Humidity Head

The humidity in the northeast is choking me.  My sinuses are stuffed, my skin is shiny and I am clammy.  I can do something about all of this though.  What I can NOT seem to do anything about is my hair.

It is short and it is curly.  In this weather it is shortER and curliER.  I came on this trip to my hometown armed with an arsenal of products to prevent the frizz.  BUT they're not working.  I know the lowdown on curly hair - it is porous and the humidity will cause frizz unless I fill in those pores.  Think shingles on a roof with nothing in between them.

I have brought with me curl cream and anti-curling cream, curling mousse and anticurling gel and some de-frizzing stuff that sounds French.  Maybe I just need epoxy or spackle.  I apply layer after layer of stuff, and finally the hair is looking good.  And then I step outside.  I swear, I can HEAR it curling.  The next thing I know, my bangs are gone, and my hair is so swollen that I look like a walking Q-tip.  Very disheartening.  If it was longer it might be more controllable (or it could possibly be a lot larger), but I got a 'little trim' before I left - HUGE MISTAKE!  Someone DID compliment me on my 'poodle cut' though - wasn't that what they called short curly hair in, oh say, 1950??  And so I continue to pray that the goop will make the hair stay down obediently.  I have used enough hairspray that the hair on my arms stays put, so why not the hair on my head? I just don't get it.

Tomorrow it is supposed to be 87 degrees with a great chance of rain.  Yay me! And as I write this, the rain again begins to fall.  I am a lucky girl.