Showing posts with label bhave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bhave. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Olivia Munn puts the shine in shiny! Steal her look with bhave...


Hi there!

Suffering from hair envy? I'd actually be surprised if you werent after looking at Olivia Munns locks.

Earlier this month she opted for a short chic bob, and what looks like to me - an intensive hair overhaul. Her hair is so glossy that you just know it would feel like the finest silk garment in your hand. Not like that's creepy or anything...

You really need to take care of your hair if you want it to look this good because your humble shampoo and conditioner just won't cut it - so call in the big guns - perhaps even riot control. Oh believe me, I'm not joking, Riot Control by bhave that is (pictured center).

If your hair needs a nudge in the right direction (that direction being straight to the shower to indulge in these amazing salon products!) read on.

5 Steps to Olivia Munn Worthy Hair:

1. Step into the shower and begin by washing your hair with a fantastic nutrient rich shampoo and conditioner. I've raved about bhave's shampoo and conditioner before here. They're great products to help kick start a hair care overhaul. The main (and very powerful) ingredient is keratin protein. It's derived from the wool of New Zealand sheep and is able to bind severely damaged hair follicles, rebuild the internal hair structure and restore strength, elasticity and shine. 

2. Now that your hair is squeaky clean it's time to intensely hydrate it. It's funny to think of all the hours you've probably put into grooming your hair - and it's actually doing it damage! Brushing alone causes split ends, and all those hours slaving over your ghd to get Victoria's Secret curls adds up to limp, dehydrated, sad looking hair. 

Because of this, you need to use a hardworking in-shower hair treatment. bhave™ Deep Intense Conditioning Masque ($41.95) is now my go to. It contains certified organic argan oil, macadamia oil, vitamin E as well as the amazing keratin protein I mentioned above. All these ingredients help to restore elasticity, improve strength, and boost shine.

Leave it in for about 10 - 15 minutes, so if you're a bath kind of girl, sit back and enjoy that novel your friends been dying for you to read. Or, if you're like me and tend to multitask, message in the treatment and clip your hair up then get to work by exfoliating your limbs in the shower, brushing and whitening your teeth, Clarisonic'ing your skin - heck, even shave your legs, you might as well! Once time is up rinse out thoroughly and witness your hair slip between your fingers, it'll be that soft!

3. Start by towel drying your hair. Once your towel has soaked up much of the excess water take bhave™ Riot Control Serum ($48.95). You can use it on damp or dry hair, I've been using it on damp hair because I find that this is when my hair follicles are fully opened and slurp up the most goodness.

Pump about a ten cent piece worth of serum into the palm of your hand and message through your lengths, making sure to avoid your scalp - you don't want your hair to appear greasy after you have later dried it. 

Riot Control is enriched with antioxidants and organic argan oil. It basically helps to stop frizz from occuring after you have dried your hair, and keeps it looking super duper shiny - yes, just like Olivia's! Yay!

4. The final step to restoring and making your hair appear uber glossy is aligning your self with Fresh Ends by bhave™ ($32.95). Before I rave about what's inside this little canister (pictured to the far right) lets look at the packaging! I have never enjoyed applying a leave-in treatment so much in my life. Basically, to squirt out product you have to push down on the white "button" on the top of the lid. When you do this the perfect dollop of cream comes out. Absolutely genius!

Anywho, Fresh Ends is to be added to - you guessed it - your ends. You can do this on damp hair just like you have with Riot Control, or when hair is dry, before you style with a hair dryer. It helps to seal split ends thanks to slow-release ceratonia peptides that work inside the hair structure to continuously repair damage, and certified organic argan oil, aloe vera and macadamia oil which aid in controlling fly-aways without weighing hair down or creating product build up.

5. Style your hair as you normally would. Olivia has used a round barrel brush and a hair dryer to achieve her sleek straight locks.

I hope you enjoy swishing your hair around Munn' style!

SS x

Friday, March 15, 2013

The shampoo & conditioner for misbehaving hair...



My hair is currently going through an ‘in-between stage’. Remember when you were young, and your mum thought it was an awesome idea to take you to the hairdressers so that they could cut you a cute blunt fringe? You’d of course then decide you didn’t like it and be faced having to go through that awkward growing out your fringe stage for the next year.

Well, I’m actually going through a similar situation right now - but instead of dealing with a haphazard fringe (first world problems I know!) I’m dealing with in between-length hair (it’s now sitting just past my shoulders since growing out of a once-upon-a-time bob).

I’m finding now that my hair doesn’t want to do what it’s told. The recent stint of humidity in Sydney has meant that I either have limp strands or frizzy tendrils! So when I was presented with the chance to use bhave’s new Rescue Intense Repair Shampoo and Conditioner ($43.95 each for 300ml), I thought this might be the answer to my hair qualms while I mull over having my hair re-cut to its originally bob, or to continue letting it grow longer.
Both the shampoo and conditioner have a distinct salon scent and this doesn’t surprise me, because the feeling you are left with after using them is of a professional clean. 

bhave Rescue Intense Repair Shampoo boasts “revolutionary replicine functional keratin technology” which basically means the hard working ingredients leave the hair clean, manageable and soft. The keratin proteins are derived from the wool of New Zealand sheep are able to bind to severely damaged hair, rebuild the internal hair structure and restore strength, elasticity and shine. So this shampoo not only cleans, it repairs damage as well as making hair more manageable. Yay!

The conditioner features the same technology but with the addition of antioxidant-rich argan oil and vitamin E to strengthen and nourish hair.

Using these two products directly after the other has helped my hair act normal again. It actually behaves now! I know I still have the same length hair, and I’m wish-washy as to what cut to pick next, but in the mean time these products help my hair flow rather than sit limp – and that’s something any girl who’s indecisive can cheer about! 

SS x