B003YL4KS0 EBOK
Authors: Lorraine Massey,Michele Bender
THE HANDBOOK
EXPANDED SECOND EDITION
by Lorraine Massey
with Michele Bender
Photographs by Gabrielle Revere
Workman Publishing, New York
Copyright © 2010 by Lorraine Massey and Michele Bender
Design copyright © by Workman Publishing
Photographs copyright © Gabrielle Revere
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Photography Credits:
COVER PHOTOGRAPHY by GABRIELLE REVERE (Front and Back)
Author photo Courtesy of Lorraine Massey
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY GABRIELLE REVERE:
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ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY:
AGE FOTOSTOCK: Beauty Photo Studio,
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COURTESY PHOTOS:
Michele Bender,
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ILLUSTRATION:
Robert Risko; used with permission of the
Chicago Tribune
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To my mother,
Jemima Rutherford Bathgate Massey Dance
and to Kaih, Shey, Dylan, Veronica, and Venaih
INTRODUCTION
Locks to Talk About
CHAPTER 2
Hair, the Inside Story
CHAPTER 3
Identifying Your Curl Type
CHAPTER 4
The Curly Girl Method: Creating a Daily Root-ine
CHAPTER 6
Multi-curl-tural Hair
CHAPTER 8
Products and Homemade Recipes
CHAPTER 9
A Cutting-Edge Philosophy
CHAPTER 10
Self-mane-tenance: Trimming Your Own Hair After Shear Frustration
CHAPTER 11
Color Me Curly: It’s All About Hue!
CHAPTER 12
Curly Kids: Caring for Underage Curls
CHAPTER 13
Guys ‘n’ Curls: The Down and Dirty Root-ine
CHAPTER 15
Wed-locks and Updos for Special Occasions
CHAPTER 17
A Twelve-Step Recovery Program for Curly Girls: One Curl at a Time
ASTROLOGI-CURLS
A Curly Girl Horoscope
A LETTER FROM LORRAINE
Curl It Forward
Curly Girl: An Introduction (1:40)
Curl Confessions: A Curly Girlhood (2:45)
Daily Routines: Botticelli, Corkscrew, and Corkicelli Curls (3:36)
Clipping and Diffusing Tutorials (1:29)
Daily Routines: Fractal and ZigZag Curls (3:39)
Poetry in Potions: Wrapunzel (0:40)
Poetry in Potions: Ginger 'n' Tonic (0:37)
Poetry in Potions: Banana Karma (0:37)
Wed-Locks and Up-Dos: The Curl-Hawk (0:45)
Wed-Locks and Up-Dos: Sew Beautiful (1:02)
Wed-Locks and Up-Dos: Pin-Up Curl (0:45)
Curly Girls: Before and After (0:52)
A lot has changed in the world of curls since the first version of
Curly Girl
came out ten years ago. For so many years, ringlets, corkscrews, and waves were the ugly ducklings of the hair world, viewed as a symptom to be treated, an aberration to be tamed, rather than a part of nature. When you’d go to the hairdresser, there was an “obviously, you don’t want those curls” attitude and an expectation that you should be grateful to your stylist for blow-drying your hair straight after a cut. In fact, at a recent hair convention, a hairdresser came over to me and said, “If you let me blow-dry your hair, you’ll fall in love with me.” (Hardly!)
Straighten your hair, and you might be happy for a day. Learn to love and care for your curls, and you’ll be happy for life!
Despite the strides many curly girls have made to accept and understand their curls, the hairdresser’s comment is typical of the hair community’s mentality and evidence that straight hair still rules. Here are some revealing facts and stats: Flat irons are the top-selling item in the hair care industry. At one point, a transatlantic airline offered these appliances to passengers so they could straighten their strands before landing (while the rest of us in the plane had to endure the smell of burning hair). The number one service in salons
worldwide is blow-drying (which I call blow-
frying
because of its damage to your hair), and an amazing $9 billion–plus worth of hair-straightening products are sold annually. Recently a well-known hair product company boasted about creating a pill that claims to change your DNA to straighten your curls. (Can’t you just imagine the future news story: “Woman has symptoms of paralysis, temporary blindness, and slurred speech, but she’s happy that her hair is finally straight!”)
Lorraine’s Curl-ections
