Showing posts with label getthelook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label getthelook. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

DIY Hair - Sea Salt Spray

In my last post, Festival Fever, I mentioned possibly using "Sea Salt Spray" as a way of creating an easy and laid-back but pretty beachy do.

While of course you can buy a Sea Salt Spray straight from the shops, it's always more fun to create your own products.

So here is my own DIY recipe for a simple and easy Sea Salt Spray that you can use time and time again and it'll barely cost you a penney!




By the way... how hot does Mandy Moore look here?!!



Sea Salt Spray Recipe

What You'll Need:


  • An empty squirt/spray bottle, (you can get these in places like Penneys or Boots in bottle travel packs)
  • Sea salt
  • A nice smelling oil - coconut or almond for example
  • A small amount of hair gel - you can steal your boyfriend's/brother's/dad's etc ;) 
  • Warm water
  • A tablespoon
  • A measuring cup

How to Make It:

In your measuring cup, add enough warm water to fill the spray bottle. It's important the water is warm so that it allows all the ingredients to dissolve fully.

Add one tablespoon of sea salt, half a tablespoon of the oil of your choice, and half a tablespoon of hair gel to the water and mix well until fully dissolved.

Since salt can be drying on your hair, the oil aims to reintroduce some moisture. Coconut or almond oil also give the spray a gorgeous smell so your hair won't only look good, it'll smell good too! The hair gel aims to add a little extra holding power to the spray.

When the mixture is well dissolved, mixed, and has cooled, you can pour it into the spraying bottle. Make sure to shake before every use.

How to Use It:

Use this spray on dry hair, that has been sectioned into 3 or 4 parts. Evenly distribute light sprays over each section and then "scrunch" the hair, emphasizing volume at the root. For girls with naturally curly hair, this is probably enough to create a beachy look. For those with more naturally straight hair, you can take one inch sections of the hair and wrap around a 1-2inch curling tong to create a few strong curls to pull the whole look together. When you're happy with the amount of curls, spritz with some hair spray to reinforce and you're good to go! 

If you use this spray on freshly washed hair, it's likely you could get two days out of this Sea Salt look. Just top up with the spray and possibly the curling tongs when you feel you need it!


So there you have it - a recession friendly solution to getting instant beach hair!

Until next time, i'll leave you with some beach hair inspiration. Xo













Friday, 12 July 2013

First Post!


Wahey!


So I've finally taken the plunge and started a blog! Already I have such respect for all the established bloggers out there, even getting to this first post was a LOT of hard work!
For as long as I can remember I've been (border-line) OBSESSED, with everything fashion & beauty. My friends & family always tease me for always knowing which model is fronting which campaign at the moment, what celebrities are trying out what trends, watching endless hours of (terrible, but addictive) reality t.v., and of course, spending at least two days preparing for a night out! So when fashion and beauty blogs started to surface, I felt a massive relief knowing I wasn't alone in my obsessions!


Sure enough, I began to practically stalk beauty blogger's sites, on an hourly basis! Eventually their wasn't a post I hadn't read, and my favourite bloggers just weren't uploading posts as quick as I was reading them! It was around then that the idea of creating my own blog started to tickle my mind. However, fear really did get the better of me for many, many months! It was just way too easy to hide away, sit back and let other bloggers do all the work! Then I realised, what if my favourite bloggers had done just that? Personally the likes of SoSueMe.ie, The MakeUp Fairy, and Maskcara, are huge inspirations to me, what if they had never started out? I would probably be going insane trying to get someone, anyone to listen to me about how amazing HD brows look or something equally silly! (Seriously, those brows are amazing.)


In all honesty, this blog is basically a way for me to express myself and hopefully share all these interests. If even one person out there looks forward to my next post, the way I have done for so many other beauty bloggers, I will be absolutely over the moon. 

x