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Ladies, our prayers have finally been answered – wine has officially been deemed good for your hair.  YAY!

According to Marie Claire, the man responsible for Deeta Von Teese’s luscious locks – celebrity stylist John Blaine – has announced that red wine is so good for your hair he’s made a whole hair care range full of it.

But before you start downing bottles of the red stuff, it might be worth knowing that it’s actually a wine extract which needs to be applied directly to the hair that has hair-enhancing properties.

So unfortunately drinking glass after glass of Merlot cannot be justified with the excuse “it’s good for my hair” just yet.  Awh!

John’s Vine de la Vie range – which includes shampoo, conditioner, styling elixir and serum – uses the polyphenols from red grapes to boost the recovery of damaged hair.

Polyphenols are found in red wine and have been shown to treat a host of conditions including inflammation, cancer and now damaged hair.

So while we wouldn't advise washing your hair in wine just yet, at least you'll have some beauty news to share over your next glass of vino.

 

 

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We'll be honest, sometimes when money is tight and we want to buy some wine, anything that's cheap and alcoholic will do. We've all been there, right?

Well, then it turns out that we're actually all geniuses!

According to Cosmo, the best wine in the world is £4.37 (€5.54), and you can pick it up in UK chain supermarket, Asda.

We kid you not.

The Decanter World Wine Awards were held this week, and over 235 judges and wine connoisseurs were blind-folded and asked to taste a huge range of wines.

Then came the La Moneda Reserva Malbec, which the judges said was the "ultimate crowd pleaser" and it won Best in Show.

So, there you go, cheap really is cheerful.

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We don't claim to know much about wine.

From choosing our vino based on the price to opting for one bottle over another simply because of its label, we're far from aficionados.

The one thing we DO know, however, is that white wine goes in the fridge and red wine goes on the counter, right? Well no, not exactly.

According to Jancis Robinson, the editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, refusing to store your red wine in the fridge is a fool's game.

Speaking at the Hay Festival – a Welsh literary festival – Jancis urged us to ignore the myths and chill every damn bottle of vino we own.

"Put any open bottle in the fridge. Even red wine," she said. "Low temperatures slow down chemical reactions including oxidation, which is the enemy of an open bottle."

According to The Independent, it seems chilling wine, whether it's red or white, will help it to last longer and ensure a full-bodied flavour.

Excuse us, we have some rearranging to do at home.

 

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Brunch has become one of our favourite hobbies. And as Carrie Bradshaw once said, brunch without alcohol is just a sad, late breakfast.

However, when Bank Holidays knock around, we tend to get very excited and blow our paycheck over one weekend, leaving us pretty much broke for the rest of the month.

Well, there's no need to worry anymore because one Dublin restaurant has you sorted.

No. 5 Vinoteca on Merrion Row, the Spanish wine bar are after introducing a new deal which will see us sipping on bottomless glasses of wine.

On the next June Bank Holiday, the bar is offering it's customers a €50 deal which includes four tapas dishes and an open bar tab (yep, we kid you not).

The open bar means you can choose from our beloved wine, or go down the beer or cocktail route.

For €60, the deal offers a wider drink selection, and for 70 quid, you can get unlimited champagne. 

However, there's a catch. The Bottomless Brunch deal only lasts for two hours.

Bookings for The Bottomless Brunch are available from 12.30pm to 4pm. To book call 01 4824970 or visit here. 

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Ah, the weather has finally taken a lift in Ireland and we couldn't be happier. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and soon, we'll be slurping back some wine slushies.

Yep, we've come across this new creation and couldn't think of a better way to spend a sunny evening out in Ireland.

The recipe is super simple too so we bet this refreshment will be making its way out all through the warmer months: 

Strawberry and Peaches Wine Slushies

Ingredients:

  • 2.5 cups frozen strawberries
  • 2.5 cups frozen peaches
  • 1.5 cups Chardonnay

Method:

In a blender, mix the frozen strawberries with 3/4 cup of wine. Blend until smooth. You can add more wine if you don't want it too thick.

Empty and remove any strawberry residue. Then repeat with the peaches and remaining wine.

Now just pour into glasses in layers, and you can even pop a strawberry on top! Mmmm…

Feature Image: Divas Can Cook

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Here in SHEmazing Towers we're big fans of no-nonsense weight-loss. And in our books that means shedding the excess pounds of winter without scrapping our three-a-day Maltesers bunny habit. 

Now another weight-loss tip that's right up our street has come to our attention: namely that drinking WINE before bed can keep you slim.

Hallelujah!

We have Washington State University and Harvard to thank for such an invaluable contribution to health science – they found that a chemical called resveratrol stops your body's fat cells gaining more fat, therefore helping you stay slim. 

And where is this wonder chemical found? That's right – in WINE!

According to scientists, drinking at least two glasses – aka a half a bottle – can help beat obesity by some 70 percent. 

