The Top 11 Best-Hair Cities

Did your hometown make the list? Find out!

Are you having a good hair day? You probably are if you're living in one of these cities. We looked at humidity levels, pollution, rainfall, average wind speeds, water hardness, demographics and the number of beauty salons per capita to find which cities have the best conditions for healthy, stylish hair. So did your town make the list? See cities

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The Weekend Beauty Read

Cybelesays.com investigates an organic nail polish remover. Does it work? Click here to find out.

Decorative Diva investigates a new mineral makeup company, Obsessed Minerals. Read here

A Touch of Blusher loves the look of Dior's Lilas Addict Collection.

Enter to win Elke's ONline Eyebrow Makeover and $30 in brow products. Hurry! Contest ends April 31st.

Beauty Anonymous reviews Elizabeth Arden's Intervene Timefighting Radiance Serum and Stress Recovery Night Cream.

Melissa of The Makeup Divas reviews the new Prescriptives Motor-Eyes Instant Action mascara .

Win a Hana Professional Flat iron worth $89 at Beauty and Personal grooming. Click here to enter the contest!

Beauty Junkie in SF reviews Kenzo's Limited Spring Edition of FLOWERBYKENZO.

The girls over at Beauty in Real Life let you in on Bobbi Brown's new Nautical Collection. Check it out here!!

Kyle at Face Candy tells you which limited edition MAC Dazzleglass is going to be a cult classic.

ThisThatBeauty is giving away three VICHY Normaderm Anti-Imperfection Hydrating Care. Click here to check it out !!! to see what she thinks about them. to enter the giveaway!

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Ayur Green Apple and Honey Face Gel: Review

I’ve loved using Everyuth granular face wash (Read review); it’s mild and doesn’t strip my skin dry. Another product that’s quite similar to this one is Ayur Green Apple and Honey Face Gel. It’s mentioned that this particular gel contains green apple which has a rich supply of vitamins, minerals and honey that’s simply a wonderful natural ingredient that soothes, moisturizers and refreshes the skin and also helps with acne. Furthermore it has the goodness of menthol which helps in keeping the skin cool and fresh. Overall it’s an ideal product for all skin types in summer months.

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Win a Hana Flat Iron

If you are on the lookout for a good hair straightener for your unruly tresses, here’s a wonderful opportunity to get one easily. Thanks to Misikko, I’ll be giving away a Hana Professional Flat iron 1” through a contest. With a 2 year warranty and professional features like damp-to-dry styling, floating plates that self adjust to different textures and adjustable temperature, the Hana Professional hair straightener is engineered to deliver luxury at an affordable price of $89. Its advanced Fusion Molding delivers glass-smooth ceramic-tourmaline plates while acccelerated negative ion output repairs hair follicles, sealing in natural oils for a conditioned, sleek, salon shine that lasts all day.

Want to win this amazing flat iron? Then go through the rules of this contest carefully. There are 5 different ways through which you can enter this contest:

1. If you are an email subscriber (Feedblitz Weekly Email updates / Feedburner Daily Email updates) of this blog, leave a comment on this post along with your email id as to why you would love to have a Hana Flat iron! (If you haven’t subscribed to this blog then please do so immediately and remember to activate your subscription as well.
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2. One more way to enrol in this contest is to visit Misikko and leave a comment here as to what other product from Misikko interests you and what you'd like to use it for. Please do not forget to leave your email id in the comment.
3. Another way to enter this contest is to follow Misikko on twitter. Just leave your twitter user name in the comments below along with your email id !
4. Or else you could spread the word about this contest by posting about it on your blog and come back here to leave a comment along with the URL of your post and your email id!
5. You could also twitter about this post or mention it in some forum and then paste the URL of the link where you have mentioned along with your email id in the comments!

Note that this contest is open only to readers in USA and Canada. Comments without an email id will not be considered. This giveaway is open until May 14^th, and I will pick a winner randomly and announce his/her name on May 15^th 2009.

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Winner of Gloves in a bottle

The winner of my very first giveaway is Sherry Brooks from Pittsburgh, USA. Congratulations for winning Gloves in a bottle – you will be receiving your prize very soon. Many, many thanks to all those who subscribed for email updates from this blog. If you couldn’t win this time, don’t worry; I will be holding many more contests and giveaways in the coming days!

