Curly Wurly (Frizz Ease in general)

Member Name: MGirl

Product:	Frizz Ease in general
Date:	20/02/05 (131 review reads)
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Advantages: Styles curly ok

Disadvantages: Does not work straight

I have properly curly hair. No perming (despite everyone thinking otherwise). It’s right untamable. My dad used to call me Medusa when I was little it’s that bad. When I travel around southern Europe, I never get spoken to in English, people assume I’m Greek or Italian. A friend of mine undertaking hair research on afro hair even suggested that mine would be one worth trying.

Right, so I’ve set the scene. My hair is frizzy, so, when Frizz Ease came out some years ago, I thought “wow, answer to all my prayers.” The first product (and most copied) was the serum. On the side of the bottle were pictures of before (which disturbingly looked like me the morning after the night before. I feel sorry for my boyfriend, I really do.) There were also two “after” shots, one styled curly, the other straight. I (naively) thought “brilliant!” You know how it is. I’ve lost count the number of times people have said to me “I love your hair, tell me who permed it…” or “wow your hair’s amazing!” but we always want what we can’t have and I imagined tumbles of glossy thick straight brown hair, so one night, I followed the instructions and tried “blowdrying straight”. Oh dear. My word. I looked even more like the “before” picture than I did to start with. Hmmm.

That’s the thing with Frizz Ease, the regular products are actually aimed at people with wavy hair, not afro / ringlets like mine. John Freida (or the scientists who do the work) have cottoned on to this though and launched several “extra strength” products. They are an improvement but if they want to get in touch, I’ll happily test something 10 times stronger.

The rest of the range is an improvement, particularly the intensive conditioner. It does leave your hair soft which when it’s like mine is definitely an achievement. The extra strength serum and the mousse also work really well at styling curly. Just don’t try the straight stuff unless your hairs a whole lot less kinky than mine.

So, what happened to my hair straightening antics? When I got my hair cut last year, I asked the hairdresser to straighten my hair for me to see what it would look like. Ceramic straighteners worked a treat. I walked outside though and for the first time in my life, my hair flew all over the place in the wind. It had no oomph to support it. In the language of shampoo ads, it was “flyaway”. I kept seeing myself in shop windows and not knowing who I was. I actually came to the conclusion that I looked fat with straight hair. Nuts eh?

Anyway, in conclusion “stying straight” is a load of rubbish unless your hair is wavy, not curly or unless you have some GHD straighteners stashed away.

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