In which my boyfriend gets way too much mileage out of a name

So for my birthday the awesome Nes organised for a bunch of friends to chip in on a voucher for a Brazilian Blowout. And after much debating over haircuts and shampoo and other stuff I went on Wednesday.

So for the uninitiated, basically it's a treatment that relaxes curls a bit and removes frizz. Basically blowdrying/flatironing becomes ridiculously easy and your hair is soft and shiny and manageable for the next few months (yes months) to a point where you can even leave it and wear it without doing a bit of a Diana Ross.

The technical aspects are a bit more challenging. Basically they wash your hair (awesome salon, terrible basins), towel it off and the3n fetch a little container of what looks like woodglue and a paintbrush.

They paint it on, veeery carefully (on like 1cm wide ieces of hair) and comb it through and then blow dry. And hair goes WOOSH, Diana Ross! and I go 'That's what happens when you don't condition! and the stylist tells me to shut up and listen to her stories about her sisters boyfriend. I'm exaggerating, she was awesome.

After that the GHD came out and they flat-ironed the stuff in. Painstakingly. I'm talking 1cm wide sections of hair and going over it over and over and over. Apparently the product needs that or something. I have a lot of hair and I'm sure the poor girl had tennis-elbow, as just the straightening took about an hour and a half.

Once all that was done, my hair was amazingly silky and straight with a halo of static (apparently a normal byproduct over over-handled hair) that made me look like Alfalfa (of little rascals, not the grass) and I got The Talk.

Yes, it is a very expensive treatment (even being a groupon it was pricey, and I can't imagine paying the normal R2000 for a hair treatment), so I understand that it needs special care, but:

I have to use special shampoo (included in the deal which is awesome!)

For the next 72 hours you may not: tie hair up, tuck hair behind ears, put a hat on, get hair wet in any way whatsoever. this included avoiding showers and hot baths and bathing with hair up, and a shower cap on to avoid any kind of humidity. If any kind of moisture comes into contact with your hair you have to run screaming for a straightener and fry the moisture right out of it. I also have to straighten the bits at the back of my neck and around my face when I wake up as they are likely to curl.

I have been somewhat whiny about this, but then every now and then I walk past a mirror and get captivated by the shiny (it even seals split ends) and the prospect of not having to beat my hair into something manageable and then I get over it. Because I have tried a lot of products and lots of them work, but it has never been this shiny!

Shineeeee

now it just remains to wait until saturday to be able to shower and see how it turns out!