I’ve gotten highlights a few times, and it just never worked out the way I wanted it to. One time in like eighth grade, I had these awful blonde highlights that made me look like Tony the Tiger’s cousin. It was bad. I really wish I could have seen what it would have looked like before I let that hair lady touch me with her bleach and foil. That was one of my worst hair faux pas, and fortunately I’ve never dealt with that again. I’ve learned that blonde doesn’t work for me, but sometimes I want to spice up my locks temporarily.

Generation Klean has solved this dilemma. They sent me their Gray Disappear temporary hair color “mascaras.” Basically, it’s mascara for your hair that is used to cover up grays but can also be used as temporary highlights. It covers up roots, too. It comes in four colors: blaze, gold, espresso, and onyx. Blaze was the only one that really showed up in my dark brown hair, but if you have lighter hair you’ll have a blast playing around with different looks. I might add some red in permanently after using these.

Check out how Gray Disappear works in the video! Read More »

Even if you’re still finishing up finals, there’s no harm in daydreaming about the 4 fabulous months to come. So put down that Econ 101 textbook, grab a towel, and layer on the sunscreen.

Summer’s almost here, and it’s time to celebrate!

To help pump you up, we’ve put together a list of the 35 greatest things about summer. Here are our top picks: Read More »

A lot has changed in a year: world conflicts, the senate majority, Lindsay Lohan’s rehab status (oh wait), but most importantly – my hair. Those cherished dead follicles that most every girl protects (or rather, harms) are essential to my well-being for any day. If my hair looks like crap, I feel like crap. I totally 100% believe the story from the Bible about Sampson’s hair being his strength. Once that chick cut it off, what happened? He was captured by his enemy who then gouged out his eyes and forced him into manual slave labor (thank you, private Christian middle school!).

Needless to say, I take my hair very seriously. Any haircut or dye job I get is agonized over and meditated on for days. Once the deed is done, it’s another week of roller coaster emotions for me. “I love it!” “UGH! I HATE IT!” “It’s still got a good length.” “OH MY GOD, NO ONE WEARS THEIR HAIR THIS SHORT!”

You get the picture.

My BFF from Leeds calls my constant state of conflict over my hair, “the big stress.” She would know. She has bleached, cut, and extended her hair more times than I can count. Actually, it was due to her prodding that I went mostly blonde last year, a huge step for a strawberry blonde like me who until then had only lightly highlighted my golden curls (and even that was tentatively as all my hair stylists swoon over my natural color and scowl when I ask them to change it). Read More »