Someone asked this question on the hair salon topic yesterday, but it got kind of lost. What hair care products do you use? Do you buy what's on sale, or do you spend a lot of money on special shampoos and conditioners and treatments? Do you wash your hair every day? Do you use styling products? Why in the heck am I asking this question? I must need more coffee.

Anyway: I've been using that Infusium stuff that all my roommates used in college. I think Systeme Biolage was my favorite shampoo ever (mostly for the smell), but I tend to buy my shampoo at the grocery store, at least when my hair hasn't been damaged or processed. I do think you get what you pay for; some cheaper shampoos really strip the hell out of my hair. I'm just usually not willing to pay more, anyway.

I seem to primarily use styling aids in an attempt to counteract the previously applied styling aid. I'm really better off if I just leave it alone.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Answers

I use Thermasilk shampoo and conditioner, for colored hair. A friend just sent me a bottle of Aveda shampoo and conditioner, which I love the smell of, but I understand it's pretty expensive.

But truth be told, it wouldn't matter if I used dish soap to wash my hair, and a big dollop of Crisco instead of gel - my hair looks like crap no matter what I do to it.

My life is one perpetual bad hair day.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I use White Rain Herbs and Blossoms (Jasmine, for "extra body" - ha!).

It smells good, it's cheap, and nothing I've tried EVER makes a difference in how my hair looks - and I've tried just about everything over the years. During those rare times that I had color on my hair, I did use a shampoo that's designed for colored hair, in the hopes that the color would last longer. I'm not sure it worked. I'm no good with styling products, so I stay away from hairstyles that require them.

My only line of defense is daily washing (yes, I need to, I work out and sweat) and a decent haircut.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I use Back to Basics Honey Almond shampoo and conditioner for color treated hair since my hair is highlighted. Yes, I will spend a fortune for my hair products. I also use So Silver about every third shampoo to keep the blonde from turning brassy. Then I use Silk Therapy on my wet hair before I comb it out. Then I top it off with whatever cheap hair spray I bought. Heh. I definitely think the good products make a difference, at least on long, straight color treated hair. My hair is stronger and healthier if I use them and then remember to use a hot oil treatment every now and then.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Right now I'm using some free Philosophy stuff I got as a "gift with purchase" around Christmas. I like it a great deal, but would probably never spend that much on it.

Usually I rotate because I get so bored of one thing so easily. My favorite conditioner ever (and I'm a big conditioner girl) is KMS Silker. Or maybe Aveda Cherry Almond Bark. My favorite shampoo is the Banana Shampoo from The Body Shop. And there's always some Paul Mitchell hiding away in my bathroom somewhere.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I use Feria hair color ("Sunset Blaze") which comes with their own conditioner that is fantastic and which I think they should sell separately. After I color my hair, it is silky and smooth and feels great.

I think it makes a difference what shampoo you use with colored hair. The first three weeks or so after I color my hair, I use a shampoo whose name is some three initials - KMS, I think - for colored hair. My hair stylist, mentioned elsewhere, suggested it. I use some kind of rinse out conditioner, usually Neutrogena's for tangles because it makes my hair feel really silky.

As the color fades, I start using Neutrogena's regular shampoo because it does get my hair cleaner, along with their conditioner.

I wash my hair every weekday because I work out in the morning. I usually don't wash it one weekend day, sometimes both, and it looks okay.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

At some point in my life I've tried almost every shampoo and conditioner on the market.I don't really use any other sorts of products because I don't have to. Occasionally I'll use Aveda "Phomollient" which is kind of a styling aid, and helps keep my hair from looking frizzy when the weather is humid.

I agree with Beth - you get what you pay for. I used to use whatever looked good at the supermarket or drugstore, but as I've gotten older I've chosen to invest in the higher end products, and they really are better.

Right now in my shower I have Aveda "Brilliant" shampoo and conditioner (which smells great), and Kiehl's shampoo and conditioner for dry hair. I also use a blue shampoo because I have alot of white blond highlights in my hair and the blue shampoo keeps them from looking yellow.

