Frédéric Fekkai: Jersey Gals, Save the Date

FREDERIC FEKKAI MAKES A RARE APPEARANCE NEAR YOU
Get personal one on one hair consultation by celebrity stylist, Frederic Fekkai

WHO: Frédéric Fekkai will be giving his expert advice and style consultations at Bloomingdales. This celebrity stylist brings his expertise to his most loyal customers and fans with his trend setting advice.

WHAT: Frédéric Fekkai, the leader in luxury hair care, is offering personalized hair consultations and discussing his newest product innovations. He will be there giving advice, tips and the latest trends from the runway. Bloomingdales shoppers will have the chance to receive personal consultations from a world renowned stylist.

WHEN: Thursday, April 16th, 2009
11am – 2pm Personal hair consultations with Frederic Fekkai
**No appointment necessary**

WHERE: Bloomingdales - Riverside Square Mall, Bergen County, NJ

MAC and Frédéric Fekkai for Proenza Schouler Fall 2009

model: Jourdan Dunn

A cool girl’s dream in bold shapes and fabric mixes arranged with faux-ergonomic ardor. By day, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the designers behind the Proenza Schouler collection, infused practicality with considerable edge, starting with great outerwear in mixes of tweeds and twills piled on over low-slung skirts or boyish shorts — a look the designers love — and thick cabled tights. Style.com puts it this way, "Modern, sexy, and utterly cool ... jolted the fashion flock out of its recession fatigue tonight".

The dresses? Well, the designers proved that a sheath need be neither dull nor proper when worked in deep-toned and black devoré velvets for a sense of lovely decay. A perfect dark victory for girls who want to dress up without looking fussy.

Proenza Schouler wanted their models to look as if they were too cool to really care about a perfectly lined eye or a crafted, colored lip. So keys for hair and makeup set about creating a grunge look reminiscent of Seattle in the early Nineties.

Diane Kendal, working for MAC Cosmetics, used greasy smudges of brown and gray on lids and just below the eye, a groomed brow, a touch of vivid pink crème blush on cheeks and neutral lips to craft a worn-in makeup look. “The boys wanted a sense of easiness and confidence and didn’t want [the models] to appear all that concerned about hair and makeup, just interested in wearing glamorous clothes.”

Didier Malige, working for Frédéric Fekkai, created a messy, textured mane that was pulled back into low ponytails using products such as Fekkai Coiff Oceanic Tousled Wave Spray and Fekkai Sheer Hold Spray.

source: wwd, style.com

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HAIRCARE REVIEW: Frederic Fekkai's Technician Glaze vs. Robert Hallowell's Love That Shine Drops

Knowing the popularity of Frederic Fekkai's haricare products I wondered how they'd hold up to Celebrity Hairstylist Robert Hallowell's pRAWduct line. I've tried the FF Glossing, Technician and Luscious Curls lines of haircare and to be honest I come back to my pRAWducts every time. Still, I was leary that the Shine Drops would hold their own against the Technician Glaze (as a "cult fave" and stuff), although I should have had more confidence! Having shown my bias, I need to assure you that I had guys and gals give me their opinions. I washed, conditioned and dried my hair same as I normally would, then as a final styling and sealing applied Technician Glaze to the left side of my hair and Love That Shine Drops to the right. No one but me knew which side I'd applied either product to and those asked were unfamiliar with both brands (yes, I DO have some non-obsessed beauty pals - lol). Of course this is by no means a scientific poll; was done for fun! Here are the results:

	Technician Glaze	Love That Shine Drops	Why?
Shine		v	Definitely more brilliant shine w/ LTSD
Weight		v	FF weighed my hair down considerably whereas LTSD left it healthy and full of body
Performance		v	Shine lasted for hours and also significantly added to style efforts without added weight
Color Enhancing	v	v	Both enhanced color equally well
Texture		v	Surprised by this one; the FF is a lightweight non-greasy feeling liquid whereas the LTSD is a slightly thicker serum so you’d think that would make it heavier on the hair; I found just the opposite
Scent		v	Again a surprise; after asking several unbiased friends which side they preferred, LTSD won unanimously
Ingredients		v	I’m going out on a limb with this one, but FF just didn’t have a chance against the herbal and natural ingredients in LTSD (see list below)
Price	v		FF is $20 for 4.2oz bottle; LTSD is $11.50 for 2oz bottle

Ingredients:

Frederic Fekkai Techinician Glaze - Cyclopentasiloane, Dimethicone, Phenyl Trimethicone, C12-

C15 Alkyl Benzoate, Isododecane, Isohexadecane, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Acetate, Ethyl Linoleate, Arachidyl Propionate, Lecithin, Fragrance

pRAWduct Love That Shine Drops

- Phenyl Trimethicone, Dimethicone, Copolyol, Whole Wheat Protein, Oat Protein, Soy Protein, Grapeseed, Fennel, Lavender, Chamomile, Basil, Rosemary, Lemon, Neroli, Apple, Orange, Grapefruit, Panthenol (vitamin B5)

Thanks to all of you who participated in the giveaway, a brand new bottle of pRAWduct Love That Shine Drops goes to - ncsaalyssa. ncsaalyssa, please email me from the email you commented with giving me your mailing address and I'll get this right out to you - thanks!

HAIRCARE: Fekkai vs. The Kitchen Beautician

Like most women, I desire to have lush, healthy looking, super soft, lustrously shiny locks. So I've decided to put two products to the test. I'll be comparing Frederic Fekkai's Technician Glaze to Robert Hallowell's (The Kitchen Beautician) pRAWduct Love That Shine Drops. Look for the results this upcoming week!

How will this benefit YOU?

Well, besides getting a review on both products, you'll have the opportunity to score a bottle of the winning serum!! Just post a comment to this post below telling me what YOU like in a shine serum and haircare product. A winner will be selected at random on Fri., 2/15/08 from those who posted a comment.

For more information on these two products, see Frederic Fekkai at Sephora and pRAWduct at The Kitchen Beautician.

Some restrictions may apply. Contest open to US residents only. Winner will be chosen at random from among entrants. This giveaway is limited to one winner. Duplicate entries will not improve your chances of winning. Giveaway sponsored by for the love of beauty blog. Entries will be accepted through 11:59 pm on 02/14/08.

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photos: Nicola Kast

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