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$

Beauty Oil: 8 Ways to Use Multi-tasking Hair & Body Beauty Oils

Carat & Roses August 4, 2014

From the perfect beach companion to calming baths, beauty oils are storming the industry and are cementing their place in our makeup bags for good. Use these multi-tasking oils in a variety of gentle refreshing scents for healthy glowing skin, lustrous hair or beauty repair treatments. Massage it into hair ends before hitting the beach, smooth over skin or sooth sun burned skin and feet while sealing them into cashmere socks especially on a flight or while traveling or try them as a sleep treatment to help you fall gently to sleep.

1. Face Oil

Apply hydrating face oils morning and night and try an oil based non-greasy, non-drying cleanser and makeup remover like Josie Maran Argan Cleansing Oil (15$ - 40$) to remove make up but avoid using these if you use false eyelashes as this could disturb the glue. Take them on the go and while traveling to keep skin hydrated and healthy as you take on the day.

Go-to product: Rodin olio lusso Face Oil, 150$

2. Body Oil

Immediately after showering or bathing, apply a few drops of this shimmering body oil to damp skin to lock in moisture. Reapply as needed throughout the day on dry skin that will leave you with a gentle all-over glow. You can also use body oils to create slip during a massage, or as part of a moisturizing, relaxing bath soak or to sooth dry skin on hands or elbows.

Go-to product: Olie Biologique Organic 23K Gold Argan Oil, 15$ - 82$

3. Beauty Rescue Oils

Rescue dry skin, cuticles and dry heels, with this natural multitasking beauty oil with a gentle refreshing scent. Apply a cuticle oil or all-purpose body oil to nails pre-manicure to soften the cuticles and reapply more oil to hydrate as needed. It protects and restores skin quality, beautifies and strengthens hair all year. It quickly absorbs, leaving hair silky and shiny, while skin is soft and delicate. Sooth dry heels while sealing them into cashmere socks for overnight success.

Go-to product: Leonor Greyl Huile Secret de Beauté, 17$ -75$

4. Coconut Oil

Coconut oil, we love an organic version, is good for overall immunity, reduces hypertension and helps keep proper cholesterol balance while also a great source of healthy saturated fats.

As a multitasking beauty oil, use it to seal moisture into your skin, remove even the most stubborn mascara and makeup, try it as a facial cleanser and skin moisturizer in home made scrubs, hair masks or beauty treatments with other organic ingredients and Ideal for all skin types including sensitive and acne-prone skin. It will help nourishes skin, hair and lashes. Helps sooth sunburns.

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

5. Hot Oil Treatment

Try this hot oil hair treatment in just one minute. Its gentle formula is infused with Argan Oil 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. Apply one ampule to wet hair after cleansing and conditioning. The self-heating oil provides a gentle warming sensation as it penetrates deep into the hair cuticle, sealing in moisture and shine. Leave on for one to three minutes and rinse thoroughly. Use weekly or as often as needed.

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

6. After-Sun Oil

Soothe skin after taking in the sun with a luxurious dry oil that provides nourishing moisture and lasting comfort to body, face, and hair. Perfect as a post-sun product, its glamorous texture is instantly absorbed, imparting a subtle, floral, and sun-kissed fragrance. Apply in the morning and evening to clean skin, over the entire body.

Go-to product: Caudalie Divine Oil, 10$ -52$

7. Sleep Treatment

This sleep beauty oil is a sumptuous non-greasy, easily absorbed into the skin to help you relax after with soothing and calming properties to encourage a peaceful slumber. Try it after your night-time bath or shower to help lull you to sleep, feel relaxed, hydrated and gently fragranced and also reduces the signs of ageing as well and promoting rested radiance.

**Suitable to use during pregnancy. Always consult with a physician before using new products during pregnancy.

Go-to product: This Works Deep Sleep Night Oil, 46$

8. Hair Treatment

Enriched with luster-building antioxidants and nutrients, 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$

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$

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Carat & Roses May 22, 2014

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Girls with Buns Have More Fun: 6 Steps to Get the Perfect Messy Topknot

Carat & Roses February 22, 2014

We're inspired by The Zoe Report with all natural products and 6 steps to help you get the perfect messy topknot. Perfect style on the go that will take you from office, gym & play with these easy to follow tips you have to try!

