Eco-Chic: Homemade Hair Cocktails
Clean & Shine Mask
Robert Hallowell's Honey Highball
2 tablespoons vodka
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 ripe avocado
1 egg yolk
Mash ingredients together in a glass bowl with a fork until creamy. Apply mixture to freshly shampooed towel dried hair and leave on for 30 minutes. Rinse well with warm water. Shampoo and condition lightly, then style as usual. Vodka removes buildup of scalp oils and products, honey and avocado moisturize, and egg yolk smooths and conditions the hairs haft and scalp.
Summer-In-The-City Spritz
Large fist-full sea slat
Water
T3 360 Boost and T3 360 Polish
Spray bottle
Mix sea salt and water in a spray bottle. Apply a dollop of both T3 360 Boost and Polish ($38 each) or your favorite polish on dry hair then spray the salt mixture all over. Blow dry hair while scrunching it to get a beachy look. Salt spritzes create great texture, but they can be drying. Be sure to start with a hair polish and do regular conditioning masks.
Rescue Remedy Mask
Danilo's Frizz-Fighting Frappe
6 ounce tub plain yogurt
3 tablespoons olive or wheat germ oil
Sprig of rosemary
Sprig of mint or 1/2 teaspoon peppermint oil
Use a blender to whip ingredients to a fluffy consistency. Apply liberally to pre-washed towel-dried hair. Wrap head in a hot, moist towel, and seal in heat with a second dry towel on top. Relax for 20 minutes. Then for coarse hair rinse thoroughly. For fine hair, use a gentle shampoo.
Source: Beauty at Every Age: Stylists' Homemade Hair Cocktails, Annemarie Iverson, Harper's Bazaar, July 2008, page 74.
Robert Hallowell's Honey Highball
2 tablespoons vodka
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 ripe avocado
1 egg yolk
Mash ingredients together in a glass bowl with a fork until creamy. Apply mixture to freshly shampooed towel dried hair and leave on for 30 minutes. Rinse well with warm water. Shampoo and condition lightly, then style as usual. Vodka removes buildup of scalp oils and products, honey and avocado moisturize, and egg yolk smooths and conditions the hairs haft and scalp.
Summer-In-The-City Spritz
Large fist-full sea slat
Water
T3 360 Boost and T3 360 Polish
Spray bottle
Mix sea salt and water in a spray bottle. Apply a dollop of both T3 360 Boost and Polish ($38 each) or your favorite polish on dry hair then spray the salt mixture all over. Blow dry hair while scrunching it to get a beachy look. Salt spritzes create great texture, but they can be drying. Be sure to start with a hair polish and do regular conditioning masks.
Rescue Remedy Mask
Danilo's Frizz-Fighting Frappe
6 ounce tub plain yogurt
3 tablespoons olive or wheat germ oil
Sprig of rosemary
Sprig of mint or 1/2 teaspoon peppermint oil
Use a blender to whip ingredients to a fluffy consistency. Apply liberally to pre-washed towel-dried hair. Wrap head in a hot, moist towel, and seal in heat with a second dry towel on top. Relax for 20 minutes. Then for coarse hair rinse thoroughly. For fine hair, use a gentle shampoo.
Source: Beauty at Every Age: Stylists' Homemade Hair Cocktails, Annemarie Iverson, Harper's Bazaar, July 2008, page 74.
