It’s amazing how many people commit these ‘hair crimes’ and wonder why they’re so unhappy with their manes!

Take a look at these 5 hair no-no’s I’ve accumulated over the years. What do you think?

Brushing wet hair with a wide-toothed comb is much safer than a brush

1. Never brush your hair when it’s wet. Especially if your hair is curly! Brushing your hair when it’s wet can over-stretch it and cause your hair to break. Only use wide-toothed combs – and work your way up from the tip to the roots.

2. Rubbing your wet hair with a towel. Never rub – always pat. When you’re rubbing your manes with a towel to get it dry, you’re causing friction between the strands, can break the hair, can cause your hair to go frizzy, and increases your fly-aways! Gently squeeze the excess water out of your hair, then pat with a towel.

3. Blow-drying your hair when it’s soaking wet. All this does is make the total drying time much longer – which means that your hair is exposed to heat for a longer period of time. After gently squeezing out the excess water from your hair, wrap a towel around your head to soak up some more water for about 5-10 minutes. By then, your hair should be “towel-dried”. This is the best time to blow-dry your manes.

4. Using old brushes and combs. Sure, the economy calls for all of us to be a little more tight with our money. But using old brushes and combs, and I mean old as in some of the teeth from the combs are misshaped and/or gone, the brushes dont’ look the same anymore, etc etc. Using brushesand combs that are damaged could cause your hair to break, snag, and cause tangles.

5. Straightening your hair every day. The more heat damage you put your hair through, the faster the hair goes through damage. Straightening irons put your hair through much more stress than blow dryers. So try to alternate straightening with a straightening iron and a blow-dryer when you can.

I love love LOVE false eyelashes.
But not like those really trashy looking porn-star eyelashes every day…those are for special occasions only!

False eyelashes can look great on almost everybody – actually, everybody! You just have to know which ones fit your face better.

If you’ve been born with those naturally long and curved lashes that reach halfway up to your eyebrows (lucky!!!), you wouldn’t need a full set of false eyelashes to make them any longer – as it would look very unnatural! For those ladies with naturally long lashes, I would say stick to individual lashes to add to your volume.

If you’ve been unfortunate like me, and was born with stubby straight eyelashes, false lashes are great to create volume+length! Just make sure to curl and apply mascara beforehand – so it doesn’t look like you have a set of fake, long, curved lashes and then straight stubby things right under them.

Also, make sure the glue you are using is a good, sturdy, long-lasting one! And never, ever put false eyelashes ONTO your REAL lashes. They’ll never come off!

I can’t tell you how many girls I know think that shiny, gooey, colourful lipgloss is moisturizing their lips.

Most lip products actually dry out your lips – with their chemicals, perfums, colours, and other additives. If you were to slick on some proper moisturizer under the layer of fabulous colour – that’s a different story. But many women consider the one layer of colour to be enough to prevent them from the flaky, dry, aging lips.

Yes, lips age!

Summer is coming up – and that means the monsterious (word?) DEHYDRATION is right up behind us. We all take extra precautions (you SHOULD if you don’t already) to drink more water, moisturize our skin, replenish our bodies, etc… but have you ever realized how often you lick your lips in the summertime? Wayyyyy more than wintertime! As we are eating more often and drinking more often throughout the day, our lips lose the moisturizer we previously put on, and start to dry out.

So make sure you’re applying those lip moisturizers – preferably with SPF! Sun=sun damage=wrinkles. On your lips too.

My favourite lip moisturizer!