Laura Vegas

i had a big moment tonight. one that i think will make a big difference in my life. it was an "ah-ha" moment. with my hair. yes, you heard right … my hair. i hate to get too excited … because i really should wait until morning to see the final outcome. but i’m thinking positive thoughts that this is going to be good. lol!

i don’t want to bore you with my hair trouble up until this point. but for those that are new here … here’s the condensed version. about a year and a half ago i started having some health problems. and i think just due to the stress of it all … i started losing my hair. like handfuls at a time. it got to where i would wear hats all the time … or little fake hair pieces. then after months and months … it started growing back in. lots of different textures and lots of different looks … all on the same head. then once i had about 4 inches of new growth … it started falling out again. so i went back to hats and fake hair. it’s been pretty good lately … new growth and not so much falling out.

back in the day i had curly hair. actually, it was kind of straight. but with some mousse (i seriously don’t know how to spell that), tons of hair spray, and a diffuser … i could make my hair super curly. but i havn’t been able to do that in about a year and a half now. i have tried a few times … but i just had such weird growth and textures … that it just looked bad. so i’ve been curling it myself with a curling iron … which looks great, but takes me 30-40 minutes. or i’ll go semi-straight … i say "semi" because i have never mastered a flat iron or figured out how to really make the hair totally straight without that "poof" coming in within a few hours.

i’m scheduled for a haircut tomorrow night. but i thought tonight i would try the mousse thing one more time. so i washed my hair tonight … stuck some mousse in it … and started blow-drying with my diffuser and scrunching it with hair spray. and guess what … i have curl! i have lots of curl. granted, right now it’s a little crunchy. but i think (from what i can remember from so long ago) that’s the way it was at night when i first did it … by morning it should be good. it’s a little frizzy on top … that is where i’m still getting new growth in, so i have lots of short hairs there. and it could definately use a new coloring … i have a few grays popping up on top. but it’s curly … and i think it looks good. like the way i wore it for years and years.

and this is huge. because it will save me so much time. just a 5-minute blow dry at night after my shower … and some touching up and re-scrunching in the morning. and it just makes me feel so much better about myself. my hair has sucked lately … mainly because it was getting long and needed a trim. but it hasn’t looked good. and i’m tired of wearing the hat … because that was getting old and itchy and wasn’t looking that great anyways. and i’m tired of curling it with the curling iron … because that was annoying and time consuming and frustrating. so i’m super excited about this.

i am willing it too look good once i wake up tomorrow. i really hope i’m not jinxing myself by sharing this excitement. lol! if it turns out half as good as i’m hoping it will … i promise to share a picture tomorrow! now … do i keep the hair appointment? or save myself $40 and skip it? lol!