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Short Sexy Hair Bodifying Blow Dry Gel

  • Posted on February 9, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Short Sexy Hair Body Ultra Bodifying Blow Dry Gel

Short Sexy Hair Body Ultra Bodifying Blow Dry Gel

There aren’t many products out there for styling your hair, especially for short hair that actually help to add body and style your hair without causing some serious damage like dry hair, fried hair or even styling products for short hair that strip the color from your hair.  That is why I love the Sexy Hair company’s Short Sexy Hair What a Body Hair Bodifying Blow Dry Gel.

The Short Sexy Hair Bodifying Blow Dry Gel is a fabulous styling blow out blow dry hair gel made for short hair styles to not only add body and volume back to your hair, but also help to keep your short hair cut and hair style under control and looking fabulous all day.

I love this product and I love the way the bottle looks as well.

The short and fun design not only reminds me of the song Cause I’m a Blond or the phrase Blondes have more fun, but I love the smirk and smile on the lady whose picture you see on the bottle of Short Sexy Hair Bodifying Blow Dry Gel.  She just looks like she is having a ton of fun and loving her gorgeous short sexy hair and hair style.

Just like a mousse or a root lifter, this product helps to hold and mold and shape your short hair into some fabulous and amazing short womens hair styles.  However, even though the packaging and images are meant to be perfect for women, this product can also work great for men, if they don’t mind a girly looking and designed package for their short hair styling hair products.

I really enjoy the Short Sexy Hair Ultra Bodifying Blow Dry Gel and know that you are really going to enjoy styling your hair as well if you have or want to have a short and fun hair style.  You can buy Short Sexy Hair Ultra Bodifying Blow Dry Gel on sale at Hair Care Discounters where we have this product on sale year round compared to expensive retail stores and salon mark up prices.  Buy the s here.

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Products to Replace Sebastian Wet Sleek Gel.

  • Posted on November 6, 2009 at 7:08 pm

So one of the most popular products on the market from Sebastian was the Sebastian Originals Wet Sleek Gel and Sebastian got rid of it.   Unfortunately, we are almost sold out of it as well and so is just about every other vendor on earth.  The good thing is that there are other products out there that make great replacements for sebastian wet sleek hold gel, the bad news is that it is always scary to try a new products, especially when you have never used that brand or that type of new hair gel before. However, even though trying a new product or brand can be scary because you are used to your old brand, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it a shot, especially if you have some of your original products left so you have time to try new products and still have some of your favorite product on hand for special events in case it takes you a while to find a new substitute for products like the Sebastian Originals wet sleek hold liquid gel.

Anyways, here are some of our recommended substitutes for Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel.

Sebastian Gel Forte

Sebastian Gel Forte

The first gel we would like to recommend isn’t 100% a replacement product for Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel, but it is another hair gel from Sebastian.  Sebastian Gel Forte gives you the same amazing light weight feeling while also giving you amazing hold.  The main difference is that this has more of a matte and dry look instead of the wet and oily, greasy hair look that the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel gave you.  This is a great alternative for people that want the Sebastian products and Sebastian quality and hold, but you will have to give up the wet look.

Redken Hard Wear Gel

Redken Hard Wear Gel

The Redken Hard Wear Gel is an amazingly great substitute for the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel.  The Redken Hard Wear Gel gives you around the same hold and same strength as the Sebastian Wet Gel and it also gives you that wet look and hold that you were used to.  Before you use this product though, you will want to use a deep cleaning product like the Nioxin Cleansers that we sell to make sure you pull out all of the old product so that you can see how great this product works.   It’s actually a good idea to use a deep cleaner like Nioxin every month or every once in a while, especially when you are changing products and brands so you can see how well the new product works.  This is actually a really good tip and will make a great blog post for next week.  Anyways, if you need a hair gel that gives the same look as the Sebastian wet gel, Redken Hard Wear Gel is a great option for you to try.  We also have the Redken Hard Wear Gel on sale for just $12.59 today.

Big exy Hair Blow Dry Volumizing Gel

Big exy Hair Blow Dry Volumizing Gel

Ok this hair gel isn’t a complete substitute but one that you may want to give a try.  Although it isn’t for everyone, if you want a hair gel that you can use to work with volume and hold and use in long hair, the Big Sexy Hair Blow Dry Volumizing Hair Gel is probably a great option for you try.  The Big Sexy Hair Volumizing Blow Dry Gel is a great product for people who like to have hair that has volume and needs lift and hold.  It is also designed to be used with Hair Dryers and heated appliances so if you use a hair dryer, this may be a good product for you to try.  There is nothing like your old hair gel, but if you want something that is designed for volume and hold, the Big Sexy Hair Blow Dry Volumizing Gel is a great product for you to try and we actually have the Big Sexy Hair Volumizing Gel on sale for just $11.79 today.

