This post is about hair. Perfectly straight hair. Gwyneth Palthrow hair. Hair that could only be described as Smooth and Silky…. OR Smooth and Sleek depending on the variant of the shampoo you are considering (a life time ago, I worked on hair care and am still traumatised/confused by these various denominations).
Anyway, whatever it is called these days, I have never been one to go for anything remotely smooth, silky or sleek as far as hair is concerned. In fact, I used to specifically ask my hairdresser NOT to blow dry my hair post cut (cue weird looks from the other -very-blow-dried ladies).
I loooooove an effortlessly cool look and always find that wearing your hair ”au naturel”, which in my case can be long and wavy, high in a messy bun or loose in a dis-structured braid depending on the humeur du jour gives you that relaxed edge…regardless of the super structured dress or sky high polished shoes you are wearing. Bref, I am not one to take my looks (too) seriously and this is my easy way to do it.
Now at some point this has changed. Of course. Otherwise we wouldn’t have a story here, would we?
The change was caused by fly away baby hairs. You know those annoying hairs that tend to grow around your hair line to start sometimes (gasp) to spike out of line (like a little sun as my sister would say).
Effortless hair? Oui! Unkept hair? non non non!
At first, I tackled the problem head on (no pun intended) using my very extensive knowledge (courtesy of my beauty care research and development friends) to solve that, hum, problem. Plenty of solutions out there: serums, oils, leave-in conditioners, you name it.
The only problem is that I have pretty thin/flat hair. So anything remotely oily is not going to fly (again no pun intended).
But I can’t drop this. It seems like every time I glance at myself in the mirror (no it doesn’t happen THAT often…), the only thing I see are those fly away hairs (I am a woman after all and by definition I like to focus on the negatives as far as my appareance is concerned).
This is when my friend Isabel told me about her new fantastic magical hairbrush that made her hair look ama-zing.
I checked it online and looked too good to be true….
I shared this dilemma (to buy or not to buy the brush) with my friend Oumama who has seen the evolution of my hair and my special relationship with it for the last 30 years.
She very strongly advised against it “noooonnn Hiiiinnnd! Are you crazy? I know YOU. You will buy it, try it and never use it again. Why not try a fly away hair kind of shampoo instead?” (conversation happened in french so sounded much more dramatic)
As you do with precious advise from best friends, I have chosen to ignore it, desperate that I was in my quest for wonderfully sleek and silky (gaps!) hair.
So I bought it, tried it …. and never used it again.
But no hard feelings, right, I found a solution…a wonderful fly away hair fighting shampoo…
Score!
How do you like your hair? What’s your favourite hair care secret?
Bisous bisous.
Hi darling, you look lovely as always. I think I do have one of those magical brushes you mentioned: it’s called Big Hair by Babyliss and on my fine hair it ends up looking really smooth and shiny, rather than big and voluminous. I’ve had it for a couple of years, so now it takes me about 20 minutes to do all my head strand by strand, but if I just want a little refresh I use it head down for 5 minutes and it works! xxx
hello lovely!
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Yes this is exactly the brush I was talking about. When I say it didn’t work, I don’t blame the brush, I blame myself and my lack of patience (in my allocated 5min tops every morning to get my hair sorted
Maybe I need a bit of practise to get better at this – bur for now the shampoo is good fix
bisous bisous
trop belle hinda! la photo parfaite pour illustrer ma devise preferee “less is more”
il faut ecouter les conseils de qqun qui a passé 30 ans a faire des tests sur les cheveux en tout genre… et ce n’est pas finis!
ha ha – je dois avouer que cette photo n’est pas récente. Elle date d’il y a 4 ans (OMG!!!) quand j’étais enceinte. Il faut croire que finalement avec le recul ces hormones avaient un impact positif sur mon teint and cheveux (ou juste la perception que c’était mieux avant )
Je t’écouterai plus attentivement la prochaine fois
C’est vrai que tu es jolie (machi ghir la photo)
Perso mes cheveux ont connu pas mal de péripéties, j’étais un petit mouton jusqu’a 5-6 ans, puis des cheveux de barbie jusqu’a la pré-adolescence et là descente en enfer, jusqu’à comprendre qu’il fallait qu’ils soient vraiment soignés (1 masque et 1 bain d’huile toutes les semaines), peu brushés, très longs avec des colorations bien choisies.
Depuis peu j’ai accepté de les laisser au naturel (je dois avoir atteint la bonne longueur, le bon taux d’humidité et surtout une plus grande tolérance ou paresse!!!)
Bisous!
Marieke – je me souviens parfaitement de la période Barbie – j’en étais très jalouse (de tes cheveux ET de toutes tes barbies
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Apres avec l’adolescence tout part en vrille comme si ce n’était pas déjà pénible comme ca l’adolescence avec ces hormones en ébullition (pour rien au monde je te souhaiterais avoir 14 ans again!)
Ah la la que sont mes cheveux et mes barbies devenues!
Ma fille en a une collection – de cheveux et de barbies – qui nous feraient cramoisir de jalousie! Pourvu que ca dure!
Au moins les garçons ont ce problème en moins!
Alors, la, moi comme toi, j’ai toujours trouvé très moche le brushing de chez le coiffeur. Moi aussi, je le demande toujours de ne pas le faire … Et je finis par payer le service quand même!
Moi comme toi, cheveux très fins (depuis un certain âge, ils étaient sublimes plus jeune!).
Ma solution? Le lissage bresilien, que j’ai découvert ici, a faire seulement sur la couche “externe” des cheveux. Ensemble avec une jolie coloration bien foncé qui donne brillance, corps et texture. Le tout a renouveler maximum toutes les 10 semaines. Un petit brushing de 2min et c’est tout!
Seul hic … Le prix!