Both Kiehl's and Aveda have amazing product lines, with something for everyone. They are considerably more expensive than the stuff you can get at the supermarket, but in my opinion they are well worth it.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I've found that the ThermaSilk stuff actually does help a little bit with regard to heat damage. I love the way my hair feels when I spend a half an hour blowing it dry, but I am also concerned about heat damage.

That said, I also like to switch shampoos a lot - anybody else love doing this? I switch between ThermaSilk and Pantene, altho I've always wanted to try more expensive salon stuff.

Does anybody believe the commercials that insist that Suave and Pantene are identical after being applied to your hair? I sure as hell don't.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I wash every day even though I've read that for my hair type it is a boo boo--curly hair that tends to be a little dry shouldn't be washed everyday. But what would I do to wake up? I count on my morning shower to wake me up. I've tried using the shower cap method but it's not nearly as effective in snapping me out of post-bed stupor.

As for products, I usually use whatever is cheapest and I rarely use the same product twice in a row (usually because I grab the first cheap product I see). I think right now I have some sort of Herbal Hy-Top brand of shampoo and conditioner. I can't remember the brand but they were about two bucks apiece. I buy one big bottle of deep conditioner (Bone Strait, oddly enough made for curly hair) and do the deep conditioner on the weekends when my showers can last as long as I like. The only styling product I use is Paul Mitchell's foaming pommade--it helps keep the frizzies down and I can control the moptop a little easier when I use it.

That's my entire hair care routine. I feel so ungirly after typing that. At least I'm ungirly with a few more bucks, I guess.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I'm a total sucker for products.

I like to wash my hear every day, but then it's too slippery when it's really clean. Vain's Second Day Hair shampoo rocks my world. It washes your hair, but not all the way.

I also love Hairgum Girl. It makes my hair do that sticking-up punk rock thing without getting all greasy and skanky. And it smells like bubble gum! Nice.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

My answer is almost word-for-word the same as Sarah Campbell's, except her hair is straight and mine is curly.

-Sara

ps: Sarah- can you have lunch on 5/8? xxoo

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Hair products slut here, nice to meetcha. I'm fond of Paul Mitchell stuff: Shampoo One and Super Charged Conditioner cuz I've got dry, really curly hair. I've used the KMS Curl Up stuff, and that works pretty well at controlling frizz. My fave, tho it's really expensive, is Alterna. It's a hemp oil based product that smells really good. Normally, I don't care if it's "natural" or not as long as it's not tested on animals. This stuff does wonders...but at $15 a bottle, I alternate between it and the Paul Mitchell.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

i don't even remember what i've got in my shower right now. i have really thick, coarse, wiry, straight hair, and it does whatever it wants to do regardless of what kind of shampoo i use. true, i've never used the high-end salon stuff, but i can't be bothered. the mere thought of putting more effort into my hair to coax it into submission exhausts me.

since i got a short haircut, i've been using a little gel occasionally, but usually my daily hair routine consists of: shampoo, condition, towel-dry, finger-style, go. when i had long hair, i didn't wash it every day, though.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I use a product called "Straight and Sexy". It's hair straightening shampoo that I got at the salon and it works very well. I have naturally wavy hair and I prefer the straight look, so I use whatever I can to help it along. I ran out of my Straight and Sexy shampoo on Monday and have been using another brand and my hair has been a wavy curly mess all week. I can't wait to get back to the salon next week to buy more. I dread it though.....going to the hair stylist is always a nightmare.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I'm the same with hair stuff as I am with face stuff. I buy something that seems like an excellent idea at the time. Then it makes me break out and rots in the cupboard for a couple of years until I pitch it in disgust.

I'm allergic to ninety percent of the stuff I try. Here's what I ended up with: Australian Naturals shampoo (Kiwi) and sometimes conditioner. Smells good, no scalp irritation. Sebastian styling products work well; when my hair was shorter, I used Molding Mud and Crude Clay. The Crude Clay is particularly fun; it remains "moldable," and I have a habit of yanking my fingers through my hair when I work. I frequently went home with serious spikes. Sebastian shampoo stuff, though was a no-go; my stylist gave me some when I got my hair streaked, and it was hive city.

