I know what shapes to throw

[venta]

I pottered into Boots on the way home from work today, thinking that I might spend the vouchers I got for Christmas. They were having a sale, after all, and I'd decided I wanted some crimpers. Yes, yes, I know crimped hair has been passé for ever, but I'm embracing my inner goth or something. Actually, if anything, I was thinking how great keris's hair looked when she crimped it while we were in Whitby.

However. It seems that today's manfacturers are determined to save me from myself. In Boots, I could have purchased many and varied celebrity-hairdresser-endorsed devices for straightening my hair, or indeed getting the "bed head" look, but the only thing remotely resembling a set of crimpers was a pink plastic (pink? I ask you) toy affair that didn't really look up to the task.

Dammit, I do not want chic, sleek hair for this millennium. I want big 80s hair that will scare small children, and provide alternative habitat for disposessed voles.

Next stop, the bigger Boots in town, and if they don't come up with the crimpers, there's going to be trouble.

Does anyone remember the jolly little potatoes who used to dance round on telly singing "We want to be Smiths' crisps"? Well, I'd quite like to buy some (the crisps, not the singing spuds).

In particular, I want to buy Smiths' Square crisps. I want the ready salted ones and, while I don't mind buying four packets at a time, I do not want to labour under the burden of eight packes of cheese&onion and salt&vinegar to get my trusty red-packeted crisps.

Sainsbury's does own-brand Square crisps, which are as good, but Tesco's seems unwilling to oblige in this department. Unless someone wishes to make themselves known as a ready market for blue and green square crisps, I'm going to have to, er... do without, I suppose.

And why do Square crisps taste different, anyway? Does anyone else remember Tubes, which were the same substance, but tube-shaped?

Comments

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall in the dim mists of time when you plaited your hair in lots of little plaits and when you took them out had the desired crimped look.

Given that crimping your rather long hair would take at least an hour, and would like start to fall out before the end of the night.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall in the dim mists of time when you plaited your hair in lots of little plaits and when you took them out had the desired crimped look.

I'm unsure whether that's a general "you" or you mean me personally :) I certainly have done that in the past, but in order to wash my hair, plait it, let it dry, take it out again takes rather more than an hour - I need a couple of days' warning!

Maybe I should theive someone else's crimpers and experiment before going wild and purchasing some.

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

I did mean *you* as in in actually you :)

I was alarmed to discover recently that I could dig out my crimpers from when I was 9 and use them again, claiming I was once more vaguely in fashion. How bizarre.