5 Tips To Give Your Hair More Texture

Written by Marquetta Breslin


Each season has its special trend where hair, garments, footwear, and other accessories are concerned. This season's hair trend is texture. You can have fringed ends to soft waves, crimped waves to Afro puffs. Aim is hair should fall in waves.

Simplest way to get that trendy look is a texturizing treatment - temporary or semi-permanent.

Go throughrepparttar following tips and become your own stylist -

1. Color Me

Use a color, which is one tone lighter than your natural color. Cut small strands atrepparttar 113670 surface, twist and apply color. Coil them on top of your head. You will get easy and quick highlights. Color a strand underneath first to checkrepparttar 113671 look.

Ifrepparttar 113672 requirement is of subtle highlights - add a very small measure of depth. If roots have to be dark and heavy - add lots of it. Allover highlighting (including strands aroundrepparttar 113673 face) is necessary in case of lots of texture.

2. Crimp It

Pick a single section of your hair roughly two inches wide and press it with a crimping iron from slightly aboverepparttar 113674 roots untilrepparttar 113675 ends. Let rests ofrepparttar 113676 hair fall straight.

The iron should not be too hot. Crimping will look great when you crimp one-piece nearrepparttar 113677 face. Besides crimping, hair also needs volume, body and curl. To achieve greater volume and less curl, roller should be big. Curling iron is used for a quick hair set. Afterrepparttar 113678 curls have cooled, spray a finishing spray. With fingers, openrepparttar 113679 curls little bit.

For a quick root lift, wet slightlyrepparttar 113680 roots with a finishing spray. Keeprepparttar 113681 roller mid-strand. Roll it torepparttar 113682 roots and letrepparttar 113683 ends be free. Removerepparttar 113684 rollers when hair is dry.

3. Tryrepparttar 113685 New Perms

Perms retexturize hair temporarily, adding volume, movement, body and wave. Nowadays perms are designed to last only 6 weeks. This way you can try out other styles. A perming product can give curly hair a straight look. After application, comb continuously from roots to ends.

Is Your Attitude Destroying Your Health?

Written by Michael Hrenko


A positive attitude may bring good health and success. If you have ever read any book about success you will discover how an optimistic attitude will keep you healthier and tremendously increase your chances of success.

An optimistic attitude has dramatically helped me improve my life in every single area. I overcame severe scalp psoriasis without a doctor and prescriptions. It's a fact that I wound not have overcome my psoriasis without a positive mental outlook. But you may be a skeptic. I know that I was most of my life. After all, if it were that easy why isn't everyone choosing to be optimistic and then reapingrepparttar rewards?

Don't take my word for it. Check out these facts:

"The journal Psychosomatic Medicine published results of a study showing that optimistic men had less than halfrepparttar 113669 risk of heart disease than pessimistic men.". To readrepparttar 113670 rest of this article go to http://www.drweil.com/u/QA/QA326513/

"According torepparttar 113671 premier health and wellness experts at Healthwise Inc.,repparttar 113672 substances that your brain produces depend in part on your thoughts, feelings, and expectations. If your attitude about an illness (or life in general) is negative and you don't have expectations that your condition will get better, your brain may not produce enough ofrepparttar 113673 substances your body needs to heal." To read more go to http://www.vibe-life.com/nutrition.html

"Chris Peterson was teaching a class in abnormal psychology at Virginia Tech when he told his students to fill out an Attributional Style Questionnaire - a carefully designed test that determines a person’s level of optimism and pessimism. The students also answered questions about their general health, including how often they went to a doctor.

Peterson followedrepparttar 113674 health of his studentsrepparttar 113675 following year and discovered thatrepparttar 113676 pessimists had twice as many infectious diseases and made twice as many trips torepparttar 113677 doctor asrepparttar 113678 optimists. Later, Martin Seligman ofrepparttar 113679 University of Pennsylvania and two of his colleagues, using interviews and blood tests, found that optimists have better immune activity than pessimists." To read more go to http://www.thisisawar.com/HealthOptimism.htm

Would you agree that it's not easy to stay optimistic? 

All of us have been to a church service, sales seminar, or a motivational seminar that excited us for a short while. Thenrepparttar 113680 reality of credit card bills, murders, company layoff's, and terrorism would bring you down just as easily as you were pumped up.  So what can you do?

Step 1 - DECIDE that despite all obstacles you will CHOOSE to be optimistic.

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