Humidity = bane of my hair's existence
All my curly-haired buds out there know that humidity is not your friend. Heck, I think even straight-haired, wavy-haired, and every-other-haired know this (except maybe no-haired...but even then, humidity is not too fab).I have naturally curly hair. Nobody knows how or why, because both of my parents have straight hair, and 7 of their 9 children also have straight hair. Just one brother and I got the curly gene and personally, I love it!
However, as I've pointed out, nobody loves humidity for their hair. I'm just gonna make a blanket statement on that one.
A few days ago I decided to try what my hairstylist recommended, which is to do a BLOW OUT. A blow out means blow drying your hair straight while it's still wet using a big barrelled boar bristled brush. (say that 5 times fast)
1. this was my first attempt. After 45 minutes, only my bangs and a few pieces of hair were dry and straight. I quit and blow dried the rest of my hair. Result: poof.
2. I then straightened my hair using my sister's flat-iron (which i absolutely LOVE), which took another 45 minutes. result: GORGE! even for me, i was shocked at how silky, smooth, and healthy my hair was. and guess what? it STAYED STRAIGHT UNTIL THE NEXT DAY! I don't know if some of you can relate, but usually when I straighten my hair, it's all bent and wavy by the next day. Not this time! I can only assume it's from the half blow-out and Merissa's legit straightener.
3. The next day I decided to curl it using big barrel hot curlers, which look TOTALLY different from my usual curls. I looked up a tutorial on youtube (a plethora of beauty knowledge, fyi), and went for it.
4. result: beauteous curls! love! i look like carrie underwood! until i go outside....HUMIDITY STRIKES AGAIN! My hair was stick straight after an hour outside, and starting to poof. Which is quite odd....my hair usually holds curl very well.
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| 1. POOF |
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| 2. Straight as a pin! |
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| 3. rolled up |
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| 4. curly wurly! |
Moral? Hairspray. Lots, and LOTS, of hairspray. Also, humidity is not my friend.
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| My natural hair...and my future hubby |
UUUGG same with me!!!! Frizz-mania over here on top of my head. Oh well. what do you do?! You still are so very pretty!
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Humidity totally makes my hair crazy too! I'm so glad I live in Portland, OR where there is almost no humidity!! You did a great job working w/ your hair though and it turned out great!
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I completely agree with you...humidity is an enemy to us curly haired girls. Loving your cute blog! Xo
ReplyDeleteWow your hair looks gorgeous! I know all about humidity and bad hair, my hair is naturally very curly!
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...Naturally curly haired girl right here! Bah!
ReplyDeleteThis humidity is the worst. I find that I wear my hair up the majority of the time because I get so annoyed. :/
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Hi love! I was going to email you back, but you show up as a "no-reply" commentor when you comment on blogs. You should change that in your blogger settings ;) I am from Florida, so I know all about humidity!
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