I thought I would try a product from Blow, a new haircare line sold by my favorite hair product site Lock & Mane. Blow haircare line was created by the experts at Blow, the award winning New York Blow Dry Bar. The collection of products was specifically designed to give you better blow dry results at home. Free of sulfates and parabens that deplete hair and limit the life of your blow out. Never tested on animals.I tried out Blow’s Beach Blow texturizing mist, the mist has been awarded one of Allure magazine’s Best Products for Beachy Waves product. The instruction on the bottle says to spray on wet hair and then blow dry but online it says to take your hair, apply beach blow in sections after blow drying and “scrunch” hair to form natural waves and texture.It is said to give hair a beachy, “tousled” texture. I tried the method on the bottle and my hair did look beach blown, although it was a little limp it did give my hair texture.

If you’re like me I don’t love blow drying my hair a lot in the summer so I like to wash and go, this is a great product to do just that. One of my favorite parts about Beach Blow is the smell, it includes sea salt, what could be more appropriate for the beachy wave look. The 8.5 ounce bottle is the perfect size for travelling and if you’re using the wet method you could even spray after the beach or pool.

Want to get your bottle of Beach Blow? Check out Lock & Mane here: http://www.lockandmane.com/all-products/blow-dry-bar-new-york-beach-blow-texturizing-mist.html and tell me what you think. While you’re there check out their other great products.

What’s your favorite summer hair look??

So for those of you who were bummed that I wasn’t doing a Sand Gone giveaway, you’re in luck, you have until July 21st to enter and win and 8 ounce container of Sand Gone.

Here’s how to win: Using the entry form directly below this post (NOT the comment form), submit your name, an email address that you check regularly, and the entry you are submitting. *Please note the Mandatory Entry MUST be completed before you can qualify for additional entries

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Giveaway ends July 21st @12:00 am. The winner will be chosen at random, verified, emailed, and announced in a Winner’s post. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email from MommyB to claim the prize, if the prize is not claimed within 48 hours a new winner will be chosen at random. You must be a US resident and 18 years or older to enter.

Unfortunately for me Little Miss A loves the beach, so I put on a happy smile and enjoy taking her, even though I know I can expect sand coming out of my ears for days. Or maybe not…with Sand Gone.

I found Sand Gone on another mommy blog and thought with my love *eye roll* of all things sand, that I should try it out. Tiffany Smith, creator of Sand Gone has two children of her own and was nice enough to send a sample my way.

I love that Sand Gone is easily portable, I just popped my family size, (8 ounces) container in my beach bag and away we went. I kept it nearby for moments when Little Miss A would want to sit on the beach towels, trying to keep as much sand away from Baby C as possible is quite the task. Luckily, we had Sand Gone. While I’ll say I was a little apprehensive trying it out at first, (I think the included powder puff threw me off a little,) I was pretty surprised at how well it took the sand off from Miss A’s feet.

I know this is weird, or maybe not, but I love the smell of beachy stuff, mainly coconut and tropical fruits. Sand Gone has a hint, not too overwhelming or girlie, of coconut that I could just smell all day long. I also love how Sand Gone is a non-toxic, non-talc based powder, that means it’s safe for the kids, I’d probably even use it around and on Baby C it’s so gentle.

Two things that I didn’t love were that the powder left a little powdery residue that was a little hard to rub off, but better than having sand all over. If you have darker skin you may want to keep that in mind. Also I’m pretty picky when it comes to things mixing, (with a few exceptions) and after using Sand Gone only a couple of times I have little bits of sand in along with the powder.

All in all, I’d recommend this to use at $12.00 per 8 ounce container I think you’d get a large number of uses, we didn’t even put a dent in ours really and I’m not sure if there are any other alternatives out there, plus it smells like coconut and leaves your skin silky smooth.

Buy your Sand Gone here: http://sandgone.com/Order.html or check out their blog to see what they’re up to: http://sandgone.com/Blog.html in June they participated in a charity event for autism, how cool. I love when companies give back.

So tell me, do what do you LOVE or HATE about the beach?