Gentlemen, it's okay to...

groom your brows. 

No one likes a unibrow, or overly bushy brows. So don't be embarrassed. Get those puppies waxed!

use more hair product than your girlfriend

Most days, I use exactly one product...and it's hairspray. So don't worry if your a two or even three-stepper gentleman. Sometimes it's easy to use more products than your girlfriend.

get a mani/pedi

If you've never gotten one. Go get one. They're fantastic, and they leave your nails looking clean...and ladies like clean.

share your woman's skin care products

Eye cream, toner, anti-aging product, sunscreen...especially sunscreen. It's all okay to use. Your skin works the same as a woman's, so it's okay to use the same products. 

spray tan

Laying outside or in a tanning bed is bad for your skin. So to get that summer tan, opt for a spray tan. Plus, they make you look leaner and give your muscles more definition. Who doesn't want that?

What else do you think is okay for men to do that they are sometimes hesitant to do? Tell me in the comments below!

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Long Hair Upkeep

"I'm cold, but it's no problem, I'll just use my hair as a jacket."

Having long hair is a whole other ball game than short hair. First of all, you've got to use more shampoo. And have you ever gotten your hair stuck under your armpit? Or in the car door? Well...those are things you experience with long hair. So naturally there are a different set of rules in hair care.

Long Hair Rules

1. You need regular trims. Just because your hair is long doesn't mean that you don't need a trim just as much as Joe Smith over there. Because you do. In fact, you need one every eight weeks. Otherwise, your hair is just going to break off and you will lose your length anyways.
2. Deep conditioner meet hair. Hair meet deep conditioner. You two are going to become the best of friends. 
3. Pulling your hair back while you sleep is okay, but make sure that you're using a soft hair tie and keeping it very loose. Pulling it too tight or using rubberbands can cause breakage. 
4. When shampooing, try to keep the shampoo off the ends. It could dry them out.
5. When conditioning, try to keep the conditioner off the roots. It could cause excess oil. 

There are more long hair care tips. These are just the few that I live by. Although, maybe one day I'll be telling you my short hair tips, since we all know of my obsession with pixies. 

What are you long hair care tips?

How To Tuesday: Winged-Out Liner

Oh wings. Cat eyes. How I love you. In fact, I love you so much I pretty much wear you everyday. Now, it took me a long time to figure you out. You're complicated you see, and I'm an amateur. But I've mastered you now. And I'm telling all my friends how so they can master you to.

 Step 1:

Start by drawing a line from the corner of your eye up toward the end of your eyebrow. The longer the line, the bigger the wing will be.

Step 2:

Bring the line back in toward your lash line.

Step 3:

Fill in your outline and line the rest of the lash.

That's it! Three easy steps. Now here's a little tip: use a liquid or cream liner, because it is way too hard to try to do this with pencil. 

You know what goes good with wings? Red lipstick.

Giveaway Winner: Jane Iredale Powder Me SPF

It's time for the winner! Yay!

Congratulations Sharon R! Email me at cassidy@onstagehairdesign.com :)

Friday Link Love 3/23/2012

Hello link love, it's been too long.

• I love learning new "trade secrets", and learning some makeup school secrets was fun! 
• Boy blazer into a girl blazer. Genius. 
• My obsession with top knots grows with this braided one.
• Cleaning your makeup brushes is such an important thing to do, and to know how to do! 
• I loved reading the answers to these fashion questions. Some of them I wanted to know myself!
• Not that you'll need it this weekend, but here are some good hairstyles on rainy days.
• The story of the Twitching Teenagers in Le Roy, NY is such a strange and fascinating one.  
• This updo is perfect for your next date night. 
• While I love me some Disney Princesses, is it better to be a Disney villan? 
• The title is deceiving (any heat will damage your hair a bit!), but it was some good tips nonetheless: How to straighten your hair without damage.
• File this under adorable: Ronald Dahl once wrote a letter to a little girl saying the coolest things.

What did you see online this week?

Giveaway: Jane Iredale Powder Me SPF

It's almost summertime and that means it's almost SUNmertime. And while everyone should wear sunscreen all year round (skin cancer doesn't discriminate against season, y'all), it's especially important to wear it during the summer when you're out by the pool or the ocean.

And if you're like me, when you lay out you don't want to wear your entire face worth of makeup. However, you don't necessarily want to go naked. Jane Iredale's Powder Me SPF is the perfect solution.

It's a powder sunscreen formula that you dab on your face. It comes in two different colors, tanned or translucent, but it provides just the slightest amount of coverage. Perfect for poolside.

Also, in case you were wondering, that's the Skin Cancer Foundation's seal of approval! Yay for preventative care! 

To enter this giveaway, all you have to do in leave a comment below telling me your favorite SUNmertime activity. Then Tuesday, I'll randomly draw a winner. 

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Homemade Remedies: DIY Pore Strips

If you read Link Love you know all about my obsession with DIY things. But here's a little secret...I hardly ever actually do anything DIY. Shhh!! I know, I know, super lame right? But I hardly ever have time to do anything DIY. It's so much quicker for me to just pop into the store and buy whatever it is I was going to DIY. Yes, I spend more money, but I gain knowledge. Wait..no..I guess that saying doesn't really apply here.


But to appease my inner DIYer I decided to try out some pore strips. Easy to start off with right? Then I asked myself...do they actually work better than the store bought kind? And boom! Blog post idea. 


So here we are:

homemade pore strips vs. Biore pore strips


The recipe I'm using (or stole from these people) for the DIY portion of today's show is as follows:

• combine 1tbsp. honey with 1 1/2 tbsp. milk
• microwave for 10-15 seconds
• apply to face where desired

I put the Biore on my nose and the homemade on my chin and forehead area.

15 minutes later...


Biore Pore Strip

Let me first start off by saying, don't ever google image search Biore pore strips. Ew.

I always forget that these things never work the way I want them to. I expect them to pull out every blackhead in my nose, leaving it perfect like a baby's bottom. And let me tell you what it does not do: leave my nose looking like a perfect baby's bottom. There are still tons of blackheads up in there and I can't tell if the little things that the strip pulled out are small little blackheads or tiny hairs that I had on my nose. Some of them are probably blackheads. I can't have that much hair on my nose.

rating: B-

Homemade Pore Strip

When I put it on (using a cotton ball) it smelled so delicious I wanted to eat it. But then I put it on and was instantly deterred from eating. It was just this giant sticky mess on my face. Yes, it went on in a film like manner, but it just looked shiny and gross when it dried. 

Then I tried taking it off. Tried. Because that stuff wasn't coming off. It is suppose to just peel right off like a normal pore strip, but the mixture must of really liked my face because it stayed on really nicely. I ended up having to rewash my face and in the end, there was no blackhead difference. 

rating: F

I'm not sure why the DIY version didn't work out for me. Maybe I mixed it wrong, or didn't apply enough, I don't know, but there are a couple of other recipes for homemade pore strips out there that I might try next.

Do you DIY? What is your favorite homemade remedy?