kat, so glad you're past the hat and scarf stage! i enjoyed the chemo-curl (straight hair all my life) but it's fading...and isn't it convienent the pixie cut is back! i did get tired of the "steel" color mine was, so have used one of those temp colors in a blondish tone...don't look as washed out, as i did... enjoy!

I admire you all who can do the Instyler. I would make a huge, tangled mess if I did it. lol. However, I found this video earlier today and I finally figured out how to do the waves the easy way. This is a short video showing three different types of curls. The last one is what I'm going to do. Easy Peasy curls All I need is a thinner curling iron and use smaller pieces of hair. I've always done a twist (wave) on each side of my face anyway, but it made bigger curls that fell out sooner. I noticed it's also how you take the hair off the iron.

Right now I am suffering from and growing out one of the worst haircuts I've ever had. Seriously, there is no styling it. I just let it air dry into its natural waves. Insult on top of the injury of my hair getting noticeably thinner. I was nearly in tears on my drive home. New haircutter (my past one had moved.) I went into the shop with a slightly layered (long layers) chin length bob with long bangs. It just needed about 1.5" off and a little shaping (tapering) at the bottom. I explained that I wanted the same cut - with my naturally very wavy hair, I didn't want any layers shorter than mid ear, and the overall length at the angle of my jaw, because at those lengths it is super easy to style but if shorter it gets wacky waves. Did she do that? of course not. Not only did she give me short layers, very short in back (except for the mullet that she left to meet the length I asked for), one side in front is shorter than the other and just now (almost a month later) the bottom length is just reaching mid ear. She just kept cutting and cutting, when I asked what she was doing she said "I'm just trying to get it to lay right" ! I cut off the mullet when I got home. It will probably be 3 more months before it has grown enough to re-cut and style again. Humph.

My friend and i used the foam rollers at the gym and they felt great! we were going to buy some for home, but then covid and we stopped going to the gym and forgot about the rollers . . . and exercise altogether! So thanks for the reminder, we were just talking about going back, and i think we will grt the rollers for home this time. Our trainer had a suggestion for what to get, half versus whole etc, but of course now we don’t remember. We liked the whole ones at the gym.