Ingredients:

4 tablespoons to 1/4 cup of Olive Oil – will make your hair strong and nourished and provides elasticity. It also helps to reduce stress, which can affect your hair, it’s true…a happy person has happy hair!

1/4 cup Philosophy- Old Fashioned Eggnog 3 in 1 Shampoo, Bubble Bath and Shower Gel (Sephora $16) – smell as yummy (or festive) as you look

Directions:

Use Olive Oil, depending on the length of your hair to massage your scalp. Make sure to massage in circular motions. The stimulation of the scalp will feel good and increase hair growth. Run the rest of the olive oil through your hair to the tip. This will be an amazing conditioning treatment. Put on a shower cap and leave in for at least 20 minutes. Then shampoo your hair very well using Philosophy’s – Old Fashioned Eggnog (your welcome to use your own shampoo) and condition as you normally do. You can apply the olive oil once a month for shiny, healthy hair (especially if you would like to grow your hair).

Styling:

After conditioning your hair with our Thanksgiving Hair Recipe let your hair air dry and then style. For a modern take on a festive Pocahontas style this year our Thanksgiving have-to-have look is the braid! This look has been seen all year round on Lauren Conrad…its both effortless and sexy. You can do one braid on the side, or 2 braids for a fun and playful look. Check out this fun and easy video and enjoy your Thanksgiving.

This post was written by Tammy Massa and Millie Massa, Blog Editors of www.SocialButterflySalon.com, Making Every Day a Good Hair Day

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Unfortunately, every year you can see many girls who seem to see Halloween strictly as an opportunity to be a naughty-something (nurse, nun, cop or cow-girl),  but don’t give their makeup any special thought. In that sense I think we can all learn something from Heidi Klum:  The super-model/Project Runway host throws a glamorous Halloween party every year with her husband Seal. Though you’d have to look hard to find a better looking lady, she usually goes for bold, over the top looks that are not necessarily flattering.

But even if Kali is a bit much for you, don’t be afraid to try something new and creative this Halloween. In this Style Network video you can see the best way to apply glitter – a key part of any Halloween look, or as Heidi would put it, help you get that “Wow Factor”.

Although I define myself as a person of science, and when it comes to pain I always beg for real painkillers, when it comes to beauty I think that only Nature will do whatever needs to be done.  Meaning, making your own beauty products.

That’s how I mastered the art of the honey-lemon-sugar facial scrub, the egg-olive oil hair mask and the cucumber-yogurt  mask. For the body? In a cloth bag, put some  chamomile leaves  (you can also add lavender)  and drop it in your bath. Your skin will never feel smoother.

It’s nice to go to a spa from time to time (just ask me and my sisters) but the truth is, your skin needs more care than your schedule and pocket can afford, so you should ask Mother Nature to help you out. By that, I don’t mean going after the Fountain of Youth, because if you really want to fight those wrinkles or relieve that dry skin, you’d better concentrate on the Vitamin A,B,E, F, Zinc and Potassium found in bananas, and find that the real Fountain of Youth is in your nearest grocery store.

When it comes to beauty, eyebrows have always been the biggest challenge for me. You’re always one step before becoming the next Frida Kahlo, or turning your eyebrows into some alien looking antennas, away from any aesthetic value. Eyebrows (there should be two of them) are supposed to frame your face, not to transmit your thoughts to outer space.

Because yes, trends change, but your face doesn’t. And you need to find the best way to shape your eyebrows according to your face shape.

That’s when Jay Manuel (yes, we heart Jay Manuel) comes into the picture. In his show “Style Her Famous”, Jay explains how you can get the perfect eyebrows, based on Angelina Jolie.

If you want to have beautiful eyebrows, watch his step by step tutorial, and remember, the most important tip is “don’t let the makeup wear you”!

Legend has it that the mother of all bald women, Sinead O’Connor, first shaved her head after being politely asked by her record label to be a little more feminine. Her model of a beautiful woman who’s both rebellious and fragile has been with us ever since. In cinema we had Demi Moore in G.I. Jane who also invested in a matching set of muscles.

Robin Tunney as Debra in the cultish Empire Records took fragile to a whole new and disturbing level. In Alien 3 Sigourney Weaver was playing a part originally written for a man and gets pregnant with an alien baby, so clearly an ambiguous look was needed.  Similarly, everyone’s favorite Natalie Portman’s V for Vendetta transformation from a frightened little girl to a tough freedom fighter/terrorist required a buzz cut.

No wonder bald women got a bad rep. Long hair is one of the strongest attributes of femininity, when women decide to cut it, they seem to reject the whole concept. Many saw Britney’s famous encounter with a shaving machine as hitting rock bottom, personally I thought it was her brief moment of clarity, the point where she wanted to turn her back on the industry that built and crushed her with delight.  I envisioned her joining a Tibetan nunnery and becoming the new Mother Teresa. A month later she got extensions.

This excellent video from Gillette will show you how to best shave your head:

That was one of those mantra I repeatedly heard at a tender, young age, directed at almost every girl and woman within close proximity of my grandmother, who was the culprit behind these type of sayings. These priceless pearls of ladylike wisdom would ultimately stay stuck in my head for years. Not to say she wasn’t right – with the paranoia-driven beauty rituals I’ve deployed since my days in kindergarten, my hands have indeed managed to not only to be a source of pride, but also contributed some cold, hard cash to my nest egg, following some obscure hand modeling gigs for jewelry catalogs back in college. Yes, I am 100% not kidding.

Over the years, I’ve maintained a somewhat unhealthy relationship (bordering on addiction) with nail polish, and to this day remember to always carry hand creams in heavenly scents on my person (Confession: 5min’s content ladies happen to be Bath & Body Works junkies), because you never know when you’ll feel that itch to hydrate, rejuvenate and what not. Secretly, of course, I long for society to wise up and return to the glorious days where a lady never left the house without a dainty pair of gloves. If you think about it, it makes sense, as our hands are parts that are constantly exposed to the damages of the sun, chemicals, urban grime and an endless list of other foes who stand in the way of perfection.

Oh, yeah – and aging. That’s right, I know my hands and nails are shockingly stunning now, in my twenties, but I also know that in a couple of decades I may find myself longing to bring back the glove-toting revolution all on my own, with the inevitable appearance of wrinkles, sun spots, and evidence of natural progression (unless I discover I’m one of those immortal types, that is).

Which is why I was super-stoked to discover this video from The Doctors, where I learned about hand rejuvenation procedures available to those on a quest after the perfect pair of hands. In this segment, you can see how Radiesse, a calcium-based filler, is injected between the tendons on top of the hand. The filler adds volume to the area and lasts up to two years, leaving you with a plumper, healthier and younger looking hands.

Check it out and find out more about hand rejuvenation surgery: