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Bionic Asks: Do you deep condition your hair?

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:30 AM PST

Bionic Beauty Asks - Makeup and beauty question blog article series
Dry climates, cold winter wind, chlorine, pollutants, hair color, heat styling. We put our hair through more torture than a medieval dungeon. Yet we always want our hair to look healthy and shiny.

To combat all the potentially harmful treatment, I use a deep-conditioner at least twice a week. My hair tends to run on the dry side, hence the twice a week. Some people are fine with once a week, or even twice a month. What are my current deep hair conditioning must-haves?

Davines Nounou Nourishing Repairing Mask ($26 at Drugstore.com) and White Sand’s ER Fusion (read my full review).

This week's Bionic Asks… Do you deep-condition your hair? How often? And what’s your favorite brand?

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A Dupe for Milani’s Java Bean Eye Shadow

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 02:19 PM PST

Quite a few Bionic Beauties have written me with their horrible troubles in locating my absolute favorite brown eyeshadow, Milani’s Java Bean.

As I was digging through my makeup case this weekend, I happened upon a darn-close duplicate! Hot Topic’s makes a eye palette of 5 shadows- brown, gunmetal gray, silver, forest green, and deep purple. The brown shadow is very similar to Java Bean, with just a bit more of a warm tone.

Milani eye shadow in Java Bean and it's dupe from Hot Topic

Dupe eyeshadow discovery: Milani's Java Bean and Hot Topic brown

I picked up two palette’s from Hot Topic on a whim earlier this year. The colors were pretty, the price was cheap, and I really wanted to test out their pigmentation (here’s an “Under the Sea” makeup look I created using Hot Topic eyeshadows). They wear perfectly- no creasing, barely any fallout, the colors are true. In summary, they are certainly a great buy!

The Neutral Shimmer Eye Palette is $4.99 at Hot Topic stores or at their online website. I can’t find the exact one I have with the purple and green on their website, but I still see it in all the physical Hot Topic stores.

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Wednesday, 30 December 2009