I also wanted to discuss something that I hear in my store almost every day. And that is the subject of sulfates in hair products. I get people in who ask me for a good sulfate-free shampoo, but when I ask them why they need a shampoo without sulfates, they almost always don't know. "My friend said it's great", or "I just heard it's great for your hair". Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (there are others, but this one is most common) is nothing more than a lathering agent, it's what gets your shampoo into a nice thick lather.
The benefits of having of a sulfate-free shampoo are mainly for those who spend hundreds of dollars on getting their hair colored either at a salon or through box colors. The sulfates can eat away at your hair color and cause your gorgeous color to fade faster than usual and in some people it may dry out your scalp. I personally have never had problems with shampoos with sulfates since as most of you know, I bleach my hair. Which brings me to my next point: I often have women come in with GORGEOUS blonde hair asking for a sulfate-free shampoo claiming that it's gonna help them preserve their hair color. What hair color? You stripped your hair of all color when you put bleach on it! If you have no hair color to begin with and want to preserve your blonde hair, sulfate-free shampoos are probably not the best option for you. That's what violet shampoos are for. But that's another subject entirely.
The reason I bring up the sulfate-free thing in the first place is because I am now noticing that companies are putting "Sulfate-free!" on some of their products that never in a million years would ever have sulfates. And it's suckering in all these clueless people to buy their products. This hair mask by Marc Anthony is not different, they have it right there on the package. This next part is important: Conditioners or hair masks of any type will not and should not have any sulfates in them, ever. When was the last time you used a hair conditioner and it started foaming up like the shampoo did? Never. That's right.
That being said.... click below to read my review of the Marc Anthony Repairing Macadamia Oil Deep Healing Conditioning Treatment!
About a month ago...maybe two, I attended a seminar held at my university (Metropolitan State College of Denver) about literary agents, what they can do for authors, what they can't do, how their work has changed over the years, and how their work is going to change in all the years to come. I decided to attend not only because becoming a literary agent has been one of my dreams since I learned what one was, but because one of the agents that kind of inspired me to become one was going to be there, Kristen Nelson of the Nelson Literary Agency. I'd heard of a few books that she represented, as well as a new one for her (well, then it was new- not so much anymore though) which was LEGEND by Marie Lu. As she was explaining to us how much more power the author has in the publishing world today, she kind of stopped herself and asked everyone in the very full room, "Have you guys heard of Hugh Howey?" She nearly fell off her chair when not a soul raised their hands. Forgetting what she was going to say, she switched topics immediately and the one thing I remember her saying that stood out for me was: "Give it about a week or two, you will definitely hear about him then. He wrote an anthology of books called WOOL..." and she proceeded to tell us how Hugh single handedly changed the way people will look at the world of Self Publishing forever. ( 