I also like the Freeman Sprunch Spray. I like a good hairspray you can spritz in the morning and forget about, because it freezes solid... Right now, though, I have a great 20s-ish shingled bob happening, which needs absolutely nothing in the way of hair gunk -- maybe a quick blow-dry if the right side shows signs of wayward flipping. Really, low-maintenance is my ideal. I loved it when my head was shaved last year. Maybe I should have just kept it up.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Oh man - I've gone from cheap to expensive to cheap to expensive and now I just have one of each in the shower.

Currently I'm using MOP (Modern Organic Products) - I originally bought them because the bottle design is cool (sucker for packaging here) and because the shampoo is called "Mixed Greens" and has Organic herbs and Olive Oil in it. I like the way it smells but you know, when I originally bought it, I just had the shampoo and used a V05 deep conditioning thing on my ends with it and really loved it. Now that I have a MOP conditioner - my hair doesn't feel as good! It doesn't seem to blow-dry as well either. In fact, the two-in-one Pantene stuff seems to do a better job! Maybe I'll switch back to MOP/V05 soon...

I tried the Paul Mitchell stuff for awhile, and it didn't do diddly. My favorite shampoo smell in the world *has* to be Biolage. That is just the most *divine* scent - but it didn't seem to do much for my hair.

Every magazine talks about Kheils (sp?) silk groom, but I've never had a chance to try it. I have hear that they're really good about handing out samples though, and the Nordstrom downtown now carries their products, so maybe I'll take a jaunt over there and grab some.

As for post-shampoo care - I've always loved that infusium stuff. Works wonders on my hair. I now also have this ultra-fab spray on mousse - comes in a can like hairspray and is apparently mousse/gel combo - but it foams up all white and fluffy just like mousse when you spray it on, and damn if my hair isn't super shiney and great when I take the time to use it. I forget the brand though...

I also recently acquired a 'texturizer' (rusk) -- the kind that give your hair that 'lived in' look - and cheesy as that is, to spend oodles of time on your hair and then make it look a bit messy - I get nothing but compliments on my hair when I use it. The best one had to be a girlfriend of mine saying "OH MY GOD, you've got *moviestar HAIR*!!!"

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I've tried pretty much everything, shampoo-wise, and my hair still usually looks like crap. It's very fine and straight and thin. I've used salon stuff, and grocery store stuff -- oh, and whoever asked about whether Suave works as well as Pantene? I think the Suave is better, personally. It always made my hair shiy and soft, while Pantene just makes it look greasy.

Here's another hair-related question (maybe it should be a thread of its own?) I want to grow my hair out long. It grows very slowly, and seems to be in an awkward stage for months on end. Any advice?

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I was a Nexxus/Biolage babe forever. Then I ran out of shampoo and had no time to hit the mall so I bought Clairol Daily Defense for normal hair. It smelled really nice and it was purple. I love it ! It makes my hair feel fantastic and I can (kind of) get it to do what I want on a pretty regular basis. It helps that I finally wised up, stopped using mousse and tried hair gel (I have poker straight hair). Too bad it took my 32 years to find the correct combo for my hair.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Wash one: St. Ives Daily Clarifying. Wash two: I'm using a henna shampoo that I bought at MotherNature.com. I have long, dark brown/auburnish hair (the color, I usually say, of an old penny), and the henna does punch up the red.

I use a number of different leave in conditioners. Pantene is okay, but I think it makes my hair limp instead of conditioned. My favorite is Aussie Hair Insurance. When it gets humid here, my hair is just out of control, but Aussie helps a lot with that.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

My hair is actually pretty good, so it doesn't make much difference which shampoo I use -- and I use Suave 90% of the time. But I have to have a decent conditioner or else I can never undo the tangles -- and even that is only step "up" to Pantene.

