5 Minute Curls

Today I have a rare success not a disaster (yay!): the 5 minute curl, which can be found here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/419749627745173295/

When the flat iron, stick straight hair trend was happening, it was the best thing ever for me. My hair is more or less straight, so I could let it air dry for most days and it would be straight enough. Or if I was going out, I only needed to straighten a few unruly pieces in the front. This whole thing usually took me 5 minutes or less- I can’t be bothered to do much more maintenance than that.

Now I always see girls with perfect curls and I’ve attempted to do myself so a few times. I’d curl the front but I’d get so hot from having all this thick Indian hair -and add to that a burning hot curling iron. Also I’m lazy - my arms would get too tired by the time I was finished curling the front , leaving the back to be incongruously straight. (Side note: I should probably pin some bicep/tricep exercises). Seriously though, how did girls have patience to curl all their hair every day??

I have a baby-free weekend get away coming up that I wanted to do something nice with my hair for. I saw this tutorial and it looked pretty easy (but then again, don’t they all, ha). I tried it out this morning and was pleasantly surprised! It actually only took 5 minutes and all of my hair had curls. My only mistake is that I don’t own any hairspray so the curls fell flat shortly after that but my hair still looked really good all day. I took a bunch of selfies like a teenager and my friend even commented that my hair looked “luscious” (which is far more appealing than my usual look which could be described more as "lucius malfoy" than “luscious”). I’m quite happy with the 5 minute curl and plan to buy some hairspray so I can do this look more often!