GHD Creation Spray is a product I do not ever want to live without. If you want to create curls with your styler, do not even bother without this product in your quiver. It is the most effective product I have ever found for holding the curls created with a heat styler and contains a heat-activated protection ingredient derived from meadow foam seed oil, which penetrates the hair cortex and improves moisture over an extended time providing the hair with more elasticity and flexibility. Creation Spray is the only product I trust to prevent curls from dropping and protects the hair from UV rays and from drying out while it works. You can read more about it here.

GHD Miracle Mist is a leave in conditioner that provides a light mist of moisture without weighing the hair down. It prevents hair from going static and is fantastic for nourishing extremely dry hair on a daily basis. It contains a host of impressive active ingredients to moisturize and protect the hair and repair damage caused by heat styling.

GHD Thermal Protector is a MUST if you are using a heat styler. It contains meadow foam seed oil to help maintain moisture levels and elasticity during heat styling as well as many other ingredients to deflect heat from the cortex of the hair. It reduces static, increases shine and helps to hold your style in place over time. It offers an extra 50% protection against heat appliances – don’t believe me? Test for yourself: Spray the back of one of your hands with GHD Thermal Protector. Leave the other hand bare. Hold your hands next to one another and ask a friend to wave a hair-dryer over both of them. One will get painfully hot, the other will not. Remember that even if you are not using a GHD or curling tong you are still doing damage to your hair every time you use a hair-dryer without protection. GHD Thermal Protector comes in three varieties, one for fine and normal hair, one for dry and coarse hair, and one for weak and damaged (colour treated) hair.

GHD Obedience Cream is another stellar product. I love to use it before blow-drying someone’s hair, but if your hair suffers from frizz and static this product should be used before you attempt any kind of style. It offers protection against static, UVA rays and humidity and helps hold your style in place for longer. You can read more about it here.

GHD Maximise Mousse is a mousse that delivers a flexible but firm hold making it an extremely versatile styling product. It helps to protect against humidity and static and adds strength and shine to one’s hair. Most importantly it is not sticky and will not leave your hair feeling “crispy.” It contains a starch polymer to assist in “lifting” the hair allowing you to achieve the volume you desire. It is suitable for all hair types and boosts volume and movement to the hair.

WIN WITH GHD AND SAMANTHA LAURA KAYE

If you would like to win one of each of these products (a hamper valued at R890) follow these three simple steps:

1) “Like” GHD on FaceBook

2) “Like” Samantha Laura Kaye on FaceBook

3) Tell me you have done so in the comments section below. Tweeting about this competition will only improve your chances!

Competition Closed – Congratulations to our winner:

Yolandi van Rensburg

Make-Up: Main Make-up Ingre­dients: MAC: Apply Strobe Cream — to give the skin radiance, the buff Stu­dio Fix Fluid -( in my expe­rience it’s the lon­gest wea­ring of MAC’s foun­da­tions which makes it ideal for bri­des) into the skin with a stip­pling brush (I like the #187). Apply “Shroom” to the inner cor­ners of the eye, “vani­lla” under the brow bone, “Cork” and “bronze” to the crease, “All that glit­ters” to the ball of the eye and “graphblack” technakohl liner along the lash­line with an angle brush. Fuzz the liner with a #219 pencil brush along the edge of the eye and into the outer edges of the crease. Gently exag­ge­rate the line of the eye with “black­track” fluid­line. Set the brows with clear brow gel, and then gently fill them in with an angle brush and an eyesha­dow like “brun”  or as I used here MAC’s eye-pencil in “strut”, gently dust some “strada” (matt) blush under the cheek­bone for con­tour, and dust a little “good as gold” over the top of the cheek for s fresh glow. Dust over the entire face with Prep+Prime trans­pa­rent finishing pow­der and then finish the lips with “Subculture” lipli­ner and “Kinda Sexy” (matt) lips­tick.

Hair: Spritz the hair with GHD “thermal protector” spray, section the hair and then create loose GHD curls, section by section. Holding the bottom of the curl, pull the remaining hair up towards the sky to create a messier, fuller and more “teased” curl. Braid two sections of hair and wrap around the forehead to create an element of “intentional control”. Spritz all over with a maximum hold hairspray, and then finish with a shine enhancing spray such as Loreal’s “Play Ball – Silky Sunrise”

Pho­to­grapher: Sally Mellish

Model:Caitlin Dow­nes

Bou­quet: The Flo­wer Market

Hair and Make-up Artist: Samantha Kaye

Cape Town

2009

Make-Up: Main Make-up Ingre­dients: MAC: Apply Strobe Cream — to give the skin radiance, the buff Stu­dio Fix Fluid -( in my expe­rience it’s the lon­gest wea­ring of MAC’s foun­da­tions which makes it ideal for bri­des) into the skin with a stip­pling brush (I like the #187). Apply “vani­lla” under the brow bone, “Cork” and “bronze” to the crease, “All that glit­ters” and “arena”to the ball of the eye and then line the eye with “rich ground” fluid­line. Set the brows with clear brow gel, and then gently fill them in with eyebrow pencil: “lingering”, gently dust some “gingerly” (sheertone) blush onto the cheek­bone for a girly glow. Dust over the entire face with Prep+Prime trans­pa­rent finishing pow­der and then finish the lips with “smoothberry” lipli­ner and “full-for-you” plushglass to really accentuate that pout.

Hair: Spritz the hair with GHD “thermal protector” spray, section the hair and roll into hot rollers, seal with hairspray and finish with a shine enhancing spray such as Loreal’s “Play Ball – Silky Sunrise”

Pho­to­grapher: Sally Mellish

Model: Clare Kuiper

Bou­quet: The Flower Market

Hair and Make-up artist: Samantha Kaye

Cape Town

2009