Having worked in a salon/spa environment, some stylists swear by a product line, but the only one I've ever heard everyone agree on is a very,very, very exclusive, high-end line Kerase. Extremely expensive (try around $40 bottle) but it works on the plant theory and helps you "grow" good hair. Never used it because of the cost and my hair works with the cheap stuff, but I never heard a complaint and we couldn't keep the stuff in stock once people found we sold it.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I have faithfully used Systeme Biolage for years, but when they reformulated it recently (and changed the packaging graphics) they screwed up the scent. I'm still using it because it doesn't weigh my hair down, but nearly every morning I curse them for changing that scent!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Beth, Suave makes Biolage and Nexxus knock-offs (which, according to some folks on alt.fashion, are just as good as the real thing). They cost $2.99 or something--a lot cheaper!

My recent miraculous discovery: the combo of L'Oreal Hydravive shampoo/conditioner in one, with Aussie 3-minute miracle conditioner. I use this combo every day and believe it or not, it is not greasifying. (It sound like it would be, with all that conditioning!) Instead, it makes my straight hair hang straighter and thicker and shinier. Always a plus!! It's really touchable, and tangles less. I'm hooked.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Kiehls, Kiehls, Kiehls! I love that stuff but it gets to be a pain ordering it since that's the only way I can get it to Wisconsin. On our last trip to New York, I actually bought 5 big tubs of their lip balm to take back with me. Their Silk Groom is excellent, though.

Currently, I'm an Aveda freak. My stylist mixes up a coloring condition to maintain my dyed color. This allows me to wait longer between colors. I've also started using the Sap Moss Shampoo for dry hair. It's kind of heavy -- I think I'll only use it a few times a week. I do really like the Aveda Styling Stick called Self Control -- helps tame flyaways.

I wash my hair every other day even if I shower most days. I use less product and I've heard it's better not to shampoo so much anyhow.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Every day for years now I've been shampooing with Citre Shine because it smells lovely and my hair likes it. For the rest ... oh my god. My shelves are groaning. Charles Worthington items mainly, but also Citre Shine gunks and slickers and bouffers.

Since I had my hair coloured though, I've mainly been using a CW "silkening serum" -- it used to be more like a "limpening serum" but now my hair's as dry as a stick without it. I mix in a dash of other stuff sometimes -- styling mousse or "thickening conditioner" (they lie! nothing thickens hair except dirt!).

What is it with famous hairdressers and their product ranges, by the way? Does anyone believe they know anything about chemistry? "Hmmm, it's good, but I think it needs a touch more dilithium crystalate."

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I like the salon TIGI Bed Head Control Freak shampoo and conditioner. I have very thick, curly, unruly hair that is long. As with most curly hair, mine is dry. My friend bought me some of this after listening to me complain about my hair's "mind of it's own." It smells great and leaves my hair so very, very managable!

Thanks Beth J! :o)

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I usually buy a family-size Pantene normal hair formula bottle and a its companion in conditioner, but in the Dry hair formula.

With th emove though, my shampoo is buried in a box somewhere and I don't want to buy any new because I _have_ two big family sized bottles of shampoo somewhere.

So I've been using Sabs' shampoo and conditioner, which I like as well, but mostly for the smell.

Willow Lake's Lavendar Mint Shampoo and Almond something-or-other conditions.

Sabs swears by their stuff, as it controls his dry scalp, without having to result to using an anti-dandruff shampoo.

Until I was in junior high or so, I used Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo and conditioner and when I can afford it I splurge on some of Nexxus' hair care products, usually a bottle of their peppermint shampoo and some conditioner.

But that's just a treat, it's way too expensive for daily use.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Currently I buy Aussie Moist shampoo in the giant pump size. It leaves my hair clean without drying it out. For conditioner, I usually use the Thermasilk. I rarely blow dry my hair, and I find that the magic heat activation works with really hot water as well. I like it because it leaves my hair soft without weighing it down. My hair is individually very fine, but I have tons of it, so it can somehow have this very solid, limp thing going on if I use any "styling" products.

Have any of you noticed that you have to change products when you move? My hair seems very sensitive to the hard/softness of the water. Whenever we move, I have to start experimenting again.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Hey, Lizzie! Two weeks ago I became Feria "Copper Shimmer" (deep copper blonde), and you are so right about the conditioner they package with their hair color. There's only one thing I've found to be better: TIGI's Bed Head line.

