DISCLAIMER: The following post may sound like a commercial for different hair products, but it's not really. I just added the photos and links because I'm a giver. 😉
Hair products are a big thing at our house.
We have to have different kinds of shampoos and things because all of our hair types are so different.
Lucy just got her long, waist-length hair cut and is sporting this adorable do:
She swears by this:
It's called it's a 10 miracle leave-in product. Our hairdresser, Kate, turned us on to it. It totally does what it says it will do. Seriously great stuff. (Thanks, Kate!)
Jonathan LOVES having curly hair. (This is just before I made him get it cut. He insisted I document this for posterity. "It's totally EPIC, Mom!" =D)
He uses a combination of things to keep the curl from getting too wild:
The Schwarzkopf got2b glued is a water-proof type-gel (totally affordable at $4.95 a tube at Target). Keeps those curls nice and smooth. (Thanks to Isaac for the tip!)
My sister-in-law, Michelle got me hooked on this for taming the frizzies:
Sabino Hair Solutions Moisture Block. Killer stuff. Especially if you're in a humid area. Totally works.
When we were growing up, my sisters and I used to set our hair ("setting" meant sectioning off the wet hair, gooping stuff on to it so it would "hold" and rolling each portion onto a hard plastic tube called a curler and then…. I don't think I can totally explain the drama of this process….I guess you just had to live it…*sigh*) with Dep or Dippity-Do. (I think they brought these products back when the whole hair-spiking thing started happening, but that's not important right now.)
In February, when my sister Alina was in Mexico (along with the rest of the fam) for Nicole's wedding, she was completely beside herself when she found the following hair products at the local drugstore:
Yes. That says "Gorilla Snot." (Eeeww!)
Right next to its first cousin, "Camel Drool." (Double eeeww!)
Shut up. I KNOW. I wish I was making this up. Isn't that crazy-awesome? Or as Jonathan would say…
"That's EPIC!" =D
The following commercial dramatizes the Classic Ancient Ritual of "hair setting."
Thanks, Alina! This one's for you:
Odyfab says
I remember my mom dipping her comb into the Dippity Do jar to set her rollers when I was young. By the time it was my turn, Farrah Fawcett hair was in style no need for the Dippity Do, it was layer time. ;-)Thanks for the great product tips. Hummm…..I’m interested in that Sabino Hair Solution product. Lot’s of humidity here.
Adriana says
Ah! we were all victims of the curlers! As my hair was very straight when young, I suffered from curlers, heat curlers, tenazas or curling iron and the dreaded and hated papelillos!Thank God after two years in dry Austin, TX – at the next encounter with humidity my hair acquired a natural wave and will know hold it’s curl only by using a diffuser!!!!
Now the problem is getting it flat, sleek, straight…sigh
BFF says
“Well, I don’t want Fop …..I’m a Dapper Dan man. Well, it didn’t look like a two-horse town, but try finding a decent hair jelly.” Thanks for the moment….couldn’t help but think of THAT movie…do you know which?
Marta M. Darby says
Ooh! I know! I know!”Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”
I’m right, right?
Right?
=D
Billy says
Jonathan was right. His hair was totally epic. I miss the days when all I needed was bedhead or something similar. Now I have to spend an hour washing that grey right out of my hair. Epic hair now takes too much work.