Hair Care

The man, the myth, the legend.  Frederic Fekkai.  Every woman in the world wants his expert hands wrist-deep in her hair.  Sadly, as he is a mere mortal, this is impossible.

Or is it?  Through his fantastic line of hair care products, Mr. Fekkai has found a way to contribute to fantastic hair on every head. 

For several weeks, I have been using the MORE line shampoo and conditioner.  As promised, my hair certainly appears more voluminous.  I’m also satisfied in the knowledge that I’m treating my scalp well, to prevent future thinning.

That’s right.  Our hair may be full and lustrous now, but many of us have thin hair in our genes.  Think about it.  Is there a woman in your family tree with a visible scalp?  Your grandmother?  Your dear Aunt Ida?  My paternal and maternal grandmothers both had thin hair, a trait that could easily be in my future.  Using this product gives me comfort that I am doing everything possible to prevent that scenario from happening.

Bonus #1:  A small amount of product goes a long way, so a full sized bottle will last an eternity.  I have to use much less of this product than my usual shampoo and conditioner.

Bonus #2: The notes of driftwood, cedarwood, jasmine and musk have my husband constantly nuzzling his nose into my hair and telling me my hair smells "pretty".  I LOVE that!

While Mr. Fekkai’s products can be found at many major retailers, the MORE Kit is available exclusively through Sephora.

Once upon a time, I was a road-warrior.  Flying out to a client location on Monday and home on Friday, I lived out of a suitcase and called hotels "home". 

To ensure my skin didn’t dry out and my hair didn’t frizz up, I packed my own shampoo, conditioner, soap and body lotion.  Hotel toiletries were notoriously low-end, and never what I needed.

That was then.  Today, many hotels provide high quality product for their guests.  Some have even found economical ways to do so.  Rather than stock thousands of bottles of crap shampoo that no one would like anyway, a hotel I recently stayed at was stocked with Molton Brown Shampoo, Conditioner and Soap.  Rather than provide small "stealable" bottles, they mounted large bottles to the wall. 

After using Molton Brown Healthy Hair Wash and Indian Cress Instant Conditioner, my hair looked sleek and smooth.  The Molton Brown soap left my skin soft, not tacky the way deodorant hotel soaps of old once left it.  If only hotels had done this in the 90s, my suitcase would have been SO much lighter!

If you use the links to Molton Brown below, you’ll be buying through SpaLook at Amazon.com.  Order more than $100 through SpaLook, and you’ll earn a $20 gift certificate good for anything sold by Amazon.com!  Not a bad deal…

The day of my sister’s sweet sixteen, she asked me to straighten her hair.  On the surface, it sounds like a simple enough request, except for two things:  1) her voluminous curly hair was about 3 feet long, and 2) my straightening iron, considered good at the time, was not up to the task. 

It took about an hour and a half to achieve a look that would be considered wavy at best.  If only I had the Farouk Chi Ceramic straightening iron at the time.  It heats up lightening-fast, and not only flattens hair to perfectly straight, but is astonishingly gentle.