Thank you for your suggestions to the Preview! Guess the Upcoming Post. As you guessed, this post is inspired by The Tropics and will be about our crowning glory. So get in the mood, listen to some Tropicália music or these Songza playlists!
New York feels like a sticky concrete tropical cloud forest in the summer and the humidity means that it is impossible to keep hair from flying away and gathering on top of your head. Now, if we were living in Elizabethan England, our frizz halos would be IN. But today, frizz (like acne and cellulite) is an undesirable look. But outta these three “bad” traits, frizz has the most potential to become cool, right?! There are, like, poems dedicated to it!
Marilyn and her sorta frizz halo in Florida on the “Some Like it Hot” (1959) set
Till the day comes where we embrace our frizz halos, here are two products to glue down the fluff and keep your knickers from getting in a twist when precipitation gets above 0%.
Screen shot of the No Frizz line from Living Proof
LIVING PROOF is the Hedy Lamarr of hair products: brainy and (makes you) beautiful. Its nerdy origin story is that it was co-created by biotech scientists at MIT and beauty experts.
Living Proof frizz line is so resistant to humidity you could probably do a synchronized swim routine during a monsoon and not see a hair budge. That may be a stretch, but in all seriousness, the no-frizz Living Proof line will hold your hair down. If that doesn’t sound convincing enough, the Priestess of Hair Janiston herself endorses it.
Although Living Proof smells nice in its own right, EO PURE PERFORMANCE BOTANICAL HAIR CARE in COCONUT & HIBISCUS hair scrubber and conditioner jazz up the “tropical scent genre” from the more traditional (and expected) formula of coconut and lime.
Duhlicious
The Coconut & Hibiscus scrubber and conditioner are great for the more “wrecked out by the blow out” manes, but virgin hair will benefit too from its smoothing, softening, rehydrating, fortifying, and conditioning properties that smell like heaven and make your hair light as a featha. Also, EO Everyday Hair Care lines are natural, therapeutic, non-sulfate, botanical, and stuffed with keratin… essentially, very wholesome.
Montane tropical rain forest in northern Vietnam
In conclusion, both EO and Living Proof products are truly fabulous products that do wonders for the health and look of your hair. Living Proof frizz may be better at keeping the hair clouds at bay during a tropical rain storm (or a New York summer), but the EO Coconut & Hibiscus offers a twist on the olfactory sensation we associate with the ‘the tropics’ (like the traditional tropical scent found in Sally Hershberger’s Wavy Spray and the DIY beach hair spray mentioned in an earlier post).
There are a ton of other dynamo products out there that either feel tropically or can kill frizz in literal rainy tropical climates. What do you like and recommend?
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P.S.:
Since we can’t write about the tropics without mentioning ways to protect it, here are some websites to help boost our ecosystems and save our furry and feathery friends:
