Amy J. Bennett

I have always had such thin, fine hair.  And when you have fine, thin hair you can not.  I repeat CAN NOT NOT wash your hair every day.  It’s a greasy mess barely passable for the gym.  I was mentioning it in passing to my stylist and she recommended TIGI’s Dry Shampoo Rockaholic.  Well.  That was WAY out of my new budget UNTIL Ulta ran a breast cancer awareness campaign and put their specially marked cans on sale for $6.99 last week AND put out a 20% coupon in the paper. 

So this morning, I rolled out of bed just a few minutes before having to get to work and found that my hair was as usual…smashed in the back, sticking out at on the sides and starting to get a bit greasy in the front.  I started spraying at the roots, concentrating at my hair line and then at the crown.  I used my round brush to restyle as I would with my hair dryer and voila!  My hair was suddenly passable!  It even poofed at the crown like I like!  This picture is about 10 minutes after rolling out of bed and no flat iron either!

Now, I can’t say it was just as good as the first day.  The texture was much more coarse than normal and I had to tame a few stray pieces through the day.  But FOR SURE hundreds of times better than having to do the whole thing over again.  For days like today where my biggest outing was Walgreens for a good deal on cough drops and aspirin, it worked like a charm.

So. Have you ever tried a dry shampoo that you’d recommend?

I did the girls nails today.  And then mine again after mine was destroyed doing theirs.  They picked white, pink and purple.  Go figure.

These are Emma’s.  Her pinkies are my favorites.

These are Lexi’s little chubby hands and I just want to *squeeze* them.  I can barely get passed the cute chubby to see her nails.  Her right thumb is the best but you can’t see it well.

I picked white, purple and some peachy color (quickly when my orange wouldn’t work) which I sort of regret.  I think I’m getting a handle on the patterns though.  These are at least much more consistent in look across all the fingers.

Things I noticed: my high lacquer polishes hardened almost immediately. My older Revlon polishes wouldn’t spread well.  I stuck to newer Revlon colors I had. 

I really want to try out some neon colors!

OK so I heard about this marble manicure thing from Katie on Twitter the other day.  Side note: I feel like everything I know is starting to come from Twitter.  Every other sentence I say is something like “Oh, I saw that on Twitter” or “The other day on Twitter”.  Oh well.  So the other day on Twitter I heard about these things and some of them looked SO cool.  And they made it look SO EASY.  Here is one of MANY tutorials on YouTube.

Here’s the basic steps though:

1. Paint your nails with a base color and let dry.
2. Pick 3 other colors to use.
3. Fill a bowl with tepid water.
4. Tape up one finger (see videos).
5. Let a drop of the first color drop on the surface of the water.
6. Let a drop of the second color drop in the middle of the first drop.
7. Let a drop of the third color drop in the middle of that.
8. Repeat as many times as you want. 
9. Use a toothpick to pull in the colors to the center.
10. Dip your finger in the spot of the pattern you like.
11. The polish has created a film on the water. Pull that away from your nail while it’s still dunked in the water.
12. Pull your nail out and untape it immediately.
13. Repeat for all your nails.

Yeah, it’s not the fastest thing ever.  One video I watched said it only took 15 minutes.  HA!

So I picked this mint green color for the base and then silver, pink and dark purple colors for the swirl which apparently were horrible picks because really only the green and purple showed up. I had to redo a few fingers and still a few are pretty sketchy. I think if I try a few different colors and practice with the patterns in the water I’ll get better.  Here is my first water marbling:

I think my thumbs came out the best:

So, that’s that I guess.  I definitely see some potential. 

Have you heard of this?  Tried it?