So Crazy it Just Might Work: Hair Vitamins

We are Katie and Tanya. We have resolved to get hawt in 2008. We've got our reasons...Katie has the upcoming big 3-0 and impending fame, and Tanya has a yet-to-be named event in the hopefully not-too-distant future. This blog chronicles our latest trials and tribulations on the road to hawtness (and no, we don't think it is or should be spelled as such, but for all our seriousness of purpose, we always maintain a healthy dose of snarkiness). E-mail us at katieandtanyagethawt (at)gmail(dot)com.

I’ve been intrigued by hair vitamins for a while. I’ve always suspected that they were largely bogus by secretly wanted to believe that if I took them they would take my hair to heretofore unknown Rapunzel-like silky lengths.

Well, I just got a big motivation to buy and try. I have had shorter hair for the greater part of my life, mostly because I a) didn’t have the patience to grow it out, and b) don’t really have the patience to sit around and style it. Make-up I have no problem farting around for extended periods of time and applying; for whatever reason I just apparently don’t have the interest or the aptitude for hair. In any case, I actually finally buckled down and managed to grow my hair out for the last couple of years, and my oft-repeated “my hair is cascading down my shoulders!” was actually now true. Was true.

A friend of mine colored my hair a few days ago. Instead of turning golden blonde, as requested, it turned out to be a sort of…coppery auburn-y I don’t even know what. My hair appeared to be equally upset by this turn of events (and most likely also by the apparently harsher than most dye), and showed its ire by turning into frizzy pony hair with dead ends.

My colorist was able to squeeze me in for an SOS fix two days ago and promptly scolded me for being a fool. Fortunately she was able to salvage my hair color, and hopefully by the next coloring we’ll be able to emulate Kate’s gorgeous locks in this picture:

(Photo credit: Evil Beet Gossip)

Sad news awaited me yesterday when I went to get my hair cut, however. The girl who cuts my hair, who is totally on board with my desire to have long Bridget Bardot sex kitten hair and is generally very conservative with the amount she trims was like, “yeah…you realize I’m going to have to cut 2-3 inches of dead ends off from that dye job.” So she gave me a rockin’ hair cut (note Kate’s bangs above), but indeed, about 3 inches were chopped off…3 inches that probably took 6+ months to grow.

It was completely necessary and my hair actually feels healthy now, but I am pretty bummed about the loss of length and need to believe in these wacky hair vitamins more than ever. So I broke down and bought Perfectil and Biotin to alternate like the bitches on Drugstore.com suggested I should. Fingers crossed…I figure nothing ventured, nothing gained, and besides, I like being a guinea pig for my own evil purposes.

It’s also good motivation for me to eat right, since apparently according to some scientific seeming types on the internets eating lots of protein and veggies and drinking lots of water while avoiding complex carbs and sugar will aid in hair growth. Apparently your hair also like to get 7-9 hours of sleep, so you know I’m all over that.

- Posted by Tanya

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