It’s Beautiful Women’s Month, here are some beauty tips to live by from the beautiful, Audrey Hepburn.

When asked to share her “beauty tips” Audrey Hepburn wrote this poem, which was later read at her funeral.

• For attractive lips . . . speak words of kindness
• For lovely eyes . . . seek out the good in people
• For a slim figure . . . share your food with the hungry
• For beautiful hair . . . let a child run their fingers through it once a day
• For poise . . . walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
• People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone
• Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms
• As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in ‘Charade’ 1963

It’s Beautiful Women’s Month . . . Tag, you’re it!

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Don’t Try This Hair Color Correction At Home

Kari asks

“Hair Color Correction Takes Care”

You can continue tinting every few months until the old lightened hair color is cut off. Or, you could bring it to a professional hair colorist or an advanced beauty school for a reduced price but, don’t try correcting this yourself! Right now your problems are few. If you color it at home and get the ends too dark, the price for correcting the hair color mistake goes up and the damage to your hair will be more extensive.

A professional hair colorist can fill the high lighted part of your hair with a more permanent hair color than you are using now. That will hold more hair color on the ends so they don’t fade out as much. But they will still most likely do a semi-permanent coloring throughout the hair to blend your new growth to your ends.

When this type of hair color correction is done right you can eventually stop using the semi-permanent color altogether if that is what you would like to do.

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Hair Care Products Voted Best By Hairstyling Professionals

“Hair Care Product Award Winners”

How many of you have problems when it comes to choosing the right hair care products? Do you have an arsenal of unused hair care products that basically just take up space in your cabinets?

Most of us fall right into the hands of the professional marketers who bombard our psyches with promises of softer, shinier, thicker, sexier hair if we just use their new and improved product. Hydratherape Hydrating Shampoo, Repairative Shampoo, Volumizing Shampoo, Rich Moisture Coconut Mango Shampoo . . . you get the picture, there are more agonizing choices to be made here than any human being should be put to test. Which one is right for you?

If you are looking to switch products or the hair care product you have been using is falling short, here is an easy way to narrow down your choices . . . the professionals have done it for you.

The 8th annual “hairdresser Choice Awards” will be held June 1st at the Hard Rock Live, Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida. The “Premiere Beauty Show” and Behindthechair.com work together to bring us hairdressers top choices of the past year. This is a BIG event with big names like, Vidal Sassoon, Ken Paves and Nick Arrojo to only name a few. So they draw thousands to this fun and eventful show. The “hairdressers Choice Awards” is part of it and they will give the #1 choice in all categories of hair care products, styling tools and then some.

Now, why not simplify your life and choose from the professionals faves? After all, they are the ones who see and feel the results of these products on a daily basis in every hair type. I’m a professional and I can get overwhelmed when choosing new hair care products to use.

Here are the Top 5 Finalists for the main categories. These finalists were tabulated after months of membership voting at behindthechair.com. These will be narrowed down to one winner in each category at the Premier Beauty Show on June 1st. I will post the results at that time for you also.

Meanwhile, this is a smart list to choose from when you find yourself dissatisfied with your current hair care product and don’t know what to choose . . . they are the top of the heap from thousands of professionals who voted.

Favorite Shampoo
Farouk Systems CHI Infra Shampoo
Joico K-PAK Shampoo
PureOlogy HydrateShampoo
Redken All Soft Shampoo
Redken Color Extend Shampoo

Favorite Conditioner
Joico K-PAK Conditioner
Matrix Biolage Conditioning Balm
PureOlogy HydrateCondition
Redken All Soft Conditioner
Redken Color Extend Conditioner

Favorite Styling Gel, Lotion or Mousse
Farouk Systems BioSilk Rock Hard Gelee
Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Sculpting Foam
Paul Mitchell Sculpting Foam
Redken Guts 10
Redken Touch Control

Favorite Hair Spray
Aveda Air Control
Kenra Volume Spray 25
Paul Mitchell Worked Up
Redken Quick Dry
Sebastian Shaper

Favorite Specialty Styling Product (wax, paste, mud, crème, etc.)
Kenra Texture Taffy
Paul Mitchell Spray Wax
Redken Rough Paste
Name Your Link
TIGI Bed Head Manipulator

Favorite Volumizing Product
Matrix Amplify Root Lifter
Redken Body Full Carbo-Bodifier
Redken Guts 10
Sexy Hair Root Pump
TIGI Bed Head Superstar Queen for a Day Thickening Spray

Favorite Deep or Restorative Conditioner
Aveda Damage Remedy
Joico K-PAK Deep-Penetrating Reconstructor
PureOlogy NanoWorks Restorative Treatment
Redken Extreme Deep Fuel
Redken Chemistry System

Favorite Straightening Product (non-chemical)
Farouk CHI Straight Guard
Matrix Sleek.look
Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Serum
Redken Align
TIGI S-Factor Seriously Straight

Favorite Curling Iron
BaByliss Pro Curling Iron
Farouk Systems CHI Curling Iron
Helen of Troy Hot Tools Curling Iron
T3 Curling Iron
TIGI Hardcore Tools Curling Iron

Favorite Flat Iron
Farouk Systems CHI Ceramic Flat Iron
FHI Heat Flat Iron
ghd Styling Iron
Paul Mitchell Smoothing Iron
T3 Tourmaline Flat Iron

Favorite Hair Dryer
BaByliss Pro Hair Dryer
Farouk CHI Turbo Hair Dryer
Helen of Troy Hot Tools Hair Dryer
Solano Hair Dryer
T3 Hair Dryer

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