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  CURLS AT LAST
by Marilyn Green
I have what is known as "heavy hair." It has some wave and it's thick and shiny, but it won't do much when it gets close to chin length. What I aspire to is long curls just around the bottom and sides.
So, for the first time in my life I got a permanent. "Permanents have changed so much," the woman at the very upscale spa told me. "We have cold process and we can put the curl just where you want it." She lied or she wasn't listening. I emerged looking like a demented poodle. My shoulder length hair was now around my ears and my hair was about three levels below Brillo in texture. The salon offered to straighten it, but I figure even hair that looks as though electric shock treatment was just administered is better than no hair, and mine felt as though it would break if I combed it.
For the next six weeks I administered hair masques, super moisturizers and oil packs to very little avail. I had gotten used to my hair, but people who hadn't seen me for a while tended to recoil in shock. Enter Mahisha Dellinger's Curls.
A routine press release said Curls has the perfect products for all curly hair types and that it would nourish dry, damaged curls. It also said there were products specifically for kinky, curly and loose curls, so I warned the public relations representative, "If this will work for me, it will absolutely work for absolutely anybody." I'm here to tell you it DID work for me, a miracle so wonderful that I stayed up half the night making sure it didn't disappear.
I used Quenched Curls Moisturizer on towel dried hair after shampooing and combed it through with a wide toothed comb. The first surprise was that the comb came through easily. Then I took five of the indicated quarter-sized blobs of the Whipped Cream and worked them, one by one through sections of my still damp hair and scrunched the places I wanted curly. After an hour - it does slow down the drying process - I refined the scrunch with curls just the way I wanted them. Dry, both the curly and straight parts shone and my hair was soft and silky, and still is!
Since the line is billed for multi-ethnic women, I had friends try it. A Hispanic woman with glorious long curly hair had summer frizz problems; when she tried the Whipped Cream the results were so dramatic that she immediately ordered her own jar. A teen with absolutely straight hair was next, and she got exactly what she envisioned - long, sexy curls and luxuriant body. An African-American woman in her 40s found the sheen and control she wished for; the women all commented that you no longer have any excuses with this cream. You are completely in charge and you can do just about anything you want. There is no residual stiffness whatever and the formula must be very beneficial, since my hair has returned to its normal texture after a couple of weeks using it, which is more than my elaborate moisturizers and oils accomplished.
 According to the company, this magic curl concoction includes Monoi de Tahiti, which hydrates and restores shine and bounce, green tea extract, which soothes and moisturizes, soy protein, which strengthens and reinforces the hair shaft, and avocado oil and pomegranate seed oil, containing high levels of vitamins A, D & E. The truth is, it works, and it is extremely reasonable at $10-18 at www.curls.biz.
There's even a Curly Q's line designed specially for kids. With names like Milkshake and Custard, the products are formulated for kid's often sensitive scalps and made from natural ingredients.
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