Groom Quest 2011 - Part 1 (Fail)

In the interest of grooming I almost did something crazy. I am really obsessed with grooming right now. I have other concerns of course. Global warming. Libya. The world economy. (Right?) I am not purely vain and grooming obsessed. But there is a part of me that thinks about it a lot.

Anyway I bought a hair straightening product. It's not the first time, sure. I mean, I have owned a hair straightener for years but in recent times I have really learned to love my curls and that is why I felt kind of weird about buying this product. It was some 30 day straightening thing. And you think that the name would have given it away but it wasn't till I got it home that I realised it was a really serious chemical straightening thing that would last 30 DAYS!

I bought it due to the culmination of a number of things. These things really:

• The other day I straightened my hair because I was going out and needed to do something with it. And I was really happy with the result, which was not straight but sort of sleek wavy.
• Having a fringe really makes it difficult on the days when I don't have the time or inclination to wet and then dry my hair - which is really the only option.
• I bought Vogue last week. A thing I never do. And it was boring and most of the fashion uninspiring, but I guess because right now I am more about grooming than fashion it did make me want to buy grooming products.
• Thirty dollars spent on hair product for a new easy look seemed like a sound investment.
  

Anyway I go the product home and started reading about it and it had similar instructions to a home dye. Use in a well-ventilated area, do a patch test, yada yada yada. So you apply this stuff and then use your straightener and then voila 30 days of straight hair.

Crazy right! This seemed crazy to me. I did not want to apply all that shit to my hair only to do a dud job of the straightening or find out that it did something super weird to my hair. So I returned the product and bought some $10 anti-frizz stuff. Which was as useless as every other anti-frizz product I have ever bought.

I am beginning to suspect that Groom Quest 2011 may be as difficult as Harry's search for horcruxes. I only hope it is ultimately as successful.