De-poofinator

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:01pm

Does anyone have one?

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:33pm

What is it?

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:36pm

Something to de-poof my hair. I look like a mushroom.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:39pm

Why don't you try a flat iron?

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:42pm

Tried it. My hair is straight and poofy.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:47pm

Try a straightening balm along with your flat iron.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:54pm

Yes. Rath is absolutely right - you need to put something in your hair before you straighten it. I have pretty curly hair, and I straighten it almost every day... this works on most people: Put some sort of straightening product in your hair when it's wet, then blow-dry it straight as best you can. You'll probably still have some waves and static, and it might be a little bit puffy, but it's easier to flat-iron it when you've already gotten that far. You should use either a big, flat brush, or a round metal brush. Those double-sided brushes that you squeeze, that catch your hair in between the two sides also work very well. Let your hair cool off a bit, and then flat iron it. That should get it to be a lot less puffy. People can hardly ever tell that I even do anything to my hair to get it as straight as it is. You should also make sure you use good conditioner; that'll help to make sure all of that heat doesn't damage your hair.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:51pm

Thanks! I have oily hair so I can't use conditioner. And my hair de-poofs in my sleep! It looked nice today.

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:53pm

God help me - I thought this was going to be a thread about some new Republican designed gizmo to rid the world of Richard Simmons and his kind.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:54pm

You can get conditioner for oily hair. It's really important that you use something.

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:31pm

My Fair Lady, de-poofinator is a technical term, correct?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:42pm

Just keep the conditioner away from your roots and you'll be fine. You should definitely be using conditioner.

[Charactress!]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:45pm

try some de-frizz hair stuff.. john frieda stuff works well

[Plum]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:46pm

Yup, I have oily hair too and that's what I do- just don't condition by your scalp. Also, I let the shampoo sit in my hair for a while before I wash it out, which helps for some odd reason. Shampooing twice helps, too, but wastes too much of the stuff.

I'm always really reluctant to apply heat to my hair because it ruins the texture, but poofiness isn't a big problem for me right now, so I can't help you there.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:56pm

I'm with DGrant...

I was getting offended already...

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 8:22am

some of my curly-headed friends swear by a device, i think it's called a "chee" or something, some kind of straightener with two heated ceramic plates...

i've always had the opposite problem, baby-fine hair with no body. Thank god it's coarsening some as i age. i also know folks whose too-curly hair grew back differently from crew cuts or head shaves...

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 8:31am

Move to Baton Rouge

[vicatella]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 8:33am

i know mine did. i used to have pretty straight, medium thick hair. then i cut it pretty much all off into a crew cut and now that it's long again it's super thick, and incredibely wavy/curly. what a pain. can anybody recomend a good leave in conditioner?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 10:34am

Chi - it's a whole series of really intense straightening products. There are VERY hot ceramic flat-irons, and then you've got to buy all sort of products to put in your hair to keep it safe from the heat. I think they also have some sort of chemical process to semi-permanently straighten your hair, but they don't last more thana few months (until your roots grow out) and it's not very good for your hair. It's kind of risky to do.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 2:19pm

thanks, LUV THE EMCEE, i didn't know much about it, but it was a craze here for a while. And SON OF MAMMA MIA SAN, how do you know from Red Stick? i've spent some time there as well. PM me.

[another sloe eyed vamp]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 8:33pm

Have you heard of straight, fine (OK, limp) hair growing back differently after it was cut? I'm pretty desperate - even hairstylists can't get mine to do anything.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 8:38pm

Emcee-I think you mean relaxing. I'm getting my hair relaxed over the summer, but it's so mild that all it does it take away frizz.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 9:43pm

MFL - relaxing is slightly less risky than chemical straightening. It will make it so your hair is less curly, but it won't be perfectly straight. In essence, it will take less effort to get it straight, but you will still have to work at it some.

Vamp, yes. I have a friend who had very long, fine, straight hair. She cut it a few years ago to about her collarbone. When it's short, it's straight, because for most people shorter = less curl, but when she lets it grow, she has beautiful, thick waves now. I do know people that have had the opposite happen, too... having decently thick hair, and then losing the texture after they cut it.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 9:48pm

My hair gets thicker and curlier when I cut it and I just got a haircut. It's not really curly now, but in curley-ish waves. It actually doesn't look too bad not straightened. It's not even really poufy. The only problem is that when my hair is curley or wavy my face looks square.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 9:50pm

I'm beginning to think I've spent too much time obsessing over my own hair, but.... if your hair is one length, that could be responsible for making your face look square. If you haven't already, try some layers and angles... just a little bit; going overboard isn't good either.