I didn’t learn to love my hair until my mid-twenties, when I discovered youtube and things like straightening irons and anti-frizz serum. Now I am making up for all that lost time by playing with my hair all the time. Y’all know this on account of how I’m always posting things like Sock Bun Curls! and Headband Curls! and whatnot. Anyhow, Conair invited me to try the new Conair Curl Secret as part of a sponsored shop and I will confess to you that I was a skeptic because I figured it couldn’t possibly be any better than my curling wand.
But something else that you might not know about me is that it is my secret dream to be on some sort of home shopping network demonstrating products. Or, well, you might actually have known that about me if you ever watched my slanket video.
(Don’t hate, I love my slanket.)
This is me before and after using the Conair Curl Secret. Here is the thing: I have really thick hair. It curled it SO FAST.
For my holiday hair style, I just beauty-queen teased the crown and then curled it all using the Curl Secret. I have thick hair so I set it to high and then used the number 8 setting to do loose curls all over. I let them set and cool for about five minutes and then I spritzed some shine serum in my hands and ran my fingers through my hair to loosen the curls up a bit. Then I slipped a jeweled wrap in my hair for some festive sparkle.
(I love that headband. When my BFF came over she said “KA, if I could describe you using just a headband, this one would be the one I would pick.”)
Anyhow, have you ever seen the commercials for the Curl Secret? THEY ARE SO INTRIGUING. Okay here, I found it on YouTube:
I thought there was no way it could possibly work without tangling my hair all up in knots but it totally did and then it converted me and then when my girlfriends came over for girl’s night they all wanted to try it. So we spent the night doing one another’s hair. Yes, we are thirty years old. I made them do this all on video so that I could A) show you how the Curl Secret works and B) pretend I was on some sort of home shopping network. My friends enjoy catering to my whims, y’all.
(Yes, OF COURSE there are bloopers. Do you even know how many takes this took? Also, I don’t have a sultry, smoky voiceover like the professional video up there)
SEE HOW CUTE HER HAIR LOOKED?! And also how fast that was? Seriously, this is one of those “tell your friends” products because I did my hair and then at my preemie mom group I was all “LOOK AT MY HAIR I USED THAT CURL SECRET THINGY AND IT TOTALLY WORKS AND IT IS LIKE MAGIC FOR YOUR HAIR ALSO SCARLETTE IS DOING REALLY WELL AND HOW ARE YOUR BABIES?”
This is what the Conair Curl Secret looks like:
And this is what I look like when I just do my hair for every day.
I probably wasn’t the best person to show you holiday hair, actually, because I’m real southern and you can tell this by the fact that I style my hair like I’m about to walk on stage at a beauty pageant basically every day, for things like grocery shopping and toddler gymnastics class. It’s a problem. I mean, I don’t even have any lipstick on in this photo but my hair is TIARA READY, y’all.
(Seriously, someone get me a tiara.)
I can’t figure out how exactly this works because it gets hot enough to set a perfect curl and yet the actual device doesn’t feel hot too the touch so you can’t burn yourself, which is pretty handy for people like me.
It definitely makes more spiral-ish curls on long hair verses cute wavy curls on shorter hair so I like my hair best second-day when it’s loosened up some. I totally don’t wash my hair every day y’all. It takes, like, an hour to blow dry. Seriously, ask my stylist. I think she cringes when she sees me walk in.
The girls and I couldn’t quite decide how we felt about the price point. It is normally priced at $150 and sells for $99 at WalMart. On one hand, $99 is not cheap. Although it did give me the opportunity to sing “I got ninety-nine problems but a curl ain’t one” as we debated and I’m sure that wasn’t at all annoying to my girlfriends. On the other hand, it is still less expensive than my really nice straitening iron. It was double the price of my curling wand but it curled my hair in about half the time.
Both of my girlfriends put it on their Christmas list after we spent the night playing with it so it was a hit with us.
(Disclosure: this is a compensated post & #shop for #ConairCurl but all opinions are my own.)
