A blog about hair, written by hair junkies at Folica.com

With summer ending oh-so-quickly and Back to School season approaching, a Folica shopping spree is totally necessary. Over the past 3 months, I’ve had the opportunity of testing every product at my Folica-fingertips. This involved likes and dislikes, or should I say… miracles and disasters (instructions are there for a reason).  Of course, the miracles are currently in my shopping cart and will be coming with me back to school, along with countless new HairJunky tricks of the trade.

Here’s my selection:

1. Sedu Beach Beauty Sea Salt Spray: Instantly turns my hair into fun beach hair.
2. Tigi Bed Head Dumb Blonde Smoothing Stuff: Makes straight hair smoother and adds awesome shine
3. Oscar Blandi Volumizing Dry Shampoo: Definite must for those 20-minutes-to get-ready-no-time-to-wash-and-straighten-my-greasy-hair days.
4. Aveda Brilliant Universal Styling Crème: It adds an awesome amount of texture and shine to either straight or curly hair, not to mention the very pretty herbal smell- kind of eucalyptus and lavender-esque.

And last but not least, (drumroll…) a bit of good news:

5.  The Hot Tools Ceramic Tourmaline Deep Waver is back in stock on Folica! As Rachelle was just discussing, wavers are totally a go-to fave. What I love about this is that I can wave my hair and not have to worry about my roots. I leave them curly, this way I have more volume and the waves look natural. Definitely my new best friend.

Go back to school with great hair (and great deals). Check out Folica’s Back to School Shop!

Any more product suggestions for me before i go?

–J

Hey hey! So I spent some time browsing Allure’s website, just looking for any new tips that they might have, and as it turns out, they’ve been talking to Oscar Blandi about his Pronto Dry Shampoo also! While Rachelle used it to bring her awesome curls back to life, they used it to create the perfect summer side braid.

We’re still playing around with new ways to use this fun product, does anyone else have a dry shampoo technique of their own? And, if you’ve used Oscar Blandi’s Pronto Dry Shampoo and love it as much as we do, write a review!

—J

Hair fans! I hinted at a special Oscar Blandi project last month {Oscar Blandi Salon Visit} and, here it is: Dry Shampoo How-To video with Oscar Blandi.

What do you think? I learned a ton. I’d only tried dry shampoo a couple of times before (unsuccessfully) but since this visit, I’ve been experimenting, learning what I can about using it so I can report back to, well you of course. I also didn’t know that dry shampoo had so many uses (cleaning, volumizing, texturizing – giving second-day hair whether you’re starting with clean hair, or reversing dirty hair by a couple of days).

Speaking of fun learnings, you’ve all found some great facts for the Dry Shampoo Contest. A couple of my favorites so far:

From Mea: “Boots reports a 45% rise in sales of dry shampoo in the past year, suggesting that, far from being an excuse to go all Swampy, the new generation of dry shampoos offers a practical alternative to a daily wash and blow-dry.”

This is from the Sunday Times, 3/30/2008. So I bet there’s been a bigger increase in sales of dry shampoo in 2009 and 2010, since the number of dry shampoos on the market has more than tripled, if not quadrupled.

From Margaret: I’m all about organic recipes for beauty related stuff so this article was pretty cool: http://beauty.thefuntimesguide.com/2010/01/dry_shampoo.php

There actually a lot of homemade ways of creating your own dry shampoo without shelling out the cash! That’s pretty awesome corn meal is highly recommended!

From Valerie: “In India, a variety of herbs and their extracts are used as shampoos. A very effective shampoo is made by boiling soapnuts with dried gooseberry (amla) and a few other herbs, using the strained extract. This leaves the hair soft, shiny and manageable. Another product used is the mustard cakes left after extraction of mustard oil…” {Link}

What else do we want to know about dry shampoo? I think we need product reviews. And, I’m pretty sure Jan is planning to test some this weekend.