Let’s talk about hair. I have this very thick, course red hair. When I say thick, I do mean there must be a billion little hair holes in my head. Hmm…maybe that explains more than a few things….
It isn’t really curly or straight. It’s wavy. I was SO excited when “wavy” came back in style a few years ago, but that never did really seem to mean what my hair is. Therefore, I have been flat-ironing my hair nice and straight for ten years now.
….Until I moved to California. Coastal California. I’m having a really, really hard time fighting back the wave and the frizz here. Imagine having beach hair every single day. I have always feared and dreaded beach hair. I’ve never known what to do with it!!!
I finally found one regiment that seems to work for cute waves.
No, no, I did not take a before picture.
OKay, yes, I did, but I wasn’t wearing any make-up in it, and the children and my blog kept me up the night before, so I just refuse to show you the before picture….. I know–worst hair blog ever.
First, I washed my hair the night before,put a towel on top of my pillow, and slept on it damp.
When you have thick, semi-wavy hair, it takes several handfuls of this gunk.
Four to be exact. You need at least 4 handfuls of this if your hair is as dense and long as mine–more if it’s longer! What do I use? This:
It smells yummy too.
I put this stuff in my hair in the morning, once my hair is mostly dry. I’ve been loving this stuff for years b/c it helps when I wear my hair straight too. I tried moose for a while, and that was a mess. Smoothing milk was a better match for me.
After.
Just ignore the sleepy eyes. This was after several rough nights.
I took this photo my first week of home schooling, which was a rough, rough, rough, rough week. Excuse the eye bags. My eyes are now getting back to normal. 🙂
It would obviously look more polished if I curled the ends. I do NOT have time to do that. I have a very strict rule about the boys’ schooling starting at 9am, and some days I can’t pull myself out of bed until 7am. I don’t like to spend all morning on hair, so a 2 minute hair style that required no heat-styling tools is a win-win in my book.
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Oh girl I have a full on fro and huge eye bags since we don't sleep much around here! I think your hair is lovely and am a big fan of Garnier Fructis!
Haaahahaha! Love this comment. Glad someone can relate to my eye bags!
I will have to try this on Madison's hair! She has some frizz that just WON'T lay down haha, bless her heart
Yep! Well she is my cousin!
I have the same "fun" hair and most days I just pull it into a ponytail to get it out of sight. Tried the moose with no success... looked great for about 10 minutes and then fuzzzzzed
Yeah. Moose didn't work out for me either.
I think I have the exact same hair as you! I love whenever I go to get it cut and the stylist alway comments "Oh wow, you have SO MUCH hair!" Yes, I kind of am aware of that. ;-) I am definitely going to try out this product, your hair looks amazing!!
Ha. Yep. Definitely use several handfuls then. .... sometimes it needs a re app around 3pm on that first day of clean hair. Then if it's a day or more since I wanted it, I don't need any more product. That first day hair is the hardest!