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Woodley and Bunny: Bunnyshop Hearts

So we spent the weekend putting together our Domestic Guide to Haircuttery—please check it out and definitely submit yours!—and we actually hypnotized, or something, ourselves into getting a haircut! (It was sort of amazingly mind-meld-y. Or we are very suggestible.)

We took a reader's suggestion to go to Woodley and Bunny! We were very excited about this entire thing, because we felt like we were making such good use out of this information. We went in looking to get our normal thing done, but Jacob—who we got randomly, since we were a Sunday afternoon walk-in—talked us out of it, and did something new, and it was all so incredibly fantastic. (Jacob at Woodley and Bunny = five stars out of five.) But the we went to pay. We had called to be sure that we could use one type of credit card, and we could, but we forgot to ask if we could add the tip on it, and we couldn't, and we were that terrible person who can't tip appropriately. (Or, in our case, anything.) But the guy at the desk, Azul, was super super nice about it, and did not make us feel like a loser, or lame, as we may have when we were tasked with processing payments at our hair salon in San Francisco. Anyway, before we went, we were all, Ugh, do we reallly have to go to Williamsburg for this, why can't we do this in Park Slope, they're so mean there, etc etc, but he couldn't have been nicer about this very ridiculous situation.

Anyway, we love the Domestic Guide to Haircuttery, as it provided us with a fabulous new hair stylist at what is actually a very friendly salon.

And we sent a check with the tip, in case anyone's wondering how that story ended.

We're guessing this is the shampoo used on our hair: Davines Moisturizing Shampoo with Rocket Extract—all we know is that is was totally delicious—$19.95

The Bunnyshop Guide to Hair Salons

Oh! We just absolutely beg you: Do not miss our guide to international hair stylists! (Actually they're all the US at the moment, but we await the global picks.) These are our top recommendations from across the Bunnyshop community! And please please keep sending us your favorite stylists and hair salons!

The Glossiest Hair Of Ever

In today's next installment of Reader Mail Thursday:

Hi BS,

I'm interested to try the Fekkai spray, being a wavy-haired lady myself. But I also want to share my own miracle product, as well as ask for some advice...

The product I'm raving about is Natural Instincts Shine Happy. I think it's a gloss treatment? It was $10 at Walgreen's. I used it, not knowing what to expect—maybe some shiny hair? But I got much more than that. I have weird hair—it's kind of thick, but not so thick I need a flat iron, kind of wavy, but not so wavy I can style it that way. Anyway, I have been struggling with my hair lately because I don't know how to make it look the way it looks when I come out of the salon. One particular salon. No other place can do it the way they do.

Anyway, this glossing treatment made my hair super soft, but with tons of body, and shiny, and very easy to blow dry. I guess that's normal, but this was the first time I'd done a glossing treatment. I had THE BEST hair day ever the first day, and now I'm on my second shampoo, and my hair still looks pretty good—but I'm scared it's going to go away. Is there anything else one can do to preserve this great texture? Would a professional glossing treatment work better? And how often can you do them? If you can do them once a week, I would definitely pay the $10 a week for the glossing treatment and do it.

Again! We have no idea. We've only had a glossing treatment once, and it was amaaaaazing, but then it went away, and we were poor, and our hair has never been so glossy again Has anyone out there had one, and have any suggestions about how to maintain it? Comparisons between at-home and salon glossing treatments? Fill us in, people.

Above: Clairol Natural Instincts Shine Happy, $8.29

BS Hearts: Frederic Fekkai's Wave Creating Spray

In today's reader-submitted (as always, our favorite kind!) Bunnyshop Hearts:

Hey bunny!

I just wanted to share some good news for all the wavy-haired ladies (and gents, perhaps) out there. After years of searching for a product to enhance waves and many, many disappointed trials, I have found the greatest stuff! Most products leave my hair stiff, dried-out or looking like I just came out of the ocean (in a bad, salty way). However, Frederic Fekkai's Wave Creating Spray is superb. Instead of leaving nasty residue behind, this spray leaves your hair very soft, natural AND deliciously wavy! No more crunchy waves! It's a godsend, I swear! 

Yay!

E.

We used to work at a Bumble & bumble salon, and all the stylists would talk people out of buying the B&B Surf Spray because they thought it was basically like spraying chunks of salt on the hair. We are, of course, delighted to find an alternative to actually dunking the hair in the ocean for the post-beach effect.

