Don’t let people tell you your 30s will be the best time of your life in a tone that suggests your looks will fade so you better find inner peace. Vicki’s Pick is a weekly beauty column that features Vicki’s all-time favourite beauty products and latest discoveries for women in their 30s who plan on staying pretty on the outside for a long, long time. Inner peace is optional.
Once upon a time I used to bother pretending to be a natural blonde by getting subtle sun-kissed highlights, but these days I’m all about rocking the supremely fake platinum blonde hair. And why not? I was a natural blonde when I was 5 years-old, but what woman in her 30s is an actual natural blonde anymore, amirite? As we former blonde babies get older and wiser, we also get, for better or for worse, more and more brunette. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably just has a very good colourist. I believe the great philosopher Dolly Parton put it best when she said, “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.”
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But what nature won’t allow us to hold onto we can easily change with the right amount of peroxide. The problem with embracing the bleach, though, is that your hair tends to get worn-out-looking just a wash or two after a colouring job. Try as I might to use my hairdryer, flat iron, and curling iron as little as possible, I’ve always got a rat’s nest full of tangles on my hands as soon as I come out of the shower. Forget curl enhancers and softening creams and the like; I need the kind of detangling spray strong enough for a wild child but made for a grownup who’s too old to purchase Johnson’s No More Tangles.
Enter Marc Anthony Keratin Miracle Frizz-Smoother Daily Leave-In. If you’ve ever contemplated cutting off a wad of your hair just to save yourself the trouble of rooting a brush out of the chaos, this detangling spray is your new best friend. I recently just went about three shades more blonde than usual, which looks great once it’s styled but resembles something Falkor from The Neverending Story might cough up right after I towel-dry my hair. Although I usually have to douse my hair in average leave-in conditioners before I can actually work a comb through my strands, this Marc Anthony spray only requires a few spritzes before it works its magic and makes my mane manageable in spite of the peroxide. Is it worth the trouble? Hell ya. Blonde hair makes a girl feel beautiful, no matter what the pro “natural beauty” types say. As the great philosopher Marilyn Monroe once said, “I like to feel blonde all over.”
