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Announcing new color depositing conditioners (and a special super-quick discount) from oVertone!

This news from our awesome sponsor oVertone is so exciting to me…

Along with a special discount, oVertone also has added 2 new colors to their vegan, cruelty free, color-depositing line: They now sell Vibrant Yellow and Vibrant Silver hair conditioner! Last time we had a bunch of Homies sad to have missed oVertone’s quick and awesome special discount — so make sure to jump on this asap. Don’t be sad, be vibrant instead!

Reclaiming a syndrome: embracing vs. cursing its existence

Lots of things get “reclaimed” — body shapes, offensive words, etc. Today I’m doing something bizarre: I am reclaiming disease. I’m going to present you with a narrative that is NOT popular with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: I am proud of and happy with me having PCOS. Because what it gave me is a beautiful, soft, warm, luxurious face and body full of curly, beautiful fur. I am not beautiful despite it. It is part of my beauty.

Funky Hair Me: How purple hair dye taught me a lesson about self-identity

I am sitting at my dining room table with a Russian Imperial Stout, and the world’s largest shower cap on my head, and I think I might be having a pre-mid-life crisis.

I shaved my head, and I feel beautiful

This past Halloween, I shaved my head for my costume.

It’s something that I’ve thought of doing for years. A little bit daring, really easy to do, and wouldn’t it be fun to see what my head looked like underneath the hair?

How the color-depositing conditioners of oVertone changed my hair routine forever

Remember when I introduced you to our sponsor oVertone? It’s the vegan, and cruelty free color-depositing conditioners that comes in six different colors. The ladies of the Empire were so stoked on this product that we forced them to send us conditioners in all our various colors. Let’s talk more about what happened when the ladies behind oVertone hooked up the ladies of the Empire with their awesome color-depositing conditioners…

Did you catch Offbeat Home & Life and How-To Hair Girl on the Today Show?

Remember Roxie Hunt’s post about arm pit-dying DIY post from last month? Well, it’s been getting some mainstream attention this week — first the LA Times, then the Today Show. Here’s Kathy Lee and Hoda Kotb being horrified by the concept, and decreeing it “freaky”…

Eyebrows are cool: My easy tinting makeup routine for the lazy

I don’t wear makeup. While I’m comfortable with my make-up-less face, the one small complaint that I do have about it is that I seem to have no eyebrows or eyelashes. This is one of the curses of the natural blonde. A few months before I got married, I decided that I wanted to have eyebrows in my wedding photos, and one of my friends told me that I HAD to get my eyebrows tinted. I initially laughed at the suggestion. I’ve never even dyed my hair, so it seemed like quite a big leap for me. But I decided to at least give it a shot.

How to dye your armpit hair

I work at Vain, one of Seattle’s most beloved salons. I have always wanted to color someone’s pit hair. I have actually done it once, but It was a late night with too much wine and without the proper tools available. I asked my co-worker Rain if she would be down to let me dye her pit hair blue to match her hair color and she agreed, heartily. (OR should I say pitily.) We both knew that we were jumping into uncharted territory, but we felt that Vain was just the place to pioneer some pit color. Here is how it went…