Thanks y'all! I'm about to run to the store so I think I'll pick up the hair refresher and test it out! I'll let you know how it works Janelle!
I should share a quick story with y'all since I just heard baby powder and it brings back some memories.
So freshman year of college, I worked at the mall with a great girl who was in cosmetology school. She loved to practice on people so we all let her. It started with trims and then highlights. It all turned out OK. Then she wanted to try a relaxer. Now I have thick curly hair and I used to hate it because I didn't know how to work with the curl so I said OK to the relaxer.
So I get to her place, she and her friend get to work. They couldn't find a base (even though it was in the box) so they used vaseline all over my scalp. So they do the relaxer, the whole time arguing whether or not they should put me under a dryer (one's saying my hair will fall out, the other is insisting its the only way it'll work and I'm just getting increasingly nervous about the whole thing because I'm realizing that really I have great hair that most people love and I don't wanna lose it!)
So they finish (no dryer) and wash it out and begin to dry. And my hair is just one big shiny clump from all the vaseline. So we rewash. And rewash. Then they put me in the tub and washed and washed and washed. And nothing got the vaseline out!
So I remember how I read that baby powder is good for greasy hair. So they check...they have no baby powder. But she does have flour. So I'm in the tub and they dump a bag of flour on me. So now I'm covered in white powder and they brushed it and tried to wash it. And basically it all just turned into a big paste all over my hair. For the next 3 days, I woke up with my pillow covered in wax and every time I moved, flakes would fall out of my hair. It was the worst thing ever.
And the moral of the ridiculously long horror story is that I now have a fear of putting powder in my hair.