Bentonite Clay Hair Mask

Hello Beautiful Readers!

I tried a new EXCITING experiment on my hair

with Bentonite clay. 

I have read a lot of great things about this powder

so you know I had to try some.

I purchased my Bentonite powder from Ebay for a 

great price!

Since I wasn't sure how to mix and apply it I followed this YouTube video

by Richeau.

I must say that after mixing and applying the Bentonite

I was VERY nervous because while applying it

my hair looked like it was BONE straight!

I was thinking "OMG, please don't permanent remove my curls".

I was so nervous that I rinsed out the mix after like 15 minutes...

LOL.

My hair was fine and CURLED right back up!

*jumps for joy*

I was also SHOCKED at how SOFT my hair was!

I was in AWE, it felt like

cotton silk. LOL

If that makes any sense.

I didn't believe all what I was reading about the powder but now I do.

I will definitely be using this "magic powder"

more often.

Here are some pics of my Bentonite Clay Experience:

Kristel's Straighteners For Sale!

You know I'm always willing to help a fellow blogger out! =] So Kristel asked me to link her little sale! She bought a few hair straighteners and decided on only keeping one and now she needs to get rid of the rest! They're super cute in fun colors with animal prints! So definitely go check it out at simplykristel.blogspot.com =]

Sephora Haul

Here's my haul from the Sephora sale when they had 15% off everything! I really wish I could have got more but I couldn't decide what I really wanted and I didn't wanna spend that much! So here's what I ended up with:


Tokidoki Bastardino Palette, Sephora All Over Shadow Brush, & Stila Kajal Eyeliner in Onyx

  
You can tell I only spent the minimum to get free shipping! lol I'm really happy with my purchase though. I wanted most of the Tokidoki make up after seeing pictures online but after going in the store to finally decide what I reaally wanted, I only wanted this palette! Some of the shadows weren't as pigmented as I thought they would be and the bronzer and highlighters that I really wanted looked horrible on my skin. But I love this palette! I'll do a review on it with some comparative swatches.


the brush & liner

I really wanted to get the blending brush from Sephora but they were all sold out! And my Sonia Kashuk is getting pretty effed so I thought I'd try the brush out. I wanted the Stila Kajal because when I swatched it in store it was SO pigmented!




cover of the Tokidoki Palette

I <3 Bastardino he reminds me of my dog! <3
the colors! so pretty


it comes with a little keychain thingy! so cute


swatches L to R: Carnivora, Riposino, Mummetto, & Bastardino


Stila Onyx, MAC Graphblack Technakohl, & UD 24/7 Zero

Here's some swatches of the black liners I have for my waterline. I really don't like UD Zero on my waterline! I know people love it but it just doesn't work for me! It comes off after 5 minutes! =[ MAC Graphblack has always been my go-to it stays put and looks BLACK. I'm hoping the Stila liner will replace my MAC just because it's more for your money! But we'll see!

Ahh and I know I totally owe you all posts and I've been really meaning to do my collection post but I need to get a few more things a little more organized and then I'll finally put it up! I'm going into finals soon so it might not be for a couple weeks but I'll try to squeeze it in when I can. =]

Products of the Week

Curls for Target!

Hola Beauties!

I wanted to quickly share with you my infatuation 

with the Curls for Target line.

As you can see from the picture above I purchased the WHOLE line

offered at my local Target.

Let me just say...

I am BEYOND impressed.

These products are AMAZING!

I love them.

I have absolutely NO complaints about any of the products.

I will say that I have a favorite which is the 

Curls Goddess curl gel.

It beats Kinky Curly Custard, in my opinion.

The Curls gel is very light but has a strong hold without making

the hair hard, dry, crunchy OR flaky.

My curls POP after applying the Curls Goddess product and they 

stay moisturized ALL day.

I will also say that these products smell 

FANTASTIC.

Sweet, light, and tasty smelling. LOL.

So if you have a Target near you and you have not

tried at least one of the AWESOME products

I'd suggest that you head over there and pick you some.

xoxox-

Alex

Natural Queen of the Week: ManeCoarse (winner of give-away)

Well, I've been natural since 2001.  

I decided to go natural after I noticed the hair around my temples was extremely thin and damaged. 

 Around the time that I was taking notice of my badly damaged hair, I had a cousin who came to visit me from out of town and she had two-strand twists in her hair. 

 Her hair was gorgeous.  I was in awe. During the time of her visit, I had tracks in my hair.

  I commenced to questioning her immensely about her hair, and to follow up, after she left, I jumped on the computer to research natural hair some more.  It was then that I discovered nappturality.com. 

 I stayed  up until the wee hours of the morning on many of nights reading all I could on natural hair.  

After about a month, I went to a salon and had the big chop done. 

 I wore every style imaginable for five years, and then in 2006, I decided to loc. 

 I wore my locs for three years.  On May 31, 2009, I decided to take my locs out one by one.  

I am about to embark on one year of having my hair out of locs.  

I have been learning my hair all over again, and happily, my journey continues.

"The Good Hair Give-Away" WINNER

The winner of the Give-Away contest is....

MANECOARSE

Quote: "God Giveth and Perms Taketh away"

I love this!