Frederic Fekkai Wave Creating Spray, $19.50

P.S.: There is nothing we love more than suggestions from readers, so if you have one, totally email us.

Reader Mail: The Domestic Guide to Haircuttery

In today's Reader Mail:

Bunny!

When I was living in Boston I went to this awesome haircut place where I’d sit down and say, “Make me look cute!” and while they were giving me a fabulous, hip, $30 haircut they’d also give me free brownies! So now I live in Brooklyn, and I can’t find any place to get my hair done. I’m not expecting brownies, but it seems like the range out there is cheap-and-sketchy to out-of-my-price-range, and my hair isn’t getting cute on its own. As someone knowledgeable of Brooklyn and cuteness, do you have any suggestions?

C.

Here is our sad truth: We have never gotten our hair cut in Brooklyn! And by "never," we mean "never in a way we liked." We are quite lazy about getting haircuts, and wait until the absolutely shaggiest moment to get them—this is true even when we spent three months working at a hair salon in San Francisco, where we were judged on nothing so much as the appearance of our hair. (And, we add with absolute truth, our astrological sign.) Anyway! We were thinking we could make this into a group thing: If people have a great stylist and they don't mind, they could comment or email us their location and the salon, and we'll compile the results, all geographic-like. We'll start by saying that no one but Rosette at Edo Salon in SF has cut our hair for the past two years—she's particularly awesome with our fine but wavy hair—and ditto re: coloring for Jet Black at Bella on Fillmore. Who else can recommend someone, in Brooklyn or elsewhere?

That picture, by the way, is of Audrey Tatou, in one of her rare midlength-hair incarnations.

Our Question to You: Hair

We have recently cut all of our hair off. It went from down to the middle of our back to just below our ears at its longest. We are, it must be said, so happy about this. We're a little apprehensive because our hair slightly mirrors the Loud Talker on the other side of the cubby from us, and she is everything you would think a Soccer Mom would/could be. We know our haircut is much cooler, and we know it has the potential to be completely awesome and edgy. But what will do that? This is our question to you. We wash and condition our hair, and sometimes put a tiny bit of Aveda Anti-Humectant Pomade in it. That's it. Wash and wear, right?

This does not work on our newly short hair, at least not yet. We need something that will give us a bit of texture without being stiff, and if the product is sticky, we'll end up covered in it. We were bewildered by the amount of product at the store - we ended up buying some kind of surf hair putty. We're not sure what it's supposed to do. We somehow managed to get lotion in our hair, and that did the trick kind of. But we're sure one of you must know!

Please tell us your favorite hair care product, and why! Our puffy head thanks you in advance!

-LB

The Winner Is In!

The Bunnyshop caucus: man, do we wish CNN would pick this up. Because the winner, overwhelmingly: Barack Obama. The final results:

Barack Obama: 67%
Hilary Clinton: 26%
Ron Paul(!): 4%
Dennis Kucinich: 1.9%
John McCain: 1.9%

John McCain also scored our favorite (second-place) endorsement, from C.: "I think I would be okay with McCain although I think it might be because he looks like a trustworthy hounddog." He does! That is the most accurate thing we have read about John McCain, ever.

Because we are populist-minded, our official endorsement, since John Edwards dropped out, is [Democrat nominee TK.] Honestly, we were sad when we thought Obama would lose, and we're sad now that it looks like Hilary Clinton will lose.

Hair plump! It makes everyone feel better. And the winner of this $95 bottle of we-are-sure revolutionary hair product: Zut! Please to be sending the mailing address.

This caucus's sponsor is the lovely Frederic Fekkai All-Day Hair Plump, $95

Hair Dryer + Straightener = Career Advancement (Possibly)

So a few days ago, this hair dryer showed up in our mailbox. This turned out to be quite good timing, as we have been looking at a mammoth pile of bangs like they are some sort of giant rabbit that set up shop on our forehead. We have been busy(-ish) with a new job, in an actual office. Our boss actually owns this bag. We have the kind of job we are talking about when we say, as we often do, that sometimes you need to buy your way into a promotion. It is not the kind of job where you should be going around with unkempt bangs.

