On Hair

I recently saw Iron Man. How was it? Does it really matter? Anyway, I was totally distracted by Gwynith Paltrow's hair. And, oh man, did it look good. I kept thinking how hard someone had to work to make it look that good.

In the past few months I have learned alot about hair styling. Most important I have found the product that my hair has been waiting for it's entire life: Bumble Grooming Creme. My hair is really fine and curly, but there is a tremendous amount of it. So what I look for in a product is weight to bring it all together. However, a nice styling produce like a gluey creme or gel marketed at "control" for "style" usually requires the hair to be put into a 'style" and held there, hence "control." Lazy me usually just puts the stuff in and then goes to bed. So, when I wake up my hair has been "styled" in to crazy bends and "x"s and "z"s instead of the nice "S"s shown here on Gwynith. At this point I can either go with the crazy homeless look or I can comb it out, causing it to poof out again, de facto nulling the products effect. Booo.

Grooming Creme, however, doesn't have this problem. I don't know how it works, but rather than acting like glue to "hold" the hair in a "style," it makes my hair like clay that just bends and behaves now matter what I did to it when it was wet. Awesome!
But it is $26 for 4 oz. which is not awesome, and that it is more than I am willing to pay.

But that's Ok because I am crafty. As a "hair model" at B&B U. you get a product credit worth then that their stuff costs (a nice little ploy to get you to actually pay for stuff) and some "hair miles" which accumulate to actual free stuff. After having someone tug on my head for 2 hours and then being told that I could go home because my hair was unacceptable, I cashed in my miles for 2 tubes of Grooming Creme and a t-shirt with hair drawn all over it, just what I always wanted. Anyway, I'm good for a while.

I also learned that even though I can put my hair in a ponytail in less than 3 seconds, if I were on tv or in a fashion show someone would come and cover me in a lot of product and then hairspray my head for at lest 20 minutes to get all the flyaways in line to get the top completely flat to the scalp. Now, I'm a girl who grew up watching John Waters movies in Texas and I just don't understand why anyone would use so much hairspray just to make their hair smaller and flatter.

But back to Gwyneth. It's a totally glamourous look, and totally perfect styling for a comic book movie.