The masses have spoken and the Brunettes RULED the red carpet!  Check out the stats over at the RED CARPET SWEEPSTAKES page!

Grand Prize Winners will be notified by mail/e-mail within 10 days, so keep your eyes peeled!

Now in closing, I’d like to wish a hearty CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of our sweepstakes AND to Team Brunette for winning this round of the Color Showdown.

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Okay, you have till 4:59pm TONIGHT, Monday to enter the: Star Magazine & Sunsilk Red Carpet Sweepstakes!

Head over to the RED CARPET SWEEPSTAKES page NOW
and place your votes before it’s too late!

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Brunettes vs. Blondes, is it REALLY a competition?

…of course it is, and it’s all happening over at colorshowdown.com.
There is EVERYTHING at this site: Downloads, Videos, Information of Sunsilk’s ALL NEW Color Boost Threesome’s , chances to win prizes, surveys and SO much more!

You can even recruit more members for your team to prove once and for all who really is better: Brunettes or Blondes!

FYI, at time of posting, the Brunettes were kicking the Blonde’s asses.  I’m talking 20,021 pts vs. 6,730 pts. (LOL! Now THAT’S ugly! …even though both teams are gorgeous…)

Head over to www.colorshowdown.com NOW to score!  (Points, that is…)

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The real competition Sunday night isn’t about the golden statue, it’s about who worked it the best on the red carpet. (If it wasn’t, Joan Rivers would be out of a job!)

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the new Sunsilk Color Collections and STAR Magazine have teamed up for the Red Carpet Color Showdown to determine who ruled the red carpet… Team Blonde or Team Brunette?

You can enter/prepare to enter one of two ways:

Head over to our RED CARPET PAGE NOW to print out your cheat sheet so you can fill it in as you watch this Sunday. Or, you can watch the red carpet ceremony and awards show Sunday February 25th and then click over to our RED CARPET PAGE to cast your votes on who rocked the red carpet: Team Blonde or Team Brunette!

When you vote, you are entered for your chance to win one of 100 swag bags featuring Team Blonde or Team Brunette T-Shirts, an issue of STAR Magazine and the Sunsilk Color Collection of your choice. (I know, fabulous right?)

YOU CAN ONLY VOTE from 5:00 pm ET on 2/25/07 until 4:59 pm ET on 2/26/07!!!!

SO ENTER QUICKLY TO WIN!

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Okay, can we talk about Britney Shears Spears?

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS GIRL? SHE LEFT REHAB AGAIN!?!?!?

OBVIOUSLY there is a problem!!!! The fact she had to go into rehab the first time sounded PERHAPS responsible but after the quick exit, head shave, bad blonde-bob wig (COME ON! A BOB!?!? ALL THAT MONEY AND SHE COULDN’T SPLURGE ON A REQUEL WELCH COLLECTION WIG?!), tattoos, stop at Cedar’s Sinai, back into rehab and then out again a day later tells me something ain’t right.

Do you agree? FORUM! FORUM!!!

Now I didn’t see Crossroads, so I don’t know if that is what lead up to all this madness, maybe it was the fifty-five hour marriage in Vegas that sent her into this downward spiral, I mean seriously anyone who cries at F.A.O. Schwarz (and it’s not because of the prices) is OBVIOUSLY having a breakdown.

I think we should take a moment to look over her past song titles and see if we all should have seen this coming:

…Baby, One More Time. (Try two…possibly three)
Oops I Did It Again. (Who knew this was REALLY about leaving rehab?)
I’m A Slave 4 U (maybe she’s not talking about a person, but a substance. It sure isn’t underwear.)
Toxic
My Prerogative (This MUST be the underwear song)
When I Say So
I Run Away
Someday I Will Understand (…will we, Brit? Will we?)
Outrageous

I’m gonna sum it up for you in FIVE words: Britney is the new Whitney.

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Hey Gang!

One of the greatest parts of our Sunsilk Threesomes (besides the fact that you don’t have the chance of feeling left out of THIS kind of threesome) is our 24/7 Cremes.

Our 24/7 Cremes are every girl’s secret weapon against whatever hair drama you have.

Did you know:

Our De-Frizz 24/7 CREME (which features Aloe-E, that helps tame unruly frizz and add definition to curls and waves) can be used every morning and gives you all-day control! (Think of it like pantyhose…FOR YOUR HEAD!)

The Anti-Poof 24/7 CREME (with Jojoba Oil, which helps seal the hair fibers and protect them from expanding) can be used every time after you wash and condition your hair. (In other words, while your hair is wet.)

