Budman: Chill out and have one of your beers while SHE does all the legwork on this hair equipment escapade..why act as an "enabler"????

Wine is the beverage of choice.

"Enabler" may be your characterization, certainly not mine.

Budman
What a nice husband you are. I'm with Scarlett on this one. I have straight hair and have always been green with envy to have all those natural curls. I think it started as a little girl when I wanted to look like Shirley Temple.

Oh Bud, darlin, admit it!! You are an Enabler!!
So is the Yankee. He enables me to look as good as I can, dress as well as possible and go to so many fine places..he thought about therapy but I enabled him to enjoy making his wife happy as I am sure Mrs Bud is just as happy to be enabled

Budman - I have to ask (because I'm in a similar situation now!): Did you end up buying this product for Mrs. Budman, and if so, did it work to her satisfaction?

I smell a Troll.

Seriously Budman, how did you ever get along in this world if you have to ask questions like that?

What do you think the women of Ireland do? They go to a store and buy the tools they need. Same for you except now you've announced to the world that even though you're quick with the ugly icons, you're really not all that swift, are you?

Just kidding about the Troll part.

:^)

mm

Forgive my ignorance: although I've posted a few messages on this forum, I don't know what the "troll" reference means. Please advise.

Jenbirds,

Definition of a troll:

"Author: Marilyn ([email protected])
Date: 04/19/2005, 03:18 pm
A troll is someone who posts not to further commercial interests, but to provoke. Sometimes it is a ridiculous question and the troll is just trying to sucker people into wasting their time answering. Sometimes it is a very provocative question and the troll wants to get people into a fight with each other. Sometimes the troll has taken a dislike to someone on the forum and stalks that person and tries to ruin their threads.

Trolls can be amusing (muffin comes to mind) but mostly they are annoying and sometimes downright offensive and/or scary."

mm, who was whining because she didn't believe that trolls exist, ran into her first troll today >- -- unfortunately that entire thread has been deleted.

To answer your question, yes, I did buy it, and yes, it did work to her satisfaction.

What a sweet husband you are! Have all the Buds mellowed you? My flat iron has 120V. I wonder if the converter would work? And for those who haven't used the flat iron, it is a frizzy head's dream!

I thought that was really really nice of Budman to spend so much time buying such a thing for his wife. I don't fool with my hair hardly at all, so have trouble understanding the desire to use one of these appliances ever, let alone on vacation. ONe thing I've always really wondered about is that more of the posts on here talk about curling irons than straighteners. I can understand straighteners but don't know what kind of hairstyles the women who use curling irons have that would require use of that every day. Do you think they have short hair that is curly all over? I don't know, they only make fairly small curls and I really don't know any women that use curling irons regularly.

However, I do have a tip as I heard so much on here about the ceramic plate things that I decide to buy one to make my hair smoother (it tends to get bushy). I bought a Revlon one at my local discount cosmetic chain and it's a combination curling iron/flat plate straightening iron, it does have ceramic plates, AND it is dual voltage. So that covers all bases. It's pretty good, although I've only used it once or twice and then lost interest in the hair thing.

It was pretty reasonable, only about $25-$30. Here is a picture and description of it (although I can't endorse the vendor, just the link I found):

http://www.celebrityappliance.com/rv057c.html

That should be available very easily at many stores in the US.

ilovetulips, a converter would cost you much more than it would to buy a dual voltage flat iron. My wife loves her 110v and I didn't want to take a chance of "frying" it.

For anyone in the market for flat irons, HAI Stik is one of the best, if not the best according to top stylists in LA. But when I took mine to Italy this last trip I finally read the instruction book small print and it says never to use it with a converter, so I didn't and have the fluffy bouffant hairdo that week to prove it!

So if you do take one make sure it can adapt to a converter before you leave.

Budman: Thank you for the troll clarification (I am not one). I, too, am a flat iron-user, and your info was very helpful. Thanks again.

What an interesting thread for all of us curly heads! Hair is so important to me - I know, I know! You are supposed to have the natural look. But if my hair looks funny I have a less happy day.

We walked over the Golden Gate in SF last year in the fog and you have never seen such a sight as my hair afterwards. In fact it was a disaster the whole time of our stay in SF.

So I am interested to know if these hair straighteners can be used on shortish hair?

Budman,

I have it on first-hand knowledge that mm is a man!

Too funny!

:^)

mm

jofrommelbourne ~ for shortish hair you would need a slim straightener. Only thing to consider is if the humidity is high, your hair might just go curly again. This happened to me while in SF - I straightened my hair, and within 1/2 hour in the SF fog I looked like Shirley Temple. (And, no, that is not a good thing!)

I, too, have found this thread highly informative! Thank you Budman for starting this, even though it was a year ago! I intend on taking a straightener with me to Spain, as straight hair holds up better in travel conditions than does curly. (Don't have to worry about wind, can pull it up easily, and can even pass up a day without washing - can't do that with curly hair!) I'm curious if anyone knows of a wet/dry straightner that has dual voltage and ceramic plates. So far, I've not been able to locate one in the stores where I live or online. Would be nice to be able to forego the hair dryer on days I want straight hair!

I phoned Conair about a hair straightener w/ dual voltage that I found in a local grocery store. Conair suggested I use it on LOW in Europe, to keep the voltage low. I don't what good that would do, unless you had really fine hair.

Maybe Conair didn't want you blowing any fuzes. That could happen if you stayed in an older place that didn't have up-to-date wiring and you turned it on high (it would pull more power on high).

We never had that problem. BTW, you will need a pulg adapter.

Plug adapter. Of course, you knew what I meant.

Budman - you rock! I have one of those combination adapter/tranformers from a family member - that should work, shouldn't it?