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In my household, we easily have over 50 products for our type 2 hair. We need different wavy hair products for different seasons and the effects of low and high humidity.
Last spring, I won a large basket of hair care products from a local salon, and although my daughter and I are still experimenting with the products, some of them have been ruled out as too drying or too weighty for either my fine or her coarse strands of hair.
Of course that doesn’t mean that we’ve ever parted with the products. We’re certain that any day someone will walk through our front door in need hair help, and we’ll have the perfect product for them! Until that day though, take it from us, here are some heavy wavy hair products that you can totally live without!
Weighty Straighty
We love our curls to shine, but found the Biosilk Silk Therapy by Farouk Systems to be too heavy for our hair. We love sleek shiny hair, but this doesn’t give us the shine, just the weight that goes right to straight. Hours later, my hair seems to be full of static as well.
My daughter doesn’t like Regis Luxe Conditioner (one of our freebies”> because it seems to make her hair appear oily by the next day. Yuck! Neither one of us likes Design Line Volumizing Mousse with the strongest hold as it doesn’t hold any wave or volume in our hair, but it does like to dry it out.
Garnier Rules
You’ll find plenty green bottles and tubes of the Garnier hair care line littered throughout our bathrooms, but neither one of us likes the Super Stiff Ultra Hold gel or the Fiber Gum. Both products hold our styles for about five seconds. They’re probably perfect for short spiky hair, and neither one of us sport that style. We’re simply in a constant search for products to HOLD our waves (or curls when we decide to get dressy”> from the curling iron.
Say “No” to Sulfates
Kathryn of Hair Today in Las Cruces, NM says that woman with wavy hair “should stay away from any sulfate-based shampoos and oil-based conditioners. The scalp produces all the oil the hair needs and using products that put more coating or oil on the hair weighs it down. She should go as long as possible between shampoos. When she does wash her hair, she needs to rinse with cold water.”
I had heard that rinsing with cold water pumps up the hair follicle. I knew sulfates were bad for the environment, but I didn’t know they could weigh down my waves. I’m assigning the cleansing-our house-of-sulfate-containing-hair-products task to my daughter as soon as she gets home from school!
Genevieve Rodriguez, one of the senior student stylists at Olympian University of Cosmetology, feels the Mardan relaxer products for fine, wavy hair are too heavy. She suggests that clients let stylists assess their hair type and recommend the best treatments, rather than picking something up at the drugstore.
“What is good for one client’s wavy hair won’t be good for another client’s hair.” Rodriguez says.
Sounds like an individualized prescription from a doctor to me, which makes perfect sense. I know if my daughter and I had received advice from a stylist prior to buying some of the wavy hair products scattered around our house, I probably would have saved myself hundreds of dollars over the years. Well, not counting the freebies.
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Everyone gathers around the patient, but what about the partners of breast cancer patients? When you take the burdens of the everyday home duties away from your partner, you suddenly have twice the responsibility, twice the worry and twice the demands on your time. With the added and new duty of being the rock for your partner and perhaps your children, you may be thinking, “when do I get to concentrate on me again?”
Finding Local Support
When you learn of your partner’s diagnosis, you need to identify family and friends, or community support systems you can rely on when you become weary. From time to time you’ll probably experience what the medical community terms as “caregiver burnout.” At some point, weariness, frustration, fear, and sheer exhaustion may set in and you will simply need a break. Before you get to the burnout point and risk your own mental and physical health, know your point people who can step in and take the children out for the day, or come into the home and let you have a day or a few hours to do some of the activities you enjoy.
Support groups for partners of breast cancer victims frequently run meeting at churches and hospitals. These groups offer terrific resources if you need to talk to others who will understand your experience, and get workable solutions to your challenges.
Go National
Everyone has probably heard of the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer, but you may not have heard of another national program that offers a unique support program for partners of breast cancer victims. The Y-Me has designed a support program called “Partner Match” that offers one-on-one counseling with volunteer peer counselors who are also partners of breast cancer victims. After your partner is finished with treatment and becomes a breast cancer survivor, you can in turn volunteer your time to be a peer counselor and help someone else’s partner through a difficult time.
Supporting the Children
Even toddlers can understand that something is different in the household. You will have to assume a larger role in their care which could mean everything from making dinner, running nightly baths, or being the taxi for teens that your partner used to manage. Again, family and friends can take some of this burden off of you. Consider setting up a unique “play” evening with a grandparent or an aunt where the children have dinner or go to a movie with a relative. The children need a “time out” from cancer where no illness is discussed and only fun is on the menu.
If your children are old enough to understand what cancer is, they are going to ask questions for which you may not have answers. Sitting down with your partner to address your children’s concerns will offer more comfort than if you sat down alone and talked to them. Children need to see the family is still a cohesive unit that will work through this difficult time together.
Take a Deep Breath
You will not have all the answers or know perfectly how to embark on the breast cancer journey with your partner. No one does. This is a time of uncertainty and stress, but you are not taking the journey alone. Your partner needs you for support, but your partner can also support you. Although you may wish to protect your partner from all the stresses of the everyday family life, ask your partner how much they can handle. Frequently, they can tell you that they’re stronger and capable of doing much more than you think.
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How do you cope with family stress? Do you and your partner always ensure that you stand as a united, stable force in the face of challenges?
