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Long curly locks have been a trend for years. Hollywood’s finest stylists sure know how to make the women in the industry’s manes look perfect. So, what do you do? Be it loose curls like Beyonce’s, tight curls like Katie’s, or waves like Jessica’s here are a few tips!

Be sure to deep condition your hair at least once a week, depending on if your scalp is dry, normal, or oily. This will keep your mane looking sleek and healthy. Use a serum help keep your hair moisturized. If possible, let your hair air-dry instead of blowing it dry with a hair-dryer.

There are some great tools out on the market to use for curly locks as well! Hot rollers like the Conair Ion Shine Instant Heat Hair Setter will give you a variety of big & little curls. I’ve also had better experience with staying-power when using hot rollers rather than a curling iron. However, this takes a bit more patience and time. Learning how your hair works with rollers can be frustrating, so practice before your even to avoid a time crunch and having to figure out something else.

The newest, hippest way to curl your hair is with a round-edged flat iron. It basically is convenient and quick, combining straightening & curling. My all-time favorite tool to use for this is the T-3 Medium Duality iron. It’s quite complicated to learn the motions, especially doing it “backwards” in the mirror but the great thing is you can get wavy, curly, or tight curls from this method! The T-3 is probably the best flat iron I’ve ever used and that was even when I only used it on my short hair. I couldn’t imagine having long hair and living without this!

Thirdly, the old fashion method is to use a plain’ole curling iron. The size of the curls depends on the barrel size of the curling iron. You could have really tight, big curls by using a 1&1/2″ curling iron and 1/2″ sections of hair. Or you could have really tight, tiny curls by using a 1/2″ curling iron and 1″ sections of hair. For hair like Carrie’s a 1&1/2-2″ iron was probably used with maybe 1-1&1/2″ sections of hair. My biggest tip when using a curling iron for your barrel curls: slide the barrel out of the curl as gently as possible and move on without touching or moving the curl. Wait at least 3-4 minutes after your curl is perfect and the way you want it before running your hands through it or moving it around. The hair needs to be completely cooled down before being messed with so that it stays curly and doesn’t instantly go flat.

My favorite thing to do to my hair is curl half of it (the longest part) in these very small pin curls like Taylor Swift has here. My secret? To use a TINY curling iron with a track wrapped around it. I got this curling iron when I had really long hair my sophomore year of high school to do my own hair for Homecoming. I’ve had it since and I’ve loved every minute that I’ve used it. Since having short hair I don’t get much of a chance to use it anymore, it’s fun to use on other people.

For my best friend wedding last September, this was my main tool doing her hair on her big day. All you have to do is curl the hair in little 1/2″ sections and wrap it around the track. There are two ways to wrap it for two different looks. If you want separated, bouncy curls like Taylor has, follow the track perfectly, not overlapping any hairs on the track. If you want more intertwined curls, take a bigger chunk, maybe 1″ sections and overlap the hair on the tracks. You can find these curling irons basically anywhere, I got mine at Ulta.

Curly locks are popular on the runway, in Hollywood, and in every day life. I can’t wait to grow my hair out for the wedding so I can have beautiful curly locks! Do you have any curly locks secrets?

This season, yellow is a hot color for trend. Walking into work, at Nordstrom, for the past three weeks I’ve seen nothing but yellow, yellow, yellow! Above are some amazing finds from Forever21 & Charlotte Russe that you can incorporate with your everyday clothing. Many of these items look great contrasted against black, denim, and sometimes white pieces.

Whether it be yellow accessories or actual pieces of clothing that you wear, you’re sure to look hot and trendy! Forever 21 & Charlotte Russe are both great ways to add pieces to your wardrobe that maybe you wouldn’t wear but a few times. They’re also great places to find accessories that are trendy and not so classic.

Will you be sporting yellow this spring & summer?

MAC Cosmetics & Heatherette have collaborated to release a cosmetic launch this spring. Because this collection is so near and dear to my heart - as a MAC Artist and someone who appreciates funky style - I thought it’d be appropriate to share some of my favorite pieces from the cat walk. The Heatherette collection will be released March 27, 2008 at all MAC locations. From double sided pencils - with glitter pencils on one half - to 3D glitters, what inspires the dynamic duo is “glitter, sequins, and dreams.” Please visit their MySpace account and friend them if you share an interest!

What is there not to love about these pieces? The first dress screams runway to me. I love its flare, the color, and the multitude of textures. The second is such a classic prep look. This amuses me because prep is the last thing that comes to mind when I hear Heatherette, so I really like that the duo took a risk with this season’s line. Thirdly, I LOVE this beachy look in the third ensemble.

White is a common theme in their line for this spring - as well as a ton of color, as usual - but I love seeing such a pretty ivory color against these model’s VERY tanned skin. This first outfit is beautiful to me. Secondly, I can’t help but think suspenders are completely IN right now. I think they’re my new favorite accessory and I’m totally on the hunt for a pair! Finally, this black “bubble dress” as I like to call them is absolutely in style right now. I love the pop of color in the cobalt blue top that is underneath the dress. The gold jewelry finishes it off perfectly.

Heatherette is probably one of the fastest growing design teams in the country. If you haven’t had the opportunity to view more of their work, please do your research! And please, for the love of god, don’t pass up the BRIGHT PINK packaged makeup accompanied by silver disco designs on March 27th. I think this is one of the biggest launches of the year - if not THE biggest - for MAC and I am SO getting every.single.thing in the collection and you better be ready for a review+pictures of my haulage!!