Last week, I did a post featuring a heat-free curls tutorial that literally changed my life (see curls pictured left— I get better at them every day!).
I cannot tell you how many people have commented, tweeted, and emailed since then, telling me how well the tutorial worked for them (see Exhbit A below). I could not be happier. Nobody should ever have to burn their scalp with a curling iron again.
If you tried it and it worked (or didn't work), please comment below— I would love to know.
If you haven't tried it, what are you waiting for???
Secondly, there have been a couple of comments about people not liking the new timeline layout of my facebook fanpage.
As far as I know, I HAVE NO CHOICE. All fanpages will switch to the timeline layout as of March 31st. Don't blame me— blame Mark Zuckerberg.
Thirdly, you might have noticed that I've added an Instagram photo stream to my side bar. I'm a little behind the curve, I know, but I've become recently obsessed. It's almost impossible to take a bad picture!
If you use instagram and you'd like to see pictures of Mazzy eating ice cream in real-time, follow me under @mommyshorts.
What else happened in the week we all showed off our fabulous new hair?
• Mazzy channeled Michael Jordan
• I proved moms are good at math
• Toddlers acted like pregnant women
• Mike stole my baby girl
• We fowarded Mazzy's mail to the Apple Store
• I learned Method is more than pretty handsoap
• Dr. B put Mazzy to bed ON TIME
• A 6-year-old trounced a Fox 5 news reporter
• A 2-year-old secured a future spot on "So You Think You Can Dance"
• We all ate MELICIOUS BOOBIE MANCAKES for breakfast
and…
• I made the 8th episode of the Mommy Shorts Show (yes, I'm still filming those)
Lastly, I wanted to give a shout-out to H&M's new spring kid's catalog and share a link to a 20% off coupon that's valid on your entire kid's purchase through April 2nd.
I'm a huge H&M Kids fan— their stuff is super cute, really inexpensive and much less ubiquitous (fancy word!) than Old Navy and Baby Gap. Mazzy's actually wearing one of their dresses in the swing photo above and we get tons of compliments on it.
Alright, that's it.
Have a good weekend and see you next week!
— Mommy Shorts
Have a great weekend!
Facebook switched my page to Timeline all on it’s own tonight. Not happy. I don’t like it. Damn Mark!
The Interwives and I all have a saying when Zuck messes with us. It’s not polite and I bet you can guess what it is since it rhymes with his name 🙂
And as for my hair update- I do hope I received the ‘longest’ headband award for going about 24 hours. I messed with another type of band and a curl enhacer and it was a disaster- so lesson learned: stay simple.
Thanks again for the tip! I didn’t use my blow dryer once this week!
The hair tutorial didn’t work for me. I don’t know why, because my hair usually holds curls quite well, but they just didn’t come out as even as yours, there were random curls and straight bits over the length of my hair, and it all looked weird.
I’m not giving up though, I’m going to try it again with thicker parts of hair and maybe leave the hairband in for a shorter time.
Thank you for posting it, though. It was worth a try.
You just reminded me I cut off all my hair.
F.
(Still love you though. Sigh.)
instagram is aweseome! seriously, you can’t take a bad picture :). i hate timeline too.
Oh, the curls! I cannot tell you how appreciative I am to you for sharing! xoxoxxo
You too, friend!
I know. I particularly don’t like that I can’t even see my feed until I scroll down because of that huge banner shot.
And I have no idea what logic goes into selecting the stuff on the right top of the timeline. It looks like things your personal friends are posting about your site but it always changes and some of them are ridiculously old.
I also hate that what I see and what everybody else sees is most likely not the same- since it integrates activity from your personal profile friends.
I’m just impressed that you weren’t sent to the hospital for loss of oxygen to the brain. My headband starts to give me a headache at the 45 minute mark.
Yay for no blow dryer! It’s particularly nice in this sudden heat wave!
Maybe try a different headband? I find that the no-slip scungii bands work best for me and I keep them on for an hour. Also- make sure your hair is almost completely dry. I also angle the hair back a bit when I wrap it instead of going straight up and down. I find it creates a better wave that way. I hope that helps!
You gotta stop reading my hair posts!
I will have to follow you! I’m OBSESSED.
No problem! Don’t you wish you knew this back in high school?? My daughter is gonna have such an easier life growing up with this knowledge.
Love your hair! And that’s not ice cream, it’s 16 Handles. Not that I go there every day or anything.
You got me. It’s 16 Handles. Please don’t tell Mazzy that she’s really eating frozen yogurt.
Thanks for the tips, I’m definitely going to try it again.
Maybe it really was the headband, I used one tha’s really broad because I didn’t have any other at hand. What does a scungii band look like and do you know if you can get them outside of the US?
I tried the hair trick this weekend for my cousin’s wedding. It was a total experient because my hair naturally has more curls than should be allowable by law. I washed my hair Friday night and put the hairband in while it was still really damp. Slept in it and didn’t take it out until an hour before the wedding. I had to cut the headband because I couldn’t get it out! End result: perfect ringlets on either side of my face, the rest of my hair looked like it normally does. It worked well for an up-do though with those nice ringlets hanging down. Next time I’ll use a thicker headband, mine was only 1/2 inch thick.
Does this curl trick work with hopeless hair? Because I needs a trick that works with hopeless hair.
I AM PUTTING A LOT OF FAITH IN YOU RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT.
i had my headband curls wrapped firmly in place then emerged from the bathroom to cook dinner. My husband took one look at me and said “what time do you get off the night shift at mcdonalds?” he thinks it looks like a hair net and loves to tease me when its on:/
Slept in it and didn’t take it out until an hour before the wedding. I had to cut the headband because I couldn’t get it out! End result: perfect ringlets on either side of my face, the rest of my hair looked like it normally does.