What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

Let’s face it, many women spend an inordinate of time (and often money) on their hair.

When I think about the hours and hours and hours I’ve spent blow drying, hot rollering, flat ironing, air wrapping, deep conditioning, curl ironing, highlighting, and otherwise fussing with my hair, I think I probably could’ve used them to get a Masters Degree or some other highly time consuming but useful endeavor.

COVID changed how a lot of us think about our hair. It made us question the point of all the bother. I saw many gorgeous silver foxes emerge after lockdown was over.

For me, I quit constantly blow drying, especially in the summer. It’s OK to let your hair dry naturally. It looks fine, even good, some might say. A friend turned me on to the large selection of curl creams that you can put on wet hair to shape your natural curls while your hair dries naturally. I like this one, available at CVS.

So, if possible, I skip the blow drying and, in the words of Elsa from Frozen, Let It Go