Ms. Frizzle

~ Laura

The morning plan was to do a post that tied together some great thought on the ongoing Linda Hirshman debate and introduce a guest blogger on the topic. But nobody is ready yet. That’s cool. It’s Friday and we’re all tired. Let’s do it on Monday.

We need a question of the day.

I say Amen and Hallelujah that the nation’s top scientists have devoted their energies to an enormously worthwhile endeavor. I’m talking hair product.

As a person with naturally big curly hair, the new hair products have saved me from a life with a shaved head or hair like Gilda Radner. I’m particularly fond of Pantene’s Curly Hair with Strong Hold gel. I work it through, hit the roots with the dryer, scrunch, scrunch, and I’m out of the bathroom in five minutes. For conferences, I blow dry the whole thing straight, because a humid day still spells trouble. But life has been made good for curly haired people who are also hair spazzes.

Amen to that.

As I said, I’m a fan of Pantene, but my friend Melissa has turned me on to Neutragena’s anti-frizz product.

Question of the Day: What hair products do you use?

Published by Laura

9 thoughts on “Ms. Frizzle”

  1. I have short, very fine hair, cut all messy and choppy. I use Aveda rosemary-mint shampoo and conditioner, and some Aveda pomade to mess up my hair and make it smell good.

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  2. I’ve got thick, naturally curly hair and I’ve had a love/hate relationship with my hair my entire life.
    Suave Professionals Color Care Conditioner was suggested by Health Magazine (in 2005) as one of the best conditioners out there, despite it’s amazingly low price. I have been using it ever since and I’m amazed at what a great product it is.
    Last winter my hair felt like straw and I’ve been so much happier with my curls and “scrunching” since I started using that conditioner.
    You will be most happy with it, indeed.

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  3. Thanks for the Pantene gel tip; I have curly, mid-length hair and have found Pantene’s Hydrating Curls to be excellent.
    You might be interested in the following, please forgive the stream-of-conscioussness style of my list:
    – I do my hair in the shower/sink upside-down. This gives great spring to your curls, believe it or not… other curly-heads have had the same great results.
    – There’s a website for curly heads: Naturally curly.com. Forums, product reviews, more…
    – I’ve found Jessicurl to have excellent hair products, if a bit expensive. (I found them through the above website). (Owner is also extremely nice.)
    – I’d love to chop all my hair off, but my mom loves it. *sigh* What can you do…? 😉
    – There’s a book called “Curly-girl” by Lorainne Massey. Very good for increasing your understanding of how to live with curly hair. Lots of tips and tricks. She recommends the “no-poo method.”

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  4. I too have naturally curly hair. Ah, the eighties . . . such a good decade for me. The other girls were wild with jealousy. Then came the straight hair era, and I went down, down, down into the depths of despair.
    . . . from which I have been lately rescued by a few products:
    Garnier Fructis deep fortifying conditioning mask
    Garnier Fructis soft curl cream, which is, like, the best thing ever for curly styles, and their Smoothing milk for when I go straight.
    That Frizz-ease spray stuff to finish it
    Interestingly, I have only now figured out how to style my hair for the new, straighter eraa: with a curling iron. 45 minutes in bed watching television gets my hair straight enough that five minutes of cleaning up the back with a hair dryer is all it needs. Sounds lengthy, but the normal procedure is spend 1.5 hours blow drying my hair–it even takes my stylist an hour, because my hair is like a goddamn sponge.

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  5. I second the Curly Girl book and the no-poo method advocated by Sour duck. I almost never shampoo my hair, but use water, conditioner, and friction to keep my scalp clean. works great.

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  6. I have a lot of very straight hair. Totally and absolutely straight. There is no wave, there is no body. I have it cut in a very classic beveled bob and it almost always (thankfully) looks fantastic. I think it helps that I’m a licensed, though not practicing, hair stylist and I can get the majority of my products at cost.
    Here’s what I use:
    I switch shampoos and conditioners a lot. Mostly I use things that smell good and don’t weigh my hair down.
    For styling I use Seabstian Double Body Thickefy Styler, Aquage fortifying gel, L’Oreal volum energy, d:fi firm hold heavy wax and Rusk W8less plus hair spray. I don’t use all of this stuff at the same time.
    I color my hair regularly and it’s extremely health. The color helps give me a tad extra body. I rarely condition it. Maybe once a week. I wash my hair pretty much every single day and I style it using a round brush and a powerful hairdryer. No flat irons or curling irons ever.

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  7. Hey, maybe you can also thank Madame C.J. Walker. That leads me to wonder…. how are hair products used primarily by African Americans (or marketed to African Americans) different from the Neutrogena and Pantene stuff marketed to curly-haired whites?
    Btw, here I am nitpicking again, but I did really like your post on gifted ed, and I actually came here to reply to it and got distracted with talk of hair products even though *I don’t use them*. I use the cheapest shampoo, and that’s it. Does it look great? Looks nice enough, if a bit flyaway (I have hair slightly longer than shoulder length). And at the age of 39, with about a dozen gray hairs, I *refuse* to color.

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