Put away your wool sweaters ladies, spring is here!  Well, in Vancouver anyway.  Here’s an easy put-together look, great for sipping caesars on a patio, meeting your gal friends for lunch, or a casual shopping stroll.  Swap the boyfriend jeans for some slim cigarette pants and you’ve got yourself a work appropriate look too.  Make sure you balance your colours and texures, and the dainty with the edgy.  A good neutral bag like this one will be great with all of your light denims this season, and take it easy on the studs, this army jacket is slightly decorated, but not overly – which I think is a good thing.  The tunic from Zara will be a great staple, cute with a pair of shorts and sandals, and will carry over into fall too.  Shop smart, happy hunting!Studded Army Jacket,  Forever 21 $58 | Sunglasses, Anthropologie $30 | Charm Necklace, American Eagle $16 | Shoulder Bag, Modcloth $63 | AG Piper Crop Jean, Piperlime $215 | Pin Tuck Blouse, Zara $60 | Baka Cut Slingbacks, Anthropologie $168

If someone was to ask me what the one part of my beauty routine I could never go without, I would tell them it was my hair. Or my toe polish. I only wear Essie’s Aruba Blue. I call bare toes ‘penis toes’. They creep me out. (Bare toes. Not penises.). Oops, where was I? Oh yes, my hair.
My life motto is “No one likes a flat head”. By no one, I mean me. I have a horribly shaped head. Almost cone-like. I used to backcomb my hair to within an inch of it’s life. I now settle for a more subdued look, but am always looking for new ways to get that extra lift.
I went into this assignment hoping to try a new beauty or skin product but since I’m a total boy when it comes to that kind of thing, I didn’t know where to start or what to even ask for. This, of course, led me to fall back to my hair.
I wanted to stick to Bumble and Bumble, mainly because it was much more in my price range, but also because- if I’m being completely honest- the bottles were way cuter than all the rest. ANYWAY. I asked Raegan- the lovely blonde workin’ the hair product wall at the CurliQue salon- for a product that would give me a little extra oomph when I blow dried, without making my hair feel gritty- as many thickening or volume products do. She recommended the Styling Lotion by Bumble and Bumble. She said it was very light and she preferred it for blow drying and volume over similar products from the higher end brands. It was also a heat protector for styling dried hair as well. I’m all about multi use. Time is money, my friends! Or Money is time. Or whatever it is they say.
I bit the bullet and bought the product in hopes of a miracle. I also weased my way into getting some extra samplers for being extra cheeky. It’s all about working your magic. Everyone loves free shit. If anyone told you they didn’t like free shit, they’d be lying. To your face.
The following morning, I sprayed the product generously throughout my towel dried hair- as directed by the bottle- and blow dried my hair in sections with a round brush. On a scale of one to JLo, I’d give my hair about a Mariah. There was definitely some lift involved, and it was silky smooth, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say it was at maximum luciosity status. I then sprayed the product again in my dry hair to curl it. This, unfortunately, was not so successful. My hair did not curl very well (does it ever?) and the curls were flat by the time I got to work about an hour later. Nightmare. Perhaps had I been straightening my hair, it would have worked miraculously. Trial for another day.
Following this whole fiasco, I will definitely continue to use this product for blowdrying my hair. However, to avoid any further flathead catastrophes, I will stick to my drugstore Tresemme hairspray for the styling. Unless for some strange reason I decide to try an Alexander Wang pinhead look (NOT). All in all, I will give the Bumble and Bumble Styling Lotion three Bump Its out of five and I will forever be on my quest for the ultimate vomlumizational product.

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