Round Brush Trauma

I'm having a hard time concentrating at work today.  I'm thinking about the new round brush I bought.  I have tentatively starting using the round brush again after 25 year break.

When I was six the round brush beckoned to my long golden hair, just begging me to use it.  I obliged and began happily brushing, curling and twisting my hair around the round brush until it was hopelessly tangled.  I tugged and tugged but couldn't get it loose.  With frustrated tears I started yelling for my mother.  She didn't respond immediately and being the impatient type, I reached for the scissors and began cutting.  My poor mom walked in when I was about halfway through my impromptu haircut.  The look on her face was sheer horror.  "What have you done?!?", she cried.  There I stood, beet red, scissors in my wanting desperately to have the round brush out, OUT of my hair.  I was marched to the beauty salon where i got a very cute boy cut.  My mother cried.

As you can imagine, I was traumatized by this experience and steered clear of the round brush. 

Occasionally, I would see my friends with lovely, volumized, hair and ask, "How do you DO that?"  Of course the answer would be, "Oh, you know, with a round brush."  I felt defeated by their answer.  I could never use a round brush.  Just the thought of it scared the heck outta me.  I would imagine something like this:

But now that I am 31 I figured it was time to grow up and give it another shot.  I realized I never properly learned how to use a round brush.  Thanks to YouTube, one can learn pretty much anything these days.

Some of my new favorite hairstyles are coming from www.twitter.com/LolaMarie8 - I suggest you check her out if you're looking to update your 'do.  Thanks to her I am also re-visiting the world of Velcro rollers and I am traumatized no more!