hair straightening goo

It's called TIGI- Bed Head- Control Freak. I use the shampoo & conditioner. They also have a "serum", but I don't need it. In Florida, where curly hair gets like Brillo, I found that stuff is just wonderful. Since there is no "serum", it doesn't make your hair gooey, like some other stuff I used. You can get it at some hair salons, and those stores in malls that sell hair products. They had a sale a few weeks ago, and I got a liter of each for about $22-

I don't want to take the credit for this. You can thank Rae of A2K. She told me about it at the Florida gathering a few months back, and I've used it ever since.

Thank you Phoenix. So I guess they don't sell it at Duane Reade? well I'll run downstairs and have a look. I wonder why I didn't get an a2k email with your response? A2K doesn't send responses any more? I never turned off the update function...

Yes they do have it! I didn't get it quite yet because I see they consider themselves a 4 step program...so you get hair like brillo and this shampoo plus the conditioner are enough? (another consideration is that my husband will freak out if I add so many bottles to our little bathroom...then I'll have to use control freak on him and see if it works that way too!)

Paola- I don't even know what the 4th step is. I find the shampoo & conditioner just about perfect!

Wow! A recommendation of mine that actually stuck! I'm impressed!

Paola ~ the Tigi products can be found anywhere now ~ Eckerds, Walgreens, Walmart, etc.

And I'm with Phoenix ~ the shampoo and conditioner are plenty.

Let us know if you try the product.

Hi Rae! I've decided to follow Ph's suggestion and start with the shampoo and conditioner and progress to the 3rd step (the goo itself) later if sh. and cond. are not enough. The fourth step I think was a spray and it said flat as a board or something like that. Maybe in the end flat as a board is too straight! will let you know how it goes, as soon as I'm dressed I'll run down. I have a "ladies lunch" to go to today and want to look pretty, not like I just walked out of the Atlantic and into a bad hair day.

Well it's become "nice wavy". I think I will go for step 3, the real goo part.

Very good! Nicely wavy is better than icky frizzy and uncontrollable!

My problem in Florida is that the humidity is so high that if I put anything on it, either "goo", or even spray, it makes my hair feel gummy.

Rae- Hya doll! I couldn't find the stuff in my drug stores, but did find it in a salon!

I can supply you with some of the stuff than Cameron Diaz used so successfully in "There's Something About Mary".

cjhsa ~ well, isn't that kind of you. I'll stick with my Tigi stuff. (I'm still waitin for you to change your avatar back to Johnny Gorgeous Depp.)

Hiya Phoenix ~ that surprises me! We have most of the same stores in our cities.....usually the chains conform with stock supply. Hmmmm.

If it weren't so disgusting I'd almost be tempted to try the cjhsa stuff as my hair quickly reverted to brillo status and I'm wondering if I should invest in the step 3 goo or go for some less expensive brand...

If it weren't so disgusting I'd almost be tempted to try the cjhsa stuff as my hair quickly reverted to brillo status and I'm wondering if I should invest in the step 3 goo or go for some less expensive brand...

Paola, I bought a shampoo and conditioner by some company called Umberto Giannini, guess why, seemed italian, but it is made in the UK. They have a set of s and c for curly hair to make it less frizzy (still wavy), and also another set to straighten instead..

I've followed the directions in amazement. I have liked the results of both sets...but more so the directions to not (forget their words) mush around the hair in the shampoo, but to merely rub in lengthwise through and through, same with the conditioner.
And finally to finish with cold water. Whatever. Well, hey, my hair is way less frizzypoo.

Oh, and Paola, updates were off during a changeover period when a2k was being revamped.

When I was a wee lad starting school in the early fifties I had the curliest hair around. I would have given my right arm to get clear of it.
Now if only these products had of been around then I would have had a happier childhood. When I went to the barbers I got it cut as close as possible hoping it would stop being curly, but no it came back as usuall.
I was continually being taunted and called different names because of these curls. That's my rant.

Now I'm happier that I'm bald on top.

I used permastrate (some very strong concoction) on my hair when I was about sixteen. Did it in the middle of the night so my parents couldn't stop me. Yikes. Also tried ironing my hair a few times. Letting it grow long usually helped some to cut down curl mass. Now I don't mind curly hair, am just as happy to be me instead of a blonde model, but as a girl in the fifties I would have loved having straight hair.

Curly hair now is OK, I wouldn't object to it myself, I think me being a lad made me feel worse about. One of my sisters had a bit of a curl in her hair and she got away with it OK.

I couldn't have ironed mine, it just kept getting curlier and curlier, by the time the 60's came we got away with any style of hair and I let it grow.
It never grew below my shirt collar, curls got all the more tighter.