Hair Care

We have a winner of the prize package from Nick Arrojo, celebrity stylist and makeover king of What Not to Wear.

We know there are fans fans of Nick Arrojo and What Not To Wear who haven't entered to win this amazing giveaway: an autographed copy of his new book Great Hair plus a set of Nick's signature hair care line especially chosen for your hair type!

We'd like to introduce you to Raiquel Cole, CEO of Amourai Organique, a company specializing in all-natural beauty and hair products. Their shampoos and conditioners are free of harmful toxic chemicals like sulfates and parabens, and instead contain natural and organic ingredients to moisturize, strengthen and protect hair. We caught up with Raiquel to find out more about her company's mission and how she got started.

Gold medalist and super-cutie Nastia Liukin has partnered with Herbal Essences to sell haircare products and make herself more famous. We support that.

We also support the half-updo advice in the above video. The half-up look, recently totally rocked by Duffy in the Mercy video, is sexy and smart. It's a wholesome, substitute teacher-esque look that almost everyone can pull off. If your face looks unbalanced when you pull your hair back, play with the angle of your bangs and letting pieces down in the front.

We've all heard that conditioning hair with this or that can repair split ends. While many of these products can marry split ends together to produce a temporarily healthy look, none of them are permanent fixes.

Thanks to everyone who is already participating in the StyleList Giveaway for the BaBybliss flat iron in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness. The comments coming in this week have been amazing, telling us about the person who most inspires you during Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Remember, in addition to providing a great prize, BaByliss PRO Nano Titanium 1 1/4" flat iron, sponsor BeautyChoice.com is also donating 5% of sales of a whole range of pink tools to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

There's still time for you to join in the contest! Visit the original post and leave your confirmed comment tonight by 5 pm EST, and you could be this week's winner!

Sure, everyone loves to go all out on Halloween, especially when you can use a lot of make up and a wig. But what about all of those other times when you could benefit from a little follicular disguise?

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, our friends at BeautyChoice.com are sponsoring this week's StyleList Giveaway for an awesome pink BaByliss PRO Nano Titanium 1 1/4" flat iron.

In addition to sponsoring our contest, during the entire month of October BeautyChoice.com is also donating 5% of sales of a whole range of pink tools to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

The BaByliss Pro is the very latest in flat iron technology, giving you silky smooth hair, like a doll. It heats up fast and doesn't snag your hair, so it's easy to use. Plus, it's pink!

Ready to win it? Here's how:

• To enter, leave a confirmed comment below telling us who inspires you during Breast Cancer Awareness month.
  
• The comment must be left before 5pm ET on Friday, October 24th.
  
• You may enter only once.
• One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  
• One winner will receive the pictured pink BaByliss PRO Nano Titanium flat iron (valued at $129.99).
• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia who are 18 and over.

Click here for complete Official Rules. And remember to use a real email address - we won't spam you, or use it for anything except to let you know that you won!

How much fun is this hairbrush? We know, we know... "hairbrush" and "fun" don't usually go together in the same sentence, but we think these brushes are worthy of breaking that rule. We especially love the "Vixen" and "Femme Fatale" models, but there are so many other designs to choose from as well. These brushes would make such great gifts, and can you imagine the conversations you would start if you whipped one of these babies out of your purse? Get your own now for only $10 at Jenny's Gifts and Fine Art.

Our beauty routine is really feeling this poopy economy. Our roots are about two inches long, our beauty closet is down to bare essentials, and we're just dying for something to give!

"I found a gray hair...in my hair...down there." -Samantha Jones, Sex and the City

It has plagued women for centuries. You start to go gray on top? No big deal. If it bothers you, you dye it. But you start to go gray down below? Where do you turn? What do you do? Who can you possibly risk telling?

Also, many blondes do a little cheating up top, but what, are you going to take your hairstylist aside and ask him if he does any under-the-table treatments? Marilyn Monroe knew your pain. The curtains gotta match the carpet.

The hottest hair accessory these days, and we mean that literally and figuratively, is the mini flat iron.

We tried out the BaByliss Pro Nano Titanium Mini-flat iron, and it's popular for a reason. At just six inches long and 1/2" wide, it's much easier to use for bangs or quick touch ups than your regular-sized flat iron.

It also can travel really easily, not that we recommend dragging a flat iron out on a date, but if you're going somewhere after work and want to smooth out the end of day frizzies in the ladies room, this is the way to go.

Bored at work? Nothing to do but mess around with your hair?

You may have more options than you realize.

Here at right we have a terrific example of creativity at work. Model Havilah Brewster's updo is stylish and sassy, and totally, totally made of rubberbands and binder clips.

Take a look at our gallery for unlikely hair tools you may already have at your desk--and for how to use them!

We're pretty sure some of you are sister-fans of Sebastian Potion 9 (which we still refer to as Potion #9, but corrected in this post so we don't look dumb.)

Remember the sticky, gluey consistency, that was so hard to get off your hands? The orange color? The way you could use in on wet or dry hair, and how it was the one product you could count on to give your Rachel-do the perfect mixture of smoothness with body?

Oh, those were some good times. But inexplicably, we were lured away from our reliable Potion 9 by the novel temptations of Pureology and Bumble and bumble.

We'd forgotten just how good Potion 9 was, until a box of review samples for the New Sebastian Professional line arrived.

Fashion week doesn't only bring on clothing trends. No, no friend. It also shows us just how to wear our hair and makeup for the next few months too.

So what exactly are the top hair trends for the spring season? The simple bun and long, straight hair parted right down the middle. Fabulously easy indeed.

The way to get the long, straight hair look is obvious. Dry your hair and use your straightening iron! Voila! Needn't say more.

The bun on the other hand was reincarnated dozens of different way. We saw librarian buns, side buns, braided buns, messy buns, sleek buns, and pouf buns. This bun-o-mania means that us lay folk at home can A) do the look easily ourselves and B) stylize to suit our personalities.

So check out the gallery, find a bun that looks good to you, and rock it!