Family Fun - Convenient for Everyone!

Have Shears Will Travel! 

Tonight I had the pleasure of coming to the Tinsley's house and taking care of the entire family: two hair feathers for two girls, two foils, and one toddler cut!

Karina's new highlights and cut

I wanted to let you know how it works when the whole family gets services together: We rotate through whomever is processing (like during the foil), everyone had dinner and took turns for their service.  Once it's time for the kiddos to go to bed, I worked on mom so she could get her new cut and highlights!  By getting your hair done at the same time, it leaves extra time for the family members to have additional questions answered and ideas born.  It was a clean slate for the entire family all in one night.

Chaucer's new cut

Arica Kildea just did Karina, Saphyre and Chaucer's hair and they all look great. If you need your hair cut or colored make Arica your first call. She'll come to you and she's great company too.  - Jim Tinsley 

Added bonus:  I worked within their budget and time frame with on charge for the entire family.  It worked out great for everyone!

Hope this inspires some of you to include your family, making it easy to have one rate, one day for your services - ultimately maximizing your time and your dollar!

Working on Saphyre's "Christmas" Foil 

loved getting to hang out with Arica Kildea while she took care of Saphyre, Chaucer, and my hair today and put feathers in Olivia and Abby's hair! so great to not have to go anywhere for it and it all looks great! - Karina Tinsley

Have Shears, Will Travel.  
Arica Kildea 


Published with permission from the Tinsley Family 

Hair Do-Dads: Ms Maude

I love, love, love anything I can stick in my hair - especially as it has grown out!  Does anyone remember me with really short blonde hair?  I even wore little clips with some sort of shimmer or shine back then!  I have yet to be able to be able to figure out how you wrap your hair around long chop sticks!

My favorite hair do-dad is a hair flower.  Even better - a hair flower with feathers!  I could wear flowers every day.

The other day I realized I had way too much pink on:  my hair - some times looks a little more pink than red, a pink shirt, my long pink jacket and then I attached a daisy to the back of my head.  Before I walked out the door, I realized what a fashion mistake this could have been.

I want to tell you about one of my new favorite hair do-dad finds:  Ms Maude.  Ms Maude is a small company owned locally and mainly sold on Etsy.  Everything is hand crafted with nothing but excellence.  Here is a picture of one of my favorite ones right now.

Wouldn't it be perfect for New Years?    

Find Ms. Maude on Etsy. 

Click here

Buy now so you can get it for your special event - or even as a gift! 

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

Current Best Beauty Buy - October 2011

Note:  As of November 1st this deal no longer applies. 

As a follow-up to my blog about buying great quality makeup for a deal, here is one example of one of the best deals I've seen in a long time.  I always recommend buying at Holiday times (Christmas/Mother's Day/etc) because there are always package deals you cannot find at any other time - so this kind of seals the deal for me.

GET READY FOR A TON OF FREE PRODUCT:  

Ok, so just buy $100 worth of cosmetics or fragrances at Nordstrom.com (this is online only) - shipping is ALWAYS free - doesn't matter what amount you spend (to get free shipping) and you get the following:

EXCLUSIVE BEAUTY GIFTS—WORTH OVER $130

Get 13 travel-size beauty favorites in a sparkly black cosmetics bag with your $100 beauty or fragrance purchase.*

Gift includes:

• ARCONA Gentle Solution Treatment (0.33 oz.)
• Balenciaga Paris Glass Vial Perfume Sample (0.13 oz.)
• Bare Escentuals® bareMinerals® Flawless Definition Curl & Lengthen Mascara (0.16 oz.)
• Donna Karan Cashmere Mist Whipped Perfume Sachet (0.03 oz.)
• CAUDALIE Premier Cru Cream (0.06 oz.)
• Clarins Hand and Nail Treatment Cream (1.06 oz.)
• Clinique Quickliner for Eyes in Black (0.005 oz.)
• Elie Saab Glass Vial Perfume Sample (0.03 oz.)
• Kate Somerville® ExfoliKate® Intensive Exfoliating Treatment (0.16 oz.)
• Laura Mercier Deluxe Foundation Primer (0.5 oz.)
• Living Proof Full Body Boosting Thickening Cream for All Hair Types (0.5 oz.)
• Mario Badescu Seaweed Night Cream (0.17 oz.)
• philosophy 'the microdelivery' exfoliating wash (1 oz.)

HURRY AND GET MORE GIFT! For a limited time, spend an additional $25 and receive a selection of Lancôme bestsellers. Lancôme Génifique Eye Youth Activating Eye Concentrate (0.25 oz.) Lancôme Génifique Youth Activating Concentrate (0.25 oz.) Lancôme Cils Booster XL Super Enhancing Mascara Base (0.07 oz.) ___________ If you have ANY fragrances, beauty items for yourself or others (think holiday) - this is a fantastic deal.   Here is a run down of just a few deals from gifts that different Cosmetic/Fragrance lines are offering that you could make out like a bandit on:

MARC JACOBS 'Lola' Deluxe Holiday Gift Set ($136 Value) $92

Reveal your modern free spirit and irresistible attitude. Set includes an eau de parfum spray (3.4 oz.), sensual body lotion (2.5 oz.), silky shower gel (2.5 oz.) and deluxe mini eau de parfum spray (0.13 oz.) housed in a reusable container.

• By MARC JACOBS.

• Add an Essie polish for $8 and you've got a your $100 for free shipping and the free gifts above! 

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Katy Perry Set is amazing, purchase any Katy Perry items and you get the Katy Perry gift set AND everything above: 

KATY PERRY

Your Gift with Fragrance PurchaseReceive a packable tote bag that fits into a cat-shaped pouch with your $65 Katy Perry fragrance purchase.

Online only. One per person, while supply lasts. Gift will be added automatically in Checkout and can only be shipped to the same destination as your order. This item cannot be shipped to international addresses.

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Amazing Lancome Holiday set: 

Lancôme 'Lancôme 'Rénergie Lift Volumetry' Holiday Set ($171 Value)

The facts:
Skin’s cells need to communicate with each other constantly to maintain a support structure that keeps skin looking youthful.

The Lancôme solution:
Rénergie Lift Volumetry is our first skin treatment featuring the GF-Volumetry™ complex, shown to help support cellular communication¹.

The results:
See your skin visibly lifted, firmed and reshaped. Cheeks appear re-plumped, jaw line appears refined and the facial angle appears improved by eight degrees².

Includes:
- Rénergie Lift Volumetry (1.7 oz.).
- Rénergie Lift Volumetry Eye (0.5 oz.).
- High Résolution Collaser-5X™ (0.5 oz.).

¹In-vitro test.
²Based on clinical scoring of the profile angle of the neck and jaw line after four weeks of use of Rénergie Lift Volumetry SPF 15 Cream. 


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Go to the Nordstrom Beauty site to obviously see more - makeup and fragrance, but I just wanted to make you aware of some of the fantastic ways to either stock up for yourself, try something new or buy some great gifts.  


The last time I got one of these amazing deals, I found items that I would not have ordinarily purchased, but it opened me up to new items, like the Tanning Towel Self Tanner and the Marc Jacobs Hollywood fragrance.  


Note: Clinique at Nordstrom is about to have their gift with purchase that would make the *perfect* storm.  

1. Spend $125 in: special holiday gifts (always free, extra items, larger items), sets (new and different items, free items, larger/different sizes), your basics
2. Get all the free gifts mentioned above
3. Free shipping
4. Free Clinique gift that always has tons of great items

If that isn't the perfect storm.... I don't know what is! 

Happy Shopping!  


Let me know if you have any questions or have better or different beauty buy ideas! 


-Arica