Idiot Move #472945

I have frizzy hair. Incredibly frizzy hair. Think Roseanna Roseanna Danna and you wouldn't be far off.

For many, many years, I kept my hair very short, in order to avoid the beauty of the above. About 4 years ago, I decided to grow my hair out. I really do love long hair on myself.

I had conveniently forgotten the propensity of my hair to frizz up and out. In fact, I thought to myself today - I don't think that my hair is going to get any longer. It's just going to get more full and fluffy. As the weather heats up, it just gets more and more ridiculous. In August, I'm almost all clipped up because I just can't take it any more.

About two years ago, my hair stylist turned me on to the wonder that is Moroccan Hair Oil. It is truly beautiful stuff. A pump or two in your hair and the frizzies are gone - you are just left with smooth, gorgeous hair. I try, very hard, to never be out of it. I save my pennies, use my Amazon certificates and basically just do what I need to keep it on hand.

But about a week ago I ran out, and I was unable to replace it.

It won't be any different. I told myself. It's probably not the hair oil that's making your hair look so smooth - that's probably just voodoo science. You'll be fine without it.

And, at one of the funerals last week, an older woman who is known for her straight up talk stopped me in the hall. She ran her hand over the side of my hair - You are a mess. Did you mean for it to look this way?

Ouch.

So, clearly, I need the dumb stuff. Lucky for me,  a gift certificate appeared in my inbox, and I ordered some. It's much cheaper to buy it on amazon, and because I had a gift certificate, it was even cheaper to me.

It should be here Wednesday. Which doesn't help right now.

So, this morning, when I was getting ready for church, I glanced through the enormous selection of hair and body products that line my bathroom, wondering if I had something there that could tame the frizz.

I saw some Mononi Miracle Oil that I'd been sent by a client, and grabbed it. On the bottle it says, Fabulous in hair. So, I poured a little into my hand and rubbed it in. It smelled great, my hair styled nicely, and I was off to church. Congratulating myself on my ingenuity and brilliance at solving the frizzy hair crisis.

Which, by the end of  Mass, had evolved into the GREASY HAIR CRISIS. Because, apparently, this is

CONDITIONING OIL. WHICH MEANS PUT SOME ON AND WASH IT OUT. NOT LEAVE IT IN YOUR HAIR ALL DAY, YOU IDIOT.

Yeah. I'm sporting a "Special" kind of hair style right about now.

Tell me you've done something similar. Please.

Comments

[Megan]

Well...the closest I can think of is my most recent eyebrow waxing, six weeks ago. The person who did it was so unpleasant and nasty and hurried that when she didn't offer the sensitive skin wax or put aloe or anything on my recently-stripped skin afterward, I didn't push it.

For the next week I had major breakouts around my eyebrows. And those ones eventually, gradually disappeared, only to be replaced with more on my cheeks and forehead. Six weeks later, I am back to my hardcore prescription treatment that involves peeling, burning and redness. But it's finally going away.

All because I let that stylist take out her bad day on my eyebrows. Which need to be waxed again, ugh.

Sorry to hear about your hair. I would hate having something like that in my hair longer than it was needed. But maybe it'll tame the frizz for a day or two.

[stacey@havoc&mayhem]

Next time you need some try Argan Oil. Same stuff as Moroccan Oil only much cheaper and available at Sally Beauty stores.
http://www.sallybeauty.com/argan-oil/ONEONL16,default,pd.html?cm_vc=SEARCH

[kari]

Oh, I have the same hair! Perhaps I need to get some oil...

[lisa]

I'm looking for the oil soon. I keep keratin-ing and it's expensive!

[addy]

Oh ya sure. Try this crap pushed in the back of the cupboard cuz it sez it works to "control frizz." Apparently it meant while adding a layer of grease and stickiness to the kinky mess. So ya - been there done that. Sorry :(

[Suzy]

well my brother in law once used dog flea and tick shampoo on his hair - it was in the shower and he thought it was people shampoo. He didn't have any fleas after that so it must have worked.

[Christal]

No, but I did "cut" the grey out of the wispy hair in front of my ears... so now I have Spock sideburns.

[Nicole]

Stuff like this happens to me daily. Yesterday it was the baby popping off while nursing, while simultaneously ripping off the blanket I was covering us both with, exposing my entire giant white breast to a roomful of my coworkers. At a wedding.

[JMB]

Have you tried Paul Mitchell's Skinny? I use it with M. Oil and it would probably work by itself as well.

[karin tracy]

My hair is, I think, much wavier than yours, but also suffers terribly in the humidity. A friend turned me onto Mixed Chicks Leave-in Conditioner a year ago and it's changed my hair entirely. I dove in and bought the giant, salon-size bottle, have used it every day since February 2011, and I still have more than half left.

[maggie]

This story reminds me of the time I was visiting my parents. They didn't have any shampoo in the shower so I grabbed a bottle from under the sink. The bottle looked just like a fancy shampoo and said shampoo on the label. As I was shampooing my hair I took a closer look at the bottle and low and behold it was dog shampoo!!!! I could not stop laughing! The shampoo smelled great and actually worked well, who knew?

[Amy]

Oh Carmen, you make me laugh :) I've pulled many idiot moves - glad I'm not alone! On the upside? Just think how soft your hair will be once you finally rinse it out! (as someone w/fine hair that would spell disaster for me)

[kyooty]

oops!!! :)