We could blow dry them, but we are lazy, and like to sleep. And then we unwrapped this hair dryer, provided by us by someone who knows about our bang-problem, and we  swear to God, they were dry in like 30 seconds. We swear, we swear. They were wet, and then they were dry. We thought there was something wrong with the light in our bathroom. (Which, by the way, is as dark as a cave.) Oh, hair dryer love! An emotion we rarely experience, except in this unlikely case of it saving us precious, precious time.

We are still patting our bags to make sure they are not all rabbit-y. They are not. Hurrah!

Conair Nano Silver hair dryer, $54.99

Above: the straightener that makes it all possible. Kiehl's Heat Protective Cream, $15.50

Reader Mail: The Drugstore Challenge

In today's Reader Mail:

Dear BS: You are always talking about super-expensive beauty products I can't afford. Tell me five things I can get from drugstore.com that are less than $8. Just the basics—shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, etc.

I still love you.
XO
N.

Now, we know, and we totally hear this. Of course most of the things we use every day are well under this budget as well. Our whole philosophy here is that no one really needs to chat about things that are not super expensive, because they're, you know, not super expensive—risk is mitigated, and everyone probably has their favorites already. What we always found was that we really wanted to chat about things that were super expensive, just because we didn't want to fuck it up. We don't want anybody thinking we're trust funders. Trust us, and our landlord, who is remarkably patient about always getting out rent a month late. We're not.

So all that aside, our picks.

We swear we have bought this conditioner on every continent on earth. We will say though that we absolutely just go through it, and we're convinced that our Kiehl's works out to be cheaper and is also a better conditioner. Pantene conditioner (24 oz.), $7.19

We feel that sometimes a product will have a crap design, and then you're like, oh! Ugly, but cheap, and possibly effective! That is how we feel about this. Green Canyon Spa exfoliator, $7.69

For the extremely dry things, like heels or elbows or whathaveyou. The whole cow thing freaks us out a bit, but okay. Bag Balm, $6.89

Again: crap packaging. So: cheaper! And this is also—well, we'll just let them say it: "Organic Essential Oils Promote a Healthy Scalp & Strengthen and Protect Each Hair Strand. Made with Oshadhi Organic Essential Oils". Fair enough. Beauty Without Cruelty Shampoo with Rosemary Mint and Tea Tree Oil, $5.59

And finally: this is our go-to deodorant whenever we can't get our hands on our Nivea. Dove deodorant, $3.13

Now: everybody else! Your favorite, under $8, bathroom must-have?

BS Expert: The Frizz Issue

Here's this week's question for our resident hair expert, Diana:

Is there anything to do about frizzy hair in the dry Winter climate? I've tried those anti-frizz sprays, and they seem to act like Amorall for hair (leaves my hair greasy looking)... Is there anything that won't make my head greasy but keep it from looking like I just rubbed a balloon on my head?

Thanks Diana!

Danielle

And Diana's response:

Hey Danielle!

Isn't that fuzzy crown of thorns the worst?  If you're finding it fuzzy just because of the outside temperature and wearing a scarf, I'd say just throw something on there.  Maybe you're using too much? Really, a tiny dab should suffice.  One product I love for smoothing and shine is Chi's Silk Infusion.  It's under $20 and should last you forever, since you really don't need much.  And if you're in a pinch a little dollop of hand lotion would even work!  One other thing I cannot recommend enough is sleeping on a silk or satin pillowcase.  My hair is overprocessed to the max (why do I keep flip flopping between platinum blonde and really dark hair? will I ever learn? to be continued) and adding that to my routine seems to really have helped! You could wrap your hair in a silk scarf at night, but I find that is difficult to keep on.  Good luck!  And if none of these tips help you, at least take comfort in the fact that everyone else is probably rubbing the tops of their head too and hoping you don't notice the fuzzies!

And there we have it! Do you have a question for Diana, our most favorite hair expert, and stylist, that we've ever met? Send them to us here!

Chi Silk Infusion, $19.95

-LB

Reader Mail: The Issue of the Tangled Hair

In today's Reader Mail:

Dear Bunnyshop,

This week, I was driving to work and trying to run my hand through my hair, but I couldn't—there were too many knots! I ended up taking a whole big clump out of it. Obviously, my conditioner is not doing its job. I'm sure someone out there is having a better conditioner experience than I am. What do people use? Do I have to use a super expensive conditioner? The cheaper, the better—but I'm sick of all the tangles.