Short Sexy Hair Hard Up Gel

Short Sexy Hair Hard Up Gel

The Short Sexy Hair Hard Up Gel is another great substitute product to replace the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel.  Not only does this gel hold up and work amazingly well on short hair, but it also gives you the wet sleek look that the Sebastian gel gave you.  It is designed for both Men and Women and is a perfect alternative for people who have short hair that want to have a wet sleek look and want a strong holding gel.  The Short Sexy Hair Hard Up Gel is a great alternative to Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel.

Alterna Hemp Texturizing Glaze

Alterna Hemp Texturizing Glaze

The Alterna Hemp Texturizing Glaze is amazing as an alternative for the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel.  Although it does not leave you with a wet look, it will help to style and treat your hair and help repair damage if you use heated tools or chemicals on your hair.  The Alterna Hemp Texturizing Glaze is a great product if you want a lighter hold and something that helps to repair your hair and helps to prevent damage.

I don’t have a good photo for this one, but the Brocato Styling Gel is an amazing hair gel for you to use instead of the Sebastian Gel as well.  The Brocato Hold On Styling Gel is a lightweight and strong holding gel that will not only look and feel just like the Sebastian Wet Gel, but you will easily fall in love with this hair gel as a replacement.  I love this hair gel and tons of women are hooked on it already.  If you want to try a new product to replace the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Gel, the Brocato Hold On Gel is an amazing option.

Hair Care Discounters carries a ton of different types of Gels and a couple other brands you may want to try to replace the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Gel include KMS, Sudzz FX and the Aquage.  All of these brands are about the same quality and all of them have a product that can help your hair and hold your hair just like the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel.  There are a ton of options to replace the Sebastian Wet Sleek Hold Liquid Gel and if you look through Hair Care Discounters, you’ll find a ton of choices to help you pick the right one.

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Getting the Volume Back in Your Hair is Easy

  • Posted on September 9, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Has your hair started to go limp.  Is it hard to manage and basically deflated.  Are you tired of a bob that lays flat or curls that fall out and just dangle?  Well chances are your hair just needs to be recharged and revitalized with some serious volume.

The first thing you should think about and ask yourself is:

  • What have I done differently to my hair that could have caused it to go flat?
  • What did I do that could have damaged my hair?
  • When was the last time I used a hair treatment or Hair Mask?
  • Did I change products and try something new?
  • What did I do differently recently or what Chemicals or Changes in Temperature could have effected your hair and made it go flat?
  • How often do I style my hair?

By figuring out which of these or which combination of these things you have done or which ones can be effecting your hair and its volume, you can then start to work on which products you need to start using or what you can begin doing differently to help regain control of your hair and give it that full look and feeling that is not only easy to manage and style, but looks healthy and feels amazing.

So the first thing I would look at is when is the last time you treated your hair to a day at the spa…well not really a day at the spa for your hair, but a Hair Mask or Hair Repair Masque to recharge and give your hair back its life and luster and volume.

If your hair has deflated and you color it, style it, damaged it or it is just flat and boring, there is an amazing hair masque that I highly recommend you start trying from Pureology.  It is the Pureology Thickening Hair Masque.

Pureology Thickening Hair Masque

Pureology Thickening Hair Masque

The Pureology Thickening Masque is an amazing Masque that many women and salons have known about for years.  It is technically designed for people who have colored their hair, but because it is for thickening, I like to recommend it for just about anyone and everyone with dull lifeless and fine thin hair that needs to be thickened for volume and depth so you can more easily style it.

This hair masque not only helps to repair and reverse some of the damage done from coloring your hair, but it also helps to protect your color and add in volume and thickness to your hair.

The Pureology Thickening Masque evens out porosity and helps strengthen your hair as well so that you will not only be able to start to get hair that feels and looks healthier and fuller, but it will help to protect your hair color and give your hair more protection from other damage and harmful chemicals.

Now, suppose it isn’t a lack of treatments or the right treatment for your hair, or you haven’t colored your hair out of volume, what else could have been causing the deflation from fun and full hair with life and volume to flat and boring hair that lays on your head and doesn’t hold any style?  Maybe it is the Shampoos and Conditioners you are using.

