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Quick Beauty Fix
By Marisa | January 12, 2008
I’m about to let on to everyone just how old I am. Not that I’ve kept my age a secret, of course, since I’ve stated it plenty of times (Were you paying attention?) but some of you will read this and not remember what I remember and realize just how ancient I am.
When I was a teen, my sister and I had all kinds of issues with our hair. For one thing, it was curly. For another, it was curly. No kidding, that as a huge problem for us back when the ultimate hair style was parted down the middle and hanging straight as an arrow. The whole point of that look was rebellion against the values of the 50s with permed hair, wife at home, etc. etc. Straight hair meant no hairdressers or structure. It was about free and easy and being yourself. Except that concept flew right over my head. Instead, I spent more time keeping my hair straight than most women spent curling it during the previous decades. So much for being yourself.
Any woman with curly hair tryi
ng to be straight will tell you that water is the devil. Whether I went swimming or got caught in a light rain shower, all of my straightening efforts would be destroyed instantly. Heck, even a humid day would turn me into a frizzy mess over the course of hours or even minutes. Naturally, we always tried to get an extra day between shampoos to avoid the water and the need to pull, tug and iron the curls out of our tresses.
To the rescue came an innovative product, PSSSST! It was a spray can of dry shampoo. With much shame, I admit that I used that white powdery spray to allow myself to skip a day of washing, straightening and ironing my hair. I knew that my hair had a white powdery coating after using it but it stayed straight for and extra day, shaving about 3 or 4 hours from my “getting ready” time for shcool or other activities. Yes, that’s how long I spent doing my hair back then. Shameful.
Several years ago my mom was in search of that product to use on my Aunt Helen. My dear Aunt Helen had had surgery and my mom had trouble washing her hair during the recovery time. We never did find the dry shampoo but remember the white powder, my mom got the idea to sprinkle talc in Aunt Helen’s hair and brush it out. The look was the same - as if someone had sprayed white powder on her head.
So, why do I bring this up? Well, I just noticed that a company, Salon Grafix, has introduced a dry shampoo that sounds like the old stuff but without the white powder look. In fact, the Salon Grafix Dry Shampoo comes in a variety of colors which is probably the trick to this product freshening your hair and keeping it looking great without the white residue. I cannot wait to tell my mom about this!
I do let my hair curl on its own now so the straightening thing isn’t an issue for me. But let’s face it, there are plenty of days when I’m running around the house, mopping, vacuuming, doing the laundry while looking pretty rough. I know that there’s still time to jump in the shower before the husband or kids come home. And then the phone rings and I find out that a kid is sick at school. UGH!!! I’m required to sign the kid out in the office but I know that the dirty hair will send everyone running, thinking I’ve just crawled out of some frightening abyss. No time to shower, Salon Grafix Spray Powder Shampoo is just the thing for a quick fix up.
In fact, this stuff would be great for times of illness or injury, too. It’s bad enough being stuck in a hospital bed or even laid up at home, but to have your hair looking bad, too, is really too much to bear. Nice hair can go a long way toward helping in the recovery process. I know from having given birth so many times that when I fixed myself up, I began to feel better, too.
So tell me, are any of you old enough to remember the stuff from the 60s and 70s? Did you try it? Would you try this? And for those of you who work outside the home, is this something that you’d keep in your desk at work, to “freshen” your look before heading out in the evening, straight from the office? Can’t wait to hear what you guys think!
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I remember it. I tried it. It was gross and disgusting!
My wife obsesses about her hair. She is in fact a hair extensionist and we also have an online store that sells clip in hair extensions. Now her her doesn’t curl or frizz when it gets wet…. but if it did…. I think it would end in divorce. Enough hours in the day get spent on her hair as it is. Alternatively I could throw a bucket of talk on her head, but I think that would also…end in divorce!