Help!
E.

We also have this problem! Long, fine, stupid hair. Honestly. We basically need to pour olive oil on it to keep it from frizzing.

Anyway: Aveda has seen fit to deprive us of our treasured Elixir, which sucks. It would suck more, though, if it weren't for Kiehl's, which we have previously said is our go-to. Honestly, sometimes, when we don't have $20 to spend on hair conditioner, we'll get some goopy stuff from Pantene—but really, that's like $5 a bottle, and we'll go through it in a few weeks. Our last tiny bottle of Kiehl's made it four whole months. Economics! Brilliant.

Now: Who has some conditioning ideas, especially for those of us fighting nasty, kindergarten-style tangles?

Aveda, We Think We Love You

We recently purchased a large amount of Aveda shampoo and conditioner (Shampure, to be precise. It's ok. We don't love it, but we certainly don't dislike it) because it came with so much free stuff. If you ordered 1 liter of each, you got a free wood brush (which, since we don't have a brush, was a good thing), free pumps (excellent and convenient, except it made the bottles not fit in our shower), saved like 40% of the plastic you normally use (always a good thing), and free samples! We generally dislike free samples because they usually suck. But Aveda sent us Be Curly curl enhancer. We have wavy hair, and we've always loved their anti-humectant pomade. We've used it for like a hundred years, and we're bored with it. We're also tired of all the other greasy products we have, so when we were done washing our hair, we wanted to use something not greasy and slick. We pulled out this sample, slapped some on, put our hair in a ponytail and left.

We were pretty excited about the results. We didn't see any curls enhanced (but it's not like we tried. We did not 'scrunch' as James at Aveda suggested we do. We did not blow dry with a diffuser. We simply put it in a ponytail and rolled out). But our hair was so insanely soft we actually asked our loved ones to pet us. Bless them, they did. And they agreed - our hair was softer than normal. It's not greasy like it normally gets with other products, and it's not frizzy. We're pretty stoked to try it again, but so far - so good. It's not cheap, but seriously - we used an amount smaller than a dime on our hair that's well past our shoulders. We think one tube will last us a while.

Aveda Be Curly Curl Enhancer, $17.50

-LB

Hair Inspiration

Please. Please do not kill us. Do not hit back. Give us 10 seconds to explain ourselves. Simply, we really like Nicole Richie's hair in this photo. And we know we are not the only ones, as Allure just had her listed as one of the best-tressed (gah, that's a gross phrase).

We desperately need inspiration for our hair which is currently medium/chocolate labrador retriever brown. And boring. Our hair is sometimes curly, and it's past our shoulders. It is in a ponytail every day. Sometimes, a fun bun. That's right. Fun. Bun. Which makes us recollect a horrible story about bunnies and a meat grinder that our boss shared with us after she noticed our bunny necklace. Anyway.  Our bangs are so long that we have to pin them back every damn day. And in the heat? HA. We could wear a lampshade and take up less space. We only have celebrity magazines and one UK website that features the same haircut over and over again.

So we turn to you. Please! Tell us where you get your hair inspiration from. What you love. What you don't. Tell us what we should do with our hair. Tell us your worst hair stories. The best entry will get  a prize!

Our worst hair stories are horribly embarrassing, but eh. We were in 6th grade. We had large, curly, poufy, sprayed NJ hair. For some reason, for some horribly baffling reason, we sprayed Malibu Musk body spray into our hair. Our precious bangs collapsed with no time to fix them. When the nasty children at school asked what had happened, we told them - straight faced - that our cat had jumped on our head before we left the house.  We were lying, but it seemed feasible at the time. Never mind the cat in question possesses 3.5 legs.

Seriously. We are not making that up, and we don't think we've ever told anyone about that.

Our other horror story involves being on a makeover show on TLC and going from very dark brown and shaggy-ish to peroxided within an inch of our life. Or an inch of our hair, as that's all they left.

So. We need help. Mail us here. Prizes!

-LIL BUNNY

Reader Question: The Best Conditioner

In today's Reader Mailbag:

Dear BS,

I know this is random, but I am looking for a new hair conditioner—I used Aveda's Elixir for years, and now I can't find it anywhere! Also, a new book to read. Can you help?

