Girly Stuff

I miss my nail polish so much At work I regularly have to use industrial strength acetone with is obviously not good for the polish. I have some coworkers who swear by these gel nail stuff they get some at a nail place. They can get acetone on their nails and it doesn't remove it. It's their own nails too, not acrylics (which I've had and will never do again).

The gel stuff is AWESOME but crazy expensive here (in NYC it was going for like $90 for a manicure two years ago, no idea if it's come down now.) I had it done once (my roommate's girlfriend was a nail technician or whatever you call them, and she did them for me). It lasted a while but my nails grow super fast so after just a week or two, you could really see it growing out, so even though the stuff stays on for like 6 weeks, if your nails grow remotely fast it doesn't matter. It also seemed like if you continually used it without a break in-between, it might damage your nails.

I'd definitely get it done whenever I needed my nails to stay nice if it wasn't so expensive.

Speaking of shampoo, I seriously need to find one I like because so far I never had. I tried the 'poo' free for about two or three months but my hair never got to a point where it was nice. Any favorite sulfate free shampoos that aren't super expensive?

I am addicted to nail polish. Omg, it is like my weakness. Trying to decide what color I want to do tonight. I have a minty blazer and a blouse that is white with kind of coral-y flowers on it. Can't decide if I want to go with coral/pinky nails or mint.

Argh....

Has anyone here ever used Wen hair products? I watched an infomercial and read reviews, it seems like awesome stuff, but I don't know if the reviews are just..padded?

I know you are only supposed to wash your hair twice a week, and I would LOVE to only have to do it twice a week. BUT , if I wash my hair, the very NEXT day, it I can only wear it in a pony tail, I cannot do anything else with it because it is just TOO greasy. I can only just barely manage to get away with wearing it in a ponytail.

I wash it well, I use good shampoo, I don't let the conditioner touch my roots etc. But my god does my hair ever get greasy.

Any suggestions on how to manage that?

If you don't want to go entire shampoo free, and even "sulfate free" shampoos are leaving it greasy (after a few weeks...it DOES take at least two weeks and maybe even a couple of months to stop producing so much oil), try washing it with baking soda and using vinegar or apple cider vinegar as a conditioner.

When I switched to shampoo free, my hair looked pretty skeevy about 50% for a month probably. Loooots of braids and headbands/bandanas. And more braids.