Alterna Life Volume Restore Shampoo

Alterna Life Volume Restore Shampoo

Aquage Volumizing Shampoo

Aquage Volumizing Shampoo

Big Sexy Hair Big Volume Conditioner

Big Sexy Hair Big Volume Conditioner

Big Sexy Hair Extra Big Volume Shampoo

Big Sexy Hair Extra Big Volume Shampoo

Brocato Swell Full Body Shampoo

Brocato Swell Full Body Shampoo

KMS Add Volume Shampoo

KMS Add Volume Shampoo

There are soo many volume shampoos and conditioners available today and they are soo hard to choose from.  They all do different things and many have different ingredients.  The on thing that volume Shampoos and Conditioners do have in common is the same goal.  To get your hair back up with a ton of volume, body and fullness and so instead of listing a couple hundred shampoos and conditioners (ok that was a bit of an exaggeration) I am going to mention a few brands that are designed for this and then you can pick the one that stands out the most for you and which one you think may work best for your hair.  All of the Volume Shampoo and Conditioners do the same thing, so pick the one that you feel will be best for you and fit your price range, however, remember that I still stand by not all shampoos and conditioners are created equal, ones like Alterna The Science of Ten and Kerastase (Which are available on our site as well) are amazing and have some of the best ingredients in the world and in my opinion are more than worth the extra money and work a lot better on your hair, however pick one that is for Volume and in your price range and begin using it as instructed on the bottle.  Not as you want to because overuse can actually do even more damage.   If you want to try one of the Volume Shampoos or Conditioners that I recommend, click on the pictures to the left and you’ll be taken to the product page, then go and buy the complimentary Shampoo or Conditioner to it as well.

Soo suppose this is still not what is causing the deflation or boring dull hair.  What else can you do to help stop your hair from deflating and get back that volume and hold.  The one thing that I see over and over again, and I used to do is that people are using the wrong styling products to get their hair to hold up to humidity and hold their volume and curls or stop their hair from deflating. The most common product I see being used which is also one that won’t be able to do what you want is hairspray.

Although hairspray is amazing and will start holding you at the beginning of your day, it is not made for holding your curls for styling or your hair high by itself.  It is however perfect for keeping your style in place and locking it into place so that your hair can hold its shape all day, so although I don’t recommend it for being the base of your hair style, it is still important to use a hairspray to hold your hair style in place and help keep it from deflating.

This is where the other products out there come back from the store.  Most people skip over them or have seen their parents use them and never want to give them a try, however, this could be why your hair style does not hold and why your volume does not last all day and why your curls fall out.  Products like, Mousse, Volume Leave in Conditioners and Styling Conditioners and Volume Sprays get passed over when people as people shop and it is an absolute mistake because these are the products that are designed for big hair, curly hair and hair that wants volume and to stay inflated all day.  Hairspray can help to keep it in place and keep your hair style in shape, but these products are the ones that help create the style and hold it for as long as you want it big and beautiful.

Here are some of my favorite volumizing styling products that are great for big hair, curly hair, wavy hair, bob cuts, hair with volume and styles that need to be full and fun.

Brocato Mousse Volumizing Foam

Brocato Mousse Volumizing Foam

Joico Body Luxe Design Foam

Joico Body Luxe Design Foam

Paul Mitchell Extra Body Sculpting Foam

Paul Mitchell Extra Body Sculpting Foam

Redken Full Frame Volumizing Mousse

Redken Full Frame Volumizing Mousse

Sebastian Thickefy Foam

Sebastian Thickefy Foam

TIGI Catwalk Extra Strong Mousse

TIGI Catwalk Extra Strong Mousse

There are a ton of products out there to help you not only repair your hair and repair your hair’s volume, but there are also products out there that will help you style your hair and hold the volume and body that you want.  The most important thing to remember is to find one that works with your hair and to make sure that you treat your hair correctly because if your hair is happy and healthy and treated with care, your hair will also be able to be styled, have volume and life and you will begin to love it again.

Forget those infomercial products that are incomfortable, you can have hair that is full of volume and life naturally without having to wear or use products that hurt your head and look like crud.  Try using a volumizing mask, the proper shampoos and conditioners to help keep your hair healthy and full of volume and the right styling tools and products that are designed for volume and control and keeping your hair big happy and healthy.

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Are Bob Cuts the cuts of the Fall season?

  • Posted on July 23, 2009 at 11:39 pm

I’ve been searching around the web and reading a lot of fashion magazines lately and I keep noticing one thing this summer. More and more Bob haircuts are starting to show up in the photos with Actors, Actresses and Models and it is carrying over to American women of all ages.

I’m seeing women from their mid thirties to late forties wearing your traditional bob cut that lays flat and nice by your shoulders giving the classic bob look, as well as college and high school ages girls going from their short pixie styled hair cuts and morphing them into asymetrical bob hair cuts. We’re even seeing them come out in Movies like Speed Racer with Christina Ricci to Singers like Katie Perry and fashion Icons who have always sported them like Victoria Beckham.