Our Anti-Flat Weightless Volumizing CREME (featuring special ingredients including Collagen and Vitamin C) works best when one or two dollops are added into your damp hair. It’s WEIGHTLESS, so don’t be afraid to use it every morning!

One or two dollops of the Hydra TLC 24/7 CREME should be applied when your hair is wet. (I’m thinking damp rather than soaking wet, personally…) and THEN you can style it. This particular 24/7 creme is ultra-moisturizing thanks to Nutri-Keratin and penetrates the hair to help strengthen it because it’s full of Amino acids.

As for our Straighten-Up 24/7 CREME, which is formulated with Elastyn-E that provides elasticity to help your hair conform to a satin-straight style, is best used if you apply one or two dollops of it before you blow dry.

*** FABULOUS TIP #101: 24/7 Cremes should be used BEFORE applying any styling products, not in place of!

But wait…there’s more:

Which 24/7 Creme is YOUR favorite? How has Sunsilk’s 24/7 Creme changed YOUR life? If you could be a 24/7 Creme, which 24/7 Creme would you be? LOL! I’m kidding of course, but seriously, I would LOVE to hear your thoughts, comments, suggestions and stories about my favorite part of our threesomes: The 24/7 Creme.

Now being the good Hairapy Guy that I am, I have prizes for you. The top 10 girls with the best stories get a Sunsilk Chick Chat Pack of your choice. (They contain a travel-size threesome of the variant of your choice (lol…I said variant…) along with Chick Chat Magnetic Poetry.) Now no funny business people! Only ONE response per person and nobody I even remotely work with (even on street corners) can write a response AND if I say you don’t get a gift, that’s my call and it’s final. (HA, HA, HA!!! I HAVE THE POWER!!!)

Can’t wait to hear from you and remember: Grab all three for maximum Hairapy!

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My Valentine’s Day may be tragic in some eyes, but to tell you the truth: it was perfect.

It was me, the The Golden Girls and my taxes.

Good Times.

But enough about me, let’s talk about YOU! What was YOUR best or worst Valentine’s Day?

Ahahh, middle school. i had the best little ‘boyfriend’, and we would break up and then he would ask me back out in gym and I would be like ‘fine’. …He was like can i get you bananas for valentines day? and i was like totally offended, but i all i said was umm alright? and then he ended up getting me a really pretty necklace. it was amazing, cause i came to school thinking i was gonna get some fricken fruit!!!!!!!! ahahahah. -Ashley

The best gift I got was a simple phone call. I was working two jobs and my boyfriend was a musician so we didn’t get to see each other very much during the week. I came home from my second job on Valentine’s Day and my roommate told me I had a message. I hit play and it was my boyfriend and all the message said was, “I was thinking about you and I wanted to wish you a very Happy Valentines Day.” It was the most precious thing that he could have done! -Dawn

Best gift - a dozen pink roses from a good friend who knew I needed cheering up. The worst? Edible underwear. Let’s just leave it at that. -Jeri

My worst Valentine’s Day ever was a few years ago… my then-partner and I had split on the first of January, and it was the first real “holiday” afterwards. For weeks at work, I’d been hearing the girls talk about where they were going, what they were doing, love love love love blah blah blah. Made me insane. Then one of the guys who worked there - a very nice guy (I thought) started asking what plans I had, would I be interested in maybe going to dinner that night, etc. I explained that I didn’t have a babysitter (my son was about 6 at the time) and couldn’t get one on such short notice. He offered, if I was comfortable with it, to come over to my apartment for dinner, he’d bring take-out. I agreed, we set a time for later, after my son was in bed, about 8 p.m. Eight came and went - 8:30 - 9:00. No sign of him. I finally went to bed at nearly midnight, heartbroken. The next day, he came to work, acting as if nothing had happened… when I finally confronted him, he laughed in my face and said, “You didn’t think I was SERIOUS, did you?” -HB

(Ummm…I think that wins HB!-Micah)

Best gift was probably one of those cheesy bears in a balloon deals…It was so funny that he would actually go through all the trouble just because I laughed about how I had never got one and thought they were stupid anyway…He did it to make me smile!!!-LW

Well, let’s see. I was in the 10th grade and we had a Valentine’s Day dance. I asked this guy who I had had a crush on for months. He said yes and he told me that we were going to have fun. I was so excited. So, two days before the dance, I get a phone call from him. He told me that he was sick and he wasn’t going to go to the dance. Well, I felt bad for him. Before I came home from school, I stopped at the store and bought stuff to make homemade chicken soup for him. (I was digging this guy, of course I was going to do something nice.) I went to his house and his mom told me that he went to the dance with his girlfriend. (Okay, he and his girlfriend broke like two weeks before I asked him!!!) I went to the dance and sure enough, there he was with his girlfriend. I was in tears and felt like I could never like Valentine’s Day ever again. Well, his best friend felt really bad for me and asked me to dance. Of course, I said yes. What I thought was going to be a bad night, turned out to be the best night. Oh, yeah, I dated the guy’s best friend for 10 months. I learned that falling for the wrong guy could lead you to the right one!!!!! Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Coco

