5 New Beauty Classics Done Naturally
Elle Magazine has named five newish beautry trends that they believe are here to stay, or in their words:
“Looks that hadn’t been invented—or weren’t possible—25 years ago are now part of today’s beauty lexicon”
I love this idea! But more than that I love the challenge of finding ways to do these looks without breaking the bank or busting out the chemicals. So here are my clean-girl takes on these new modern classics.
Beachy Hair: Easy. This is basically the Summer Hair Challenge. The best way to achieve this look is not by crunching your hair with some chemy spray, but by using a natural shampoo and conditioner (or no shampoo at all) and letter your hair air dry. Not always the easiest thing to pull off in the winter, to be sure, but I guess that’s why they call it Beach Hair.
The Stained Lip: Beets, beets, beets. If you want to be an extra clean girl, revisit the book and discover that beets are nature’s answer to Benetint. A little juice from a beet (rubbed right off a sliver) makes a great lip and cheek tint, and you can control the intensity with the amount.
Metallic Makeup: Our friends at W3ll People offer a really awesome selection of metallic eye shadows, as does Alima Pure.
Colorful Smokey Eye: The two aforementioned brands above have this down, or if you’re feeling extra crunchy you can use beautiful spirulina powder as well.
Flatironed Hair: Did you notice they didn’t mention the Brazilian Blowout here? We did! Flatironed hair is always a good look, one that’s easier to achieve when you don’t use sulfates on your hair and can work with your natural oils (a little argan doesn’t hurt either). We love to maintain straight hair with natural dry shampoos.
Which of these looks do you do like to do?
Beachy Hair – I love this, particularly as I have very fine, almost straight hair myself. I’ve tried the bumble & bumble surf spray (more times than I care to admit, even to myself) and it is RUBBISH! It left my hair sticky, tacky and totally gross. I bought a bottle of the John Masters Sea Salt Spray and it is a very different – it contains lavender oil which I credit with the more conditioned, softer finish and a ,nice barely-there fragrance to boot! Does wonders for giving me volume and styling potential. I don’t do well with styling creams or mousse so this has been my miracle-in-a-bottle product, definitely! (I love the simplicity as well – a few sprays, blow dry upside down and stick in a few velcro rollers while I get dressed, do make up, have a glass of wine… I’m not interested in spending more than 10 minutes on my hair, MAX.)
Metallic Makeup – On the rare occasion I do more than a quick cover up job and mascara I like this look for nights out. I use a couple of cream shadows from RMS Beauty and while I wouldn’t say they’re cheap I love them.
I do the beachy hair with my DIY sea salt spray followed by argan or a John Masters texturizer. I do a little blow dry on the roots before products, especially in colder weather. When I’m not going with beachy I flat iron.
I love RMS and Alima liners/shadows. I don’t use much eye makeup but a little smoky/shimmery liner and living luminizer are awesome.
I’ve eyed the John Masters salt spray, but quickly noticed that the ingredients are just water, sea salt, and lavender essential oil. Could it really be that simple to make oneself in a spritz bottle? Anyone who’s tried this — thoughts on the ratio of salt to water? Could be a good way to get “beachy” hair in the winter…
I pretty much aim for beachy hair year round. I’m nowhere near a beach, but it’s my favorite and my hair seems to like doing it without much effort. Close 2nd place would be colorful smokey eyes.
I made my own version of the JM salt spray: 8oz filtered water, 1tsp fine sea salt, and 4 drops lavender essential oil, and then just shake it all together until the salt dissolves. It works great and is so easy!
I thought this was a great post even before I read the comments, but yes, please, any tips for beachy hair and self made sprays will be appreciated! My hair is really, really fine and really, really straight. I use natural products, but air drying alone doesn’t give me any beachy hair at all…
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I thought I posted this already but looks like it didn’t go through…
For sea salt spray I use 1.5 tsp sea salt to 8 oz water. Usually I mix a big batch in the blender to dissolve thoroughly. I used to put in a tsp of argan, but I find it clogs the spritzer eventually so I just do the plain salt mix and argan on my ends afterward (some sort of oil or conditioner prevents the salt drying the hair too much). I have to blow dry my roots before I spritz in the winter or it’ll take too long to dry.
Just a friendly reminder: water + oil = bacteria
@Elizabeth, I think with the high salt content of the beachy hair spritz bacteria shouldn’t be a problem. Even if you do scent it with essential oils, some of those are antibacterial (like lavender), plus a small batch gets used quickly, so I personally don’t worry about that issue in this particular case.
Thanks @Megan & @Rebecca! I’m going to try making my own spray this weekend.
I don’t understand the benefits of putting salt + water on hair?
Please and thank you!!
@A, salt water enhances natural curl/wave and I feel it gives more “style” than simply air drying without anything added.
I love all of it…but the beets.
I almost always have beach hair and stained lips! The beach hair is natural, but I use a variety of natural products to achieve the stained lips. I’ve been meaning to try beets since I convinced myself to get rid of my benetint. :-/
Thanks Rebecca!
carrying beets around for reapplications probably isn’t so convenient, or user-friendly. for a photo shoot, maybe.
John Masters sea spray is the BEST spray i’ve used.
I shampoo and condition (with John Masters) then I use a hair-pick while the conditioner is in, rinse, scrunch my hair in to curls and let them air dry. It works fabulously. I don’t use any product, but I’m wondering if the curls would be better if I used the salt spray???
Do you put the salt spray on when your hair is wet, or dry??
@A, I use salt spray on damp hair after a good towel drying or a slight blow dry. And anytime on dry hair to refresh the curl.