3 Methods for Looking Good with Greasy Hair

Okay, I've never considered myself to be fashionable. Because, lets be honest people, I don't know who's who in pop culture and staying up to date on the latest "trends" (at least dressing trends) is not my forte. Although as a side note, thanks to pinterest and my style-inclined friends, when I go looking for house decorating ideas I get little snippets of trending outfits and ideas. (Thanks ladies!) Anyway, what I'm saying is I'm CHEAP and I don't pay too much attention to famous or trend setting people so I'm not out buying the latest and greatest clothes fashions.

Nevertheless I like to look good and feel good in what I'm wearing. I also like to accessorize. It just might not be the trendiest thing that I throw together. Although the good thing I've learned from watching some videos and doing is littler personal digging is that those TRENDS aren't even a good fit for MY TRUE STYLE. Okay but that's a post for another day!

Point is - I wear nasty sweats at home and if I don't wake up before the baby there's no hope of a shower. So sometimes my hair gets n-a-s-t-y! But when errands gotta be done and life must go on we gotta forgo washing the hair because some days ain't nobody got time for that! Yet I still want to look good when I go out.

So here's some ways on how to FAKE IT TIL YOU MAKE IT (to the shower).

1. DRY SHAMPOO

Best invention ever!! (at least for the lazy busy mom). Spray it on your greasy roots. Leave it a few minutes, you know, while you brush your teeth or throw on some mascara. Then brush it out. It masks/takes out/covers up the grease and leaves your hair at least looking fresh ... and smelling pretty good too.

I personal love Big Sexy's Volumizing Dry Shampoo (there are other brands, but this has been my favorite so that I've tried). It adds a little more volume and shapability to the hair. I've even found that spraying it on one day will last through a whole 'nother day . . . or two. (Okay people, just being honest, I don't get around to washing my hair often.) If you can't find it at your local super-store, ask your stylist to pick you up a bottle from the beauty-supply store. It's worth every penny!

Hint: Often times it's too hard to de-grease your whole head so just make sure the top looks good, wear your hair down by throwing in some sporadic curls (seriously takes less than 2 min), and use your hands to scrunch your hair while you spritz with some spray. If you pull your hair up you're going to expose more greasy hair that's next to your scalp (sides of head, back of head, etc.) that would otherwise be hidden by your hair being down.


2. BABY POWDER

If you're a mom you probably have some of this laying around. You can sprinkle it right on your hair and brush it out. Although I find that it usually DUMPS out, so I put some on my hand and then rub it on my hair near the scalp. Then brush it out.

Sometimes this is enough. Other times it seems to work better if you do this, and then get a little spray bottle to moisten your hair at the roots and blow dry it out. This helps lift out the grease and helps make the powder not just be settled on your hair or scalp.

WARNING: This method should be tried carefully on brunettes, because sometimes it can look too dusty and leave you looking gray! I bet if you played with it a little (know how little to use/blow it out good) you could make it work for you. Just don't try it for the first time when you're running out the door for that important job interview . . . or whatever you don't want to embarrass yourself at.


3. COVER IT UP! 

Yes my child is diving out of my hands while I try to snap a picture before we run out the door!

This one is kinda a no-brainer, but if you get yourself a cute hat or scarf it can totally be your go-to for gross-hair-but-need-to-be-somewhere days. Just yesterday I opted for this vintage scarf (read: I stole it from my mom's stash when I moved out) and pulled my hair to a high pony-tail bun. Seriously just pulled the pony part way through and tossed a few bobby pins in to secure it. I look better with some more bangs showing, but those were the nasty, greasy guys I was covering up at the time!

Vintage hat equals great cover up for no-time-to-wash hair!

I have also loved having this hat as a go-to on some days! You may have seen it as the picture on my breastfeeding post.

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What are other mammas doing? Have you totally given up on looking good? What are your quick tips for looking good? Do you get up early or squeeze in a shower during naptime or just forgo it like I do?

As for my other cosmetologist mom friends does your hair really just look good all the time because you know it has to if you want to keep your clientele?!  

How to Spend Full Price on a 1/2 Price Ham (and other laughable real life mishaps)

Shortly after New Years I was so excited to see some quality hams for half price! I'm sure they were just trying to clear out the inventory since they were left over from the holidays. No biggie. I have a freezer, I'll just cut it up, freeze it up and have yummy ham for:  ham fried rice and ham sandwiches and ham soup . . .

