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Summary: BRILLIANT
Review: This book saved my hair!! i was at the point of shaving my head of its thick uncontrollable frizzy sometimes curly barnet, knowing that when i was younger, before years of evil shampoo, i had lovely curls, that just seemed to have been replaced by horrible frizz and undefined curls. As soon as i followed the advice in this book, my hair became what it has always wanted to be! My hair is now so beautiful!! and i am a modest person, honest!!i have defined corkscrew and botticelli curls that define themselves and my hair is never frizzy. I was given this book 2 years ago, and in these two years i have had so many people comment on my curls and how lovely my hair is, more than in the previous 25yrs of my life, so buy this book! THANK YOU LORRAINE!!!!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I was a little wary of her advice, until I started following it. The book has a bit of religious fervor (towards haircare) that I wasn't sure I appreciated, until I started her regimen. Now I'm a convert! I'm just thrilled with how easy it is to care for my hair and how great it looks just about every day. I highly recommend this to anyone with curly hair.
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Summary: You have to stick to it!
Review: I read this book in the bookstore a year ago and decided to try the radical-to-me idea of skipping shampoo. It felt awful at first and I truly understood what she meant by "weaning" yourself off of it. My hair felt oily all the time and I couldn't stand to go more than every other day without shampooing. However, over a month or so, I was gradually able to go to shampooing twice a week, then once a week, and finally I am off it altogether. My hair has never looked better or healthier and now when I do shampoo I notice how frizzy and awful my hair looks. I think that's how I used to look every day. Too many of us struggle against the beautiful hair we were born with. This book will help you if you just stick to it...
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Summary: Love my curls!
Review: I must say I haven't read the book from cover to cover, but I use the Deva Curl products & I went from fighting my cirls everday to loving them. My hair dresser was actually trained by Lorrain Massey, I'm so glad I found her!!! I admit it was hard to get used to not washing my hair at first, but I've been doing it for almost a year now and my curls look great. No one can believe that I don't use shampoo. If that's too hard for you to do, try the Lo-Poo or No-Poo cleansers, but make sure you use it with the One Conditioner & AnGel Gel. The only product I've tried & didn't like was the Lavender Spray. I didn't care for it's smell, but you can make a mist with the gel by mixing one part AnGel with 3 parts water & putting it in a spray bottle...works great when your curls need a quick refresher!!
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Summary: love it!
Review: this is a great book! the no shampoo thing bugged me and at first, i resisted, but i live in a very dry climate, so i had to do something, so out went the shampoo. read it. you'll like it.
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Summary: worth reading; mixed success for me
Review: I bought this after reading reviews here and have had mixed success. First I want to address the reviews that stated many of the curly models in the book don't look that great: you're right. However. (1) The curly models look much better than most of us curl-fighters look on a average (hurry-the-blow-dry, go-out-in-bad-weather, give-up-and-ponytail-it) day, and (2) the models don't look like they were given a lot of professional makeup or lighting for the photos, which makes them look like (merely) nice-looking normal people with curly hair. In other words, we're so used to looking at impossibly gorgeous, professionally styled, lighted, airbrushed, straight-haired models that a photo of a nice-looking normal curly-haired person looks bad to us. Yikes. Anyway, about the program: using conditioner instead of shampoo is working fine (as long as you follow the insructions to use your fingertips to scrub your scalp....this is what gets it clean....don't just glop on the conditioner and rinse), as is combing gently with fingers, drying gently, etc. I have to say when I follow the instructions my curls look better than they have in a long time. So what's the problem? (1) who has time to sit around for 2 hours waiting for her curly hair to dry in perfect ringlets? (The 1 hour cited in the book is not enough time.) Blow-drying with a diffuser is OK, but my fine, weak botticelli curls get frizzed and stretched. (2) who has time to do this every morning? (When I wake up my hair is flat bumpy frizz....I have to wet it completely to get the curls to come back....then wait 2 hours for it to dry again. Also, the curls often droop and flatten before the end of the day...ponytail time again.) In contrast, I can straighten my hair extremely well in less than an hour and it can last for 2-3 days. True, straightening is bad for my hair, I don't always do a great job of it, and it doesn't always last that long, but I'm still not sure curls are worth the trade-off of wetting and drying every morning. Finally, I have to admit I just don't like the way I look with curly hair all the time. Sometimes I like it, but other times I want a sleeker more professional look. I also feel that smooth hair softens my features and makes me look prettier....albeit a boring cookie-cutter mainstream kind of prettier. I did get some compliments on the curls, but one of them was "I've always liked wild hair on women." I'm not wild, and I rarely want to look wild. I guess Massey would say that if all curly women wore their curls proudly then the stereotypes would eventually change. Definitely worth a read, very easy to read, some very useful information.
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Summary: Not sure...
Review: I've always noted that my waves/curls looked better if I airdry rather that blowdry, regardless of the products I use. I tried to go without shampooing, but my hair and scalp felt very oily. I got online and purchased Lorraine Massey's products from her salon, which included "Low Poo" hair cleaner. It works if a large amt is used but my hair looks no different. I also purchase her lavender mist, which smells strange, and her gel which makes my hair feel terrible; stiff and sticky no matter how little I use. And it's all expensive. I wish some of the reviewers who have their own successful routine would email me with the products they use. ------apodder@wowway.com -----------
Thanks.
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Summary: Be curly, be proud!
Review: LOVED this book! As someone who fought her curly hair all her life, it was wonderful to find a hairdresser who encourages women with curly hair to embrace it rather than blow it out straight. She doesn't push her own product line but rather gives you recipes to make your own hair products at home for next to nothing. She also recommends throwing your shampoo away. You only "wash" your hair with conditioner on the Curly Girl routine. After two months of this, my hair is soft, healthy, clean, and twice as curly as before. This book absolutely changed my hair for the better and now I get compliments all the time. In fact, it looks so good that I sold my flat iron on eBay - I'll never go straight again!
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Summary: Limited in its usefulness
Review: If you must maintain an authoritative, professional, or conservative appearance for work, this is not the book for you. The resulting hair styles are frequently described in it as "wild" and "sexy" -- not words normally associated with a successful climb up the corporate ladder. Indeed, almost all the women featured are in creative or independent jobs. I know somepoeple are going to say "but the corporate world is changing" and I can only respond by saying, "not really, not yet." Anyway, for many of us, following the advice in this book would be tantamount to professional suicide. Be warned.
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Summary: Not just for Curly Girls!
Review: My hair is straight. Or at least I thought it was. I asked my stylist how I could get waves in my hair and she gave me this book. Turns out I'm not as straight-as-a-stick as I thought I was. Turns out, I've got some natural wave to my hair. I've been following the regimen, and have got more curl now than I ever had in my life. So if you're looking for curls where you thought there were none, read this book! Also, its an entertaining read, with the testimonials and such.
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