Hair Part Two

Okay, I had questions. And I will endeavor to answer them to the best of my ability. Not that it is any great ability.

The question was about what I meant by last instruction about using the curling iron. I knew it wasn't clear when I wrote it, but I was too lazy to think of a way to put it into words.

Not that I came up with something brilliant. I just took my camera up to my curling iron and snapped a few pictures. Here they are. Hopefully it will cause the light to come on for those of you who were confused and frustrated by my last post.

(Disregard my funny faces. It's hard to curl your hair and take pictures at the same time, let alone smile pretty.)

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

At this point, you have your basic curl. Now run your fingers through it and shake it up a bit.

8.

Now to discuss another little problem that busy moms tend to have when they don't wash their hair every day. (Those of you that have never considered this and find this disgusting, just keep in mind that it is actually HEALTHIER for your hair NOT to wash it every day or even every other day. The oils that are secreted that you wash off every time you wash your hair are protectants. Over-washing leads to dry hair. At least this is what I read. Or heard. Or both.)

I was discussing this with my hair stylist again this week at church and she suggested that anyone with light colored hair can erase the signs of oils at the roots with a little bit of baby powder. I'm excited to try this. For now - this is my solution:

9.

So there you have it. We've about exhausted my knowledge of hair care. Add your own tips if you have them! (Or let me know if this is still not clear at all!)

Hairy Blogging

Apologies. I'm sorry I haven't blogged. You know what stands in my way, I won't go on about it.

Confessions. For the same reason - I have only been on the elliptical once in about two weeks. I haven't had time. Fortunately, I haven't had time to eat either.

I'm coming along with my list of essential oil recipes. My plan is to offer samples of any that you are interested in trying so you can know which oils you would like to invest in.

Today I'd like to discuss hair. If you are male you probably aren't going to have any interest in anything I come up with today. I'm sorry for wasting your time.

I've always liked long curly hair. This may have something to do with the straight, boy-short hair that my mom felt was necessary when I was six years old. I deal with the trauma by letting my hair grow and curling it. Sorry, Mom. You did great in every other way.

Anyway, so recently while discussing this love of long curly hair but lack of time with my wonderful hair stylist, Shannon, she showed me how to curl and told me what kind of curling iron to buy. I found an amazing iron. It's a little pricey but worth every penny and more. It has 5 different heat settings and heats instantly. Here's a link to check it out.

http://infiniti.conair.com/catalog.php?pcID=49&products_id=174

So the actual curling takes a little practice but with this iron it only takes me 5-10 minutes to do ALL of my hair. And I have A LOT of hair. Several things to keep in mind:

1. Start a couple inches down, but curl from the top down.
2. Curl backward, not toward your face.
3. Do as large of a section as possible.
4. Try to curl the entire section of hair with one pass from the curling iron. I can't think of a better way to word this but it's very important.

If you are asking "Why are you telling me this?" then I'm again - sorry for wasting your time. It took me a long time to figure this out and it's so easy that I can do this on a regular basis now and be really happy with the results. I'm also telling you this so you can look up at me in the choir or passing you in the hall and not think to yourself "She keeps saying she has no time - how in the world does she have time to do that to her hair?"

I know you thought it. Some of you said it. That's okay, I would think the same thing.

So this is my tip for today. I suppose I should get back to putting this house together for the fourth or fifth time today. And Sunday's the easy day.

Let me know what you're thinking.