. . . and all that would have been nice!

We ate nearly half the ham for lunches and snacking and then it got tossed in the fridge to deal with later. "Later" should have been that night!!!

And now I find myself mourning the loss of my ham that is now bad and has to be thrown out. About 1/2 a ham.

So here's the equation:

pay 1/2 price for a ham and eat half and throw out the other half = pay full price for a 1/2 price ham!

Yep, that's how you do it. #stupidthingsido

My Poor Neglected Ham

Just so you know, I have "not wasting food" on my goals right now. If I was perfect at this, it wouldn't be a goal! So we'll work on it this year. Speaking of goals for the year, I also have building family relationships on my goals right now and it happens to be higher priority than healthy eating and being frugal/not wasting (I can't wait to tell you all about this process of making/prioritizing my goals!)

That brings me to pointing out that the only consolation I have to offer myself about the ham my poor planning/wastefulness (maybe it's an excuse for my bad behavior, but either way it makes me feel a little better about the whole stupid thing) is that the day or so after I bought the ham, you know, when I "should have been" slicing and freezing it, I went on an outing with my niece and nephews. Getting to spend some time with my sister-in-law and her kids is more important to me than being frugal or healthy. And sometimes in life we just can't get to everything and the important things have better come first! So there it is, my justification explanation.

Lesson learned - ask for help in the kitchen when there are time sensitive items and more to do than you have time to do! Oye, if asking for help weren't so hard for me!

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As for the other mishaps of that week . . . WHERE TO START?!

This picture frame that I love from my best friend that holds held a picture of the LDS DC Temple that sits used to sit on Jeremy's dresser.  Yeah. I moved it to the ground so he wouldn't knock it off while playing with his box of wipes on his dresser (favorite post-diaper-change activity). Then I sat him on the floor so I could climb behind the dresser to retrieve items he has tossed back there.

And I hear a crunch! He sat on the frame! Shattering the glass. So much for me moving it to a "safe spot!"

Good thing vacuuming is currently a daily chore. Check that off the list!

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The big bowl of potato salad that I tried to stack like a game of jenga or tetras on the top shelf of the fridge with lots of other unstable bowls and thigns underneath it. Bad idea. You may have already seen this picture on instagram of facebook. I received so few condolences there for the loss of my best big pyrex bowl, I expect your grievances will be arriving in a card in the mail because a comment on facebook just wouldn't suffice for such a loss. Kidding . . . .kind of. Because, let's be honest, it indeed was real tragedy to lose that bowl.

Good Bye Potato Salad and Pyrex Bowl

The Bowls Final Resting Place

The Disaster Zone! The already full top shelf did not equal a good place to sit large glass bowl!

Oh yeah, good thing daily vacuuming is on our daily chore list!

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The wheat ....dumped all over the carpet. So much for tidying the house real quick before picking up Trevor at the metro! He later got to witness what looked like an infomercial for the vacuum because there was so much being vacuumed up. Lesson learned - do not puncture thin plastic bag full of grain with your finger while walking from room to room putting things away! Everyone repeat that three times and just never do it! Okay? Thanks. Your carpet will appreciate not experiencing wheat dumped in a huge trail across the house!

My right-hand man of the week!

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Have you had enough yet? At least this one doesn't involve vacuuming!

This is the time that I turned my back while getting stuff out of the fridge and the little toddling-baby knocked a bowl of homemade chicken stock (read: valuable food item that brewed for 6+ hours on the stove that was going to be used in an upcoming recipe) over. It spilled all over the fridge, dumped into the vegetable drawers, and all over the floor.

The Remains ... "Goodbye Homemade Chicken Broth!"

The good news? It forced me to clean out the fridge and find hidden veggies and things in there that needed to be used! Check that chore off the list! Oh wait, add that chore to the list then check it off! (Does anyone else do that?)

Mr. Innocent "Can you blame me? You're the one who left a disaster waiting to happen at my fingertips!"

Hello Fridge Contents Whom I've Been Avoiding

Sparkly Clean!!!

Oh and don't forget to let the bottle of olive oil slip out of your hand and all over the stovetop your amazing husband just cleaned!

Goodbye previously-spotless stovetop!

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How's real life treating everyone else these days? Are you able to laugh off the mishaps and move on from them? Does this insanity just increase with more kids?