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How I Learned to Love My Curls: From Poofy to Stick-Straight to Happy at Last {Stylelist}
May 3rd 2011 11:30AM My story is very similar, except that (please don't accuse me of being a bigot, but this word is the only true description) mine is nappy on the top. then curly, and then wavy underneath. My mother used to set my hair with OJ cans! Our goal was to look like Diana Rigg (the original Mrs Peel). Then I, too, went for chemical-straightening in my teens, but at a salon that catered to black women. It was stick-straight but the roots growing in curly were just awful. Then out of the blue, the invention of the blow-dryer!! That changed my life... let the straightened hair grow out/get cut off. As a young woman, I'd blow it out and use the curling iron on the ends. One day, a stranger came up to me at the doctor's office and said, I'm a hairdresser and my hair is like yours... if you ever want to look like a million bucks, here's my card. I went to her and she sat me down and said, Your problem is that you THINK that the only beautiful hair is straight hair. You don't have "bad hair"...you are killing your hair with heat and stretching while wet and over-processing. If you'll let me cut it into a style that truly fits your hair and let me teach you how tp take care of it, I promise you'll look gorgeous. I finally said OK, as long as you leave it shoulder-length or longer. She cut it and showed me how to style it with some curl-activating gel (tho' any decent mousse or gel will do it) and pic'd it and diffused it dry (altho' air-drying is fine). I looked in the mirror and almost cried... I DID look gorgeous! Here is my Big Truth: my hair wants to go where it wants to go! Trying to go elsewise was killing it.
The Curly maintenance rules:
Use a mild shampoo no more than 2x a week
Condition with a super-conditioner daily and when you rinse, leave a little in your hair - it acts as a detangler.
Throw out your brush.
Buy & use a pick.
Two rules for everyone:
Never brush your hair when it's wet or comb it when it's dry.
Whatever kind of hair you have IS what it is. Trying to make it be what it isn't will be detrimental to its health.
That was over 25 years ago. I've had it slightly different ways.. center part, side part, asymmetrical, but it's pretty close to the same cut she gave me then. I'm 55 years old and not a day goes by without people saying, "I love your hair!" I have a daughter who inherited my hair and we go to a stylist who "Gets" our crazy hair. She wears it shorter than I do, but we both have learned to love our curls.
Rani
And P.S. I recently started using henna on my hair and wish someone told me 40 years ago that henna gently and naturally slightly relaxes super-curly/kinky hair. You can get it colorless if you don't want to be a redhead.
The History of Chinese New Year {HuffPost Horoscopes}
Feb 4th 2011 12:59PM Yes, they did... says in second paragraph that this is the Year of the Rabbit. Not sure what Metal Rabbit refers to, though.
20 most annoying things at the grocery store {WalletPop}
Jul 14th 2010 6:55PM Re #10:
I can't speak for the entire USA, but where I live (FL) and states I've shopped in in the last 5 years (CA, OH, NY, SC, MA), if the item is BOGO (buy one, get one free), the cash register rings the first item as full-price and the second item with a credit. If you get just one, you pay full-price. It's that way at Super WalMart in FL, so I imagine that it's that way at SWMs across the country. To their credit, if you go back the next day and show them the receipt, the store will give you the 2nd one at no charge, since they can see on the receipt that you didn't get it.
As for it being "little-known" that you don't have to buy ten to get them for $1 each on the 10-for-$10 price, I don't know a single person who doesn't know that.
I have one other gripe: Stores putting huge displays in the middle of the aisle, particularly big towers of beer in the dairy aisle. That's already a busy aisle and those 6' high stacks of beer make it hard to maneuver.
Savings Experiment: Which Lightbulbs Save the Most Money? {WalletPop}
May 13th 2010 11:30PM Hubby switched the whole house over to CFLs and our electric bills went way down. I was impressed until they started burning out faster than the promo's say. They definitely don't last at anything like 8x as long as regular bulbs. Maybe 2-3x.
Walmart Selling Turkeys for 1/3 the Price of Last Year {Holidash News}
Nov 6th 2009 2:05PM I try not to shop at WalMart, since seeing the DVD "WalMrt: The High Cost of Low Price." They are not good for the economy of the country or of the towns they are in. Better to keep your eyes peeled for a sale price at your supermarket.
This sure sounded like an AD for Wal-Mart. Did they pay y'all to post that?
Message Boards Are Back! {People Connection Blog - OLD}
Apr 15th 2009 8:51PM I'm glad you put the Recipes boards back up. For what it's worth, I set up a board outside AOL and many of my chatters were encouraging me to just take the chat off AOL, too. What a shame, this chat's been going on for over ten years and still has demand and y'all are hell-bent on ruining all sense of Community. When can we have Profiles back? Bebo is a disaster... and thanks for no warning on that.
Rani
Desserts in Disguise: Amazing Cakes that Look Nothing Like Duncan Hines {Lemondrop}
Sep 11th 2008 9:45AM I LOVE the Lego cakes! What a simple and clever idea. I'm asking myself, now why didn't I think of that?? Too late now... my son just turned 22 and our Legos days are behind us. He fondly remembers years of Mom-cakes and homemade Halloween costumes... and isn't that why we do this? I posted one of his favorites, a go-kart cake.
When I click on the arrows, it won't move to the next cakes, but I've seen the hamburger cake. Sorry to be missing the rest.
Rani
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