Working with my local hair and beauty salon.

Hello lovelies, I have some exciting news. Mainly for me sorry aha, but I hope you enjoy my journey and mainly for my local viewers also. I have been speaking with a local Hair and Beauty Salon of mine and they said that they liked my blog and would love a third party for there business. I personally think this is a great idea and will make a difference. As there are people out there umming and arring about trying different salons, prices and wondering what there all about. This is where I step in, I love my blog, I love blogging and it's no surprise to you all I love anything beauty related! So I was thrilled when Nathan asked me to do this and be apart of his Salon work. So were going to be working together to show you all what there salon has to offer you beautiful Women AND Men. Some men love a good pamper like the rest of us and why shouldn't they? 

So today's post is mainly going to be about me introducing the Salon to you all.

"Rachel Lamey Hair and Beauty is a salon community, we will go the extra mile for our customers, hungry then we will order food, struggling to get here or home we will collect you. Our aim is to exceed the customers’ expectations whenever the opportunity arises.

The salon owners founded the salon to provide a place for local people to relax in a friendly happy environment where pretense is left at the door. At Rachel Lamey Hair and Beauty you are welcomed as friends and treated as we would like to be treated."

They go above and beyond for there customers to meet there needs and make them feel right at home.

From my first visit to the salon shockingly having it being there quite a bit now I loved it from the moment I walked in. It feels tranquil, sleek, luxurious and classy all at the same time. You feel relaxed, at ease and just comfortable and that's just when walking through the door. I love the decor they have going on in the salon its gorgeous, all the big candles they have dotted around, the wallpaper, the beauty rooms the waiting room it just oozes luxury and comfort. Rachel and Nathan are very welcoming and friendly people and very easy to talk/get along with. Along with there other members of staff also.

Here are a few images from inside there salon for you to see. The images don't even do them justice though it is so gorgeous inside.

After being in there and meeting them both I can't wait to try out there treatments and products and share all my reviews with you all. They will 100% be my honest reviews but I just know it's going to be great! I had my eyebrows waxed and tinted when I went to meet Nathan to talk about the blogging scheme and Rachel did a tremendous job and will be staying there and getting them done there all the while now I have had so many compliments since having them done so thanks Rach!

Treatments we have already planned that you will be seeing reviews on soon will be

Facial

All over body massage

Back, Neck and Scalp treatment &

Gelly Nails

And the first product I am trialing is 

Espa - Refining Skin Polish

( A brightening exfoliator to deeply cleanse, smooth and perfectly revitalise.)

Febulous hair feature - My current hair saviors.

Hello lovelies, so the weekend is over again so soon and so is my week of hair posts. Hope you enjoyed my lovely guest bloggers a huge thank you to them for taking part. I loved them all and hopefully you enjoyed mine too and it gave you some hairspiration sorry I did it again. Cringe. To finish the post of I thought I would tell you my current hair saviors at the moment as I'm always changing my products around and this is what I am currently using.

Shampoo and Conditioner

At the minute I am using the Aussie collection, Miracle Moist shampoo and 3 minute miracle colour mate deep treatment conditioner.  These two babies have made a massive difference to my hair after years of abusing it, dying it etc. Once I have had a bath or shower after using these my hair just feels amazingly soft and smells gorgeous! There always on great offers like three for £10 or there even selling Aussie products in Home Bargains now if you have one near by for like £2.99 a bottle which is a bargain. I would highly recommend these products to sort your dry distressed hair out.

Hair Mask

I am currently using the Loreal Elvive Full Restore 5 Hair conditioning mask, it is around £5 and sometimes in the supermarkets they go on offer for around £2 which is awesome. This is so nourishing to your hair and instantly hydrates your dead ends and gives your hair a real good drink. The 5 is for these 5 great added bonus's, It feels stronger, looks fuller, looks revitalised, healthy looking shine and looks silkier. I agree with all of them and my hair just feels brand new after using it just the once! If your a serial hair dyer like me you need this in your life.

Hair Oil

Moroccan oil is the best thing I have ever used on my hair, I was dubious to the price tag and when I went to the clothes show they were giving out sample sized gifts for around £15 I think so I thought this is the perfect chance to try it out before I spend a fortune on some oil and that £15 was well worth it and I am even going to spend the whole whack on a full sized one once I am finished with this one as it really is amazing. You only need the tiniest bit also and just run it through your ends try not to go too near the scalp as it can make your hair really greasy. I imagine it will last you a very long time as this has lasted me since December and I'm not even half way through it yet. The smells quite nice also and once my hair has dried naturally it just feels like silk no frizzy bits and a dream to brush through.

