product junkie

i am a product junkie. hair products to be specific. you'd never guess it, huh? i know, my general hairstyle these days is letting it air dry and throwing it in a pony tail. if i get REALLY ambitious i might use a couple of bobby pins (living on the edge, huh???) but put my booty in a salon chair and i'll buy anything. seriously. it's a problem. here's what happens. a professional does my hair and for one shining evening it looks pretty. and i love it. and i think, if ONLY i had those goops and serums and magical hair concoctions, i too could reenact what the stylist did and have a pretty, well quaffed 'do. but then i get home and i get scared and my hair NEVER looks like it did the night before and i'm forced to add the overpriced hair product to my basket of other WAY overpriced hair goo and life goes on, one messy ponytail at a time.

tonight was no exception. i went in for a trim. my first since nuggie was about 6 months old.... so like 7 months ago. pitiful. what sort of an excuse for a woman am i??? it's just that a good cut is expensive and you can't take a baby to your appointment so you need a sitter or a hubby to be home (any hubby will do really :-)

and so to have money AND a sitter is like waiting for the 37 moons of jupiter to align. i've probably lamented at some point the other hair issue i'm having and that is - its freakin' turned curly on me. but only in a few places. its betrayed me. i had the loveliest, straightest hair for forever. and then i had a baby. and as if my body wasn't deformed enough, the patron saint of bad hair days decided to get a good jab in there too and jacked my hair all up.

so when sweet sarah beth at salon ya ya worked her magic tonight and said, hey, how about i show you how to style it curly, i said YES. do it! curly hair is like a secret club. all you curly hair-ers know whats up, but the rest of us uninitiated are left to travel the rough tides of curly hair maintenance all alone. so she did it. and it looked pretty. i had curls all over. happy, soft ones. and i too could achieve this look if only i had those two (or three or four) hair products.

and that's how i walked out tonight - with two new hair products and a diffuser (b/c not only does curly hair require extra goops, you also need extra tools) we don't have money for all this jazz. but i had to do it. i HAD to. don't you want me to look pretty world? bub was sweet and amazing enough to treat me to the hair cut and to a fancy schmancy flat iron. i'm ready hair - bring on your curls, your frizz, your waves in just the back that look so dumb - i'm prepared! i've got the tools and i will prevail! (cue dramatic braveheart soundtrack)

mama is gettin' her groove back. one hair appointment at a time ;-)