The Straight Hair Pill: Could A Good Hair Day Be a Gulp Away?

by Courtney Dunlop (Subscribe to Courtney Dunlop's posts)
Posted Dec 8th 2009 at 2:30PM

Could a pill make Nicole Kidman's curly tresses permanently straight? Photo: Getty Images

In the era of blowout bars, tourmaline flat irons, thermal straightening treatments, and more serums and sprays than one can count promising smooth, straight hair, this might be the best news many women have heard in a long time!

According to the Daily Mail, scientists have discovered a "curly gene" and are working on a pill that can make hair straighter from the inside out.

It goes the other way too -- straight-haired women (or men!) who have fantasized about cascading waves would take a curly pill.

The author of the research, Professor Nick Martin, told the Daily Mail that he "will be discussing this with a major cosmetics company in Paris in January." (Does it rhyme with Shm'Oreal?)

No duh he will!

We're sure the race is on to be the first to capitalize on this industry-changing revelation, and it probably doesn't come cheap. But considering the straightening pill could render millions of hair products and tools obsolete (and all the profits made from them!) it would be ideal to be the company to own the technology that has the potential to crush the competition.

But enough about corporate greed -- let's go back to fantasizing about what it would be like to simply swallow a pill and wake up with the hair of our dreams. It's right up there with the fantasy about being able to cure gray hair.

So while we wait for the magic pill to be invented we'll just have to suffice with a good old fashioned blowout -- watch this video for our favorite pro blow drying tips.

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Filed under: Hair Care, Cuts & Style, Beauty, Hair, News
Tags: curly hair, CurlyHair, Hair Basics, HairBasics, straight hair, StraightHair

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Rosalinda, 12-09-2009, 12:19PM

You must really hate yourself alot if you feel the need to resort to childish name calling and stereo typing... i feel very sorry for you.

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Alex, 12-30-2009, 12:50PM

Good news!

you dosent have to damage you're hair anymore to get Curly Or silke hair.
No losing hair!

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louis, 5-30-2010, 6:39PM

gosh theres another web site about this pill there so rasist againt black people and there hair i dont get why they say those things espacialy the part about black people having ugly hair white whana bee when white people whant to be black they complain about them perming there hair when they be out in the sun getting black but they get red as a lobster like wtf is wrong with white people these days i seen alot of white people with dread lock so whats to criticize each other they all have problem with beauty problem is so ridicules iam latino and i am not rasist ihave curly hair then it changes to pin straight hair then it changes to redgolden brown to dark brown then to ash blond is crazy is just who my genes .

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