Hair spray treatments

If you didn't see my depressing tweets or facebook status's a while back you would have missed me moaning about me loosing my hair. I don't know if its from having Oscar, Stress or the copious amounts of dying it but I just shower away and my hair is just falling out or I'm brushing it and ridiculous amounts are being taken out. So I came across this product in Morrisons funnily enough and thought this sounds interesting, Loreal Elvive Triple Resist Reinforcing Treatment. You simply just spray it on your roots and ends if you wish a couple times through the day wet or dry hair it doesn't matter and the spray is supposed to work through your hair folicles and work its magic with its Arginine and Protein nourishing your locks to prevent you from loosing your hair from every day wear and tear you put your hair through. I have only been using it a couple of weeks and noticing about of a difference so will continue to use this and hope it helps a lot more. 

The heat protectant I have been loving lately is the Tresemme Keratin Smooth Heat Protectant Spray. I just spray this all over my hair after putting my Moroccan oil in before hair drying and I am ready to go. It helps out from the dryness of my hair and reducing the dead ends I get from straightening my hair I do also spray again after I have dried my hair though, I don't know if you need to I just do, can never be too careful right.

I never used to really bother with hair products but I needed to start doing after all the torture my poor hair has been through! You would never believe my natural hair colour is mousy blonde but it is. I wouldn't go back to that colour now but I do plan on going back lighter for Summer, I love a good hair change but I need to keep on top of looking after my hair and I am loving these products at the moment and open to recommendations from you lovely lot if you have any for me.

Do any of these products tickle your fancy or have you tried them before?

Febulous Hair Feature - Gemma

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Hi everyone! Gemma Button here, Paige has kindly allowed me to be a part of her fabulous haircare series, so a big massive thank you to her.  I write about Beauty, Plus Size Fashion and often share my views about love, body image and food.  This year Button's Blog will be on a path full of changes and improvement, I'd love you to join me for the journey

Haircare is something I am very passionate about and more so in the past few months, since colouring my hair plum and trying to encouraging length, which needs a lot of up keep.  I have chosen the five products that I have been relying on since the big change and below I will share them with you.

Lush New Solid Shampoo Bar

This is something I picked up just before I left for Morocco, due to it being solid and weighing under 100g, it was the perfect product to add to my suitcase.  Iv been using it for over six weeks now and have been quite frankly shocked by the results.  It contains peppermint and cinnamon oils, which help stimulate the scalp and roots of the hair, which increase natural hair growth.  I love this because it does actually increase hair growth, smells beautiful and from one little bar I have managed over twenty washes so far and still lots of product left.  I keep it stored in a handy little metal pot so its super easy to travel with too.  There is so much I could say about this so I will be reviewing this in full on my blog soon, keep an eye out.

Macadamia Healing Treatment Oil

This right here is my all time favourite product for use on the hair.  When people say a product has changed their life,I used to scoff and wonder how a beauty product could do such a thing, since discovering this I can fully appreciate this statement, Macadamia Healing Treatment Oil has changed my life.  I have also realised this is a major factor of my hair growing so long and healthy, I'm sure of it.  I have reviewed it in full so I don't want to repeat myself so check it out for yourself, Macadamia Healing Treatment Oil Review.

Denman Styling Brush

It wouldn't be right to write a post about haircare products I'm loving without mentioning a brush, I don't want you thinking I walk around with some kind of lion's mane hair.  You may be thinking, well any brush works, wrong.  I used to have a right battle with my hair after showering, it was always so full of knots.  Now I use my Tangle Teezer when I first get out of the shower to remove the majority of the knots, then this to get rid of the more pesky knots and style my hair.  It detangles throughout styling and is easier to control than the Tangle Teezer. I have written a more in depth review on my Denman Styling Brush so if you want to know more just have a wee look.  I should really given this a clean before photographing, I'm sure you can ignore a few stray hairs, right?

Donut

Nope, not the edible version unfortunately, this little treat is my saviour on bad hair days.  I have owned a giant donut since December 2012 and after watching numerous You Tube tutorials I mastered the technique of creating the much loved bun.  This is so simple to use, creates red carpet worthy hair in minutes and doesn't require the use of heat.  Heat is something I don't often use on my hair while I'm willing it on to grow so this means my hair can look sleek and polished without styling tools.  This one was a gift for Christmas, one of my favourite gifts.

GHD Styling Tools

I love all of the GHD styling tools but this model specifically.  Even though I don't use heat on my hair very often these days, not having a pair of these to hand would bring me out in a cold sweat.  Since my first pair way back in 2003 I have never wanted to try another device for straightening my naturally curly hair, these are the world's best styling tool in my eyes.  These glide through my thick hair effortlessly creating any style I put my mind to, even creating perfect curls!  In the picture of myself the whole look was created using GHD straighteners.  Sorry for the finger prints, being a shiny black cover its hard to avoid.

There you have it, all five of my hair care savours at the moment.  I hope you have enjoyed it and if you use any of them, leave us a comment below telling us why you love (or loathe) them.