A.

We share the disturb-ment, as we too really like Aveda's Elixir. According to, er, eBay, it's been discontinued! (Though at least one seller is letting go of a bottle ... for $59.99. It's great, but ... seriously. We frown on price gouging.)

Personally, we will return to our old friend from Kiehl's, Creme with Silk Groom. Isn't that the strangest description ever? What is "silk groom"? In any case, it works, and though it's a little pricey, we have v long hair and we go months without needing a fresh batch. CwSG, $17.50

We are going to ask Aveda what the nearest replacement to Elixir is, but in the meantime: Who has any ideas?

Decisions, Decisions

Okay, so we will be the first to admit that we used to be really nothing but annoyed at Kate on Lost, and would be all, Can they not just leave her behind in the jungle to starve, etc. But things have changed, and we are not ones to hold grudges: We actually sort of like her now, and hope, if passively, she and Jack will smooch etc. Anyway. We are just sort of finished thinking about the finale: so many questions. And. Yet. None more pressing than—major spoiler coming right now!—do we like Future-Kate or Island Kate's hair better?

Now, we are surprising no one here more than ourselves, but we think we actually prefer Island Kate. This is evidenced by the fact that this morning, we first reached for our Bumble + Bumble Surf Spray, even if one of the stylists at the salon where we used to work once told us that it basically deposits nasty salt blotches in your hair. To be honest, we've never noticed this. Still. A concern. B+B Surf Spray, $21.07

But then we are all, 'Sleek! Sleek!' Erm. Can't decide. This is our favorite of the hair-straighteners, and we have tried many of them. Kiehl's Heat-Protective Silk-Straighening Cream, $15.50

And then this is what we need from roughly June 1 - Labor Day weekend. Yaaaaaay, summer! Frederic Fekkai zero-humidity frizz control, $20

We are totally going with Island Kate.

News From London!

So this is, once again, pretty much our very favorite thing: We have a foreign correspondent! Like Christiane Amanpour! But named Iris! And being very, very nice, she agreed to take on our reader's exhortation to report back on the haircuts of London, a place which, we can vouch, has very progressive haircuts.

From Iris:

haircuts. i love it when people give a cute twist to the comfort cut/bun. also, it's so difficult to flaunt long locks under those cosy woolly berets. here are some cute examples on how to make it work fabulously!

Oh, we love it all. Don't miss the very interesting lipsticks here. We are also loving all the sideswept bangs. And while we're at it, we must suggest her earlier piece on the booties of London. We could not be more appreciative. Hurrah!

See the entire slideshow here.

Reader Mail Tuesday, Continued

Commentary following last week's exploration of taming curly hair:

Hi there, I have thick and kinky ethnic hair, and I sometimes get it straightened. My hairdresser uses a mixture of brute strength and some of the hottest tools available. If he can get my hair bone straight, I'm sure that anything is possible. The key is simple. It all comes down to the blow dry. Your hair must remain sopping wet while you blowdry. If you towel dry it to death, it will get frizzy. Use a spray bottle to wet your hair whilst you dry it. Use the highest wattage blow dry available, start at the root, and use a round brush. Flat iron afterwards and everything is gravy.

S.

This hair dryer: "As featured in the 'Best Beauty Buys' in the April 2006 InStyle!" Well, if InStyle says it, it must be true. Why do you think they made it red? We don't completely get that. Doesn't it look like one of those tools people use to shoot nails into dryboard, or whatever it is that nails are shot into?

Solano "professional" hair dryer, $98

Reader Question Friday: The Incorrigible Hair

In today's Reader Mailbox!

Dear Bunnyshop,

I have ridiculous, wildly curly hair. Frizzy. I understand you might as well. Can you tell me how you get it straight?

Oh, yes, that we do. Wild. It truly sticks straight up in the morning, and in this everlasting mist they apparently call winter here, our bangs just curl straight into space like some sort of Mickey Mouse consort character. Oh, we hate it.

