bangs off your face when applying moisturizer to your face until it is fully absorbed.

Go-to product: Show Beauty Lux Volume Lotion, 63$

3. Slicked Back

Balmain girls hit the Spring 2015 runway with chic wet-look slicked back hair that is the perfect way to style locks straight out of the water. For more gentle Grace Kelly inspired styles, keep hair pulled back and let air dry.

Go-to product: Show Beauty Working Texture Spray, 47$

4. Half-up

Celine's half-up styles came down the runway accented with gold barrettes perfect for emanating Audrey Hepburn's graceful styles.

Go-to product: John Masters Organics Rose & Apricot Hair Milk, 26$

5. Bandanna

Chanel's modern interpretation of a bandanna was the perfect brunching accessory at Brasserie Gabrielle on the fall 2015 runway. Style this Brigitte Bardot Parisian-it girl style for days spent exploring beach towns and walking desert summer gardens.

Go-to product: Leonor Greyl Masque Fleurs Jasmin, 65$

6. Middle Part

The Chloé fall 2015 runway was full of decadent boho styles and sleek middle part hair like Peggy Lipton's 70's straight styles. The perfect beach to street look, style your part with our fave Aerin gold comb we are currently craving.

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

7 Natural Hair Rescue Alternative Treatments to Your Normal Hair Routine

Carat & Roses March 2, 2015

We're going inside 7 natural alternative hair treatments for that perfect mane, whether you have dry split ends, trying to grow your hair long or wanting to add extra moisture to your roots. We found 7 go-to treatments you have to try and for best results, always towel dry hair before using any after wash hair product so hair is damp and not soaking wet to allow any product you use to better absorb into the hair cuticle or apply products to dry hair where noted.

1. Conditioning Mask

Try a hydrating conditioning mask to protect and boost hair repair with a weightless formula designed to leave hair soft and shiny and delicately scented. It will help eliminate split, dry ends and help you grow longer hair as you require less trips for trimming with deeper hydrated ends.

Go-To Product: Leonor Greyl Masque Fleurs de Jasmin, 65$

2. Dry Shampoo

For healthy looking next day hair, spray a dry shampoo 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$

3. Leave In Treatments

This leave-in treatment softens and nourishes hair while treating dryness and releases soothing hydration to scalp and hair, making hair manageable and revitalized throughout the day.

Go-To Product: John Masters Organics Hair Milk, 26$

4. Beauty Hair Oil

Add rejuvenating shine with a restorative elixir that will boost your hair's luster and shine, for a strengthened, deeply nourished with a lightweight antioxidant and nutrient–rich formula leaves hair fiber renewed, strengthened and deeply nourished. This leave-in serum enhances elasticity and restores a lush, healthy appearance and strength. Try it on wet or dry hair and great for smoothing and taming fly-aways.

Go-To Product: Show Beauty Pure Treatment Oil, 78$

5. Hot Oil Treatments

Hot oil hair treatments have long been touted as hair rescue hydrating treatments. With a gentle formula infused with Argan Oil, it can reverse damage caused by heat and over-styling, leaving hair smoother, shinier, and healthier. In the shower, the oil warms itself up to the ideal temperature for penetrating strands to effectively seal in moisture. The self-heating oil provides a gentle warming sensation as it penetrates deep into the hair cuticle, sealing in moisture and shine. Use weekly or as often as needed.

Go-To Product: Josie Maran Argan Hot Oil Self-Heating Hair Treatment, 20$ -45$

6. Pre-treatments

Apply this treatment to dry hair before shampooing or other treatments, we recommend a minimum of 30 minutes before. It will help easily detangle hair, apply it before sun exposure or the beach to protect hair from sun and salt water damage and nourish hair quality, while it beautifies and strengthens hair no matter the season. This light-weight oil quickly absorbs, leaving hair silky and shiny. Also try it before coloring your hair. We recommend you color with an organic brand, ask your salon for Organic Color System.

Go-To Product: Leonor Greyl Pre-Shampoo Oil, 59$

7. Hair Fragrance

With all the decadent scents that flood your looks after a wash or styling, a hair fragrance will give your hair a boost after all those scents have faded from your mane. Try a light indulgent fragrance packed with essential vitamins and minerals that will fight free radicals and color fade while enhancing shine and restoring hair's natural strength and beauty.

Go-To Product: Show Beauty Hair Fragrance, 85$

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$

High Top: 9 No-Fail Hair Trends off the Try of the Runway

Carat & Roses July 13, 2014

From high pony's to sophisticated braids, platinum blonde to clips, we're giving you 9 no-fail chic hair trends to try on the go along with go-to styling products to style your do.

1. Ponytail

Sweep locks into this classic and simple style that's a great way to look chic and elegant on the go to give you that effortless everyday glamour. Keep your ends healthy with a pure treatment oil.

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

2. Braids

Toss your hair into a multitude of braided styles for a casual chic look that's easy to prep and will keep your hair free from your face for those busy days on the run. Give texture to your hair with a powder based volumizer.

Go-to Styling Product: Kevin Murphy POWDER.PUFF, 36$

Photo via: backstage Alexander Wang SS 2010

3. Platinum Blonde

Style platinum blonde hair with beachy waves or straight styles and use Organic Color Systems when coloring. To maintain your style, treat your style with organic curated products for blonde hair to keep your hair healthy.

Go-to Styling Product: Alterna Caviar Blonde Beauty Balm, 28$

4. Buns

From messy buns to sleek topknots, this effortless style is an easy way to invoke sophisticated style on the go. Apply a volumizing mouse to your roots for glam texture and easy styling.

Go-to Styling Product: Alterna Bamboo Volume Weightless Whipped Mouse, 22$

5. Clips

Style with your hair with clips, pins or barrettes to change the look of your do, with sleek simple clips to sweep straight or curled hair from your face for a day to night look and perfect for special occasions. Scrunch moisture into curled styles with a styling lotion.

Go-to Styling Product: Giovanni Cosmetics Sunset Styling Lotion Hair Changer, 7.95$

6. Bobs

A sleek bob with bangs is a fresh way to wear your hair from shoulder to chin length style that is sophisticated, sleek and easy to maintain. Add gentle curls or wear in straight styles and use a heat protector when styling.

Go-to Styling Product: Show Beauty Sheer Thermal Protect, 55$

7. Chic Updo

Updo's are always a classic way to give your evening style a glam look. Try a relaxed updo for a casual yet elegant look for day or sleek style with casual wear for glamour on the go. Use a styling lotion to give your roots uplifted volume and texture.

Go-to Styling Product: Show Beauty Lux Volume Lotion, $63

8. Headbands

Headbands are a quick easy to style way of keeping hair in place while giving you a variety of ways to style your look. Go from boho chic, sleek, glam or relaxed elegance with wire headbands, chain headbands, beaded styles or adjustable elastic headbands. Extend your hair with an organic dry shampoo.

Go-to Styling Product: Alterna Bamboo Style Cleanse Translucent Extend Dr y Shampoo, 22$

9. Ombre

Ombre locks are here to stay with a dark to blonde style that is effortlessly chic and easy to style into tousled waves, pony's, topknots or sleek styles. Always use a deep conditioning mask to strengthen color treated hair.

Go-to Styling Product: Kevin Murphy ANGEL.MASQUE, 38$

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.