I do hair. Lots of you know that. I also do MY hair, and I bleach it out to the uttermost. There are days when I want every trace of natural oil to nourish my abused hair, so I skip the shampoo. My hair is fine, though, so just pinning it up in the shower still allows mist from the shower head to dust over my hair and limpify it (or break the disulfide bonds - if you wanna get technical....which I always do). Due to this need, I have spent time looking at shower caps, but the Wal-Mart ones are.......practical.
As I said in a previous post, I spend way too much time in "comfy" clothes, so I'm not tryin to look all broke down and what not when I am tryin to save my hair for that day.
The reason I ever even thought to begin using one is because I passed this at the Benefit counter in the department store, and I saw this!
No....I can't justify paying $24.99 for something that no one - not even my husband - should ever see me in. It DID get me thinking, though. I could really use a shower cap - just didn't even think about it since the 80's and 90's marketing teams had everybody overwashing their hair to try and get the 70's out of it! Well, it didn't work. I have sat in the company of many a "dirty" hippie, and they're nice people who are still around. While I don't ascribe to all their earthy hygiene habits, it is now very apparent that the other extreme of over stripping all the needed natural oils from your hair isn't good either.......hence my epiphany at the Benefit counter.
My mom laughs at me sometimes, because I love to shop, but, if I can find my object of desire cheaper or MAKE it cheaper, I do, and I make it look as pretty as the mass produced version. When I decided against the "overpriced" version of this hair-do saver, I began my quest for its budget friendly counterpart.
Guess what? I found it!!!
The other night, I was out on one of my decompressing missions, so I went into TJ Maxx. I found this little kitten:
It's from this website. It's listing price on the site is $10.00 plus s&h. My TJ Maxx purchase was $3.99! I thought "Ok, it's a little old ladyish, but it's made really well, and it's cheetah print! That is trendy enough that it's not horrible....probably." So I took it out of the package and threw it over the mirror above my makeup table (which I made myself, thank you) and left it there.
I have bought InStyle Magazine since I was 19. It is chock full of designer photos, how-to's, beauty reviews and celebrity this-is-how-I-wear-its. I like to keep them around for clients because they also have hair-do evolutions of celebrities, and it has come in handy for gals in my chair to be able to see how several different cuts and colors can look on one person - plus, it's celebs, so it's on the trend mark pretty often (except for Courtney Love - bless her heart). Well, I was looking at the holiday tipsntrends for the November 2012 issue, and I saw THIS beauty!
Well gals, that got my creative juices flowing (kinda like the Oscar de la Renta headband). That looks like bright colored grosgrain (pronounced grow-grain) ribbon with a little bejeweling. I HAVE ribbon, and I HAVE a hair clip I wore to my husband's Christmas party a few years ago that I'm not interested in wearing again.
Ready for a mini picture tutorial? Ok great! (.....ooh....I'm so excited!!)
Ok. Here's what I'm using:
This craft is pretty straightforward. You find the ribbon you want, find a jewel, snatch up a tube of E6000 glue (learned this trick from my beauty school chum, Antonio. He is an UBER skilled hair cutter, colorist and stylist. He knows his way around the makeup brushes like Michelangelo, and he also styles costumes for his stage shows, so when I saw this product mentioned in one of his posts, I went right out and bought some!) Arrange the ribbon in whatever formation you want (loops like I did or a more ornate bow). Glue the bow to itself to anchor its shape, glue on the jewel and then glue the whole mess to the cap! I left mine laying flat until it was nice and dry - overnight for me.
Then WEAR IT!!!!!
Mine looks like this:
It's so fun! It's cute. It was cheap. It's practical. What more could a girl want?....except for it to make me some Nutella cookies and a cup of coffee. Ahhh well. Maybe it will surprise me.
Ok gals, this post way way more time consuming than I originally planned, and tomorrow is Monday! Make this work week a fantastic one, and you go ahead and spare your hair once or twice.
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