I may even have it printed on a shirt... LOL

Congrats on the win!!

Email me your shipping info

along with your first and last name!

Sunday Cuteness: Little Lou Sulola Samuel

Heidi Klum was spotted out with her newest addition-baby Lou! She is so cute and we can already see her hair is super curly like her brothers'. Image Credit

I can't wait to see what she will look like as she gets older. Precious!

Birthday Cookies

I gave these to my friend (and now coworker), Valerie on her birthday. She makes pretty cookies, too. Check out her blog.





And these are for my younger brother Garrett....

Happy Birthday!

Avocado Agave Hair Conditioner Video.

Click HERE to watch

 the video on my YouTube channel.

XOXO-

Alex

selma blair's bob

poo like it.

work! work! work!

Josh and Dylan celebrated go to work with Dad day yesterday.

DIY: Avocado Agave Hair Conditioner

Hey Beautiful Readers!

This DIY conditioner is an EASY FUN thing to make at home in your kitchen.

Here's what you will need:

1 Avocado

1/2 cup of Agave nectar

1 jar of Gerber Bananas

1/2 cup of your fave hair conditioner

Use a hand blender to mix and VOILA, you have conditioner that 

will make your curls pop and your hair SUPER soft!

After the conditioner is applied cover hair with cap

for 30 minutes and rinse clean.

My Little Elven Child Pt.2

We had a few extra family favorites that we wanted to share with the world.

Massive impact in a tiny sleek machine

Advertorial

YAY ME!! I got myself a new toy to play with and this time it's the HTC HD mini phone!

Got invited to the HTC HD mini event down at Ion, so there I went! I was most pleasantly surprised to find out that they were providing hair and make up for guests for a mini (pun intended) photoshoot!!

Being hiao, I immediately went for the empty hair styling hot seat!

Stylist was blow-drying my hair coz it's still a bit wet!







What better to do than to play with my new phone while getting hair done??

Took a few camwhoring shots and IT WAS AWESOME!!

At 5 mega pixels (auto focus! Widescreen Photo Capture!) all the photos taken turned out so nice! Stupid Blackberry's camera is just bloody 3.2mp. -_-

Me + mini

All my hair straightened! And then the hair stylist took quite some time to transform my boring tresses into a elaborate curls!

This is the make up counter...



Tadah!!!!!! Poofed up hair!
It's time for my photoshoot!!

(Don't ask me what's the pink rectangle in the photo for the life of me I can't figure it out!! I think my camera went siao. Or maybe the phone can chu power. Hadoken!)

They printed out the photos for us, magazine-styled, and here is mine!

How? Cover girl material or what?!

Reviewing the photo taken by the pros...



And take another with my camera!! Artsy boh!!

They also have many other HTC phones around to let the invited guests play with, including the mini!

On the outside, the HTC looks so boring being all black, but the inside will completely surprise you!!

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It is BUMBLEBEE YELLOW!!!

How cute and happy-looking!! LOL

Now for a little more about the product...

The HTC HD mini is a fully touchscreen phone and I don't usually like touchscreen phones but it was intuitive and surprisingly enough it was a breeze typing on it!

The interface is great with a fully customizable home page where you can place your most commonly used applications.

Lightweight and tiny, but has everything you need in a smartphone! Besides all the usual stuff (like 3G, wifi, bluetooth etc), I also like it that the multimedia player includes an FM radio!! Now I don't have to have a radio to listen to Rozz's show!

Another thing that pleasantly surprised me was the Animated Weather Wallpaper.

Amazingly enough the phone detects the weather today and animates your phone accordingly! Damn chio lah!! It was cloudy so I had clouds float around the screen, telling me that it's 27 degrees! (Night time as I am writing this)

BEST OF ALL?

I found it fantastic that when I got the phone out of the box, all the most commonly used smartphone apps were already installed for me by some considerate geek from the HTC headquarters.

All you need is your sim card and you can tweet, fb, msn with friends etc all without waiting! Watch Youtube videos! And never get lost again with Google Maps!

I didn't have to muck around with finding the apps and installing them and rebooting my phone etc!

But if you DO want more apps, they are easy to find using Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Get as many as you want!

Yes... This is the star of this entry.
But if you think I'm done here you are wrong!


THE HTC HD MINI GETS A
COMPLETE MAKEOVER!!


Black? One tone? NO WAY!

If the inside of the phone is so customizable,
so must the outside, right??





First it gets Gmasked at the kiosk at the event...




And then it is now a DELICIOUS shade of pink


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AND IT IS BLINGED UP...

IN CANDY STRIPES + A PINK RIBBON!

Yes I did the blinging myself!!

AND AND AND
YES YOU CAN WIN THIS PHONE,
BLINGED BY YOURS TRULY!!!

Just prove you have been paying attention to my blog entry by telling me

1) five awesome features I mentioned about the HTC HD mini, and

2) include WHY YOU NEED A SMARTPHONE in not more than 200 words

Most Creative entry wins!

Send your entry to htchdmini@nuffnang.com by 5th May 2010 and you might get this (almost) brand new HTC HD mini phone!

Could be yours!

The phone, not me.