Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

http://www.moroccanoil.co.uk/index.php

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It's expensive but one bottle lasts a few months.
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You'll get it cheaper online but I like to support local business

Now let's do the maths.

£30/bottle, say 2.5 bottles/year, that's £75.

Or buy it online for £22, which is £55.

Sod local business, bang that £20 in your pocket

Actually - why don't you start up a sideline flogging it yourself

The best salesman is somebody with enthusiasm and genuine product belief.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mine's unruly, curly and has a tendency to frizz and do its own thing; it's not afro though.

My "quick fix" is to brush it straight out of the shower and tie it back in a band. Then use 4-6 hairpins to pin it down - usually leaving the house like this and removing the pins/band once I've got to my destination. Once I pull the pins out it's tamed down and a quick flick through with a comb is "good enough/you'll do".

Are there any more curly nice people?

Is zag one or have i imagned that?

A comb would leave my hair like cotton wool, i use my fingers, a tangle teaser, an afro comb and sometimes one of the horses brushes (the ine the tangle teaser was based on). But only when my hair is very wet and full of conditioner. I am excessivly gentle with it. Sometimes dh does it for me while i sit in the bath. I love that.

One of the books i am reading is supposed to be the bible of curly hair, called curly girl.

Apparently the key to everything is id ing the type of curl you are. These have names like zigzag and corkicelli, and also numbers and letters, which are not in this book but i have tried to sort out on line. I end up frustrated.

I cannot tell if i am botticelli, corkicelli or cherub. (think might be a mixture of the latter two, which demand a different curly girl routine it seems) and as for the 2a and 3 b business, i just dunno.


One of the 'tests' you have is the spring test, how much longer when a curl is pulled straight......i laughed when i read upto 16 inches......then i tried it. :eek: I cannot see that this is not more effected my hairlength though. Short hair tends to spring more, as its lighter, but long hair has a greater length to curl..........

I cannot believe i have spent almost all of the morning reading a book about hair. And i am still not much the wiser.

PasturesNew

Oh and cheers guys... that's my next two article subjects sorted: doing floorplans and frizzy hair

Opportunity is everywhere, you just have to: [1] spot it [2] be able to do it.

Doozergirl

Thanks PN, it's really helpful and I can refer back to this. I will take you up on all your suggestions.

The traffic that we do get, without blog seems to come from variations of 'kitchen' 'barn conversion' and kitchens for barn conversions or whatnot. I think it's simply because there's one story about doing a kitchen and maybe there's a photograph with the barn conversion in it or something? I don't even know. I don't really understand the difference between hits and other things that sound the same.

Long way to go...

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

(expects stony silence):(

*points*
HA HA HA HA HA!!!

It's better that they laugh at you - at least you know they listened.

silvercar

My hair is straight, not perfectly straight annoyingly. It is also very thick. And badly treated by straighteners.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Edited for you

I can go up, up, down, down and east a little bit but if I wanted to get to you, it would take me all day, despite the fact that it isn't really that far. My friend in Hertford might as well be in Cornwall.

From a Cornwall perspective - Paris is closer to people in London/Kent/South than I am ... and quicker/cheaper to get to.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh and cheers guys... that's my next two article subjects sorted: doing floorplans and frizzy hair

Opportunity is everywhere, you just have to: [1] spot it [2] be able to do it.

Also:
Where to keep your passport to avoid accidents and
How to dry out a wet passport successfully

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

My hair is straight, not perfectly straight annoyingly. It is also very thick. And badly treated by straighteners.

Apart from the damage it sounds lovely.

Tick straight hair is nice, and thick wavey. I personally don't envy poker straight hair.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Buit if you took someone from the start of the middle ages and brought them 1000 years later to the end, they'd be completely astonished and baffled at all the whizz-bang technology despite it all looking very simiilar to us.:cool:

I can't use modern technology. I've not seen most of it - and have no idea how it is used by people.... I couldn't even use a Sky TV. Never seen one of those recording on an HD gadgets, not used an iPhone. Funny story - my sibling was awake early the other morning and decided to delete parents from phone list .... and ended up ringing their phone (we were staying there).... phone woke me up, heard sibling rushing for it at O-God O'Clock.... sibling answered and was going "hello, hello" and hung up. It wasn't until they got upstairs and picked up their phone they realised what'd happened. I also wasn't allowed to have a go at forwarding a text on the phone (which they'd failed to work out how to do yet) because the last text received had been bad/Big C news from a friend and I had a high c0ck-up potential.