{"id":731,"date":"2008-06-12T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Curly Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Curly Girl<\/b><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m thinking about hair today, but I am.  Maybe it&#8217;s because Jon cut 3 inches off of my hair last night?  He did a really good job.  Curly hair is so easy.  <\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about my hair is this &#8212; I didn&#8217;t even know that I had curly hair until I was like 13.  All I knew before that was that whenever I had my hair in braids or a pony tail, I would start out the morning looking smooth and sleek and end the day with a halo of frizz.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/anniedukes.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"449\" width=\"350\"><br \/>\nSee?  Halo of frizz, check.<\/p>\n<p>And then one day I went swimming, didn&#8217;t comb my hair and looked in the mirror several hours later and discovered ringlets.  On my head.  What a revelation.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, when one has curly hair, you have to give up a few things.  Looking sleek and smooth &#8212; it&#8217;s not going to happen without a lot of effort and time, hair products and electrical gadgets.  We all know how lazy I am with those types of things so I just let the urge to have sleek hair pass.  <\/p>\n<p>With curly hair, you also give up your brush and comb.  What?  That&#8217;s right, curly girls should never brush their hair.  No.  That is how you get the old halo frizz effect going.  It does nothing for your curls.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, with curly hair, it is important to always use conditioner the lower half of your hair and finger comb it through before rinsing.  That, and using a product like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixbeautiful.com\/products\/curl_life\/contour_cream.aspx\">this one<\/a> to style.  Seriously, this is my favorite hair product &#8212; the best thing for curly hair.<\/p>\n<p>So, like I said, I don&#8217;t know why I was inspired to do the curly hair tutorial here &#8212; and it&#8217;s not like I know everything about it, of course I don&#8217;t &#8212; but well there it is, anyway.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curly Girl I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m thinking about hair today, but I am. Maybe it&#8217;s because Jon cut 3 inches off of my hair last night? He did a really good job. Curly hair is so easy. The funny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}