Posts under ‘beauty’

‘But you have some experience with olive oil. I can see it,’ he says. In reflex, my hand reaches up to touch my face. Are there telltale marks of last evening’s supper? ‘No, no, signora,’ says a man, perhaps the oldest one among the group. ‘There is no stain. He refers to your complexion. You [...]

I bought this book, and just started reading it, and OH. MY. GODDESS. It literally contains everything you could ever want to know about hair and then some. Truly amazing.

I’ve been fighting my hair since I became old enough to care – so for about 20 years or so. I looked at the girls in school, in all their soft, shiny, poker straight blonde beauty. I looked at my sister, who had rich, shiny, poker straight hazel brown hair. Then I looked in the mirror, on [...]

I had to shampoo my hair today – not because it was greasy and dirty, because it wasn’t, but because I had to color it and shampoo was absolutely necessary to get the color and bleach out properly. I’m definitely jumping right back on the no-poo train again. Today, after a week of no shampoo, [...]

I couldn’t sleep last night. I tossed and turned in bed, I was too hot and too cold and sweating and freezing and coughing. As a result, when I woke up this morning my hair didn’t feel great. On the contrary, it felt greasy and yucky and glued to my head. In my normal life, [...]