Love at First Spray

Once in awhile, there comes a beauty product that changes my life. I know that sounds extreme, borderline crazy, but it's true. I've always had baby fine hair - the kind of hair that annoyingly just hangs there doing nothing but being boring. Besides wearing it down & straight or in a lame ponytail or lopsided braid, my hair gives me nothing to work with. It won't hold a curl or any type of style that requires using various tools & products - believe me, all that these efforts have ever afforded me was a lot of wasted time, a few burns around my neck/ears/sides of my face and a horrible looking mane of hair trying to impersonate a "style." Therefore, I had resigned myself to just being a hair flunky with no hope for ever having that styled hair I so coveted...But no longer! Enter Oscar Blandi Pronto Texture & Volume Spray http://www.oscarblandi.com/product_detail.php?pid=58. This product is nothing less than a game-changer for me. I took a travel size can with me this weekend on a trip & I literally used up the entire can (thankgod I have a spare!). The versatility of this product is to die for. I sprayed it on freshly showered dry hair, day old slept in bed head & everything in between & the stuff just works. As long as your hair is dry, it works. And by "works" I mean it gives you incredible volume, texture & hold - this is the hair trifecta I've never been able to achieve! Swing your hair to one side & then go to town spraying it from roots to ends - you can't overdo it, I promise. On my freshly showered clean hair I sprayed it enough so that I could use a fun hair pin to tie it up in what actually looked like a "style." On my day old, definitely dirty, slept-in bed head I sprayed a ton & scrunched it up & somehow ended up looking like I had nice, wavy, thick hair! Where bobby pins used to fall out, they now stick where I put them - which for those of us with fine hair, this is a miraculous battle to win! Now my endeavor is going to be figuring out how to use hot rollers because what I've heard is that if you use hot rollers, take them out, then spray this stuff, the look will be voluminous & actually hold throughout the day... if I succeed in this, I'm going to start rocking wild hair everyday (and probably throw my flatiron out the window - straight hair, be damned!)

Here's an example - pseudo-french braid from the left to the right then gather together the pieces from the right & twirl it all together to make an awesome looking low side bun! Without the OB Pronto Texture & Volume Spray, the pins needed to make this look wouldn't have stood a chance at staying in my hair!