HAIR CARE

YEAH or NAH: Bun Heatless Curlers from Penneys

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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.

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Two Hundred Days of Sexy Hair: Wella SP Luxe Oil

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THE LUXE OIL ITSELFI cannot even begin to tell you how I had been yearning to try this stuff. I’d gone through a small can of Luxe Light Oil Spray as they say, for a short cut. I loved it, and used it as a finishing gloss, but I wanted something that was going to really get in there and keratin-ised my hair.

When I had my colour done at Mane Salon, Andrew had used some of the Luxe Oil on my locks, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Among other things, of course, but still. I think it was the word ‘elixir’ on the label. Don’t you just love the word elixir? Combined with ‘luxe’ and ‘reconstructive’, it sounds delicious and sexy and strong, all at once.

It can’t be said often enough: if it costs more, you use less. I know that you can bop into the chemists and get some hair styling product that is significantly less costly than €29.00, but srsly: you need like the barest breath of this on the hair, an eighth of a pump — you need to dispense the slightest rumour of this glorious elixir, and you will have more than enough coverage.

I use even less than the above prescription and it is sufficient unto the hair itself. Oddly, even though it feels so sleek that it might turn up greasy the next morning, I do get second day hair out of it — with the help, of course, of dry shampoo. HEY WELLA! How about some dry shampoo in this formula? I would die.

So, the littlest bit goes the longest way for the guts of two days. If you are barely using a ml of the 100mls on tap, you could have Two Hundred Days of Sexy Hair. Imagine that!

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