How to Curl Your Hair with a Straightener

The benefit of using a straightener to curl your hair as opposed to a curler is that it creates less of a ringlet but a more relaxed curl. The curls also tend to last a really long time, so there are no worries about your hair going flat during the evening!

• Separate your hair into sections starting with curling the bottom layer
• Brush your hair through, knots will prevent the styler from moving through your hair seamlessly
• Apply heat protectant, concentrating on the middle section of your hair
• Take a section of hair about an inch thick and wrap it once around your styler
• Turn the straightener over until the hair is coming straight down again 
• Then slowly run it through the hair to where you'd like the curl to finish and pull it away from your hair
• Give the section a twist with your fingers
• And there you have your first curl!
• Repeat the above steps throughout the rest of your hair
• Use a hairspray to complete the look

Once you get the hang of this it's really quite easy to do! Let us know how you get on :)

How to Create a Pretty Updo

We're all about hair here at BeautyCow and there are some great tutorials on youtube for all the wonderful things that you can do with your hair. Check this one out from Andrea's Choice.

How to Create Loose Curls with a GHD Wide Styler

You will need:
GHD Wide Salon Styler
GHD Thermal Protect Spray
Hairspray

Happy Christmas 2010!

Here at BeautyCow we have had a very busy year, and the biggest change has of course been our new website. We changed our website in September 2010 to give our customers a better, more fluent and more pleasant online shopping experience.

Changes on the new site included:

• Larger, more detailed product images, incorporating more views of the products.
• Gift Vouchers available
• Wish Lists so that you can let people know what you like
• Product Reviews so that you can view peoples opinions on the product before you buy.
• Online Accounts, so that you can view the status of your order from your own computer.
• Google Checkout as an additional Payment option.
• Live Help Chat feature.

Since these new modifications we have had some very good feedback on the site, and welcome everyone to get in touch with their own feedback.

This has been a massive year for Christmas shopping, with the rush starting very late in November, rather than in October as usual. This hasn't helped Royal Mail with their already poor Christmas postage reputation, who also had a mass of snowfall to deal with.

We have also had the largest Christmas ever for GHD straighteners, having smashed previous years by nearly 500%! This we believe is because of the GHD Midnight Gift Set, which is by far their most prestige styler to date and has found its way onto everyone's Christmas List!

Lastly we would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas, and a successful new year, filled with everything you wish for.

All the Best

The BeautyCow Team