Wednesday, 22 February 2012

What to Look for and What To Know When Buying Hair Products. AKA What Ingredients Do!

It feels like a new hair product comes out everyday. I can't keep up! Instead of trying as many as I have the best advice I can offer is to know what ingredients are good for your hair type!

First see what natural products work the best for you. You can try these out at home or add them into your routine whenever you feel like it. Natural products are highly recommended for curly haired girls because drugstore moisture products usually have too many bad ingredients.

Need Moisture? Look for..

Vegetable Glycerin- It attracts and binds water to itself and adds a layer over the hair to retain water.

Aloe Vera Juice/Gel- actually absorbs in the hair as moisture

Coconut Oil - Best oil for sealing moisture into hair. Gets into hair strands more then other oils.Bold

Jojoba and Almond Oil- Two other oils that are good for sealing hair

Shea butter- Good at sealing moisture and oils into hair

Anti Bacterial ingredients? Oily or irritated scalps and dandruff problems?

Honey- It's a light moisturizer with antibacterial properties
Castor Seed Oil- Moisturizer with anti fungal properties
Tea Tree Oil- Soothing to dry scalps in small doses. Don't overuse!

The basic hair product ingredients

Sulfate- It's basically what strips your hair and makes everything lather. If you have oily hair your going to need this. Dry or damaged hair needs to stay super far away from this!

Silicone- This is a love hate relationship. It will be in your conditioners and leave in products. Silicone products hair from damage in a way nothing else really does. It can also cause a lot of buildup because of this. Dry hair needs the smoothing and protecting properties of it but it can get tricky and gross feeling when using a sulfate free shampoo.

Protein- Damaged hair needs this. It comes in many forms like soy and wheat. Keratine is a super popular protein trend right now in hair protection. Some dry hair types are super sensitive to protein and it will make hair frizzy. People seem to be the most sensitive to wheat protein. The best type of protein treatment is something like the Apogee two step that actually glues hair back together.


Friday, 10 February 2012

The Cheer Ambassadors; A Documentary on Team Thailand aka Bangkok Uni!!!



Oh my god. Every time worlds rolls around in cheerleader land I get SOO excited.
I love how I get a chance to see my favorite mystery team! Team Thailand AKA Bangkok University! They are this mysterious team I never hear mentioned in cheerleading. I think they are so innovative and cool though! They have the craziest stunts. They also always have these cool anime like cheerleading uniforms that make them stand out even more. I always get SO upset when they don't place first.


I'm so excited to be typing thing though. Someone decided to show the story behind them! There is a documentary called The Cheer Ambasador!! Turns out some guy watched worlds one year on tv and was like, HEY I'M GOING TO BRING THIS TO MY COUNTRY! He basically did what I tried to do with my highschool. He started a team by himself and learned how to do everything on his own with them. Instead of failing like me though, he has the best team in the world. It just premiered on Friday, January 27 at the World Film Festival of Bangkok. I'm too excited to watch this to do a proper post. I can't even look through their awesome website. I'M SO WORRIED IT WILL BE OVER A YEAR UNTIL I GET TO SEE IT! Please someone post a way to see this online ASAP!! I can't handle all this documentaries I'm dying to see. This one is at the TOP of my list.

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Dr Feelgood

Oh my god. I love this song. Dr feelgood by Rania is the most addictive thing I've listened to in a long time.

I love the dance! I really want to learn it! The video has way to many crotch shots though.

What songs have you been loving lately?