Worst: 10 lb heart-shaped box of chocolate. Best: Enagaged -Lisa

When I had a BF the best gift was a handmade card by him even though it looked liked a five year old made it. I loved it and still have it. Of course he made dinner and sang a horrid rendition of Unforgettable. I mean he can’t sing -tone deaf- never going to be an American Idol… That was the second best part of the day because I am a singer and for him to go there was not only brave but cute. It all came from the heart! -Talya

What about YOU? DO you have a best or worst Valentine’s Day Story?

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Now is a good as time as any to be thinking about our ex-boyfriends. It’s the day before Valentine’s Day! (and frankly when I’m not thinking about my ex-boyfriend, I’m thinking about the fact that the Golden Girls Seventh and Final Season goes on sale tomorrow.)

And that’s sad.

(Crap! I’m already going on a tangent this early in the posting?, This can’t be good…)

My point was going to be: Have you heard of The Ex-Boyfriend Project? It’s a project where Liz Danahey and Sarah Jo Marks are collecting photos of ex-boyfriends in front of monuments. (Thus the catchy name.)

And I quote:
“We want anyone—you—to send your photo of an ex-boyfriend in front of a monument. Any ex-boyfriend. There’s no particular definition for monument: the photo is just as much about the place as the person in it and we want you to tell us about your photos.”

At this time of year I know we’re all reflecting about loves that could have been and loves that should of been (DAMN IT!) so as you go through your photos, why don’t you put those memories and feelings to work! …THINK OF IT AS THE NEW BURNING OF THE PHOTO!

And I quote Liz and Sarah some more:
“If you don’t find an ex-boyfriend in front of monument photo, let us know that you looked! Tell us about slogging through your photos. If you’ve never had an ex-boyfriend, ask your sisters, mother, your grandmother, your gay friends to look through their photos. Or, better yet, help them look. Find your ex and ask him for photos! (Could you imagine?) There are no big rules to this project. The monument does not have to be immediately recognizable, and the ex-boyfriend’s face doesn’t have to be in the photo. We want to hear the story of that photo, of your ex-boyfriend, and of you.”

If you jump over to the site you can see examples that may inspire you. It’s really fun (and sort of healthy) to reflect and remember how much fun you had. (Or didn’t…THAT BASTARD! HOW COULD HE DO THAT TO YOU?)

I’m sure something like this could work too:

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My boyfriend is a major flirt and I don’t want him to end up leaving me for someone else. What do I do about it and how can I learn to trust that he won’t end up leaving me? -Denise

Have you told him that you don’t like him flirting with other people or have you discussed that it makes you feel uncomfortable? That would be my first thing: SAY SOMETHING! You might find out thing you don’t know. (Which could be good OR bad.) You might find out he needs more attention from you. You might find out he just wants to be validated. You might find out he’s already thinking about screwing around on you. I know it’s scary to talk about things that you’re not sure about or worried about or things that may cause a conflict, but it’s the only way to find the truth and it’s sometime the only way you can take care of yourself and make sure you don’t get hurt.

On the other hand, he might not even know he’s doing it and when you bring it up he could tell you he’s sorry and remind you how wonderful he thinks you are and that he loves you and that he won’t do it again.

My clothing style is rock /grunge a la Kurt Cobain. And basically anything that comes out of the thrift store. But the thing is, I’m pretty sure half the time I look like I just walked out Hoboes R Us. So how do I dress appropriately without losing my style?-Althea

It’s all about being put together. My advice would be NOT to dress thrift store/rock and roll from head to toe, but instead make it your accessory. Wear jeans that aren’t trashed and then add a punk rock top. If you’re more a dress wearer, wear a solid dress and funk it up with a kitschy pair of heels or converse. I find the best way to express ones self is through the details. Wear a think headband and have a vintage (that was a nice way of saying Thrift Store) purse/bag to add some edge to your look.

It will take you from being the girl who OBVISOULY spent $10 on her outfit, to the one who’s got a fabulous sense of style!

