Hair care share

I’ve been subscribing to Allure magazine for 15 years now and could have sworn I was the only person on the planet who still subscribed. I honestly felt like I was single-handedly paying Linda Wells’s paycheck with my $8-a-year subscription and fretted probably more than is healthy about the fate of the magazine. The print world is a scary, scary place, or so the blogs would have you believe and I am just not ready to let this go, okay? It’s been one of my longest relationships DON’T LEAVE ME, ALLURE!

Anyway, I recently found out my Internet buddy K also subscribes to Allure (audible PHEW), and so we’ve been testing out the little samples each month and then reporting back to one another on Twitter. (I’m pretty sure she and I are the only people who don’t find that strange at all.) Whatever. The Essie apricot cuticle oil: Very good. The Chanel foundation: Kind of heavy, but pretty seamless coverage. There you go.

One might think, though, that after 15 years with the same magazine, things would get redundant. Boring. What else can possibly be brought to the table here? How many times can blue eyeliner be “in” again? (Many times! It’s in right now, but we’re calling it “indigo.” This must have been a decision made at the very top, by Ms. Wells herself, no doubt: “How do we un-’80s blue eyeliner?” “I know! Indigo!”) But no! I recently read a hair-care tip that changed my life.

Not to be hyperbolic or anything, but when you find out you’ve been doing things wrong for 30 years, well, life = changed. (I’m going to feel really dumb if you all knew this already and I’m just late to the party, but whatever, here goes…)

Bobby pins go wiggly side DOWN. WIGGLY SIDE DOWN, PEOPLE! I have been putting Bobby pins wiggly side up my whole life and been annoyed my whole life when the damn Bobby pins don’t stay put. WIGGLY SIDE DOWN.

Go forth and up-do, my friends.