I Straightened My Super Curly Hair… And I Won’t Be Doing It Again.

When I was a kid I had super thick, slightly wavy hair like Brenda on 90210. Then when I was about ten years old my hair turned into a giant ball of frizzy curls and has had a mind of it’s own ever since. When I was in high school I experimented every now and then with straightening my hair but I never got serious about it. It always looked so obvious that I’d straightened my hair so I never really pursued it as a regular thing.

Over Christmas I got sent what I’m told is the holy grail of hair straighteners. The GHD. I’ve only owned one hair straightener in my life and it was called a Muster and it was a big beast of a thing with combs on either side and it utterly terrorised my hair on the very few occasions that I actually used it. I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about GHDs so I thought I’d give it a go. Here are the results.

Not too bad but it was only like this for about 5 minutes. Scroll down further to see how it looked the next day.

Reasons Why I Won’t Be Straightening My Hair Again

It’s a Collosal Waste of Time

It’s also boring. I listened to the first act of Les Mis and then I felt sad because a) I knew I still had at least another half an hour left of mind numbing hair straightening left to go and b) Fantine died. It was really quite an unpleasant experience. I know of people who do this several times a week. All I can say is that they mustn’t like sleeping very much.

It’s Completely Unsustainable

It looked great for the first 5 minutes but then it started to boof out like I’d stuck my head out a car window. Then I had to sleep on it. Then I had to take it on my morning run. Then I had to shower with it and by then it had really lost the plot. I refuse to have the kind of hairstyle that’s destroyed by regular activities of life, such as sleeping and showering. I was constantly touching it up and it was only straight for 24 hours. It was like having a needy dog that required medication every hour. Too much commitment. 

It Doesn’t Look Good

I got some lovely feedback on Facebook yesterday about this do which was very sweet but honestly after the first 5 minutes it looked totally shite. My hair does not straighten well. I have a terrible hair cut for a straight style and because my hair inexplicably defies gravity it just looks messy and weird.

It’s Always A Let Down

Even though I love my curls I do often have fantasies about having long swishy, razor-sharp, Asian straight hair. So when the GHD arrived in the post I immediately had visions of myself with perfectly sleek geometric hair like Rooney Mara.  Instead I ended up looking like this. 

Barely 12 hours after I painstakingly straightened my hair. Gentlemen. Form an orderly queue. 

I was going to give the GHD away on the blog but I thought it might be icky to give away a used hair gadget so it’s going off to live with Mama Smaggle. All my friends were fighting over it so I’ve done the parent thing and given it away to someone else entirely. Good riddance I say! However if I do ever get another one it’s going straight up for grabs here. They really are great little gadgets… if your hair plays nice with them.

Tell me…What’s your hair routine?

P.S GHD was provided for editorial consideration… and Mama Smaggle is stoked that it wasn’t my cup of tea.