I am 8 1/2 months pregnant how do I keep my husband interested?-Jolene

Well, if you want to talk openly, which of course you do or else you wouldn’t have written, I would definitely say still try and have sex. I know at this point in your pregnancy you may not be too keen on that idea, but come on: he’s a man and men want to have sex. (and I don’t know if you talk openly with him about stuff like this, but at this point he could be thinking that you two aren’t going to be having sex for a long time because “A” you’re pregnant now and you don’t want to, “b” you’re gonna have a baby so you’re gonna have to take care of that child and you SURE won’t want to have sex then because you’ll be too tired and “c” he could be thinking that HE won’t be your baby anymore and that could be stressing him out and making him distance himself from you so he won’t get hurt.) Where was I? Oh yeah, have sex. Now, if you’re not into having sex, maybe you can come up with other …er… methods… to make him happy that don’t make you feel like you’ve got one more thing in you that you want out.

However, if you ARE still having sex and you think he’s disinterested or not as interested for another reason Dr. Bryce Kaye of the Cary Counseling Center suggests that you remember to keep your Lover Role protected from your Parent Role. “Now more than ever, the quality of your relationship may depend upon how you can plan privacy and time to be a free and fun-loving couple again (without bringing up your child). I’m talking about emotional intimacy, not just sex. Remember, really good foreplay starts emotionally a week in advance. Try to invite your husband to talk with you about how he really feels about your pregnant body. You need to be prepared for a painful answer that might indicate his own emotional shortcomings. Remember, if he is so concrete that he can’t appreciate the beauty of a woman carrying his child, it’s his shortcoming not yours. At least if you can get him to talk about his feelings, and if he finds you are more accepting of them, then he might be less defensive and be willing to explore some alternatives with you. If you attack him or he feels you might attack him, then his sexual interest will wane all the more.”

Sometimes the kink sessions with my fiancé are too much and too long! I want to please him but damn! How to tell him I’m actually in pain?-Robin

First off: That’s hot. Second, tell him what you like that he’s doing and what you don’t like. I mean, if you don’t feel safe than things need to change. Come up with new ways to make his sessions, work better for YOU while still playing into his fantasies. Also, if the real problem is that he just takes too long to …well, you know… try to get him closer to …ummm… finishing… even before he begins. (It’s sneaky, but it works.)

I was shopping the other day for more of your guy’s awesome products and I noticed you have some that are in all Spanish and they smell great and I really want to try them but I don’t know what kind of hair there for can u tell me??-Casaundra

ANTI-CAÍDA (The Fuchsia one) which roughly translates to Anti-fallout, is for the Dry/damaged hair of Hispanic women that results in breakage and fall out. This Sunsilk Threesome features soothing Nopal, a Mexican plant in the cactus family that hydrates each hair fiber and make hair more silky and flowing.

ANTI-ESPONJA (The Lime one) which more or less means Anti-Sponge, was made for Hispanic hair that gets bigger and bigger when it dries. This Sunsilk Threesome soothes hair with avocado, and works to deeply hydrate hair and seal the hair fibers to help them stay hydrated longer THUS hair is flattened and resistant to sponginess.

How can I stop being attracted to my gay best friend?-Laura

That’s difficult and an often asked question.

People are attracted to others no matter what sexual orientation one is, so don’t think you’re weird or different or anything like that. Part of me just thinks you’re attracted to him because he shows you the love, support and freedom you seek in your future life partner and again: that’s okay. You deserved to be loved and appreciated and respected. Revel in it!

Now, if you want to have sex with him, that’s another thing. You’re only gonna hurt yourself and feel rejected when he doesn’t want to have sex with you. DON’T PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION. (Watch any episode of Will and Grace to see what I’m talking about.)

I will tell you this though: feel the love. He needs it, you need it and this relationship is one that will last forever no matter what happens. He won’t judge you, because he’s been judged. At least one Halloween in his life, he’s walked a mile or two in your shoes (or at least your shoes in his size) so he knows what you’ve been through, also he can relate to you on so many levels that other men won’t /may not be able to. So know that your relationship is different and special and you both need it.

I think honestly your “attraction” is just from him fulfilling your emotional needs.

I am on a limited budget and I am a big girl. I am also 43 and need a new look. I am in the legal profession, got any ideas?-Brenda

Sales, sales, sales!!!! There are SO many stores and websites to shop from with wonderful newsletters that come right to your email box that tell you all about their specials. I’m a big believer in Lane Bryant (www.lanebryant.com) FYI: they have suits from size 12 to 32 and Torrid (www.torrid.com) where you can add trendy pieces to make that bland suit stand out.

If you always wear black or dark colors, make sure you spice it up with a dash of color, either from your blouse under that blazer or with exciting accessories like brooches, bracelets, scarves, wraps or earrings.

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