Romy Raves

If you have ever eaten a macadamia nut, you know how insanely yummy, creamy and full of flavor they are, more of an indulgent specialty nut rather than your run of the mill kind of nut, right?  Now imagine all of these wonderful, rich, luxury qualities translated into a line of hair care products, doesn’t that sound divine?  To me, YES!

Let me introduce you to my new favorite line of hair care products Macadamia Natural Oil. These products are the bomb! OMG, I am so in love with these fabulous products I don’t even know where to begin. This inspired line of products combines two of the worlds most rare, valuable and lightweight natural oils Macadamia Nut Oil from the South Pacific with the wildly popular Argan Seed Oil from North Africa’s Berber region into a beautiful line of luxury hair care products.

Macadamia Nut oil is a coveted beauty ingredient because of its uncanny ability to mimic the body’s own natural oils, allowing for unparalleled absorption and rapid penetration into the hair and skin. It has a rich concentration of essential fatty acids, natural antioxidants and vitamins that leaves hair deeply nourished and revitalized. Argan Seed Oil restores strength, shine and softness to dry, brittle hair while nourishing hair damaged by chemical services.

By combining both of these stellar oils in the Macadamia Natural Oil line, the results are even more impressive together. The benefits of this dynamic oil duo include: improved strength and hair quality; radiant shine;  hair that is deeply nourished, revitalized and silky smooth; softens thick, coarse hair; eliminates frizz and tangles; revives over-processed hair; no oily residue or build up; helps repair follicles, improves elasticity and increases nourishment; the natural UV protection extends the life of color treatments; and it reduces drying time up to 50%. Wow, that’s a powerful combo, don’t ya think?

So what am I NUTS about? Everything! First, the artisitc green and brown filagree package design is beautiful and totally catches my eye. Second, the hero product Healing Oil Treatment is amazing. It smells sweetly divine, absorbs instantly, smooths my hair and adds a beautiful shine. Then, the Rejuvenating Shampoo gently cleanses my processed hair while being hydrating at the same time, plus I love the way the bottle looks in my shower; the Nourishing Leave-In Cream is light weight, hydrating and gently mends my hair; and the Deep Repair Masque (with a little healing oil mixed in) is my new ‘put my hair back to health’ treatment conditioner. My hair just adores this deep conditioning product which it drinks it up. This treatment masque really hydrates, rejuvenates and makes my hair so healthy and shiny after I use it. And one more unexpectedly wonderful perk, because of the amazing absorption of these products, it significantly reduces my blow drying time too–overall just FAB!

Obviously, I am crazy about the Macadamia Natural Oil Products (maybe the foodie in me really responds to the whole yummy nut thing) and I think you will be too. Right now Macadamia Natural Oil is offering a “Get Hooked” Sample Pack which includes a mini Healing Oil Treatment and a 1 oz. Deep Repair Masque for only $5 plus free shipping. This is a $15 value and a great way to get a feel for my two fav products from this line. You can order your sample pack HERE.

And because I am such a huge fan of this product line, I am also offering a fabulous GIVEAWAY: A beautiful Macadamia Natural Oil Salon Intro Kit valued at over $100 to one lucky Romy Raves reader. This amazing set includes full sizes of the Shampoo, Leave-In Cream, Healing Oil Treatment, and the Deep Repair Masque along with 3 mini travel size oils and a healing oil infused comb.

All that you need to do for your chance to win this set is post a comment on this blog post telling us about your favorite hair treatment products and also what sounds appealing about the Macadamia Hair Oil products. That’s all you need to do. I LOVE comments and want to encourage my readers to regularly post comments and share your thoughts. This contest will end at midnight PST on Sunday, February 28th, 2010. The winner will be selected using Random.org. You must have a U.S. shipping address in order to enter and only one entry per person.  Good Luck!

Tags: Argan Oil, giveaway, Healing Oil Treatment, Macadamia Natural Oil

Happy Monday Beautacious Babes! Yesterday, I attended the International Spa and Salon Expo in Long Beach for the very first time. I was there scouting beauty trends and looking for new and inspired products to share with you. This is the largest professional cash-and-carry beauty exposition and educational event on the West Coast. It was a crazy energetic event with professionals from all aspects of the beauty biz on the hunt for the latest and greatest products and bargains. The show floor was packed, lively and filled with lots of colorful characters, and I really enjoyed it. 

Some of the trends that I noticed were hair extensions galore, hair bling, all things argan oil, fun bright pastel colors in make-up and nails for spring, lots of variations of Brazilian hair straightening, several instant results skin care products, and a plethora of enhanced features and upgrades on heat styling tools and hair appliances.  

Here is a list of the products that caught my eye (and that I am planning to conduct the standard Romy Raves in-depth trial and share my favs with you at a later date):

Stamp Me Fabulous Eye Brow Stamps: You select a stamp that best fits your own brow shape, cover it with semi permanent eyebrow color and stamp it on your brow. This is especially great for someone with sparse eyebrow hairs (like me). I thought this was a very inspired idea and I can’t wait to try it!

Belvada Cosmetics Mascara and Lipgloss: This company has a patented one handed mascara and lip gloss package that gives you more control of your product application. It also has a two layer wipe system to minimize product clumps and excess. I’m intrigued.

Macadamia Natural Oil Hair Products: YUM!  Hair care products made out of macadamia nut oil, count this foodie in! I love the gorgeous brown floral and lime green packaging on this product line and can’t wait to try these beautiful sounding products. Oh, and they had the most insanely delicious tasting macadamia nuts to nibble on at their expo booth–great branding!

Essie Chinchilly Matte: Uber chic new taupe-y grey color by nail industry leader Essie, and its bundled with an on trend matte top coat. Very cool and different, I cannot wait to try it!

Genie Instant Line Smoother: This is an instant results product that is supposed to immediately and visibly smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and the demo was impressive. I can’t wait to take this product for a spin myself, stay tuned.

Dermasurface Surface Bright: This is a face brightening product with a new ingredient that I haven’t heard of called tranexamic acid which is supposed to reduce the activity of melanin (brown spots). I new face brightener, count me in!

Velana K Lip Gloss in Jennifer: All I can say is that she got me to try a pink color (I am SO NOT a pink girl) and it looked really good! This beautiful looking and feeling gloss has a unique golden seaweed mixture that moisturizers and fills in the lips. And she has also added to the appeal by naming each gloss after a woman who is important in her life (can you say Romy Red ). I likie!

Tags: Belvada Cosmetics, Dermasurface, Essie, Genie Instant Line Smoother, ISSE, Macadamia Natural Oil, Trends, Velana K