Give Your Strands Some Sugar With The Milk + Sass Macaron For Hair Detangling Brush
The macarons in that top picture may look good enough to eat, but don’t reach for some napkins just yet — see, these sweet treats will give your hair a major rush, not appease your taste buds. The bite-sized Milk + Sass Macaron for Hair ($12.99 at MikandSass.com) is, in fact, a handy detangling brush and compact mirror. When you lift the top half of the macaron, then, you’ll discover bristles arranged in concentric circles to create a radial pattern. The bottom half of the macaron, meanwhile, features a handy compact mirror at its base so that you can double-check your styling handiwork, touch up your lipstick, and make sure no mascara has flaked or smeared. The design also ensures that the brush bristles are always nestled safely inside the macaron “cocoon,” so that they don’t lose their shape or wind up dusty and dirty.
Clearly, the kawaii factor here is off the charts. After all, the Macaron for Hair brushes even come in colors that correspond to traditional macaron flavors: Raspberry (a deep magenta with matching bristles), Mint Citron (a mint green macaron with lemon-y yellow bristles), Rose Petal (a soft baby pink with hot pink bristles), Lavender (a pastel lavender hue with matching bristles), Lemon Pistachio (a pastel yellow with pale green bristles), and Licorice (a black macaron with reddish magenta bristles).
But there’s more to these bite-sized treats than their cuteness. For one thing, the bristles are remarkably sturdy so that, even when working their way through thick and curly hair, they don’t snap in half or bend every which way (and yes, this has happened to me in the past!). Also, the brush does a great job of detangling both wet and dry hair in a pretty short time span. See, not only is the radial pattern of the bristle arrangement conducive to detangling, but the height of the bristles alternates throughout each concentric circle. If you set the brush half of the macaron down and then look down, examining the bristles from a higher vantage point, you’ll notice that each concentric circle features an alternating pattern of a short bristle followed by a long bristle, and so on. You might also notice that those shorter bristles are aligned to create diagonal lines that extend from the outermost circle to the very center of the macaron, and ditto for the longer bristles. The positioning of the bristles, then, makes detangling hair remarkably easy and lowers the chances of breakage or frizz.
From a purely practical stance, meanwhile, I love the travel-friendly size of the brush and the fact that the bristles are safely tucked inside the macaron case. If you’ve ever traveled with a brush in your purse, then you know the hazards of the operation — before you know it, flecks of dust and dirt are lodged in between bristles or bristles are frayed, bent, and snapped. Yuck! This design, then, keeps the brush secure.
If you have kids, you’ll love the Macaron for Hair all the more since you can share it with your little ones and tend to their strands after they splash around in the pool or play in the park. And since the detangling process is quicker and gentler, there will be no tears shed — by you or your kids! That, my friends, is sweet!
