I don’t know about you (I
mean, how could I? I don’t know who is reading this. I would love
to know about you, don’t get me wrong) but I have read about Mason
Pearson hairbrushes for years.
Perhaps you did not spend 80
hours a week perusing Seventeen magazine, Glamour,
Elle, and the pinnacle of all shallow mags, Vogue, when you
were growing up.
But I did. I don’t
know how I managed to find the time to meet and break up with 17 boyfriends,
never miss General Hospital, zip up my Gloria Vanderbilt jeans
AND read all those magazines, but I was able to efficiently multi-task.
Perhaps I should add this to my resume.
Anyway, in my years of perusal,
these magazines were always going on and on about how you need to get
you a Mason Pearson hairbrush. They have been around for over a century,
and they were the Cadillac of brushes. The Hope Diamond of hair care.
The Titanic of tress tools. Well, actually, that’d be bad. That would
mean your hair would sink when it wasn’t supposed to.
You know what I mean. Mason
Pearson hairbrushes are supposed to be the bomb.
Mason Pearson is a real person.
In the mid-1860s he invented the pneumatic rubber-cushion hairbrush.
I know this does not sound like anything interesting, because heaven
only knows what “pneumatic” means anyway, and I am too lazy to go
look, even though the dictionary is less than a foot away from me.
But somehow, our good friend
Mason and his pneumonia hairbrush or whatever made a brush that is different
from all others. And trust me, I have tried them all. This brush is
kind to the scalp; it even massages it, which apparently is important.
And it comes in three pad types (not Pad Thai, that’d be gross) and
four sizes, to cater to the giant coarse head of hair like mine all
the way down to nice fine hair like I have always wanted.
Mason Pearson brushes also
come in five colors, and if anyone wanted to buy me a pink one for coarse
hair, I would love you.
These brushes are not cheap,
though. Hold on to your hat. Cause you know how you can go get an airbrush
at the CVS for like $3.99 or whatever? These brushes, depending on the
kind you get, can cost more than $100.
“A HUNDRED DOLLARS for a
HAIRbrush?” you may be screaming. Well, yes. But believe it or not,
it’s worth it. I use this brush at night, before I go to sleep, and
in the morning after I shower, my hair turns out so much smoother and
shinier than if I DON’T use my six million dollar Mason Pearson. I
really am serious about this.
Plus, if you care for it properly,
it will last you forever. They tell you how to keep it clean and whatnot.
Once I saw a picture of Paris Hilton lying on a lawn chair on the beach,
or perhaps that wasn’t the beach and just her back yard, which is
depressing, and anyway, she had her Mason Pearson hairbrush just LYING
out on the SUN next to her DRINK. Now, there is someone whose Mason
Pearson won’t last forever. But I suppose $100 for a brush is nothing
to that little tart.
But I digress. I cannot emphasize
to you how much I like my Mason Pearson. I own the BN2, which is the
medium-size brush with a combination of bristle and nylon tufts. I own
it in black, because that was my only choice, but again, if anyone wanted
to get me the pink, simply write in and I will give you my mailing address.
~ June
About Jo-Lynne
So what IS the proper way to care for a Mason Pearson hairbrush?
Oh, they give you a little brush cleaner to use, and they have an instruction manual that comes with it. You have to be sure to clean it often.
We can talk about it when we run 13 miles side-by-side, Sleeping Beauty.
Too Funny! And, as I don’t use a brush, I was in this for pure entertainment:)
Now don’t get me wrong, I do have nice hair (pretty much the only feature I DO like!), it’s not like I’m walking around with a tangled mop (well, maybe at times)
It’s just curly, so I only comb it when I get out of the shower. Otherwise, I can’t get a comb or brush through it and more than one brush has broken in my mane! (Although, I bet this one wouldn’t:)
Too funny….I still can’t believe how much it was but I cant really talk. I spent $30 dollars for my ionic hair brush but you TOTALLY out did me… I hope you get the pink one soon!
very cool- Thanks for sharing. I was told to use a circular brushes but I like these.
I have often wondered about the MP. So it’s really worth the price, huh? I might have to check it out…I have a lot of hair.
I remember asking my mum for one when I was 16. She about lost her uppers. I didn’t know they were still around. I may just have to get one for myself!
I’ve always wanted a Mason Pearson but just can’t get myself to shell out the big bucks for one.
Is this for real? LOL!
Bristle and Nylon tufts: This mixture is a good combination for thick or long hair. It is the ideal brush for anyone just becoming accustomed to brushing his or her hair.
Oh my goodness, LOL!!! LOL!!! You make me laugh. I have got to have one of those brushes! I have long hair I wonder what brush I would get. Of corse I would never tell my husband I paid $100 for one. He would pass out. LOL! 🙂 I am putting this blog on my blog list. Love your blog!
Oh good gracious. I have been dreaming of MP for so many years now, and trying to justify the price without ever having tried one. Every time I read a positive review, I inch just a little closer to owning one myself.
Yay! I have a TON of thick hair, and got my first MP brush when I was 6. The handle broke when I was a freshman in college, and I just duct-taped it (b/c I was a freshman in college… classy) and used it for another year or two. Then my grandfather saw the sad state of my MP, and bought me a new one. I’ve been using that for 7 years. LOVE MPs!!!!!!!!!!!