So, I have another secret... I'm also a hair product junkie. But I'm the most low-key hair product junkie in the world. My normal routine would be something like this - buy some fabulous new product promising "incredible volume" "super model height" or "big hair", wash hair, sit around for 10 minutes with towel on my head, put product in hair, flip head over and blow dry. Brush on the way to work in car. One of my irrational fears is that any future child of mine will have Taylor Swift curls. Not that I don't love her hair but can you be low-maintenance with curls? All my wavy/curly hair friends seem to beg to differ. I wouldn't have the first clue how to do curly hair. I have visions of days filled with straightening irons, curling irons and hot rollers. Seems like an absolute nightmare. Is straight hair dominant - I'll have to Google this?
Anyway... back on topic...
Needless to say, I'm massively disappointed in all so-called volume products. My hair is still stick straight and baby fine. Thank God I have a lot of it or I'd look like one of those people on What Not To Wear - the before where their hair is a scraggly mess.
It's not like I want hair like this...
My bathroom cabinet is testament to products I've tried and who have failed... these fallen comrades range from high-end to drug store basics. And the one thing they have in common? They don't cut it when I don't have someone professional do my hair. And since I'm not a Real Housewife... that doesn't happen very often... or at all.
So this week at CVS when I was supposed to by buying a birthday card, I ended up buying these. Specifically the John Frieda root booster and a mousse. I've tried it for a week now and I'm pretty impressed. I'm doing my normal routine and I actually think my hair looks like a little bit (dare I say) bigger? Elated! And it last almost all day. I do feel like my hair feels a bit stiff especially at the roots but a small trade off. I might even try to curl my hair one day.... well maybe not... we don't want to put in too much effort.
Any tips for volume (other than hours with a brush, rollers and hair dryer)?
On another side not - did any of you read the January Glamour (since I have so many magazines I'm a month behind)? Well they did this article on how natural is in. I got super excited thinking - heck yeah my hair routine is finally in style (I love when 60's straight is in because I can do that with no effort). Well the entire article is for you curly/wavy hair girls. It basically said don't touch your hair and let your natural texture show... I showed it to a wavy hair friend and she said it's not possible that her waves wouldn't look like the article's model if she just washed and went. They did have a small call-out box for my fellow straight hair ladies. Their tip to get waves was laughable... simple spray some texturizing spray into your hair and scrunch while you dry. News flash Glamour - that would do absolutely nothing to my hair. I might get one bent hair if I was lucky. To get anything resembling a curl, I have to load my hair with product, sit with hot rollers for practically an hour, take them out, don't touch any tight little curl on my head, maybe touch up with a curling iron and spray with hairspray. Within in twenty minutes of all of this, the curls will have fallen out to mediocre looking waves. So massive fail to Glamour on that article. Usually I love them though so no hard feelings.
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