the parlor's almost complete...

i got this from peepee. yay! i've been wanting to own one for the longest time, but we just didn't have enough time to look at specific models until last sunday. a few days back (last week), peepee and i went to the mall to look at some possible gift items. i saw a Babyliss tourmaline/ceramic hair straightener (priced at Php2375). i wanted to buy it since i first saw it, but then we decided not to because we also wanted to look at other brands. also, looking at hair straighteners wasn't the main reason why we went to the mall. so, i said, we'll just buy it when we come back after a few days. when we went back last sunday, i went to the Babyliss area, but then the item that i wanted got sold out just the day before! i was so bummed out! so, i decided to not buy anything at all. i got so disappointed. the lady said there'll be another shipment that's due to arrive sometime next week. i didn't want to wait another day.
so, what peepee did was he looked at other brands and he found Vidal Sassoon. it did the same thing as the one from Babyliss did, but it was a couple hundred bucks more expensive than Babyliss. it was originally priced at Php3179.75 but we got it for just Php2861.
i mentioned that the VS straightener does the same thing as the Babyliss..well, the reason why i wanted the Babyliss was because it has tiny little vents at the side of the plates which acts as, well, vents. meaning, i could use it on either damp or dry hair, minus the worry of damaging my crown. the Babyliss lady was offering me another type of straightener (Php3450) which is just that...a straightener and nothing else. no way am i going to spend that hard-earned money on something that i half-heartedly want!
when peepee showed me the VS straightener, the first thing i asked the lady was that if it could be used on both damp and dry hair. she showed me a different model (which i think is much more compact than Babyliss'), and she immediately tried it on my hair. i'm glad she did, because i'm soo loving it now instead of Babyliss'