I can't stand Aveda's smell.

I like it, for a couple hours, though I am likely being mauled by Loki (and maybe Pumpkin) all the while. Then it starts a headache, even as I find the smell pleasant. It's odd.

Someone set off a glitterbomb at the Y. It was everywhere.

Also, Walt came back with an estimate to fix the ceiling hole and fix up my porch posts (which involves making all 4 of them support the roof,rather than the 2!! and make them pretty and matching): $275. Um YES. I think I might've found myself a househusband!

Sounds like a deal, sara!

Bumble and Bumble

Don't know anything about them.

Huh. I just went to google "aveda anti humectant" and one of the suggestions was "aveda anti humectant black hair". Apparently it's a thing. Who knew? And, man, isn't "black" hair (or, as le n would put it a bit more clearly, Black hair) vague as all get out.

For some reason, I was originally told to get humectant, but I didn't like the smell or texture, and since I had so little hair and didn't know what I was doing, I went 180, and it turned out to be just the right answer. And, apparently, A Thing.

Most of Aveda's scents are pretty bad for me, and their lipsticks sting and make me break out. I used to use their face washes--those were pretty good, but I like Mario Badescu better now, and so do my pores.

My neighbor told me Walt was 75% cheaper than he anticipated. Uh, yeah and then some?

I can't believe you just fucking did that to me.

Let it be known that on this very day, I successfully rickrolled ita. Safari wants rickroll to be two words. I disagree.

Aveda: I get the pomade that is in the blue bottle and is CLEAR. The other shit fucks up my hair. In case that is helpful to anyone.

Len, that's what I just said! With 17x more words, but still.

Allyson, ignoring you.

Just lost power a couple times there. TiVo isn't happy about it. But I have to say, in general, they did a good job with that software, because it lets you bounce power without doing much more than losing your place in what you were watching, and stopping what was recording. I haven't had any data corruption as a result. Even though a couple times I've mistakenly turned off the external drives first. Oops.

I have been using some Lush products on my hair that might work for you.

Maybe, but... everything I've gotten from Lush has had a very strong smell, and after a while I just can't stand it. Like, right now, there's a new bar of Dove soap in the bathroom, 50 feet away, and I'm about to go throw it out a window because the smell is so annoying. I have the same problem with Aveda.

brush hair - then shower scrunch dry and ignore .

If "ignore" includes "putting clothes on over my head" or "moving around without hair in bun" it's gonna frizz. Of course, with hair in bun, it'll take hours to dry.

Really, I don't stress about that so much, though. I'm much more stressy about how much it thinned out over the last few years I lived in New Jersey. It's grown back a little, but not enough to make me happy.

This conversation reminds me that I have no place to complain, but damn I miss my old hair. Nowadays it needs a heavy dose of product and/or time to look shiny and frizz free. I want to buy some hot rollers and try that, see if they help, but I suspect most mornings I won't have time to use them.

Let it be known that on this very day, I successfully rickrolled ita.

OMG, so much loving you, Allyson! You are on fire today.