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Reader Mail: The Hair Problem

In today's Reader Mail:

Dear BS:
I hope you can answer this question for once and for all—what's the best product to deal with my ridiculously frizzy hair?
Love,
A.

Frizz season is certainly approaching. (Um, very, very slowly. But: still! It's March on Sunday!) Anyhoo, we usually use something (anything) from the John Frieda Frizz Ease line, but we can never quite get that balance right between frizzy and over-product-ified, and our hands are always all slimy after we put it on. So. We recently got a handful of samples at Korres (amazing!) and this "conditioner for dry hair" was among them—while it's not particularly designed for frizz relief, it made our hair that much thicker, which in some way defied the frizz, and made us happy. Also: apparently it's good for detangling, and as we have no tangles at the moment, we are pleased to support this claim. And: lovely packaging! Plus free samples. Really, we couldn't have been happier with the entire procedure.

Who else can recommend something to banish the frizz?

Above: Korres Acacia Milk Conditioner for Dry Hair, $19

Our New Fall Hair (From Yohji Yamamoto)

Empty, cracked-out eyes—pass. Lovely psycho braids, hurrah! There were so many crazy braids at this show, it is our everlasting sorrow that we can't find more images of them.

The Project Runway Review

Did anybody else notice it was like smorgasbord of hairbands on PR last night?

Click the link below for a million more hair-centric things and our position on last night's big loser.

Agyness Haircut Update

We are cautiously pro the new haircut and VERY VERY ANTI the matching shoes.

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