Lili (Guest Post!): Summer Hair, Just Behave Already.

Hi LGFTB readers. I'm Lili, a friend of Marianne's and beauty and fashion obsessed lady. While she's off helping Hugo get better (#GoHugo!), I've volunteered to help Adrien out here when she needs it. Hope you don't mind a visitor. And now for my first guest post:

As a person of indiscriminate hair texture (Surprise! Today you have straight hair. New Surprise! Big waves today for no good reason!) I find summertime in New York City truly vexing. Once we're past mid-June, betting folks bet on hot, humid days for the rest eternity. Or until October when we will have 3 nice days followed by never-ending winter. Approximately.

This weather of ours means I will generally try to let my hair air dry as wavy as it wants to be. I don't fight anything but my bangs - which need to be coaxed into their correct form and bribed with a nice dinner out twice a week. I'm not sure if it's because I'm getting older, or because I just got a haircut, or maybe it's the new shampoo? But, my hair texture is changing and needs more control this summer.

Here I am desperately trying to create a sense of order over my hair with a million bobby pins at a recent outdoor wedding. In the humidity, sigh. Oh, and that's my handsome boy with me. I luff him.

So many hairs wanting to escape!

I don't want to invest any more time than I do, nor do I want to fight the hair that I've got, so here's what I'm trying right now in order to exert a little control but not be too domineering. (I swear this is my hair we're talking about):

Curl Conscious Holding Foam

The Curl Conscious is supposed to, "Keep curls together regardless of heat or humidity." Clearly they were talking to me. But so far it's just ok. I've been putting it in wet and just twirling my hair around my fingers to let it air dry into soft waves. Allegedly. The first day I used too much, and the next too little. I've yet to find just the right amount.

This Kevin Murphy Beach Texturizer smells divine and doesn't dry your hair like a lot of these "beachy waves" products can. But still, there's not quite enough predictability about what my hair will end up looking like if I just use this. You will smell like a Hawaiian vacation, though, and there's no knockin' that. 

Use this for maximum vacation delusions.

I've thought about using the Moroccanoil Frizz Control that my stylists have used on my straightened hair, but I have a hard time spending money to make my hair oily. I don't even know if it's supposed to be used on non-straightened hair. Am I crazy? Has anyone tried it?  

Moroccanoil Frizz Control

I've got no magical results so far, but I think I'm on the right path with the Curl Conscious. If I find just the right process for this weather, I'll be sure to share it.