How to protect hair from blow dryer damage + DIY a reverse French braid bun

Simple top-knots and basic side-braids are so 2012. To take your hair from holiday party to tropical getaway, update your go-to style with this reverse French braided bun. All the while protecting your hair from the damaging effects of heat styling.

Inspired by a look we spotted on Nina Dobrev earlier this year, we asked Pantene Pro-V’s celebrity stylist Kim Kimble to show us how to recreate this simply chic updo at home.
The key to achieving the look: starting with a great blowout to ensure hair is volumous but workable.
Unfortunately (and this likely isn’t a newsflash!), heat styling with a blow dryer can lead to some serious damage to your luscious locks, dehydrating your strands and damaging the hair shaft, leading to breakage, flyaways, dullness and frizz.

Frolic in the Sun, Roast a Chicken

THYME-AND-GARLIC ROAST CHICKENS
Everyone needs a faultless recipe for roast chicken—here’s yours. How to make something this simple feel special? Use high-quality chickens, and season them generously.

Ingredients: 

• 2 3½–4-lb. chickens
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 bunch thyme
• 1 head of garlic, halved crosswise      

                                                                                     

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 375°. Liberally season chickens with salt and pepper and place half of thyme and garlic in each cavity. Loosely tie legs together with kitchen twine and place on 2 wire racks set in rimmed baking sheets.

Roast chickens until golden brown, juices run clear, and an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165°, 50–60 minutes. Let rest at 10 minutes before carving. Serve with any accumulated juices poured over.

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Sam Claflin eyes villain role in comic book film

Sam Claflin wants to play a villain in a comic book film.
The 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' actor thinks the current film adaptations of famed Marvel and DC comics characters such as 'Amazing Spider-Man', 'Man of Steel' and 'Wolverine' are 'genius' and he would love to try his hand at playing their arch rivals.

Taylor Swift Tickets for the Last Half of the Speak Now Tour

Taylor Swift tickets are only available for a few more months, so fans excited to see her on the Speak Now World Tour better hurry up and find their seats to enjoy the opportunity to see this talented multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter for soon they will only be able to see her in concert via YouTube clips.
This is one performer for which a virtual concert will not do. Her music is not overly produced in the studio nor on stage, so to hear her live versions of the Speak Now's five singles is a chance to listen as the emotionally bold songwriter gives haunting performances. Millions have already purchased Taylor Swift tickets in 2011, as evident by Pollstar's annual mid-year progress report. Swift ranks 10th on the "Top 50 Worldwide Tour (Mid-Year)" list, reportedly earning over $40 million through June.