Rainy-Day Hair Tips From A Celeb Stylist (Plus, A Little Frizz Experiment)

Today I paid a visit to the West Village loft of Gretta Monahan, beauty/fashion guru extraordinaire (you might know her from "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style"). When discussing what type of blowout I'd like, I told her the truth: I have avoided wearing my hair down for months, due to the constant rain in New York this spring/summer. Even this morning, when it wasn't quite raining yet, I was thinking why bother?

Gretta, of course, took this as a challenge. We decided she'd style my hair as stick-straight as possible using very carefully chosen products (more on those later), give me some very specific tips for warding off frizz, and see if the blowout could, in fact, survive the crap weather and look just as good this evening.

Check out this photo of how smooth my hair looked right when I got home. I'll post another shot later tonight, and you can be the judge about whether Gretta's frizz-fighting tips worked.