Yes, my hair has been long to my mid-back for most of my life. VERY baby-fine and wavy/curly...Translation: limp noodles on top end in frizz, with a light frizzy halo all over. What my new hairdresser calls "the Christmas tree" because it creates a triangular shape.
Following these little videos - awesome results! Strangely, I now have 5 products in my hair, but it looks like I have none. Learning to use them properly, I guess. Love those little vids!
I never used a dryer (it caused my hair to FRIZZ to oblivion) and used a straightening iron twice in my life (static flyaway hair and dried it out). I have since gotten my hair cut and I can follow the vids and it looks great curly, or I can straighten it and I look like Victoria Beckham (well....my HAIR does anyway! LOL!). My hairdresser has taught me how to straighten my hair without damaging it - they have great products out now that protect your hair from heat, as long as you don't do it every day.
I straighten it once a week and (as I wash my hair every second day) it last for two days.
I just can't get over how using the same products I already had tried (and considered failures) in the proper way made such a difference!!
The curls I always wanted! Of course, part of it is a good haircut. I learned that long layers allows your hair to do the Sarah Jessica Parker thing, whereas all one length just weighs you down and gives you the limp noodle thing.
Happy-happy!
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