NYDealGal

I love sampling products that I know come from trusted brands and from a site that comes through with lots of awesomeness.  I am talking about Crowdtap with whom I have been a loyal user of for a few years now. This newest sampling is a brand you may be familiar with as I have written about it before a few years ago.  I am talking about Advil.  This product is a Rapid Release formula and makes it their fastest acting Advil to date.  I received my samples recently and funnily enough immediately following a short stay in hospital for a pain related malady. Coincidence? Maybe fate was looking down? Either way it was pretty incidental. The samples were such a relief because I choose not to take prescription painkillers unless absolutely supremely necessary. The way I was feeling at that moment was that I know Advil has worked in the past and I was hoping it would work this time too. I would have been disappointed not to be able to bounce back a little quicker.  However th

Well here I am with another health and beauty dilemma.  My hair has not been in its greatest shape recently.  This is both due to the weather which has been on a really strange up and down trend as well as a few unexpected illnesses and a short hospital stay. Yes, I do color my hair.  3 times a year.  Not so much.  So that's not really it. I could blame it all on getting older or the dreaded 'h' word (hormones) and as those factors contribute that's not all of it.  Its the environment, constantly brushing and combing it, putting it up, taking it down, over washing, under washing, I could go on. All of these factors together contribute to my dry lifeless hair. I was excited to try these new products by L'Oreal Paris.  They are Advanced Haircare Extraordinary Oil Nourishing Shampoo, Nourishing Conditioner and Lustrous Oil Serum.  Yes oil... I know what you are thinking, my hair will be greasy or feel oily after use.  NOT true.  I was a skeptic at first but