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.