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Mate, you've just about gone and put your foot in it again!
You've managed to make an almost identical post to Jeremy Brett.
The Blame Game (re: bad hair days)
If it weren't for the fact that Jeremy had cited a report from CNN and you have cited a report on the same story from Yahoo, there'd be almost nothing to tell them apart.
;-) Lol - Time you passed the shovel methinks...
(Only Kidding - Ironic though isn't it?)
I noticed his post after I made this one, and noted such in a reply to him upon seeing it.
I thought it was an interesting read, and didn't realize until later someone else had already shared it.
Yeah I know, you posted to that effect almost at the same time I did, no offence mate, I'm only ribbing you.
No offense taken. I'm not stirred up that easily.
I think we all should keep in mind, we're a bunch of internet geeks, or semi-geeks, and with the amount of information out there, of course there will be overlap at times.
Just in case we don't realize it, a good sense of humor helps in any situation! Right?
AMAZING! Seems we are alway learning something new about the human body!
Here's another related hair article, found at:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1085436609439&call_pageid=968332188492
Since the link is so long and may have formatting problems once this is posted, I also pasted below. It was pointed out that two people have posted the same article.. well, maybe the second poster just didn't see the previous posting of the article.
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Home for wayward curls
Women flocking to New York salon
'It's like a cult,' says devoted client
ELAINE CAREY
STAFF REPORTER
NEW YORK - Irene Stillings flew 3,900 kilometres on the red eye from San Diego to find the woman she knew would understand her curly hair.
"I haven't been able to find anybody in California who cuts it properly," says Stillings, who recently met up with her daughter from New Jersey to spend the afternoon in a basement hair salon in Soho, filled with women flaunting their waves, ringlets and Botticelli curls.
This is Lorraine Massey's Devachan, a place that has become a lifeline for curly-haired women who've stopped fighting their hair with dryers and straighteners and learned to embrace their inner curl.
Through word of mouth, talks she gives to hairdressers across the country and a book called Curly Girl (Workman), Massey's curly-hair credo has spread: "Free your hair and the rest will follow."
"When you come in here, it's like a cult," says Heather Baslui, 27, of Boston, as a stylist lovingly cajoles her hair into a mass of "love me tendril" curls. "I come here because they respect curly hair. I've made friends with my curls."
Stillings read Massey's book twice, sent it to her daughters in Seattle and New Jersey, and gave copies to five friends.
"I've been doing what she suggests in the book and I've really been looking good," she says.
Massey, 40, gets calls from all over North America from women who have heard of her curly-hair philosophy and can't find a hairdresser to help them.
"They're all coming here," Massey says. "As soon as the weather starts to warm up and the humidity hits, all these girls come in saying, `I'm ready to go curly now.'
"A lot of women are in straitjackets; you can take the curl off the girl, but you can't take it out of the girl," she says. "These women know their hair is deteriorating. They're ready to come out."
With such stars as Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Alanis Morissette flaunting their curls on the red carpet, curly hair appears to have finally found its day.
Massey is booked 10 months in advance and charges new clients $200 (U.S.). But she has a trained staff who charge $75 to $90 a cut and "all my staff are amazing," she says.
For centuries, curly hair was considered a blessing that added to a woman's beauty. But all that changed in the 20th century and several generations of women have grown up thinking their curls are "a colossal pain in the tress," she says.
Girls with curly hair were teased and taunted in school, they had no role models in fashion magazines, and they spent a fortune on chemicals to straighten, defrizz and otherwise wrest control of their unruly hair.
Most hairdressers are caught up in these curly-hair stereotypes and either ignore the concerns of curly-haired people or try to straighten them out, Massey says.
"The catalogue of curly-hair crimes committed in many beauty salons is frightful: disastrous haircuts, brutal brushing and blow-drying and chemicals that could straighten out a hardened criminal," she writes in her book.
But Massey set out to change all that, to get the 65 per cent of women she says have naturally curly or wavy hair to embrace the mantra: "Our curls ourselves."
"I can walk down the street and tell who the curly girls in denial are," she says.
"They have broken hair bits on the front and crown, and a blow-fry: it resembles roadkill after a while. It's like defacing a building; you're just getting spray-painted. It's almost like self-hatred.
"My philosophy is, `Blow-dry straight, you're happy for a day; stay curly, you're happy for life.'"
Massey trained as a hairdresser in her native England after she spent years trying to tame her own curls with soup-can-size rollers and realized she spent so much time on her hair, she might as well try to make a living at it.
The rules of her curly manifesto are simple:
Never use shampoo; it's like putting dish detergent on your head.
Throw away the blow-dryers and brushes and use only your fingers to comb most curly hair.
Let it dry naturally and don't touch it until it's dry.
Most shampoo (she calls it "poo") contains harsh detergents, most often sodium laryl sulphate or laureth sulphate, that are also found in dishwashing detergents, Massey says. They're fine for greasy dishes but strip away all the essential oils and amino minerals in hair, leaving it dull, dry and — the worst curly-hair nightmare of all — frizzy.
Those chemicals don't break down in your hair and get absorbed into the hair shaft, she says. Massey's own hair, a mass of beautiful curly tendrils, hasn't been washed in years.
Her message is heresy to the shampoo and hairdressing industries, and the fashion magazines that rely on their ads.
"For a while I would whisper to clients to throw out the shampoo, it was so radical," she says. "We all have a shampoo addiction. Would you put shampoo on your face? No. Your scalp is a continuation of your face."
Instead, she says, you need only massage your scalp once a week with a little conditioner or her own product, "no poo," to loosen any dirt, then rinse it clean. The rest of the time, rinse your hair with water, work in conditioner and rinse.
Kathleen Ljubisic of the Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, a trade group for the $5.3 billion personal-care industry, says there is nothing unsafe about the sulphates Massey objects to and they are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
The industry supports a proposal by Health Canada to require labelling of ingredients on cosmetic products, as is required in the United States and the United Kingdom, she says. Currently, labelling in Canada is voluntary.
Most hairdressers don't want to hear Massey's message, either. If they weren't shampooing and blow-drying, they'd lose business, she says.
"One of them told me, `I'm not about to innovate my clients. I'd lose too much money.'"
Then Massey's off to try to rescue another curly girl who hasn't yet bought into the movement and is having her hair blown straight in the furthest corner of the salon.
"You can't look at that," she says in horror.
