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BANGS!  I only had bangs one other time, but didn't wear them right so they looked terrible.  I was determined to try them again and I thought the fall would be the perfect time.  I found several awesome bangs on pinterest and loved the look.

Check out my inspiration pictures: here and here, which I found on pinterest!  It was a little risky, but I'm really happy with how they turned out.  It's for sure going to take some getting used to...for me and also Mr. H.  Now I just hope I can style them as cute as they did at the salon.     

What do YOU think?

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!

today's the day!

I'm so excited because at 1:00 I'll be getting a Brazilian blow out!  I can't tell you how happy I am for the day to be here.  I'm so anxious to know what it's going to look like and how much time I'll save doing my hair.

It's a two hour process so I'm hoping I don't get antsy.  I'm sure I'll catch up on some important celebrity gossip.

I'll certainly take pictures to document the process (or try to at least).  I'll let Susan, my stylist, know it's for my blog so hopefully she'll be more than happy to take some pictures for me :)  By this time tomorrow I'll be a whole new woman!

I can't believe how awesome my hair looks in this picture!  I can't wait for it to be like that all the time (or with little to no maintenance!!).  

Thanks Mr. H for supporting me in the little experiment.  I know it's a little pricy, but you know it's totally worth it.  I'm so lucky that we see eye to eye!!  As you are well aware, my happiness is your happiness.  Love you!  (I'm being totally serious here!  Mr. H knows the struggle I go through every morning with my hair!  He knows it's not easy!)

Okay, the next post will be the reveal!  Get excited...I know I am!!

Happy WEDNESDAY!

it's official

I made an appointment to get a Brazilian blowout!!!  My appointment is next Wednesday and I'm can't wait!

I looked up information about the Brazilian blowout on the official website and then found a salon in my area and looked up their website.  They had a great section with Q&A about the treatment and I was instantly sold. I went yesterday for a consolation and was told I would be perfect candidate for the treatment.

I'm totally excited and ready to get rid of my frizziness and eliminate some of the curliness.  I know it won't make it 100% straight, but anything will help.  And I was stoked to find out that it's not going to damage my hair and that after it wears off it will go back to it's original state, which honestly I was worried about.

So I'll for sure be showing a before and after next week and let you know how I like it.  Stay tuned! :)

Wishing I was back in the Bahamas right NOW!  Mr. H and I went for our honeymoon last year.  

Dreaming of the day I can wake up and pull my hair in a side braid and be done.  No straightening or anything.  Ahhh won't that be nice!

Happy day FRIENDS!

it's time to get real

Okay.  I feel like we know each other pretty well by now, right?  I'm going to share something with you that you don't know about me.  As you've seen by my pictures I have fabulous hair.  Haha.  Well I wish I could say I wake up and it looks like that, BUT it takes lots of work to get it to look that awesome.  You know why???  Because I have naturally curly hair.  That's right, I straighten my hair EVERY DAY!!!!!  Here's a little background on my hair.  :)

I had curly hair from really early on.  And I'm not going to lie, I think I was a pretty cute little girl.

Then when I got a little older, I didn't like it so much so I slicked it back into a curly/frizzy pony tail.  This was not a good look for me.  Ha.  

This is basically what I looked like from middle school through collage.  That's right college.  Uggg.  I had long, curly hair.  Don't get me wrong, I don't hate my curly hair...it's just now that I have crossed over and straighten it now, I much prefer it straight.  

I straightened my hair for the first time after college and I've been straightening it ever since!  I got it cut too and now I'm trying to grow it back out.  Look how pretty it is straight!!  This is the ME that I like to look at in the mirror.

It's about to get real!  Here's the process to get my hair from wet and curly to dry and straight.  Picture 1 is me right out of the shower with wet hair.  Picture 2 is after I blow dry.  I brushed it down so it would be more tame.  Picture 3 is me after 30 minutes of flat ironing.  As you can see the left side is already flipped out a bit-story of my life!!!

Here are some of my hair products.  Now I always us the Frizz Ease for heat protection and the other two are used every now and then.  Clearly I have a frizz problem as seen in picture 2 above so I'm always on the hunt for a good product to tame the beast.

With all that being said, I am so tired of flat ironing my hair.  I can't even tell you how much I hate it!!!!  I've been really considering getting a Brazilian blow out.  I mean to not have to straighten my hair every morning for 2-3 months sounds A-MAZING!  

I'd love to get it done soon so that I won't have to mess with my hair this summer.  We'll be traveling to my in-law's lake house and I always end up wearing it curly there because there's no point to straighten it since it will just get wet.  

SO... I need some advice friends...have you ever had a Brazillian blow out, did you like it, did it last as long as they said it would, would you do it again, what do I need to know before I do it??? Any suggestions would be awesome.  

Wishing my super sweet mother-in-law, Laurie, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  Looking forward to celebrating your birthday and Mother's day this weekend!  Have a wonderful birthday!!

Have a wonderful Wednesday FRIENDS!