My Five Minute Hair Routine 1. Protect The secret to an effective five minute hair routine is all in the right preparation. The first step before using any hot tools or starting the styling process is to protect my hair. I just started using The Good Stuff Weightless Protection Mist and have already fallen in love it. The heat protection spray gives my hair the protection it needs without weighing it down....

Get Ready for Tie-Dye Hair Consider color combinations that complement one another or opt for a contrasting set for a really bold statement. The key to creating a tie-dye hair effect is in your colorist’s ability to blend the colors seamlessly. Do your research first before trusting just anyone to help you pull off this technique! If you aren’t quite ready for a bold lineup of colors, talk to your colorist about pastel alternatives....

Are you ready to revive your winter mane? Read on to find out why you should make deep conditioning a part of your weekly hair care routine: Deep Conditioning Hair Can Make a Big Difference Deep conditioning hair is the process of applying conditioner and allowing it to fully absorb and nourish your hair, sometimes for a longer stretch of time. During the prolonged amount of time that you leave the product in, deep conditioner deeply penetrates strands to work its magic to treat and repair your damaged hair....

How to Create Tousled Short Hair on Different Hair Types How to Create Short Tousled Hair for Fine Hair Types Short tousled haircuts are a great way to pump up the volume and hide sparse, spacey areas in fine hair. Step 1: Start off by washing your hair with Dove Oxygen Moisture Shampoo and Dove Oxygen Moisture Conditioner to start off with a clean and voluminous base before you create your style....

Running Date Invite We created this colorful invite to inspire your spouse to go running with you! Simply print it out, cut around the adorable shoe, and surprise them with it! We recommend printing on a heavier paper like this cardstock for all your printables, especially since you’ll be using some of them outside. Running Schedule for Beginners Are you ready to start running? Learning how to train for a 5k can seem intimidating at first, but we created this simple running program for beginners....

In fact, one of the biggest reasons people shy away from transitioning from straight to natural hair is not wanting to chop it all off. We, totally get that! Losing your hair length can feel like losing a part of your identity. Although the big chop is an effective way to transition to natural hair, it’s not the only way. Read on to learn about how to transition to natural hair in just two ways....

After the meditation we went around the circle and shared how the week had been with the pain levels and the mindfulness practices we were learning. When it was Josie’s turn, she told us that a new flare-up had just started last night, and she couldn’t sleep because she had such a full workweek ahead and worried how she’d make it through. She was also scared it would get as bad as it had been a couple of months ago, when she had to be hospitalized and put on much stronger medication with heavy side effects....

This might just be my favorite date of all time! Is it a bad idea for a Diva to make that claim? It’s probably totally inappropriate and practically impossible, so I’ll just say this: It is absolutely one of the best dates of the year! You’re going to love treating yourself (and your spouse) to a day of guilt-free splurging! No excuses, no worries – just a day to turn your brain off and enjoy a few things you normally say “No!...

Good Riddance Flakes and Dandruff Dandruff Shampoo and Conditioners Dandruff shampoo and conditions often use ingredients such as zinc pyrithione, selenium sulfide, salicylic acid, and more to fight dandruff over time. In particular, BHS’s anti-dandruff shampoo and conditioner also features an anti-breakage formula, has no parabens or dyes, no sulfates, and is hair-color safe. Altogether, not only does this help prevent dandruff and dry scalp, it also works to clarify and nourish hair....

Is it just me, or do guys get a LOT of pressure when it comes to V-day? And to be fair, it can be tricky for some of us women, too. Here’s the Problem… We always hear that “men can’t read your mind.” If you have certain expectations or desires in your relationship- you need to express them! Right? BUT here’s where it gets tricky for us women. We don’t want to tell them exactly what to do, because we like the surprise- that’s part of what makes it romantic, right?...

Veterans Affairs estimates that hundreds of thousands of servicemen and servicewoman who return home develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). And in 2007, the VA reported that no drug should be considered effective for PTSD. It seems there is no easy answer. But there are alternatives. Leah Weiss, a meditation expert at Stanford University, leads vets through compassion cultivation training. The aim is to shift their thinking from others being a potential threat to others being “just like me....

Good news though: The weekend is a few hours away! We get a few days to lounge about, relax (edit: who are we kidding—it’s the holidays) and maybe even experiment with a few new styles, or ways to wear our current look, to give us a mini-upgrade before we end the year. Read on for a shortlist of some cool men’s medium hairstyles to show off—whether you’re in for a full weekend of holiday parties, or have a low-key couple of days with some buds (or Netflix, because these days, #thesnuggleisreal)....

What is Weave? – How to Wear this Protective Style Learn everything you need to know about weaves plus cute ways to enhance your look. What are Weaves and How do they Work? Weaves are a fast and easy-to-install hairstyle that is perfect for any occasion. They are usually installed on top of short cornrows. In the simplest terms, hair extensions are woven into the cornrows. You can even switch out your weave without redoing the cornrows- making the style fast and versatile!...

But I was surprised to see my friend Tony Schwartz dissenting (at least a bit) in a New York Times blog “More Mindfulness, Less Meditation.” Tony’s sense of the working world ranks first class, but this time I think he got the facts wrong, in two ways. To be sure, he nods to the well-established benefits of meditation: it lowers levels of the stress hormone cortisol, enhances the immune response, lifts mood, helps us recover more quickly from stress and sharpens focus....

In fact, being mean—spreading rumors, excluding others, trying to make someone feel bad, or even just indulging in mean thoughts—truly is like drinking your own poison, according to Richard Ryan, professor of clinical and social psychology at the University of Rochester. Giving in to meanness generally just leads to feelings of guilt, shame, and social isolation. Then why do it? Why would we intentionally or casually choose to act in a way that not only hurts others, but ultimately ourselves?...

“[Clothing] is so close to us it becomes part of our identity,” says behavioral psychologist Dr. Carolyn Mair, author of The Psychology of Fashion and founder of psychology.fashion. Mair pioneered the world’s first master’s degrees in psychology for fashion and is part of a relatively small group of people who have carved out careers at the intersection of fashion, design, economics, and psychology. “What we wear is a reflection of how we want to be seen,” she says, although, “that isn’t the same as how we are seen, because that depends on the viewer....

Twenty Two. It’s a number many people associate with veterans these days—That’s because it’s the number of veterans who commit suicide every day according to a study done by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The suicide fact sheet on the VA website says that going through trauma or suffering from PTSD makes people more likely to commit suicide. Just last week, a study just came out in the journal Depression and Anxiety suggesting that mindfulness practice actually changes the way the brain responds to traumatic memories....

I first met Dr. Amishi Jha back in 2010. I was a brigade commander in Hawaii, and we were on a deployment rollercoaster like everyone else, year on, year off since 2001. We were just trying to do something different when we came back from deployment because we were just falling to pieces. And you could see it in the soldiers and families when we came back, we weren’t reintegrating, and no matter how good our training was on what not to do we seemed to do the exact opposite, and it just happened faster the more times we were deployed....

“Mommy! Can we get some scary Halloween stuff for the house?” My seven-year-old daughter, Opal, treated the exhibition of terror and faux-death as if it were as inviting as a row of jolly elves at Christmas time. It put her in the spirit. The next ten minutes consisted of talking Opal down from a sign that said “beware” in what looked like the dripping blood of someone who was actively dying, to something less disturbing, like, say, a spider made of oversized pipe-cleaners....

Fragrance-free hair gel is quite hard to come by. Most of the time, even though the product says it’s scentless, there’s still a very faint aroma that one can still notice, which encourages you to just take matters into your own hands and create your own gel at home. No shame in that, we admit, as we love a good D.I.Y. project here and there. Fragrance-Free Hair Gel: What to Use and Why Make The Switch If you’re on the hunt for a fragrance-free styling gel, read on to see what you can use....