But wait.. there's more: the University Of Denmark found that people who drank everyday had slimmer waistlines compared to their sober counterparts, while Harvard’s weight gain study of 20,000 people revealed that out of all of those that gained a large amount of weight, none of them were drinkers. 

Happy Friday, folks!

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You may think that getting older is to blame for your hangovers becoming worse and worse, but as it turns out, it could be the winemakers. 

In a new study published by the Journal of Wine Economics, it found that wine is getting boozier each and every year. 

Researchers from the University of California tested more than 127,000 wines from all around the world, from the years 1992 to 2009. 

They tested the actual alcohol percentage in each bottle and then compared the number to the percentage listed on the label. 

And guess what? In most cases, the actual percentage was higher than what was listed. 

Older, European wines had a higher alcohol percentage than newer wines and wines from cooler climates, like Canada, had a lower percentage than wines from hotter places, like the U.S and Australia.

Red wines were way boozier than white wines, and overall, they have all a higher percentage than what they had a couple of years ago. 

And the most disturbing fact of all? Winemakers are often wrong (or lying to us) about how much alcohol is in their bottles.

The researchers found that the average content was 13.56%, but the average number on labels was 13.15%.

Now this may not seem like much, but the researchers warned that it could be very dangerous. 

"Even errors of this magnitude could lead consumers to underestimate the amount of alcohol they have consumed in ways that could have some consequences for their health and driving safety," they wrote. 

So, there you go, maybe it wasn't your fault you got so drunk on New Year's… Maybe. 

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It is at times like these when we realise that science has our backs. 

Yet another study has just proved to us the benefits of that occasional glass of red wine. 

So while we are not telling you to go on a mad one and have an entire two bottles to your self, you should definitely not feel too guilty about having that extra glass of vino around the Christmas period. 

According to research conducted by the University of Alberta in Canada, one glass of wine is JUST as healthy as an hour long gym session.

All the more reason to ditch the runners and embrace the festive season while it lasts people! 

The study showed that consuming a particular compound in red wine called Resveratrol actually has similar health benefits to exercising. 

Yep, we're talking improved muscle function, physical appearance and sheer strength. 

"Resveratrol could mimic exercise for [people] or improve the benefits of the modest amount of exercise that they can do," said the lead researcher ​Jason Dyck​.

Yep, that's enough evidence for us. Bring on the weekend. 

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People who drink two to three glasses of wine a day may be prescribed with a pill to help them cut back on their alcohol intake.

According to reports this week, Britain’s NHS are urging doctors to prescribe the £3 nalmefene pill to drinkers whose habits fall just wide of their safety guidelines.

An average glass of wine contains just over two units of alcohol, so with the national watchdog’s safe drinking limits set at two to three units a day for a woman, and three to four for a man, consuming more than one glass of wine a day may constitute a dangerous habit.

The pill, which the health body are recommending to be prescribed to up to 600,000 people in England alone, works to reduce the amount of the chemical dopamine that is released from the brain, and which is responsible for the reward feeling of drinking.

This new drug will reportedly work to ensure that while drinkers can still enjoy their one or two drinks, they can safely stop at that, without needing more.

It is recommended that the pill is prescribed alongside a requirement to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

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It’s Friday night, you’ve splashed out on one of the “expensive” bottles of wine in Tesco (i.e. the one that costs €9 instead of €5)… and you realise you’ve no corkscrew. Ultimate downer.

Panic not, as the guys over at The Food Beast have made this video showing ten epic ways to open a bottle of wine without the usual tools.

Some of them are a little too adventurous for us – we wouldn’t recommend trying the blowtorch one at home – but some are downright genius, like using a knife or key to twist and pull the cork out.

Or course, if you usually buy screw-top wines this won’t be an issue for you – but sometimes it’s nice to treat yo’self!

Enjoy!

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There is nothing worse than not having a proper bottle opener when you're thirsty for a glass of vino, so the good people over at Buzfeed have made this handy (and rather hilarious) little video showing us 15 clever ways to get that cork out! The methods range from the practical to the extreme, and we guarantee you'll want to try a few of them out yourself. Just be careful, some of these are dangerous! 

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Supermarket shopping can often be a dull task but one prankster decided to make the alcohol section a little more fun, by changing the wine descriptions with his own hilarious versions.

The joker printed off his own homemade wine descriptions and placed them at a Tesco store in South London.

What makes the joke even better is that you wouldn’t notice the prank until some closer inspection, as the funny wine descriptions are identical to the normal Tesco labels. Some of the wine descriptions even include a fake barcode and information about Clubcard points.

The anonymous joker said he came up with the idea while shopping with his partner.

“I was navigating the aisles of my local supermarket when, due to my girlfriend’s inability to make a quick decision, my eye was drawn to the flowery descriptions of some of their lower end.”

Our personal favourite is definitely the description J.P. Chenet which says the wine is made of “bitter clown tears with a hint of suspicion”.

 

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