First, we use Bumble & bumble Straight. We started using it when we were getting it at 40% off, and now that we're not, we are very, very sad. Bumble says: "Blow-dry under high tension to straighten." B&b Straight, two tubes for $48

Then we use Frederic Fekkai Styling Gel for the impossible-to-put-down bang area. We hate the rest of their products, btw. FF Styling Gel, $17.50

Sometimes we use our roommate's super-fancy Tourmaline straightener. Tourmaline Professional Ionic Wet or Dry Iron, $200

We know, nothing fancy here. But so we open it to the floor: Who has a good system for taming stupid hair? Either comment, please, or mail us with both successes or failures, if you don't mind.

The Frederic Fekkai Dilemma

In today's reader mailbag—and let us briefly say how much we love the reader mailbag, especially given the fact that our roommate's porn-downloading effectively left us offline for most of today—a letter re: hair products and big-box stores:

I went to Target today and I actually saw Frederic Fekkai products there. They had the glossing shampoo and conditioner, the Shea Hair Mask, the protein products, gel, and something else. I'm wondering—is this even legal?

Now, we have no idea if this is legal or not, but until recently, we would have said it was a non-issue as well. This is because of how many times we have been burned by the FF glossing cream, which we always seem to apply in oil-slick, rather than carefully-managed, amounts. However, we made the leap to their Styling Gel, which is too expensive, but also seems capable to fixing our bangs into a manageable shape, something few other haircare products seem capable of doing. We wondered, and we know now that we would definitely pay $17.50 for manageable bangs. This is why we haven't paid off our student loans.

Reader Mail: The Hair Powder

In today's Reader Mail:

Okay, I probably should have asked you before I spent $40, but I just purchased Bumble & Bumble Hair Powder in White online. I know you're a fan of B&B, so I was wondering if you've tried the hair powders. Good stuff?

Thanks!! Love the site!

Steph

Okay, we will not lie: We do love B&B products, especially when we were getting 40%. We love them slightly less, now that we don't. We will continue, however to love the hair powders. This is why: last week, we washed our hair and then dumped all this Kiehl's conditioner into it. If we brush it through, it looks nice, but if we don't, it looks greasy. We didn't. Who knows why, probably something to do with being distracted by a moth or whatever. So we had this greasy-looking hair. Enter: hair powder. We have to say, it did just what it said it would do, and though it did get weirdly heavy and sort of sticky, our hair looked reasonably—really very—non-greasy. Mission accomplished!

We will say this: Maybe this is less of a problem than with the white, but we have the dark brown and, as we were warned by the owner of the hair salon where we used to work, the powder itself is dark brown, so don't be like us and spray it all over your white shirt. You will regret this, unless you didn't like that shirt very much and wanted an excuse to throw it away. And we were even constantly getting it on our hands, which was annoying. So: caveat white-shirt-owners. But other than that, this, along with the B&B Straight, is one of the products we're going to keep buying even in this annoying new retail-price world.

B&B Hair Powder, $40
B&B Straight, $29.50

Bunnyshop Hearts: Silky-Making Hair Products

Today's Bunnyshop Hearts, courtesy of the lovely Emily:

Bunnyshop, I am unemployed right now and have so much time to think of things I heart, and today especially, with the news from the election, I am heart-ing everything. One of my very favorite things is John Frieda Luminous Glaze.

I'm part-Japanese, so you might think I have that smooth, silky, pin-straight hair, right? Wrong—and neither do all Japanese women. I inherited thick, course, wavy hair.

So I started using this product because I had about 14 different shades of brown in my hair and really only wanted one. Within two weeks, I had one, rich shade of brown and my natural highlights. Best part, though, was how soft my hair is now. I would refer to it as "silky." I've tried countless leave-in conditioners, deep conditioners, regular conditioners, and nothing works like this. This is my all-time favorite hair product.

I really liked that picture of Mischa Barton. Thank God they hired someone to dress her, because Lord knows the girl can't do it for herself.

E.

Amen to that, re: Mischa. It's like watching a little puppy dog try to knit a hat.

We're looking for more suggestions, since we [heart] maybe a half-dozen things, and we're beginning to run out. Let us know what you heart, and we'll be simply weary with joy.

BS [Hearts] Muriel Maffre, And Her Super-Chic Haircut

This is one of our very favorite Bunnyshop [Hearts] ever, because we never, ever, in a million years, would have thought of it on our own. So ... thank you, brilliant Stephanie!

