Spend Less Saturday!

I'd like her hair, please! (She must have heard about Michaela Byrd's new hair treatment. That's why her style is so fabulous!)

This week's Thrifty Thursday post started as more of a joke, but ended with some tips on caring for your hair at home.

Kudos to Carole over at Hey Mom, What's for Dinner Tonight?...she recently colored her own hair.

{We've not been to the salon in over three months. I've taught myself how to cut hair and am able to say that the entire family still looks good despite my freshman efforts. And, drum roll please, I colored my own hair yesterday! It looks fabulous and I paid under 5 bucks (store sale & coupon) for the color. To think all these years I was paying tons of money for color/cut/style. Sheesh!}

Brenda at Queen of Good Intentions had a word of caution for anyone looking to try the homemade conditioners with mayonnaise in them:

{I tried using mayo in my hair in high school and it was a smelly nightmare to wash out. Let me just mention first that I hate mayo, but I was willing to try anything for beauty!}

My sister, Alison had a positive experience with the mayo conditioner, or rather, her college roommate did. Alison wrote:

{I mayo-ed my roomie's hair once (she had very curly hair that was dried crispy from coloring and flat-ironing) and it worked really great! It was fun to rub it in her head and then we wrapped it with plastic wrap, her hair was really smooth after.}

I'm not really sure how I feel about the mayo thing, honestly. I think I tend to agree with Brenda's sentiment that I'd be "willing to try anything for beauty." This blog is written by a girl who wore stilettos at 9 months pregnant, after all.

Nicole over at The Soul is Dead that Slumbers had a very easy tip that I've also heard of to keep hair shiny:

{Never ever use hot water on your hair in the shower. Make it as cool as you can. If the coolest you can handle is still kind of hot-ish... rinse your hair at the end with cold water before getting out. Heat on your hair in any form will dry it out.}

This one is hard for me, as I love a good hot shower. It's almost painful to do a quick, cold rinse, but I have heard that it makes for shinier hair. Sadly, my hair would take about 3 days to air dry, so I use a blow dryer with a diffuser.

I tried to come up with a few more tips to save money on hair care.

A no-brainer would be to skip the shampoo and style at the stylist and wash your own hair before the appointment. I'll admit that this is a hard one for me to enforce upon myself, as a good shampoo, cut, and style is often the only form of pampering I see.

And, well, that's all I could come up with. So my friend Google and I sat down together to find some good sites.

Pioneer Thinking has a whole list of articles on everything from styles to suit your face shape to homemade shampoos.

Free Beauty Tips offered some ideas on air drying vs. blow drying, quick fixes for your hair, remedies for oily hair, and more!

Of course you can probably browse Glamour, In Style, Cosmo, or their online counterparts for more tips.

Thanks to everyone who offered some ideas and suggestions!

Have a fabulous weekend!