Hair help please! GHDs. Babyliss Big Hair?

[YoniRotten]

Hi

I have neglected my hair for a long time - scraped back and ponytails is pretty much my style. Got away with that for a while but am feeling with advancing age I need to make more of an effort. Where to start?
I have straight-ish hair, just past shoulder-length. It's fine and flyaway. Sahm to toddler with not a huge amount of time to do my hair but will try!

I bought my Mum a BBH for £20 when they first came out. Why oh why did I not buy myself one too?!?!? Now I can't pay £45 for it.

My Mum has very fine hair and would not be parted from her BBH for even one day when I asked to borrow it once!

I've recently bought the new BBH when it was on offer on Boots for £34.99. I haven't used my ghds since I got it, I make sure I use a heat protective spray before using and a shine spray after. My hair is straight and smooth just not the same straightness as you get with straightners but I prefer it, it's fab for drying my fringe too.

Thanks, trixy and Dilly, looking positive for a BBH then! though I am now tempted by the heated rollers. BBH looks easier to use? Quicker?

YoniRotten I have several shampoos and conditioners which I rotate.

Philip Kingsley
Liz Earle
Keratase

I also use a Philip Kingsley scalp mask and deep conditioner once a week and take hair vitamin supplements every day. This does sound like a lot of money, but although the products are expensive they are concentrated and do last a long time. Liz Earle is now available in bigger Boots so I buy there to get the points.

I use Philip Kingsley mousse and thickening spray too. My hair is my secret vice :) and I 'justify' it by saying I wear it every day :)

BBH is the best thing since sliced bread, I love mine and I'm a complete styling numpty so if I can use it anyone can. It makes my frizzy hair smooth and shiny without flattening it and leaves it in much better condition than when I used straighteners.

Thank you, Chottie. I have used Kerastase before, didn't feel it made much of a difference, but I will try the other two, thank you.

Cleo, thanks! I have decided to go for it! BBH and lovely hair, here I come! Though I will wait til Xmas to open it and start using it.

I love my bbh.

I have tried the irons, tongs and heated rollers. And just using my dryer and brush, but nothing made any real difference until I got the bbh.
I was very lucky to get mine on. Special offer in boots and I used my points which I had saved up to get it so I feel like it's just absolutely perfect!

I have long, just below shoulder length fine, but terribly thick on my head hair. I colour it too.
It falls pretty flat if I leave it to dry, (takes ages to dry) but has some curl underneath and at the front.
Then a big section of it is straight and flattens everything down from the top. So I'm triangle headed if I leave it.

Anyway, I blast it with my hair dryer on high heat and high speed, until its almost dry - 5 mins.

Then section it off, and working from the bottom upwards I have about 6 sections which I blast with the big hair, on high, and max rotation, paying special attention to the sections on the top, ie crown of my head, and the front sections.

It looks like I've spent a fortune in a salon, and takes less time than if I use a barrel brush and try and do it with the hair dryer.

I use a tiny bit of firm hold hair gel mixed with water in a squirt bottle as a root lift, and I also use a Kerastase serum for the ends and fly always.

My hair is so swishy, and I feel groomed! Also my style lasts so I have to wash it less, and, as I've coloured my hair, this is a good thing.

I love my bbh.

I love my BBH too. My hair's long and pretty fine, not extremely so, but flat and lifeless if I don't do anything with it.

A few things I've found are making a difference right now: first, my BBH, second, having some light product spray on the roots (I'm using a VO5 one), and third, Mane and Tail shampoo. I bought it in the States (though you can buy on Amazon). It is - I kid you not - designed for use by both humans and horses, to give you a full, glossy mane. And heck, I love it!

Sorry, that should be 'designed for use on both humans and horses,' not 'by.' Horses can't wash their own hair.

Wow, such great reviews of BBH.
I have it in my Amazon basket, keep hoping the price will drop a little.

I wonder if people have used it on their horses?

Thank you, Venus and Profondo.

They are £44 in Argos but I just bought 2 on the Asda website because they are £28 each with free delivery to a local store. I'm giving them as Christmas presents to my best mate and my sister. That's how great they are!

Thank you thnk you!! I've finally bought myself one. I've been keeping an eye out for an offer on these for ages!

Thanks for the asda tip, NoGoatsToe. They only have the 50mm, should I get that or the 42mm? I thought 42 as my hair is only shoulder length?

I have the bigger one and used it even when my hair was chin length. Have never used the 42mm one.

Lovely, many thanks!

The easiest gadget for curls is the barrel thingy babyliss pro perfect curl very expensive but the best and easiest gadget i have eyes up the GHD' curling tongs' curling wand sadly

I have never known any product have the number of threads on MN that Babyliss Big Hair gets - I can't help but think that they have a very active marketing department!

This view might be coloured by the fact that I found it rubbish - have used it twice and it's now in the packaging at the back of a cupboard!

ajandjjmum I am nothing to do with Babyliss but the BBH is just about the only hair styling device I use and which works for me. As with anything, it's horses for courses.

I'm glad it works for you Cleo - wish it did on my hair. But seriously, it is the only product that I see a thread about on a very regular basis - I was sad enough to think just a couple of weeks ago 'I haven't seen a thread about BBH for a little while', then lo and behold......

I just have to put up with flat hair sadly!

:) aj! Yes, quite, you just don't know who people are online.
I shall try it anyway, anything has to be better than this fine, limp rubbishy hair I have!

I bought the bargain Asda BBH and used it today it was awful! I have the super thick/wavy/bush head hair only GHD's can tame. I got back from walking tge school run and look like a big crazy hair lady. Spent quite a bit if tone with it but totally different from GHD's. Then I noticed it was the 42mm one even though my invoice says 50 so I am taking it back tomorrow. I rang CS and they said doesn't matter I used it as it is the wrong thing so st least will get my £28 back

I just picked mine up. They sent the 42 mm instead of the 50mm. It's very annoying!

Thanks for the Asda tip, off to order.

Does it work on very long hair? I have fly-away fine wavy hair (but lots of it), down to my bum. Would it just get all tangled in the barrel?

Thanks again for all the advice, and especially the ASDA tip - finally got around to getting there today and bought my BBH. But not opening til Xmas day. Will report back then!