This post is not only about Elisabeth’s hair. It’s a Hergenrader Hair Story.
As I’ve written about before, our family has serious hair struggles. Baby fine. Sparse. Needs to be washed daily or it becomes so oily, our ears stick through it.
For Sam, this just requires a short cut. For the girls, frequent washing and cute hair accessories.
For me, oh my.
Frequent washing. Frequent buying lots of products that promise volume. Frequent visiting stylists. Frequent brushing. Frequent blow-drying.
It was the blow-drying that was killing me. When I became sick, I just didn’t have the energy for the thirty minutes of blow-drying that had become part of my morning routine sometime when I was a teenager. If you have fine hair, you know what I mean. Sitting in front of the mirror with a round brush and super-ionic-volumizer blow dryer AND root spray AND volumizing serum.
All that, and my hair was still wispy. On a good day.
But lately, after 20 years of this routine, I’ve had a break-through.
Necessity is the mother of invention–and new hair styles, right?
And as a frequent reader of hair blogs, I wanted to share my own story.
One day when I didn’t have the energy to blow-dry, and volumize, and serum every strand, I let my hair air dry. A bit frizzy and stringy, just like I guessed.
Before I left to pick up the twins, I tried some hot rollers that I had bought a few weeks ago on a whim.
Hot rollers! Like from the ’80s!
They not only gave my hair volume, the volume kind of stayed all day. Better than the smoothing hair dryer, my hair had a little texture from the air-drying. And the whole process had only taken five minutes!
Thanks for letting me share this good hair day, (good hair days? will this be a trend?). Such a rarity in the Hergenrader House.
I’m ready to trade in my blow dryer for another ’80s staple: a curling iron.
Stop me before I buy Aqua Net and a new teasing comb.
