hair update...

If you've been following my blog recently, you know last week I got a Brazilian blowout.  It was my first time to to try it and I must say I am officially hooked.

So once you get it done, you have to wait 72 hours before you can get your hair wet, meaning you can't take a shower for three days!!!!!  It didn't really click that it would be that long, but on day two I was freaking out because I couldn't stand it.  You also aren't suppose to put anything in it: headband, barrette, rubber band, clip...nothing.  It would have made it do able if I could at least pull it up.  See I need to wash my hair for SURE every other day or it looks oily, greasy and just plain disgusting!  I'm talking it looked two shades darker.  Gross right!  And I had that wedding to go to on last Friday.  In person it looked bad, but after looking at pictures you couldn't tell.

Saturday night I FINALLY got to wash it and I washed it twice just to get it extra clean!!  I blow dried it while brushing it-nothing fancy.  No round brush or anything and it was STRAIGHT!!!  It flipped out a little at the end and was a tad frizzy, but OMG it was soooooo much better than it was before.  Then all I had to do was flat iron the ends and it only took less than 10 minutes.  That's AMAZING because before it would take me about 30 minutes if not more.  

I think it's safe to say I'm officially hooked and I would highly recommend the Brazilian blowout to anyone who has curly or frizzy hair.  It makes your hair shinny and sooooo soft!  The only think I hated was waiting the 72 hours before I could wash it.  So there you have it.  I have 3-4 months of amazing hair and I'm going to love every minute of it!!!  

i did it!

I'm so excited to report that I LOVED my Brazilian blowout I got yesterday!  The process was tedious to me.  I've never had my hair colored or highlighted so I'm not used to being in the salon for longer than a haircut.  It was totally worth the wait.

So let me break it down for you on how the process works and show you some remarkable pictures!  I purposefully came with my hair curly so I could get a great before and after picture.  

Here's the process...

• Wash the hair to get out all the products
• Brush in the special Brazilian blowout cream product
• I'm not going to lie.  The product kind of stung a little on my scalp and the fumes can burn your eyes a little.  The stylist wore a surgeon mask because of the fumes.  I chose to suck it up cause I'm awesome like that.  Ha.
• Blow dry the hair straight 
• After this, my hair looked awesome so I was very excited to see it after straightening.
• Flat iron the hair
• Wash the hair
• That's right, I said wash the hair.  Can you believe after all that work that you have to wash it out!!!  It's so crazy, but that's part of the process.
• Put a mask on the wet hair and leave for 3-4 minutes
• This adds moisture that was taken away from flat ironing.
• Blow dry the hair straight
• Touch up with the flat iron
• Admire the awesomeness!!
• DONE

There you have it.  It took just under 3 hours!  But I did get a little bit of a trim and she touched up my bangs because they were blahhh.  Are you ready for the after pictures????

Looks AWESOME right?  I know you can get this look with simply flat ironing it, but I'm so curious to know how it will look once I can wash it and then go to blow dry it.  Oh I forgot to mention you can't get it wet for 72 hours.  I'm not thrilled about this because I like to wash my hair at least every other day, but I'll deal for this!

There you have it.  So far I'm thrilled with the results.  We'll see what the next few weeks bring.  If it last 4 months (as told) I will officially become a Brazilian blowout addict!!!!!

Oh side note...I had a reality star sighting at the salon.  I wish I was paying better attention, but I just saw the back of her.  My fellow Bachelor watching fans will know who I'm talking about...remember Melissa Rycroft from Jason Mesnick's season???  She was the winner, but then got dumped for the runner up.  Anyways, Melissa was getting her hair did right before me!!!  I was reading a magazine while getting my blowout and there was an article about her upcoming CMT reality show and my stylist said "oh she was here right before you."  Pretty cool right?!?!  I'd seen her and her husband once before at a local restaurant several years ago.  So basically we could easily become BFF's.  I really liked her and now she has the cutest little girl and family.

I'm one happy customer.  I'll give updates to let you know how it's progressing.  Hopefully I'll have nothing to report except pure awesomeness!!

Have a wonderful Thursday!