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.

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.

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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.

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Best Valentine's Day Gift Ever.

So much better then regular roses.

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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?

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F Yeah Sailor Moon Tattoos

I'm not sure how I feel about tattoos. I don't think I would like them if I was a mom with kids. Sailor Moon is something I know I love forever though! I'm kinda toying with the idea of getting a SMALL white ink tattoo of a sailor moon wand on my hip. Thoughts??? I really don't know!! People have gotten so many amazing sailor moon tattoos. It blows my mind. I would love to have a big chest piece of a locket for a day but for the rest of my life.... Big tattoos are such a commitment. Its crazy how some people have a TON of them!

Would you get a tattoo? Do you have one? What type of Sailor Moon tattoo would you get?! My favourite out of these are the first two pictures and the Sailor Venus and Jupiter symbols.

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The Cheerleading Majors. Thoughs, Video and Results!

I was super excited when I found out about The Majors. It was a cheerleading competition held last weekend by Jamfest. They invited the top american teams to compete against each other in a hollywood production type environment. I thought it was pretty awesome. Cheerleading defiantly needs more events that celebrate the sport, coaches and its athletes.

The reactions have been pretty mixed. I'm not surprised as it is the first event of its kind really. Here are my thoughts on the event...

The Highlights:

- Cheer Athletics used The Boys by Girls Generation as the main song of their routine. So awesome.

- The videos shown before the performances. They really made the competition stand out as entertainment. It was a cool way to get to know the team better.

- They introduced every team member as they went on stage. Everyone works hard on a team and I think it was great they all got a special moment of recognition.

-It was broadcast live online

Worth Wondering..:

- Why did they choose to go with senior and not open all girl

- The team music seemed like it was made by the same person. Some of the teams had their own rap/song/cheer basically written for them in between clips of popular music. Super odd.

- The winning teams were being sent to Europe to "spread cheerleading awareness" or something. Seems a little odd.

- The fashion was kinda toned down and unexciting. Why didn't GK Elite sponsor all the teams? They've done so with Top Gun for a ton of competitions.

The Bad

- It cost $10.00 to watch it live online.

- The lack of teams really upset me. Only nine for both divisions! The event was still about two hours long but that was mostly delays. Although these are the staple All Star Us teams I think it would have been a lot more interesting to watch a few more up and comers.

- They kept referring to these teams as the best in the world. No other Country's were represented.

- Timing, what routines are polished or even near done this time of year?

- Why did they do level 5 teams instead of 6?

- Top Gun scored low because of an illegal stunt and assisted partner stunts? (I heard at least..) What the heck is the story behind this? There is no way they couldn't have known the rules?

- The scoring wasn't what most expected. I think the lack of teams doesn't help with the questionable scoring.

Overall, I think this was a step in the right direction for cheerleading. Yes, it had a lot of things wrong with it but I think a competition with this type of production is a step towards Cheerleading nights at your local bar. How awesome would that be? UFC needs to get out so the real action can take over.

Here is the whole competition on youtube!

RESULTS SPOILER BELOW!!

Coed

1. Cheer Extreme Coed Elite
2. Cheer Athletics
3. Top Gun
4. ACE

All Girl

1. Cheer Athletics
2. Maryland Twisters F5
3. Cheer Extreme Senior Elite
4. FAME
5. Maryland Marlins

What did you think of it?

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New Koda Kumi Song Boom Boom Boys!

Koda Kumi is easily one of my favorite artists. For some reason I think her best stuff comes out when she releases 9 singles/videos at once like shes doing again. This time she's having a baby and not just dealing with her crazy label demands. This is the first Kumi song I've been totally in love with for along time. She keeps the stupid trademark screeching noise to a minimal here. Thank god! I would kill to party with Kumi.

VIP is another awesome party song she just released. The bonus of the song being T-Pain. He just didn't bother to be in the video which is stupid.

vipalbumver by Bored4Lyfe

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