Rebecca's 24-Hour Product Diary: How to Look Like Taylor Hanson
In DepthIn the morning, I use Alba Botanica lavender body wash for my shower soap and CeraVe on my face. I wash my hair with Aura Rosemary and Mint shampoo and condition it with Rusk Green Tea and Alfalfa, which we call “Farm Fantasy” in my house because it smells like someone’s idea of a farm who’s never been to a farm before. I get both from TJ Maxx, $10 for the super-jumbo bottles. Sometimes I use Matrix’s purple shampoo because some of my hair is bleached, and sometimes I use Redken Body Full conditioner, which is a thousand times better than the Rusk but doesn’t smell like Farm Fantasy. I wash my hair every three days. The first day is big and wavy, the second is lank and Taylor Hanson-like (also good), and the third is awful, but I try to embrace the Tim Riggins. Being tall means fewer people can see how greasy my hair really is, right? I’m unwilling to wash it more often.
After the shower, I have to put in my contacts before I have any gunk on my hands and I really hate this part because I can feel my skin angrily tightening as it dries without moisturizer. For my face, I mix some CeraVe moisturizer with this Seventh Generation prickly pear serum that a friend gave me for this horrible freezing weather. I think it really helps! I make a little cocktail in my palm.
Then my body: I keep my coconut oil in the tub, right over the drain, so it warms up while I’m in the shower. We live in Michigan and are miserly about the heat, so if I don’t do this, I’d need a chisel to get any of it out. After a shower, the rim area has softened up (lololololol) enough to scoop some out and cover myself with it.
I like messy, wavy hair, and I get it in a truly idiot-proof way. I rub Wella Extra Volume mousse through the ends and then work up, and then I blow it totally dry, paying zero attention, no tools, zoned out. At this point it looks terrible. Then I twist it into three little buns, secured with two pins apiece. I blast the buns with hot hair for about ten seconds, and then I leave them alone to cool down while I do my makeup.