XOXO Azelle and Alana

1.) Gather your hair to the side getting started for that side braid

2.)Wrap a ribbon, longer than your hair, and incorporate that into your braid

XOXO Azelle

INSTYLE shares “Hair Secrets Straight From The Set!”

The Hunger Games movie is going to be a HAIR spectacular! “This was one of the most complex, detailed movies I’ve ever worked on,” hair department head Linda Flowers told InStyle.com. “People are going to be blown away by how beautiful and breathtaking it is.” We’ll take her word for it—especially in light of the following stats:

3,000: People who were processed through the hair and makeup tents each week. “Extras couldn’t just have their normal hair. Everyone had to be in the style of the time,” said Flowers.

500: Cast members and extras who had their eyebrows bleached, including Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket.

400: Cast members and extras wearing wigs in a single day of filming. “We went with odd permutations of colors like dusty rose and chartreuse,” Flowers said. “The challenge was to make them look couture and sophisticated.”

45: Hairdressers working in a single day.

20: Minutes spent creating Katniss Everdeen’s signature braid for Jennifer Lawrence.

3: Colored wigs worn by Elizabeth Banks: One pink, one green, and one lavender.

1: Wig worn by Stanley Tucci, who plays Caesar Flickerman. “It’s a dark navy blue wig in a Karl Lagerfeld-style ponytail,” she says.

XOXO Azelle

Check out all her transformations!

xoxo Azelle 

How bold are you with your hair cuts?

My first short hair style tutorial! It is so much easier with short hair for me. I wake up with an automatic style. For this look I decided to use a flat iron to curl.

1. Section hair
2. Grab a medium amount of hair and place the flat iron parallel to the floor .
3. With hair in the iron, you are going to flip the iron around “ribboning” the hair in the iron. The slower you ‘ribbon’ your hair the curlier the result

Try it out and play with the flat iron. Works great on long hair too!!
xoxo Azelle

I normally do black eyeliner on my water line, but this morning I woke up wanting to do purple! I just got this purple eyeliner by Nabi at a local grocery store.  If you want to brighten up your daily makeup, try different colored liners on the bottom waterline! Purple also brings out the gold in your eyes!

XOXO Azelle

I had One of those ‘Aha!’ moments with nails…. I saw this design by Chloe’s Nails and wanted to try it for myself

XOXO Azelle

Limit the use of hand sanitizers. I am guilty of this because I find sanitizers so convenient to use and kills a majority of germs.  But, it contains alcohol and that drys out your hands quickly, especially in winter weather.

Always have a moisturizer handy. In your purse, at work, your room, bathroom, car….
Choose a cream with glycerin to soften and urea to remove dead skin.

Our unpredictable cold, windy, rainy weather often leads to chapped lips. Avoid “flavored” lip balms, it may increase irritation by licking your lips

Exfoliate your lips at night with a toothbrush, I like to use baby toothbrushes. I mix sugar and a little bit of olive or grapeseed oil to use for brushing my lips.

xoxo Azelle

The Naty Chabanenko LoveCat Magazine Editorial Has Holiday Cheer

Photoshoot by Pierre Dal Corso