Anyway you look at it, Bobs have been coming back big time since last year and this year you can barely turn around without another lady changing her hair style to some sort of bob, and who can blame them.  Bobs are fun, the move freely, if you have healthy hair, they shine (or you can use Sexy Hair Big Shine Spray to help it along), they can be cut asymmetrical and fun, or look classy and exotic. Bob haircuts can also be used to accent and frame your face.  You can tilt your hair and have one side highlighted while the other side has a gorgeous backdrop of your hair, you can pull one side behind your ear if your bob is a bit longer and you can even pull it forward and let the front ends curl up under or above your chin a bit to help frame that perfect face if you wear a shorter to mid sized bob.

Bob hair cuts are also a fantastic style because they are extremely easy to maintain.  Once you have it shaped and use the proper products a few days, you’ll start to notice that your hair will seem like it is starting to all of the sudden fall right back in to place.  Now that isn’t true for everyone, but if you wear it long enough and use the proper tools on it, your hair will seem like it naturally takes on the shape.  One thing though, make sure you choose the proper bob for your face.  I prefer to see shorter bobs on women with round faces, medium sized bobs on women who have more of the rectangle (bangs can sometimes look good with this too) and if you have the long ovular face, I recommend a longer bob for you.  This is just my opinion on what I think looks and works best, but hey we all have different thoughts on hair and the most important part about picking your style of bob and length is to do what makes you happy, makes you feel good and be proud to step outside and show your new hairstyle off to the world.

Now, some tools that I recommend to help create and either improve upon or maintain your bob include:

  • Babyliss Ceramic Hair Rollers and Setters – These help to form and shape your curls.
  • Big Sexy Hair Big Shine Spray – To add that gorgeous shine to your hair like you see in all the fashion magazines.
  • A Babyliss or CHI Hair Iron – To mold and shape or straighten parts of or all of your bob.
  • A spray or myst – To hold your hair in place so you don’t loose all the hard work you spent on making your Bob look perfect (I think my aunt used to use Moose on hers, but I have never needed to when I used to style a bob so try it if you want, but I never used Moose for this style).

And that’s pretty much it.

If you love Bob hair cuts as much as me and have been seeing them pop up all over the place, don’t miss the trend and be hip this fall when it looks like the Bob may seriously make another appearance….winter latest for women with darker hair ;-) .

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How to do a Mens Hairstyle that is professional & executive looking

  • Posted on July 16, 2009 at 6:31 pm

How to do a Mens Hairstyle that is professional & executive looking

So ladies and gentlemen, something most moms and girlfriends wonder about their sons or boyfriends, even husbands sometimes is “Does the man in my life dress appropriate and is his hair professional looking enough to be looked at repectfully at work?”  Sure we may not want to admit it out loud and some of us may just let it go, but if you were ever in my family, you would hear it on a daily basis, “Hunny, your hair looks a mess, fix it up nice and neat so that people will take you serious!”

My mom would say that to my dad, she would say it to my friends and really just about anyone who didn’t have a hairstyle that she would think was proper and professional enough for the workplace, so I figured why not share a hairstyle that is still hip and trendy, sexy enough to wear out after work to a happy hour and is easy enough to do that you can have your hair done within 2 minutes!  Because we know, most guys usually don’t want to take to long (or at least admit to having to spend to much time) on their hair and appearance.

So this post is designed to help you help all the men in your life have a hairstyle that is professional enough to stand in front of an executive team with, fun and youthfull enough to go to a happy hour or party in and still classy enough to feel good about yourself in.  It is perfect for men from the age of 20 to 60.

Now this hairstyle does require a few things:

1. Short hair.  Anything hanging below your ears is a bit to long.

2. Product – I use a lasting hairspray that will get through the day and start to break in the evening.  (You can always redo this if you want it to stay the same at night, remember it only takes two minutes to do and can be done anywhere!)

3.  Two minutes from your day in the morning after you get dressed.

Anyways, here is how to do this mens professional hairstyle in two minutes time and the products I use.

1.  Start by washing your hair:

curly sexy hair shampoo

curly sexy hair shampoo

I wash mine every day but if you do every other day or every two days, this style will still work well for you, if not easier.  You just won’t have as many defined lines in your bangs or on your head, instead you will have thicker strands.

I used Curly Sexy Hair Shampoo and Conditioner for this hairstyle this morning, mainly because I like the thickness of the product and how it leaves my hair when I finish styling it.  Curly Sexy Hair Shampoo and Curly Sexy Hair Conditioner seem to help me add extra volume to my hair, which I love because it becomes soo much easier to style Mens Professional Hairstyles with and because it is easier for me to shape since I do not use any tool or appliances like brushes or combs or dryers on this hairstyle.

Since many peoples hair does have some natural curl in it anyways, with the volume that this shampoo and conditioner set adds to your hair, and it’s ability to emphasize the curls and help to enrich them, I am almost tempted to say that it also helps with the end step of curling the bangs instead of having front forward spikes which is more of a teenage and punk type of do.

How to do a Mens Hairstyle that is professional & executive looking – continue reading…

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