Quick way to spruce up crazy hair!

You all know I am a fan of recycled hair, so here is one way I can change it up with out looking too crazy!  Note: I also suffer from hair boredom - this helps to shake things up...  

Find a beautiful oversized hair piece - I stick a big flower in it!  I do a twist and stick a clip in it!  I backcomb and stick a headband on!


These are a must for any women's accessory wardrobe! 


I love Ms. Maude's collection of hair do-dad's, you can get them customized for you - elegant to casual in your style and colors.  She tends to gravitate toward romantic, old world and sometimes shabby chic style, but will customize for your elegant to casual and color preference.  

  I also have a piece I love to wear, but must wait for the appropriate occasion.  It is a heavy headband with a crystal piece that stretches 3x5 inches across the curve of my head.  It is beautiful so I am willing to pay the price for just a night! 

  Hope the suggestions help to spice up your hair life- twist, curl, pin, flower... when in doubt, keep them guessing.   

I love me some of this KMS Calilfornia Spray to add some grit so help you spice up your dull hair days! 

Arica's Top 5 Hair Products

You've been asking for it!  Here are the products I recommend over and over and over to my clients and use personally.  I do not use products or recommend products on you that I have not personally used myself.

Ready.  Set.  Go! 

It's a Ten Shine Spray *MUST HAVE* for shinny light weight hair!  Great for post flat ironing or before you go out for the day - this also spruces up any ponytail day you might be having!

It's a 10 Leave in product!  Conditions hair, preps hair for any flat ironing you may want to do, protects hair, builds keratin (one of your hair's primary components)!  Must have foundation for the first product you put in your hair!

KMS California Blow Dry Spray! Want your hair to dry quickly?  This is for you!  Put this on after all your products are set to go and before you start blow drying!

KMS California Hair Play - this touches up your ends.  Perfect before going out or on a "recycled hair day" - adds life to dry ends!

KMS California Hair Play MAKEOVER Spray.  This is a MUST HAVE for anyone who wears their hair more than one or two days before shampooing.  You all know I have red hair aka hair that cannot be shampooed more than once a week.  This saves my life in  the hair department and allows me to go a full week without shampooing!

This week's favorite product for hair: kms makeover spray

About a month or two ago, I was given a KMS California stying product with some coupons from my local beauty supply.  I am still finding my way in the hair world in terms of my favorite products from different lines.  This was timely.  The sample was the blow dry spray - I decided to try it out in one of my appointments to speed up my dry time and found it really worked.

I went back and decided to buy a full size.  They had a stylist kit available with some products that would be of interest to me and the price was right, so I thought - what the heck - let's see how this goes.  Well, one of the products what rather gimmicky.  It was a crackling "mouse" that I had hoped would give great volume for my clients.  The volume worked, but it has scared a few clients so I've decided not to continue to use it - the crackle was too loud.

The product I have fallen in love with is the KMS hair play - Makeover Spray.  I cannot live without this product.

My personal hair needs:

• I can only shampoo about once a week to maintain my vibrant color
• I don't like to shampoo in general
• I needed something that would get me by a WHOLE WEEK - allowing me to wear it up, wear it down, curl, flat iron, twist, braid, back comb and do it all over again.  This allows me to do all of that. 

The true test: 

Today, just for kicks, I was an artist at the MEGA event at Nordstrom in Bellevue - I wore my hair kind of "snookie-ish" - huge!  I did this in part because I am running late in my weekly hair shampoo so this was a good  "recycled' hair style for me.  I'll write more later about what I call "recycled hair. 

I had 3 people walk up to me and ask me the name of my stylist and ask who did my color.  IT HAS BEEN A WEEK SINCE I HAVE LAST USED SHAMPOO OR CONDITIONER ON MY HAIR.  I gladly handed out my cards and introduced myself as my own colorist (don't try this at home: I am a licensed Cosmetologist).  

I was amazed.  I used to be the girl who had to shampoo my hair everyday because it felt too limp and greasy (pre-beauty school).  Not any more!  

All that to say:  go buy the KMS California Hair Play - Makeover Spray.  If you can't find a place to buy it - get in touch with me and I'll hook you up.

http://www.kmscalifornia.com/en-US/products/usage/style-texture.3.11.detail.aspx