Product Review: Sedu Revolution Styling Iron
Jan 31, 2009 Product Review
I’m really not sure what possessed me to review the Sedu Revolution Styling Iron in winter. It didn’t even occur to me that I wouldn’t want to use it, since my hair spends a good four months under a warm hat. I usually avoid fixing my hair whenever possible, because it’s a long process – I’ve come to terms with the fact that I have crappy, hard to manage hair, and I only put in the effort on special occasions. So I’ve had this thing for at least a couple of months and am just getting around to reviewing it. But better late than never, because it works really well, even on my thick, difficult hair. If I had known that it would be so quick and easy, I would have tried it the day it came in the mail.
So here’s my hair with no styling – no product, just air dried. It has a weird wave right around eye level that has made it hard to have a good hairstyle. When it’s long the wave doesn’t look too bad, but it’s very layered now and the wave has taken over. Getting my hair to look good right after I style it is fairly simple, but after an hour or so, the wave is back, flipping my layers up in a weird, funky way.
Professionals can get my hair to look good with a blow out, and it will stay that way all day. But despite buying a big, expensive round brush, I’ve never mastered it. I have a hair dryer in the shape of a round brush, but drying it that way doesn’t keep the wave away. And I’ve never been interested in flat irons. My hairdresser loves to straighten my hair, but it looks too severe, too straight, especially the ends.
When I was offered a Sedu Revolution Styling Iron, I checked it out online, and decided to give it a try for one important reason: the plate has curved edges! If it did what it said it would do, I could have straight hair without it looking poker straight and severe. But the real test: would it keep the wave away for more than an hour? Could I actually leave the house in the morning and come home with good looking hair?
I watched the DVD that came with the Sedu Revolution Styling Iron, and it had some good tips for creating different kinds of styles. I chose a very simple one for my first try. It was inauguration day, and I was going to my kids’ school to watch the ceremony. Even though it was bitterly cold out, the school is only a five minute walk so I figured I could brave the cold hatless, and I got to work. I washed and conditioned my hair, and then following a suggestion from the DVD I put some heat protection cream on my hair.
I blew it dry upside down so that it would have some lift at the roots (1), and while the Sedu Revolution was heating up I put on a little make up. The Sedu Revolution has a temperature control dial, and knowing how difficult my hair is, I set it to the hottest temp, and it heated up very quickly.
I’m not all that coordinated, but this was pretty easy. There was nothing on the flat iron to catch my hair, so it slid through easily, and I gave the iron just a little turn at the bottom so that it would curl under a little. Even though I couldn’t see behind me, I managed to do the back of my head without burning myself. I put most of my hair up in a clip, and straightened the bottom layer (2). I didn’t give the bottom layer the same attention that I gave the other layers, so that saved a little time. Then I let some more hair out of the clip and did the middle (3), and then finally did the top layer (4).
The whole straightening process took about twelve minutes. I brushed it a little and gave it a light layer of hair spray, and then off I went to watch the inauguration. It was really windy so it got blown around quite a bit, but when I got home several hours later, no wave! I’m really happy with the Sedu, and I know that when hat weather is over I’ll be using it a lot. I’d like to try it on someone else’s hair, someone who has long curly hair, to see how it does. But really, if it can straighten my hair with little effort, and keep it that way, it has a good shot at working on most any hair. I’m going to try some of the other styles on the DVD, and I’ll take pictures.
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OK, the crazy octuplet lady really is crazy
Jan 31, 2009 Amy in the Morning
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Today I was the mom I hate
Jan 30, 2009 What's Going On
I took the kids to CVS with me today. I’m not sure what possessed me. I actually like grocery shopping with the kids, but only because we don’t do it that often. I take them maybe once a month, probably less. Jake always wants to push the cart, and Fiona always wants to ride in the cart. They get to help and it’s fun.
I could have gone to CVS without the kids, while they were in school today. But I had printed out a great picture shopping list from the CVS site, and had coupons, and figured I could put one kid in charge of the list and one in charge of the coupons. I believe in God today only because I think he was chuckling as I made these plans.
They both spent the entire time driving me crazy. You know that annoying mom you see in stores who just spends the whole time grabbing her kids by the arm and yelling in a whisper? That was me. Jake knows exactly how to get under my skin without breaking any of our “big rules”, the ones that get an automatic punishment.
And Fiona? She was out of control. She told me on the way to the store that she wanted to buy something with her allowance money, and I said fine. She found what she wanted in the first aisle (Dr. Pepper lip gloss) and then spent the rest of the trip bugging me to buy her something. Honestly, after about ten minutes I should have just pulled them out of the store and taken them home. But I didn’t, and instead annoyed everyone around us for the forrty-five minutes we were there.
Let me give you an example of any random minute of the CVS trip:
Me: Jake, don’t do wheelies with the cart.
Fiona: Can you buy me this?
Me: Jake, I asked you not to do wheelies with the cart.
Fiona: Can you buy me this?
Me: Jake, if you do a wheelie with the cart one more time, you can’t push it anymore.
Fiona: Can you buy me this?
Me: OK Jake, give me the cart.
Fiona: Can you buy me this?
Me: Jake, don’t stand on the end of the cart.
I don’t give empty threats, my kids both know that. So every time I threatened Jake with a punishment, he found some other way to annoy me. Finally, I pulled him into a corner and told him that if he did anything to annoy me, he would get a punishment. His response? “How will I know what will annoy you?” To which I yelled “Everything you’re doing is annoying me! Don’t do ANYTHING!”
We got in the car ($18 in CVS Extra Care bucks in hand!) and I gave them a half-yell half-lecture about what I expect from them when we go to a store. Then we started driving, and within about 3 minutes, they were both asleep! They were exhausted! I didn’t even see it. But of course that’s what it was. They stayed up extra late last night because of their school skating party, and even though I let them sleep in this morning they were still in a major sleep deficit.
I am so dumb sometimes. If I had them out at 10pm I wouldn’t expect them to behave, and basically this was the same thing.
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Congratulations to our Huggable Hangers winner!
Jan 30, 2009 Contest/Giveaway
Congratulations to emmedix, who won 50 Huggable Hangers, courtesy of the hanger’s inventor, Joy Mangano! You all know about my undying love for these hangers, so if you didn’t win, go over to HSN and buy some!
Thanks again to Joy Mangano for this great giveaway.
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Well, I guess I know who loves me more!
Jan 30, 2009 Amy in the Morning
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Free stuff? Could it be true?
Jan 29, 2009 Amy in the Morning
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This Week’s Time Suckers: cute cute!
Jan 28, 2009 Time Sucker
Until yesterday, I had never been to any site that exists solely for rating pictures. I know lots of people who go to sites rating how hot people are and other variations, but I’d never had any interest. Then I happened upon these two sites:
This is how I like my animals: two dimensional and unable to jump on me. They are awfully cute. Both sites work exactly the same: people upload adorable pictures of their pets, and other people rate them on a scale of 1-10. I’m not sure why it’s addictive, but it is. I would never just sit there and look at random pictures of kittens and puppies, but these sites tweak that a little bit by feeding my obsessive need to share my opinion, even if my opinion is just getting folded in with ratings from thousands of others. Too cute!
But whatever you do, do not click on Rate My Poo. Yup, it’s exactly what you think it is. Trust me, do not go there.
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Challenges and Tragedies
Jan 28, 2009 Amy in the Morning
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