Testing Book 20 of 52

As I read Great Hair: Secrets to Looking Fabulous and Feeling Beautiful Every Day, book 20 of 52, I stickied pages about taking care of wavy hair and how to blow dry a bob. As much as I LOVED the haircut, I had trouble re-creating the look at home, so I went to Target and bought:

1. A hair dryer with focus nozzle
2. Flat paddle brush
3. De-frizz serum

I also dug out volumenizing foam, which I used once and thought wasn’t a good idea on a head of thick, wavy hair. I tried the book’s tips on how to let wavy hair dry so it doesn’t look like a puff ball. It worked…sorta, but I also walked into a wind storm. Then today I tried the how-to-blowdry-a-bob technique, which was completely foreign to me, but I figured it was better than anything I’d tried before.

Et viola:

That’s without a flat iron — outrageous! I thought I always needed a flat iron to get straight hair like this. This is great! I’m going to give it a shot with the iron later today to see if I can get it closer to how I came out of the salon:

I can’t even express how excited I am to have some sort of control over my hair — especially short hair. I could usually wrestle long hair into something nice, but short hair has been trickier. Not anymore!