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Day 13 of NaBloPoMo. The writing prompt is about blood being thicker than water. I decided not to write it. Sorry.

Lorraine Massey is a curly hair genius. She is this British Hair Goddess, in my opinion. She wrote the Curly Hair Bible, aka Curly Girl : The Handbook. She opened one of the best curly-haired salons in the world, Devachan. I have followed her technique off-and-on since 2002 where you only use certain hair products a certain way.

So, fast forward to last Monday when my fellow-curly friend, Michele, told me that a local salon has some of Massey's Devacurl products on sale 20% this month (I have purchased them from Ulta or even her salon back in the day). Thanks Michele! When I checked out their site, I decided why not get a Devacurl haircut?

A Devacurl haircut is a cut done when the hair is dry, because we don't wear our hair wet. In cutting the curly hair dry, the stylist cuts it curl by curl, letting them "sculpt" the client's hair according to individual curls.

So, I called Trashy Roots Salon nearby and found out that they have THREE Devacurl-trained stylists. I met with Rebecca and she did an awesome job on my hair. I LOVE it. It's a bit short, which I had asked her for.

I showed up with dry, curly hair, like they asked. I had put some product on and let it airdry like I normally do 1/2 of the time. She threw on a cape and started snipping, pulling each curl and cutting. Once she was finished, she washed it with No-Poo Cleanser, a zero lather conditioning cleaner. Then, she followed that with One Condition then rinsed that. I need to point out that Trashy Roots had THE BEST shampoo chairs. I always have a hard time getting in-and-out of shampoo chairs, and then I'm too short to reach the bowl. Trashy Roots chairs were higher and I didn't get soaking wet because I could reach the bowl easily!!

Once back at Rebecca's station, she had me flip my hair over and distributed two palmfuls of Arc AnGEL, a gel that I always love using. I flipped my hair back and she began to dry it using THE BEST DIFFUSER EVER. The Devacurl diffuser (er... DevaFuser, rather) is basically a plastic "hand" that you can use to lift and weave your curls through to help them dry in a more curly way. I WILL be buying this diffuser ASAP!!!!

Right now, Trashy Roots has a sale going on for all Devacare products as well as their Devacurl cuts for the month of February. This cut is usually $70 there, but I got it for $50. I am glad I got to try it at a discounted price, but I WILL be back and I will pay $70 for it. It is an awesome haircut and well worth the money. If anything, it's worth it just to go back to finally have a salon that I can get in-and-out of their shampoo chairs!!!

So, want to see some pictures of my newly cut awesome curls?

Side view.

View from the other side.

Back view.

Another Back View.

Here is a video on the haircut I got: