I've had (basically) poker straight hair since birth. I only realized that most girls had to put effort and time into a sleek straight 'do when I started going to overnight camp at the age of 8, even though my own mother has a curly head of locks. Once I became aware of diverse hair textures, I became aware of my own boring one...or so I thought it was boring. I was constantly unsatisfied with my own limp hair, braiding it overnight to wake up with an alien akin style when I was maybe 9 years old, crimping it to oblivion when I was 11, curling/spraying and reversing until my head was crunchy and not waved in the least for the time of the awkward 13-year-old/Bat Mitzvah party era. What was I thinking?!
Since then, I've learned to appreciate my natural hair, and the lack of time it requires me. I literally can wash it every other day before bed, and wake up with the hair that many women spend hours and hundreds of cash on. I can easily try out trendy styles with little time (
did someone mention a Lady Gaga hair bow?) But, I do have the occasional bad hair day (don't we all?) when I need to make everything a little sleeker, shinier, neater. That is when a hair iron comes in handy. Very handy.
Naomi has consistently shiny and gorgeous hair. Yet another reason to hate to love the woman!
I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had been using a Conair double functioning straightener/crimper for those rare days when it was a day a messy braid couldn't fix (
similar to this). Luckily, Misikko decided to send me a ceramic
hair straightener. It's a one-inch baby, and it's extremely efficient. The packaging was shockingly beautiful. I've never received anything from any other company that had such a presentation. There were scented rose soaps, silk roses, all the equipment I would need for my new tool, and a blank check for me to make out to the Haiti charity of my choice. Yes, you read that correctly. The salon donated $25 for each hair iron recipient to donate. I was so pleasantly alarmed by this, I sent my check out to the Red Cross before I even un-rubberbanded the hair iron. That evening, I spread out the whole set, including the shine serum and heat protecting cream, and got to work. I'm not going to tell you I discovered a new life with shinier and straighter hair. That didn't happen, and it won't. I will tell you that my hair was sleeker. The iron heated up within 3 minutes. I did my hair, and then went over my roommates hair, too. She was very satisfied with her mini-makeover; she even asked me to finish up by doing her eye makeup!