I have fine hair, but lots of it, and I prefer to wear it down. I wash daily in the mornings, yet by the end of the day, the hair at the back of my neck would literally be a tangled matted mess. I picked up some Bed Head Control Freak shampoo and conditioner one day, and voila! No more tangles! I can also run a brush or comb through my hair right out of the shower, without removing clumps of hair. It does tend to be a bit heavy, so I've begun using the conditioner only every few days.

Unfortunately, the Bed Head line is only sold in salons, therefore the price goes up proportionately. The first package I got was like 2 8 oz. bottles. The last time, I bought these big ass 32 oz bottles. Just grabbed them off the shelf and whipped out my wallet. Then gulped and turned guiltily to my husband when it turned out to be OVER $20 just for the conditioner! Fortunately, a little goes a long way (like a nickel sized dollop for my middle-of-the-back-lenth hair.

Now, I just need to convince my husband that he doesn't need to use a handful at a time.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I spent several years working for the company which owns Clairol, Biolage, and Infusium, so I got great discounts and tried every single product they had. In the end, although Biolage Hydrating Shampoo used to be my favorite, I was almost equally satisfied with the Clairol Herbal Essences line. They totally stocked the showers in our gym with the stuff, so what the hell, right?

Every time I get my hair cut at Toni and Guy they push new products on me, but I have to say that the TIGI Essensuals Leave-In Conditioner is the most haircare product I've ever encountered. Trust me--save your eighteen bucks.

I really like serums like Frizz-Ease which you smooth a few drops of through your hair to keep it shining and tangle-free. The UK line, Boots's Japonica serum was my first encounter with this stuff, and I've lived by it ever since.

Vain Travails

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

meant to say the TIGI essensuals just totally blew.

my words are escaping me

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Pantene! The two-in-one shampoo is the best!!

I also love Aveda's deep conditioner, I can't remember the name right now, but it's GOOD.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

I am a big fan of Mane and Tail from way back. When your only options are either smelling like the horse you rode in on, or showering in the back of the barn, you use what you find. It comes in a bucket, it smells really nice, and it is just great for dandruff control and flyaway hair.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2000

Wrote this the other day, and it seemed appropriate...

I like showers. I take them a lot. I do most of my thinking in the shower, to be honest. I just got out of the shower. But it was a bad shower.

Yeah, I said a bad shower. Isn't that pathetic? I remembered today why I was so excited that I have pretty purple shampoo that smelled good. You know why? Because the green shampoo doesn't smell that nice. And the white shampoo? It sucks. I mean it. It sucks. I'm not ever using the white shampoo again. It's some weird ass clarifying shit that my little sister told me that I needed. I trusted the little bitch for some reason, and I will never again entrust the decision of what kind of shampoo to buy to a twelve or fourteen or whatever the hell year it is that she is old. (I think that she's twelve, but I've been saying that since she was eight, and I have a feeling that I'm wrong. Kel? Someone? Anyone?) Anyhow, this stuff smells like a bad perm. Think rotten eggs and...I don't know. Rotten eggs and the dirty gym socks of a fifteen year old boy that have been festering in the bottom of his duffel bag for an entire term. It smells awful.

Other important things happened in the shower, too. Like, I remembered why it is that I love conditioner. Until I met Matt, I never used conditioner. Ever. However, at the time, he was a bona fide shower stuff junkie, and he got me turned onto...Well, onto conditioner. I'm still not into all that funky body wash and poofy pink things stuff that he tried to give me, but hell. Whatever. Anyhow, I'm kind of weird about my shampoo and conditioner. They have to match. They need to be made by the same company and have, if not the same smell, then at least complimentary smells. This rotten-eggs- consistancy-of-day-old-pudding shampoo had no conditioner to go with it. I really didn't think that it would be a problem.

I was wrong.