1. Volumizing Mousse

While hair is still damp apply a volumizing moose to the roots for added texture and easy styling.

Alterna Bamboo Volume Whipped Mouse, 22$

2. Blow Dry

Flip hair up-side-down with heat aimed towards the middle of your hair as dry to help reduce flyaways and add volume.

JRS Superstar Turbo Ionic Infrared Blow Dryer, 160$

3. Back Comb

With a wide tooth comb, gently brush hair into a high ponytail so hair is smooth and relaxed not pulled tight.

Aerin Large Gold Comb, 40$

4. Make a Loose Ponytail

Using a soft hold elastic to keep hair comfortable with enough give for the top knot.

Goody Ouchless Elastics, 64 for 9.58$

5. Secure Hair with Pins

Wrap your hair around the elastic, pull sections of your hair across from front to back almost making a bun.

MetaGrip Premium Roller Pins, 70 for 6.49$

6. Finish with Shine Spray

Use your hand to shield the side of your hair and add shine with a finishing spray to add gloss and allow movement.

SHOW Beauty Finishing Spray, 47$

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While You Were Sleeping: Get Your Beauty Sleep With 10 Products to Try Overnight

Carat & Roses February 17, 2014

Get your beauty rest and pamper yourself with these night time beauty and sleep treatments that will not only help you have a great nights sleep but will leave you waking up gorgeous and refreshed in the morning all while you were sleeping!

1. May Lindstrom The Youth Dew

Try this hydrating facial serum at night for a petal soft complexion that transforms skin with a power-packed bouquet of 20 ambitiously regenerating and indulgent plant and botanical oils infused with time-stopping CoEnzyme Q10.

May Lindstrom, 120$

2. Heaven Skincare Overnight Success

Softening oils of sandalwood leave your skin feeling like velvet in the morning and rose oil has anti-aging properties that plump up fine lines and wrinkles. Your skin will feel dewy and looking radiant. Find overnight success with reduced puffiness and damage repair within the skin.

Heaven Skincare, 74$

3. Julep Oxygen Nail Treatment

Try this complete nail tint at night that helps give you healthy nails while creating a flawless look. It is formulated with advanced oxygen technology that allows nails to breathe perfect for overnight protection that strengthens and conditions nails, while plant stem cell complex provides anti-aging benefits for your complete nail health.

Julep available from Sephora, 18$

4. Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask

This soothing, leave-on lip mask replenishes moisture in lips with an innovative, natural formula smooths, nourishes, and moisturizes lips with a bio-active blend of organic agave nectar, jojoba oil, vanilla extract. Use at bedtime for soft, hydrated lips overnight.

Bite Beauty available from Sephora, 26$

5. Chantecaille Gold Energizing Eye Recovery Mask

Sleep easy with this soothing all natural Seaweed based eye mask infused in a concentrated, anti-aging Gold serum. Reduce puffiness and dark circles instantly and long term with 24k Gold that protects and delivers anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and anti-aging benefits.

Chantecaille available from Nordstrom, 195$

6. Holmes Ultrasonic Cube Humidifier

Keep your night time air hydrated while you sleep to help maintain moisture in your skin with this sleep humidifier. Easy to take on the go or in small spaces with no need to replace filters & will run quietly overnight on a low setting.

Holmes available from Target, 29.99$

7. Giovanni Nutrafix Hair Reconstructor

To help repair hair try this reconstructor that rebuilds hair from the cuticle layer, replacing missing nutrients and adding proteins for strength. Use at night for best results that will help boost chemically dependent hair, re-energizes and helps restore moisture and enhance volume to hair.

Giovanni Cosmetics, 7.95$

8. Triad Pads

Tone and refresh at night with these Cranberry Toner cotton pads which help cleanse, tone and hydrate, infusing skin with protective antioxidants to leave it glowing and refreshed. Ideal for travel, office, handbag and the perfect night time routine that help to protect and clarify skin.

