Clipping...not so much & Bargain Hunting!

So at my salon, my stylist always clips my hair along my part line before she puts me under the hood dryer. I decided that since duckbill clips were on sale at a store near me, I'd pick up some and give it a try.

Honestly, I'm not sure about clipping yet. I think I can honestly get more volume by just using the icequeen method (rinsing upside down) with much less effort. I was going to post an explanatory post about clipping with some pictures, but since I've decided I don't like clipping enough to really play with it much more (maybe later I'll be bored and I will), I'm just going to suffice it to say that I don't love it, I think it's going to take practice, and I can get similar if not better results with less effort.

On to things I'd much rather blog about, like spending money on hair products. I've made my series of what I'm calling my "Spring purchases." I'm calling them that to give me a sense of justification really haha. Although, I will say this. I'm being a very good PJ because everything that I have bought I bought as some kind of discount/bargain.

I've ordered several new things. First of all, I ordered the CurlEase towel, which USPS tells me is on the way and should be here next week. I already told you all about that bargain though. On that purchase, I saved about $10. I also got an awesome opportunity on CurlTalk's Swap Board to split a purchase of 2 sets of 2 Curls Like Us cloths. The Curls Like Us site is having a buy one set (2 towels) get a second set half price, so I split the purchase of that deal with another poster on curltalk and that way I ended up paying less (including shipping) for two towels than buying two towels would have cost without shipping! On that purchase, by splitting it, I saved about $10. Hooray bargains!

I've also read lots and lots of good things about the Curl Junkie line of products. So I ordered the Curl Fuel Spray, which is rumored to cut down on frizz on second day hair, and the Coffee Coco Curl Creme is supposedly also very good, so I ordered that as well. But because I'm still a poor college student, I ordered them off curl mart (here and here) because I can use a the coupon code "ivillage" to give me 20% off my total, which is always fabulous! So that saved me nearly $5.

All in all, when you add it up, I saved about $25 overall on my latest PJ purchases. Not too shabby! My poor hair product shelf is already getting quite crowded though, so hopefully everything I've got will fit!!