I need conditioner. I realise this now. I realise this because an absurdly large amount of my hair is now lying in the bottom of the garbage can. I've always known that if I didn't comb my hair in the shower, there was no way that I was going to get a comb through it. (Yeah, there you have the one thing that I really miss about relationships. All of my significant others but Charlie have had a thing for playing with my hair, brushing my hair, whatever. Charlie didn't care, because he had hair of his own. But everyone else loved brushing my hair. I would kill to have someone here to brush my hair every day. Anyhow.) I normally comb my hair, standing in the shower, when my head is covered in conditioner. I figured, okay, no conditioner, but it's conditioning shampoo. That's close enough, I'll just comb it when the shampoo is in.

BUZZ! Wrong, but thanks for playing. We have some lovely parting gifts for you if you'll just step this way...

Never, ever again. I forgot how much I hated my hair until tonight. I mean it, I had. But when I'm standing in the shower in tears, a wide toothed pick stuck in your hair even though you only had about an inch wide section of hair and you were only trying to comb the bottom inch of that, it really hits you how much easier life would be if you could just buzz your hair again.

I feel like I lost half of my hair in the damn shower. And I had to rewash my hair (using my soap because that's all that I had in there) to get out the bad white shampoo smell.

Never again.

Sometimes, I'm amazed that I can function as a person on my own. I'm starting to think that I need a babysitter.

-Meghan

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Frizz Ease is fantastic stuff. Without it, my hair is wavy in an 'all over the place, and don't for one minute think you're controlling me' way, but with a couple of drops of this stuff, it's super sleek, and like the hair glossy 1950s divas had. Lovely.

I also love Lush's hair masks, but I can't remember the names of them at all. They're all nice! Buy them all!

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Mary Ellen asked for tips on how to grow her hair.

I've never had long hair because mine wouldn't grow at all past myshoulders and I look better anyway with short hair. But recently someone with waist-length hair told me that the way to get it to grow is to braid it before you go to sleep at night, and braid it during the day whenever you can. She said the tension sort of trains it to grow.

Sounded weird to me, but she swears that's how she trained her hair to grow. She said she had a problem with growing her hair for a long time until she tried this method.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Thanks for the tip on Bed Head, Pamela. I thought it was just a treatment product, like mousse or something.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

I am all about Aveda. I swim 5 mornings a week, and their Hair Detoxifier is fantastic for removing chlorine buildup. I also recommend the Purefume Brilliant conditioner, especially if your hair is dry, damaged or prone to fly-aways, and I heartily recommend their anti-humectant pomade.

Another bonus to Aveda is how wonderful everything smells. I've also got their cherry-almond bark deep conditioner and their rosemary-mint shampoo, and both smell good enough to eat.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

I'm a big fan of the Suave and White Rain stuff, especially the White Rain herbal botanicals or whatever it is. My biggest problem is always that my hair is too dry, so I get the "super conditioning no really we mean it" kind. Until recently, I was getting along fine with the White Rain "deep nourishing" line.

Then I went and did a clever thing, which is to say, colored my hair. It's in need of a little more help than it was before. I'm a big Body Shop junkie, so I picked up a bottle of their Brazil Nut conditioner, and it's like a miracle.

Another thing I've found that's good for very dry hair--St Ives makes this minty-smelling goop, it's called something like "Hair Repair", that you use once a week. I lurve that stuff.

I know, I'm less helpful than I could be, what with the inability to remember exact product names. Sorry.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

I think that the conditioner is more important than the shampoo, esp for dry hair. If you check the ingredients, virtually all shampoos are the same--sodium laurel suflates plus a variety of fragrances, etc. I do spend a lot on conditioners. Currently, Terax Crema [very pricey but also very concentrated] and Wella Vital Signs.

Re shampoos/same...on another list, someone posted about comparing the ingredients of Pert and Pantene [both made by Proctor & Gamble] and finding that not only were the ingredients identical, the pantent numbers were as well.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2000

I just started using Abba products, Abba Complete shampoo and Abba Recoup conditioner. I absolutely love the way this line smells. It reminds me of aromatherapy, very soothing. Styling products are varied, depending on the style I adopt for the day. For blown-out and straight hair, I use Sebastian foam mousse, Sebastian Laminates HiGloss spray for shine and finally Shapers hair spray for hold. If it is a curly day, I use the mousse and Laminates gel.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2000