Clients often ask me about my loved ones, and with Valentines Day approaching, I have seized the opportunity to share with you the love letters to my top five most LOVED hair products.
Dear Dry Shampoo,
Aaah, you are the quintessential modern-day must-have for co-operative hair. You help my clean hair feel dirty and my dirty, flat hair feel clean. How do you DO that?? It surprises me how many people don't realise you exist or who have bought you but don't know HOW to use you. (Remember ladies, keep it at a distance when spraying or you run the risk of looking older and greyer.)
Dear Final Net Hair Spray,
You have literally changed my life. You are my everything when it comes my profession and my personal life. You do the trick when taming the fly aways or spraying my eyebrows into place when i was in my teens. I have inhaled your fumes since the 80's when i was just a small girl watching my Mum abuse the hell out of you on her perm and i continue to secretly enjoy your slightly toxic scent. You are never too sticky or too wet so i pray to the universe you never get discontinued!
Dear GHD,
What did I do before you? Whether it be straight, curled or loosely waved, you've helped me through it. You stood by me on my wedding day and continue to support me through thick hair and thin. Even though you damage my ends, i still continue to come back for more. You are the solution to every bad hair day and have taught me to love myself again after all those years with my head on the ironing board. (as if you don't remember that!) Cloud 9, Silver Bullet, Miracurl. Pfft. No matter who tries to be you...They will never come close! GHD, I love you.
Dear Comb/s,
Wide tooth, cutting comb, teasing comb, foiling comb. From my wallet, to the shower, in my travel cases and the bottom of the handbag, I make sure you exist. You come in all different shape and sizes and are all essential in your own little way. Wide tooth comb, you serve me well in the shower where i use you to distribute the conditioner evenly throughout my ends. Teasing comb, you offer me the right amount of boof I need in all the right places but it's the cutting comb i need to apologise to. Since the husband has a new hairstyle, he has discovered your ability to tame and part his hair and often never puts you back where you belong. Soz.
Dear Bobby Pins,
Bobbies, you little buggers. I know you travel in packs of hundreds, but just as well, as i seem to lose you at a rapid rate! It doesnt help that i give away a shitload. Come to think of it, I probably don't treat you right at all. I do hold you in between my teeth before i stick you in a nest of hair sprayed hair on special occasions and give a tonne of you away at weddings and school formals. I must confess, that sometimes i would even rather vacuum you up then bend down to rescue you from the floor. Sorry. You've been good to me, besides the splitting headache or two after a long day, i really need you.
Hair like this only made possible with my top 5 essential products