Wavy Hair.

Happy Wednesday, Everyone!

I am linking up at We are that Family today for Works for Me Wednesday.

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Should I be giving beauty tips?

No.

No, I should not.

In truth, I am a beauty and fashion train wreck.

Fact:  I have cut my eyebrow in half, not once, but twice.

Fact:  I regularly poke myself in the eye with mascara.

Fact:  My daughter informs me that I should always wear makeup to cover up my red spots.

Fact:  My mother used to buy me clear mascara.

Does clear mascara even still exist?

Was I their only customer?

Well, I clearly needed help.

And after having 4 babies, my hair has gotten weird.

I have this wave now.

But not a pretty wave.

It's like a perm that is 10 months old and fried kind of wave.

I don't have time to flat iron my hair.

I don't have time to spend carefully blow-drying my hair.

I hardly have time to wash my hair.

But, recently, my hairdresser taught me a new trick with a curling iron.

Let's all have a moment of applause for my hair dresser, Lisa.

Thank you.

I do not, I repeat, I do not know what it is called.

But here's what you do:

Take dry hair.

(This is important.  Don't curl damp hair.  I know.  I've tried it)

Take the curling iron and start the curl closer to your scalp than you might usually do.

Then kind of keep curling in a ringlet style.

Maybe?

Does that make sense?

The point is, you don't just curl the ends.

You make the curl so that it curls more of the strand.

Thus, hiding the wave.

Get it?

I don't know.

I am beauty-retarded.

But it ends up looking like this:

Here's what I like about it:

After I get out of the shower, I comb out my hair.

Then, I proceed to run around like a crazy woman and try to prepare toast and oatmeal and change diapers and bathe children and discipline children and get children dressed and wonder why children are throwing their milk cups at each other and reminding children that their bags need to be packed and remembering that I forgot to pack lunches and asking children to stop fighting over trains.

And by the time I make it back in front of the mirror, my hair has mostly air-dried and there is a gross-lumpy wave to it.

Such is life.

But this curl . . . this magical curl . . . it hides the wave.

And you can do it while brushing your teeth and louding reminding (not yelling, of course) your children to get their shoes on.

Does everyone already know about this curling method?

Cause I was just recently enlightened.

I hope I am not behind the times.

I still don't know how to do side-swept bangs, however.

Help, please!

So, this style of curling really saves me a lot of hassle in the mornings . . .

it works for me!