I think we've all done it in the wee hours of the morning. There we are diligently pinning away on Pinterest when we come across a pin that seems too good to be true. Recently, I saw a post about applying brown sugar water to your hair to straighten it without heat. My inner stylist called total bull crap, but part of me was like "OOO! That's awesome!". I clicked on the link and was taken to some site that had nothing to do with the pin. Spam (womp womp). But, me being me decided I wanted to try it anyway.
I have no link for a pin because I do not want to send you to any sort of spam sites. I googled brown sugar water for hair straightening and came up with a bunch of different Yahoo question pages. So, I took matter into my own hands. Here's what I did.
1. Microwave one cup of water for 2 minutes (I wanted it hot enough to disolve the brown sugar).
2. Add 1 tablespoon brown sugar and stir, stir, stir (I used light brown sugar and honestly do not know if there is a difference between light and not light?)
3. Pour into spray bottle.
4. Let cool.
5. Apply to clean wet hair and let dry.
I took a before picture yesterday so I styled my hair in the same manner that I did yesterday..which means I put some jumbo velcro rollers on the ends after my hair had already dried and walked around the house for 20 minutes.
Here is a visual of the result:
The left is yesterday without brown sugar water, and the right is today.
I have no link for a pin because I do not want to send you to any sort of spam sites. I googled brown sugar water for hair straightening and came up with a bunch of different Yahoo question pages. So, I took matter into my own hands. Here's what I did.
1. Microwave one cup of water for 2 minutes (I wanted it hot enough to disolve the brown sugar).
2. Add 1 tablespoon brown sugar and stir, stir, stir (I used light brown sugar and honestly do not know if there is a difference between light and not light?)
3. Pour into spray bottle.
4. Let cool.
5. Apply to clean wet hair and let dry.
I took a before picture yesterday so I styled my hair in the same manner that I did yesterday..which means I put some jumbo velcro rollers on the ends after my hair had already dried and walked around the house for 20 minutes.
Here is a visual of the result:
Did it work? I don't know my hair has a mild almost invisible wave to it that I can usually brush out. So, while I can not attest to it straightening curly hair I can tell you that my hair seems less frizzy (not sticky), and a lot fuller! I have super thin baby fine hair and am balding so I was very pleased with how full this made my hair appear!
Have a pin you think is total crap but our still curious about? Let me know, I'll try it out and share the results.
Same goes for products.
Have a pin you think is total crap but our still curious about? Let me know, I'll try it out and share the results.
Same goes for products.
I've been wondering, did you like the fullness and non-frizz enough to continue using this method? My hair is ridiculously frizzy, and something to tame that without the heat would be aaaaaaaaamazing!
ReplyDeleteI want to use this method all day every day, but with kids I can't. I feel weird about keeping a bottle of sugar water out in the open and I don't really want to store it in the fridge. So making a new bottle every time I want to do my hair seems time consuming. Time is precious. I think I might try some method to make it child and ant safe. You should totally try this.
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