CURLS

YEAH or NAH: Bun Heatless Curlers from Penneys

/ MANY BRAVE FOOLS / 1 Comment

Bringing the TikTok sensation home.

Okay, so: I have a lot of hair, but it is very fine. Heat mostly does not work on it without an absolute shed load of some class of aerosol fixative.

When I get a blow dry without any spray, it falls out within the hour, unless I get home, spray it, and twist it into a pineapple, and then get a good second-day hairdo.

When I saw a few videos of Penneys Bun Heatless Curlers on the clock app, I reckoned, why the heck not?

Two pack of Penneys Bun Heatless curlers displayed on my bed.
Two pack of two pack of Penneys Bun Heatless curlers displayed on my bed.

I bought two two-packs due to the amount and length of my hair.

Most people I saw using them, or those of their ilk, only used two but that didn’t seem like enough.

Naturally, I only needed three, insert eyeroll emoji here.*

Three heatless culrer buns
Oompa loompa, but make it pink.

Immediately upon lying down, waves of PTSD from childhood crashed through me, thanks to this sort of curler.

It took forever to fall asleep and I expected to wake surrounded by the detritus of good curly hair intentions.

I woke.

Ugh, flash!

The buns were intact! The unveiling excitement was real.

That… was that.

Now, I’d gotten a lovely layered haircut a week or so ago, and did expect better than this.

It was absolutely not worth the effort, not so much from winding the hair around the soft curlers and then tucking them away in their lil sleeping bags, but from trying to find a comfortable way to lay my head down.

I am impressed they stayed in, I guess.

This is, I fear, a resounding ‘nah’.

If you have thicker hair than I, these may work for you. €3.50 for two at Penneys, while they last.

*🙄 Okay, one can in fact insert actual emojis. The more you know.

Obligatory shameless self-promotion: if you’re a fan of romantasy, why not check my alter-ego’s series, The Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde? Shopping link is here.

The Hair Meets Elnett Styling Spray; Happiness Ensues

/ brightandbeautyfull / 1 Comment

Three new products from Elnett are available for your follicular pleasure: Heat Protect Styling Sprays for three-day Volume, Curl or Straight coiffures.

I went for Volume on the roots and Curl on the ends:

L’Oréal Paris spokewoman/model/boldface name Cheryl Cole and I are like *that*.

This very impressive blow dry was done by Sinead from Foundation Hair Salon. No tongs were used in the creation of this hairdo. The sprays protect the hair from heating tools up to 230°, so no more fried tresses of a Saturday night.

This morning, with very little intervention. Combed out and spritzed the Volume on the roots!

Due to the fineness of my hair, I am not entirely convinced that I’ll get another day out of this, but we shall see.

Pictures of the very fancy spray bottles can be found here, as well as more pretty pictures of my pal Cheryl. Price point is in the area of €8, and I asked how many hairdos you might expect to get in a bottle, and I’ve forgotten the answer. Four months worth, I think? I bet that’s reasonable. {Updates to come on all that — couldn’t wait to post!}

***

Elnett Heat Protecting Styling Sprays are available everywhere, basically.

Oh! And the lippy in the last photo is one of the new Clinique Chubbies in Mightiest Maraschino. It is a lightweight in texture only — I already adore it.