Your Faithful PB had a ceramic flat iron a billion years ago when she had a hair cut with fringy layers that she wanted to stick out from her face in what was then considered a fetching manner.
Lately, because of a thing known as FRIZZ, she wondered if perhaps she might have some luck with a flat iron, after many different types of serums and unguents proved unhelpful or greasy. Having long ago given her original flat iron away, she purchased one for about $19.99 from Target, where impulse buys are a way of life.
(She also purchased a hand-held steamer, something she had been contemplating for years and is very happy to have acquired for vestments!)
Voila! With one quick flip of the wrist, the flat iron magically achieves what used to require the combination of a careful blow dry, application of products that sometimes worked but often did not, and divine favor. Several people asked me why I looked so different. Two asked me if I had dyed my hair (not necessarily a positive comment, and the flat iron makes the hair so shiny and glossy that my garish blonde foil highlights are even more obviously bad and garish, but I don’t mind them).
BEFORE (with my hound, who never needs a flat iron):
AFTER:
It’s a nice option to have.
Now my challenge is to wake up early enough on Sundays to do something with my hair, which looked so hideously flat and stringy and ugly in the video of last week’s sermon that I determined never to leave the house on the Sabbath without teasing it unto the Lord Most High.
Just be careful. Heat is damaging. Especially with color-treated hair. You need a heat-protectanct serum if flat-ironing his a regular, even weekly, routine.
AH, thanks!! Okay!
Because you want to keep the pretty shiny. Or the shiny pretty. Shiny! Squirrell!
Looking good! I used to be addicted to my flat iron (or ‘straigheners’ as they are over here) but I’ve moved to a wavy style so I’m now all about the hair dryer and round metal cored brush. I’ve never had any problem with heat damage either way (I think a lot of that is invented to sell more products like heat protection sprays!)
Howdy PB. In my own utter surprise, I have become a flat iron user. But, it was worth it to spring for a nice one from my hairdresser because it automatically adjusts its heat based on your hair thickness etc, to avoid damage as much as possible. The cheaper ones really can fry your hair. I actually use it more to create loose waves and body (by twisting a 2-inch piece of hair in it at a time) than to straighten. I love it. When I am going to create waves, I let my hair air dry to limit damage.