Hair Report: The Dead Ends of Winter

How I love adjectives- almost as much as I loathe the weather! This winter has been frigid, dark, cold and bleak. And my spirit is not alone in agony. My hair has also paid a steep price.

All this dry air, and hat wearing, and blow drying, and freezing has turned my hair (which, honestly, I am rather vain about) into a frizzy mass from whence I fear rats may tumble. It's not pretty, it's not soft, it's certainly not luxurious. It may be heinous.

So what do I do? And what, if you are in my situation, do YOU do?

Here are my thoughts:

1)I love the Bumble and Bumble's Quenching series. In the town that I grew up in, my mother frequently hired babysitters from the local college. It was a Christian college, and once, Saturday night became rather confusing for me, as a tried and true girl, gave a whirl at proselytizing at me. By midnight, I was a convert. The next day, at Hebrew school, (class Aleph, for the kindergartners,) I would get my comeuppance, after cross-examining my teacher about whether or not it was true that God had a son named Jesus. Congregation Sons of Israel called my parents. But usually, my mom would hire someone a little cooler, and a little more fun (It was a Christian college in the 80's, when people didn't take that stuff quite so seriously. Yeah- You can imagine the naughtiness!). And my favorite thing was to go through those girls' little shoulder bags (with their permission) and play with their makeup. The loved this. Those sweet girls smelled like Bumble's Quenching conditioner- clean and young, and bright- and like nothing found in nature. So I love the stuff based on scent alone- but it's also a great product- rich and thick, and it rinses really well. The masque is perfect for your winter wilt, and I actually will swear by Jesus on the Complex which I use daily to prevent fly-aways and static. (I'll even use it on my dry hair, if I'm really puffy. Don't be afraid!)

2) I find that staying loyal to one product dulls my hair, so this weekend I snapped up a bottle of Abba Organics Pure Moisture Conditioner.  So far, so good- my hair is softening daily, and curling nicely. It also smells fantastic- like the first warm day of spring, when there's still a cool undertone (here provided by a scalp-tingling mint.) This is a great secondary conditioner- for the days when you are sick of the usual.

3) A good comb is hard to find. I break them all the time, mostly because I am so hard on them. Unless I am blow drying my hair, which is, oh, never, I hate to brush, so I comb once or twice a week in the shower, (and here's the important part), with the conditioner IN. My sister, who has the most amazing curls, swears by this interesting piece from Ricky's. I guess they bake olive oil into the plastic? I'm not sure that helps, but it's a nice sturdy comb, and I like the sort of glow-in-the-dark-color.

Part of the fun, I think, is just trying and buying something new, in this weird dead time of the year, when spring seems eons away. So go, buy something a little silly. And try not to let the frizz get you down.