Straight, Glossy and Utterly Flat

That's the profile of my hair, in short.  Sure, I have nothing to complain about with the glossy part, but the rest is debatable.  Let me explain.

My hair is very fine.  A hairdresser once told me that I have very thin hair, and very little of it.  That worried me, until eventually another hair stylist negated the notion, telling me that I have very fine hair with roughly the same quantity as everyone else.  That had me feeling a little better.  Not for long though, because after we graduate from the high school phase where everyone wants poker-straight hair (and uses a straightening iron like it's going out of style), along comes a novel idea called volume that my hair just refuses to grasp.  Thus, I am in constant search of a hair stylist that understands my void in volume, products that add it, and styles that promote it.

The trouble is, volume is normally partners with curls and waves, of which my hair is neither. All it wants to do is lie flat all day and play dead.  Curling irons and hot rollers (at least, the one kind I have tried) are a fruitless battle -- the curls straighten out so quickly that, by the time I get to my destination, I look like I have neglected to consider my hair as part of my appearance.  The only way to successfully sport curls for longer than ten minutes is to get a perm of some sort.  I have done it a few times, and loved the results (for the most part, except this one time when it flattened out in two days and I was too naive to know to ask my hair stylist to fix it), but I just don't want to frequently submit my hair to awful damaging processes.  Between perms, then, are times to experiment with products and cuts and all that jazz.

A closeup of my hair, with mediocre lighting

Granted, I am blessed with hair colour that had a previous stylist upset, with all the money he could be making by maintaining it for me if it were colour-treated.  He was none too shy to tell me all about it.  And because I try to refrain from chemical processing, the shine of my hair does perfectly well without serums and creams.  My sister had a straightening perm just to get my hair, which I think is silly business because her hair has the waves and curls I want (she tells me I don't, but the grass is always greener...)

I suppose the point of all this is to help you understand where I am coming from when I review products, cuts, styles and other hair-related bits and bobs.  In the end, I'm still grateful and at peace with my hair -- I make a lot of complaints, but don't we all?

A Little Introduction

I always think that blogging would be a good idea, but my inability to be consistent with keeping it up-to-date is the usual deterrent.  My sister is an avid blogger with her art, and encouraged me to do it as an avenue to escape to when school and work bogs me down.  The encouragement, combined with the lack of blogs (that I have stumbled upon) that I can related to for skin and hair advice, has me sitting here writing this as my upstairs neighbours pound away at a piano, pound away at the floor and pound back drinks with abhorrent noise.

Also my Ocean Conservation and Sustainability course has encouraged us to blog and tweet, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't what they had in mind.

Source: http://www.caudlescatchseafood.com/uploads/Image/images/main_images/information_sustainability.jpg

This being my first post, and what I suspect will be on the main page for quite some time before it eventually gets pushed to the next page, consider this a preface for the extensively (or not so much) novel blog to come:  beauty, skincare and haircare; fashion and my thoughts thereof; food endeavours (don't worry, my face won't be next to the plate with exaggerated excitement -- unless that's seriously how I feel about it); as well as anything else that may catch my fancy to share with all.  

It may turn out to be an adventure after all.