Beauty: Better-Hair Chemistry - Key Makeup Updates

Beauty
Better-Hair Chemistry Key Makeup Updates

Shampoo Your Hair Stronger
ven if your beauty MO is pretty much the same as it was

that week in Outward Bound, were betting you do reach
routinely for shampoo and conditioner. And new research confirms that the duo can yield shinier, stronger hair when they
contain chelants, the ingredients that remove heavy metals like
copper from strands so they wont split, break, or get dull when
the metals oxidize in sunlight. Look for the common chelants
disodium EDTA, tetrasodium EDTA, and sodium
citrate on the backs of bottles before you buy.
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Sources: Cosmetic chemist Jim Hammer, founder

of Mix Solutions Consulting; International
Journal of Cosmetic Science
Two to try:
Tresemm Perfectly
(un)Done Shampoo ($5) and Hask
Monoi Oil
Nourishing Deep
Conditioner
($6)
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2 Steps to
Youthful Feet
without a Pedicure
Years of UV exposure, wearing snug
shoes, and naturally slow skin-cell
turnover mean age spots, calluses,
and rough soles. Before you book a
pricey pedi, try an at-home foot peel to
(literally) shed the damage. A peel dissolves the glue that keeps dead cells
intact so they detach without sanding.
Brighten sun-damaged tops of feet
rehab dry, tough soles with a foot

peel like Baby Foot ($25), lactic- and
fruit-acid-filled plastic socks that
cause soles to peel for about a week
revealing smoother heels.
Source: Dennis Gross, MD, dermatologist in
New York City
A Double-Chin Fix That Isnt Surgery

Fats we love: The kind in avocados. Fats we could
do without: The stuff under our chins. The best solves
used to be lipo or a full face-lift, with four- or five-figure
price tags. So its safe to say that Kybellaan injectable
drug recently approved to permanently dissolve fat cells
beneath the jawline in two or three 15-minute derm visits
Before
after
is the easiest-to-swallow option. Not that its a cinch: It
The treatment costs $1,200 to $1,600 a session, and the injections leave the area fluidrequires an
average of 25 filled for up to a week as you absorb the deoxycholic acid, a substance
shots, spaced that cues fat breakdown and absorption. But if your double chin bugs you
centimeters
enough to brave the costs, redefining your neckline might be possible.
apart.
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Source: Macrene Alexiades-Armenakas, MD, PhD, associate

clinical professor at Yale University School of Medicine
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from top: courtesy of ever skincare. gallery stock. courtesy of kythera
with 30 days of acid-rich wipedowns using

Ever Reveal Biomimetic Peel Pads ($70
for 45) or Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta
Extra Strength Peel ($88 for 30).
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3 New Ways to
Look Younger Now
New researchand surging trendshave turned up some

counterintuitive ways to look more youthful. Cop the benefits.
Instead of
Darkening Brows:
Lighten Them
Dark brows can seem harsh
and aging. Ask your colorist
to lighten arches a shade
with permanent dye (itll
last 4 to 6 weeks), or try the
effect with a brow gel like
Lancme Modle Sourcils
($25) in a lighter hue.
Instead of Drying Glosses:

Swipe On Lip Oils
Products like Sephora Collection Lip
Oil Infusion ($14) plump, soften, and
tint lipswith emollient botanical oils.
Sources: Michelle Radow, makeup artist in LA; Eva Scrivo, owner of Eva Scrivo Salons in NYC
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Instead of
Going Bare:
Brush On Blush
Studies confirm
itflushed cheeks
signal youth. Tap liquid
foundation over cream
blush, like Flower
Beauty Transforming
Touch Powder-toCrme Blush ($13), so
its natural, not garish.
Next-Level Hot Tools

to Update Your Do
The pristine spirals and stick-straight lengths of years past are

being replaced by softer, more natural texture thats sexy, not
severe. These next-gen tools can get 40+ hair all the way there.
Then
Uniform, perfectly
circular spirals
and rolls
Now
Full waves so
natural they just
might have airdried that way
Then
Flat, sheetlike
hairno bends or
kinks allowed
Now
Smooth, justblown-out hair
with plenty of
volume
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get the look

Use an oval-shaped wand without
a clamplike the Remington TStudio Silk Ceramic Oval Waving
Wand ($25)for hair thats wavy,
not curly, like Amy Adamss.
1. Hold the iron upright in one hand
and the section of hair you want to curl
(the larger the section, the looser the wave) in the other.
2. Wind the hair around the ironthe pieces near your
face will look best if you pull them away from the face,
but mix it up farther back to vary the look.
3. Hold for 5 to 8 seconds and release.
get the look

Use a heated hairbrush,
like Calista Tools Perfecter Pro Grip Heated
Paddle Brush ($79), to
tame frizz and add body.
1. To steal Eva Mendess sleek,
soft look, divide hair into sections
roughly 2 inches wide and 1 thick.
2. Grip the ends as you slowly brush the paddle
through the hair from underneath, from root to tip.
3. Brush top sections forward, then upward, and hold
for 5 seconds to lift hair at the crown and hairline.
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hair products: Ryan Olszewski. amy adams: Jason Merritt/getty images.

eva mendes: Alberto E. Rodriguez/getty images
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Better-Hair Chemistry Key Makeup Updates

ven if your beauty MO is pretty much the same as it was

Sources: Cosmetic chemist Jim Hammer, founder

september 2015 103

Beauty Smarter Skin Solutions

rehab dry, tough soles with a foot

A Double-Chin Fix That Isnt Surgery

Source: Macrene Alexiades-Armenakas, MD, PhD, associate

from top: courtesy of ever skincare. gallery stock. courtesy of kythera

with 30 days of acid-rich wipedowns using

Beauty Fresh-Faced in an Instant

Look Younger Now

New researchand surging trendshave turned up some

Instead of Drying Glosses:

Dimitri Otis/getty images

Next-Level Hot Tools

The pristine spirals and stick-straight lengths of years past are

get the look

get the look

hair products: Ryan Olszewski. amy adams: Jason Merritt/getty images.

Beauty Heat Styling 2.0

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