Movie star hair!
I have total movie star hair. Fluffy happy blonde controllable movie star hair. Big shampoo (LUSH) + Cynthia Sylvia Stout shampoo (LUSH) + Sheer Blonde Deep Conditioner (Pantene) + Sheer Blonde Detangling Foam (Pantene) = total movie star hair, suitable for tossing, teasing, preening and peering through. And it's well-behaved, too! I am in my happy place.
My hair has always been blonde; as the only woman in my family to actually stay blonde past the age of eighteen or so (without the use of dye), I spend a lot of effort making sure it stays that way. Lemon juice rinses and chamomile shampoos are things with which I am deeply and unavoidably familiar -- while I won't take that final step and dye my hair, I have no compunctions about using natural treatments to compensate for the sunlight that I, as an office worker, don't get on a daily basis.
My hair used to be perfectly straight. Right up until I hit twelve or so, and my entire system got flooded with hormones and biological chemicals, it was so straight that I looked like a poster child for the Midwitch Cuckoos (you, too, can be the alien-spawn child of our new lords and masters). All the tricks I learned for taking care of hair were learned for straight hair...and so when it curled up, seemingly overnight, I had no clue how to handle it. None at all. I went around for years looking like I had a mop badly stapled to my head, and counted myself lucky when I didn't actually resemble a sheepdog (I usually did). My relationship with my hair pretty much sucked, all the way through my teens.
As I grew it out, the curl relaxed into a frizzy wave, and became easier to deal with, if not all that much more presentable. I pretty much spent my days ignoring it -- ponytails and buns, without pause.
So what changed?
I'm not entirely sure. I developed a LUSH addiction, which encouraged me to try new treatments. I discovered the joys of detangler. And every improvement led me to think 'hey, maybe I could improve this a little more', until now? Movie star hair. Which is controllable and fluffy, but not frizzy. I feel joy.
Hair!
My hair has always been blonde; as the only woman in my family to actually stay blonde past the age of eighteen or so (without the use of dye), I spend a lot of effort making sure it stays that way. Lemon juice rinses and chamomile shampoos are things with which I am deeply and unavoidably familiar -- while I won't take that final step and dye my hair, I have no compunctions about using natural treatments to compensate for the sunlight that I, as an office worker, don't get on a daily basis.
My hair used to be perfectly straight. Right up until I hit twelve or so, and my entire system got flooded with hormones and biological chemicals, it was so straight that I looked like a poster child for the Midwitch Cuckoos (you, too, can be the alien-spawn child of our new lords and masters). All the tricks I learned for taking care of hair were learned for straight hair...and so when it curled up, seemingly overnight, I had no clue how to handle it. None at all. I went around for years looking like I had a mop badly stapled to my head, and counted myself lucky when I didn't actually resemble a sheepdog (I usually did). My relationship with my hair pretty much sucked, all the way through my teens.
As I grew it out, the curl relaxed into a frizzy wave, and became easier to deal with, if not all that much more presentable. I pretty much spent my days ignoring it -- ponytails and buns, without pause.
So what changed?
I'm not entirely sure. I developed a LUSH addiction, which encouraged me to try new treatments. I discovered the joys of detangler. And every improvement led me to think 'hey, maybe I could improve this a little more', until now? Movie star hair. Which is controllable and fluffy, but not frizzy. I feel joy.
Hair!