Arcona, 32$

9. Zoe Organics Breathe Balm

Soothe night time coughs and breath easy with this 100% natural balm. With organic essential oils of eucalyptus, tea tree, lavender and cedar, this natural remedy will help provide overnight relief from cold and flu symptoms.

Zoe Organics available from Eco Diva Beauty, 13$

10. This Works Deep Sleep Products

Get a deep, restful nights sleep naturally with This Works Deep Sleep products. From pillow sprays to shower gels and relaxing oils and creams, your sure to get an excellent nights sleep and sleep better faster.

This Works available from Black Caviar, 29$ - 87$

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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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Visions of Sugar Plum Fairies: 9 Must-try Ways to Get the Perfect Pout

Carat & Roses December 26, 2013

Photo via: VS All Access Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

While we still have visions of sugar plum fairies, mistletoe & chestnuts roasting on an open fire dancing in our mind, we're reliving the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show by 8 inspired ways from The Zoe Report to get the perfect pout. Whether your kissing that special someone at midnight or planting one on your little bundle of joy, treat yourself to these inspired tricks for healthy, smooth lips!

1. Exfoliate

Exfoliate with a sugar scrub like this 100% natural cherry flavored whipped lip scrub from Bite Beauty that will give you soft, healthy lips while brightening and conditioning the line around your lips.

Whipped Cherry Lip Scrub by Bite Beauty, 18$

2. Restore

Restore lips overnight and throughout the day with Bite Beauty's Agave Lip Mask perfect for replenishing moisture for an instant boost of hydration and long-lasting shine.

Agave Lip Mask by Bite Beauty, 26$

3. Condition

Condition and soften chapped lips with this multitasking lip superfruits butter from Bite Beauty, ideal as a night treatment, is formulated to protect, nourish and boost moisture on lips, cuticles and skin for results that will leave you with a smooth and soft pout.

Superfruit Butter by Bite Beauty, 18$

4. Smooth

Inspired by the supple feel of a shimmery gold YSL calfskin bag and Coco Chanel, give your lips the lip slip treatment by Sara Happ, for a colorless rich, glossy pout full of hydration. Wear it overnight or all day for a smooth cashmere pout to slip into.

The Lip Slip by Sara Happ, 24$

5. Plump

Plump lips naturally with this cinnamon lip oil by Bite Beauty that delivers a spicy bite to lips with a subtle warming sensation with proven anti-oxidant results, while locking in shine and plumping for long lasting all-day hydration creating a soft natural flush for the fullest possible pout.

Cinnamon Plumping Lip Oil by Bite Beauty, 22$

6. Line

Get a smooth seamless pout with this clear liner that can be worn under any shade of lipsticks that preps, plumps and primes lips keeping feathering away for naturally perfect lips.

Line & Define Lip Primer by Bite Beauty, 22$

7. Tint

Add a subtle hint of color in a variety of shades, to tint your lips with Josie Maran's Argan Lip Treatment age-defying moisturizing lip treatment for a youthful pout that won't leave a stain that will give you supple soft lips while it conditions, repairs, and protects your pout.

Argan Lip Treatment by Josie Maran Cosmetics, 34$

8. Remover

This multitasking raw coconut cream from RMS Beauty is the perfect lipstick makeup remover, that will erase any shade of lipstick from your lips and doubles as a deodorant, cleanser and hair treatment for a no fail pout to ring in the new year.

Raw Coconut Cream by RMS Beauty, 18$-42$

9. Balm

Try this nourishing balm formula with moisturizing regenerative properties with Avocado Oil, Shea Butter, Meadowfoam Seed Oil, and Jojoba Seed Oil. With refreshing Peppermint and Rosemary Leaf Oils apply as needed, particularly when lips are vulnerable to the elements, or simply when dry or chapped.

Lip Conditioner Peppermint Balm by Beauty Counter, 18$

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Get the Look: Runway Inspired Holiday Party Beauty Trends to Follow

Carat & Roses December 20, 2013

Whether your heading to a holiday party or ringing in the new year, we've got runway inspired holiday party beauty to follow, a party perfect golden glow that will leave you with joyful holiday cheer well into the new year!