Here's [a heart] of mine: Muriel Maffre, who dances with the SF Ballet. She has this incredibly chic short haircut. Most dancers have long hair, but Muriel has bucked the trend and gone short. Perhaps because she's French. Or 6 ft tall. Whatever. If I were brave, I would cut my hair like Muriel's.

That is, in fact, some haircut. [You can sort of see it better in this video from an interview with Muriel here.] Oooh, this totally makes us want to be a ballerina. Tss.

We love outside recommendations like this. If you have one, please let us know.

A Response

We have to say, we have been surprised and delighted, if those are not quite the same things, by the assistance from our community, for lack of a better word, for our haircut-in-need person. She, in fact, is delighted and surprised as well:

Thank you so much for the hair advice!! I’ll be sure to send pics when I get something done. Whatever that is. Everyone was so much nicer than I even thought they might be.

Since she was looking for a way to "give back," as they say, she offered free shipping on all of her auctions currently on eBay, including loads of sweet stuff from Anthro. (Like this Anthropologie Dress Slip Dress Evening Party Lace.)

Can't beat that! Well, she could give it away, but that would probably be excessive.

In any case: Would anyone else like a community-driven hair style review? If you want, we could even interview one of the stylists at our very fancy, very art-y, very rock and roll salon about it. Just let us know. E-mail us pictures of the problematic hair here.

Meet the Bumble and Bumble Product: Hair Powder

Now that we are about to be tested on Bumble & bumble products (seriously, and the tragedy is that we are studying harder for that than we are our art history midterm) we needed to share the most amazing hair product we've ever seen, which is their hair powder spray. Spray it on your dirty hair, and it miraculously looks clean. It reminds us of ... er, we can't remember who made it, but it was called Dry Cleaning. Same idea. Not as nice packaging. We've seen this work. Seeing as how we resent our hair for making us washi it, this could be ideal. This is particularly beneficial after you've (we've) gone a little haywire with any of those defrizzing things that ends up making our hair look like we just dumped salad dressing all over it.

B&b hair powder, $39

Wrapping Up on Friday

So hurrah! We are now, officially, an assistant hair stylist. Assistant hair stylist. We can't believe it, either. Our ex-roommate was all, "I can actually see your career moving backwards." To which we were all like, "Fuck you, and see if you get any free shampoos out of us." Because we are going to be all about the free shampoos, and sample blow dries. We are so excited. Our hair obsession dates to our junior year in high school, when, miracle of miracles, we started going out with our first boyfriend. There was a girl, a nasty, mean-spirited girl, who also wanted to go out with him, and upon hearing that he had chosen us, exclaimed, "But her hair!" So we've always been a little obsessed with it, even if we usually can't be bothered to do much more than put it in a pony tail. We can't believe we're going to work somewhere we are constantly judged on our appearance. Er, explicitly judged, in addition to silently judged, like usual. We start on Monday. We think. We are officially fetching and sweeping for money. We are going to spend it all on clothes. And bills. And student loans. Possibly most clothes. Triple hurrah!

In honor of what we consider exceptionally exciting, if possibly confounding to our friends and family, news, we are going to list the five haircare products "we don't leave home without." In a few weeks, we will be able to describe this as professional advice. At this point, it is still amateur, but we are on our way.

This is our newest favorite thing. It means we don't have to really pile on our barrage of anti-frizz products. And it smells super yummy. Can we say here that the last time had an interview—and this one, our friends\family enjoy recollecting, because it was for a cable news channel—we used the word super approximately three dozen times. This may be, in fact, why we are celebrating our assistant hair stylist position. Bumble + bumble seaweed conditioner, $15.94

And this, this is like our best friend in the hair-care universe. We are going to ignore the fact that Amazon describes it as offering "salt-infused 'surfer-dude' styling." You're like, Sorry, what? "Surfer-dude"? And I want this in my hair care products? B+B surf spray, $18.48

Except for the times we've neglected to screw the lid shut and we got salty slime all over our tote bag, this is excellent for travel and really everything else. Big shampoo from Lush, $17.99

Honestly, we keep this in our bag like keys or our wallet because frizz is random and assaulting, sort of like the drug addict we found camped out on our apartment steps this morning. (Awesome!) Frizz Ease Secret Weapon Finishing Creme, $6.95

We're also obsessed with Kiehl's at the moment. This smells super yummy, too. Super