P.S: Check out for another exciting giveaway tomorrow!!!

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Your hair can get sunburnt too

It’s not just your skin that has to endure the fury of the scorching sun. Your hair is also susceptible and can get sunburnt easily. Extreme exposure to the sun results in UV rays attacking your hair cuticles with such vehemence that your locks can’t lie flat and look totally frazzled out. Hair also loses all its former smoothness, shine and luster. The moisture from the hair is also lost making it extremely dry, brittle and unmanageable. Additionally, sun rays also lighten the color of your hair in exactly the same way as if it has been chemically lightened or bleached. Severe sun exposure can even burn your scalp, leading to hair-loss in many cases. Acutely sunburnt tresses need to be chopped off , a trichologist (hair doctor) would be able to treat your severely damaged tresses and suggest suitable deep conditioning and damage-repair treatments.

But as always, prevention is always better than cure. So it's a good idea to wear suitable head gears like hats as much as possible during the summer months, especially if you are holidaying in a place which has plenty of sun and sand. Also special hair care products meant for protecting your hair in summer should be chosen. These are usually in the form of leave-in conditioners with an SPF factor, and they should be applied frequently when you are out in the sun, just as you would apply sunscreen to your skin. A home-remedy that’s extremely beneficial for damaged and dry tresses is a bi-weekly hot-oil massage with virgin coconut oil.

And if you love to swim in cool waters of a swimming pool in summer, do read this post -- there are some great tips and suggestions for you to follow to protect your skin and hair from chlorinated waters.

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Cold wax review

Sometime back, I had purchased cold wax to remove superfluous hair from my legs. I don’t remember the brand, but certainly it wasn’t one of those stick and peel pre-coated cold wax strips. It was a container and the stuff inside it was in a semi-solid state. I had to purchase thin cotton strips separately for this purpose. (You could try Fantasea Non-Woven Facial & Body Wax Strips.) I spread out the wax on my legs with a spatula, pressed the cotton strips and pulled the hair off quickly in the opposite direction of hair-growth; it left my skin red and irritated and I must say it was horribly painful and hurt like hell. I did manage to remove all of the hair and my legs were hair-free for more than a month, but the whole process of waxing was very very painful and I resolved never to use store-bought cold wax again or for that matter wax my legs ever again.

Persian Cold Wax

Fantasea Non-Woven Facial & Body Wax Strips

What was your experience with cold wax or cold wax strips? Was it painful? Were you satisfied with the results? Let me know in your comments.

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Did you know?

* Some recent studies suggest that women with insufficient vitamin D intake during pregnancy may be at increased risk for birth by cesarean section.
* Another study suggests that women who get some sun during the last trimester of pregnancy may have children with stronger bones.
* Music-loving mothers-to-be may soon be able to play tunes to their unborn child, courtesy a specially designed 'baby iPod'.
* A new research indicates that women with severe mental illness are more likely to have been abused in childhood that the general population. But the same association has not been found in men
* It may be wise to trust the female nose when it comes to body odor. According to new research, it is more difficult to mask underarm odor when women are doing the smelling and researchers speculate that females are more attuned to sniff out biologically relevant information in sweat.
* Desk jobs are increasing obesity, with many employees and employers ignorant of the risks of sitting down all day; read this post as well.
* When it comes to losing weight, what you drink may be more important than what you eat, according to new research; it shows that cutting back on sugar-laden drinks is associated with weight loss and seems to have a bigger impact on weight than cutting back on solid foods. Another study suggests that replacing sugar-laden drinks with water has a dramatic impact on the amount of calories kids consume and may help in the fight against childhood obesity.
* A new research suggests that older adults who worry about their health often opt out of physical activity -- and as a result, they may have greater trouble walking and getting around as they age
* A new research has found that dancing is an excellent exercise for older people and also contributes towards improved health and happiness. The study reveals the social, mental and physical benefits of social dancing for older people and also suggests that dancing staves off illness, and even counteracts decline in aging.
* A study of 533 American women has shown that those with lead concentrations above a certain amount in their blood were three times more likely to die of coronary heart diseases.
* A new study says that tension, backbiting, and poor team spirit at the workplace may increase the risk for depression.

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