Fairview Dental - May 2021

For Healthy Hair, Use These Hair Products GORILLA GLUE AND HAIR DON’T MIX

Few things are more satisfying and exciting after a long day than the woosh and crackle as you’re opening a fresh bag of chips. Ah, salty bliss! Culinary legend says Americans have been eating potato chips since 1853, when the aptly named chef George Crum first popped slivered tubers into the fryer in Saratoga Springs, New York. In reality, the provenance of the chip is unknown, but Crum’s sister, Kate Wicks, may be the real genius behind it! (Read up on the controversy at ThoughtCo.com.) After all those decades of chip-eating, you may have thought we’d perfected the art, but it turns out the TikTok generation has a few hacks to improve the experience. Here are just a few new ways to eat chips, popularized by videos on the app. Better Ways to Eat Chips — Courtesy of TikTok

On Feb. 3, Tessica Brown shared a heartbreaking video on TikTok about her experience using Gorilla Glue instead of got2b Glued Blasting Freeze Spray on her hair. When Brown sprayed her hair to keep it in place, the result left it glued completely flat to her head. After a month of desperately searching for a solution, plastic surgeon Micheal K. Obeng reached out to Brown, stating he would like to perform a surgery that would finally help her hair, free of charge. Brown agreed, and after an hourlong surgery, she was finally able to run her fingers through her hair again. After this run-in with Gorilla Glue, Brown went viral on social media, earning herself all kinds of attention, both good and bad. She later admitted in an interview with BETNetworks that if she hadn’t been “so obsessed” with her hair, she wouldn’t have been so desperate “to find something in this house to make [her] hair look good.” Now, she’s decided to go the more natural way: using wigs if she wants a certain look or more natural hair care products. To support the natural beauty of your own hair, here are a few great products to try.

The Classy Dipper

If you’re looking for scalp cleansers and shampoo, these products are good choices:

Are you frustrated by the lack of chip space you have left when you plop dip in the middle of your plate? @thelifebath on TikTok has the solution. Grab a martini glass and fill it with your dip of choice, then set it down in the middle of a bowl. Now when you add the chips, they can cover the base of the glass, stabilizing it and allowing for maximum chip storage.

• Design Essentials, $44 • Carol’s Daughter, $13 • Kinky-Curly Come Clean, $10 • Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil Shampoo, $25 For conditioners, consider these:

The Staleness Solution

• Suave Professionals, $5 • Vernon Francois, $18 • SheaMoisture, $11 Detanglers are also important, especially for thick or curly hair. These work well: • Carol’s Daughter Monoi Repairing Anti-Breakage Spray, $24 • Alikay Naturals Knots Be Gone, $13 • Oribe Priming Lotion Leave-In Conditioning Detangler, $38 If there’s a lesson to be learned after reading Brown’s story, it’s that it’s important to know exactly what we’re putting in our hair because it’s a significant part of our daily lives.

If you’re out of binder and bag clips, never fear — there’s a clip-free way to keep your half-eaten bags of chips fresh. @abrigail23 has mastered the art of folding her bags closed origami-style. To follow her lead, simply roll down the top of the bag, then fold both ends of the roll inward, tucking them under as you roll down another layer. Presto! Sealed chips.

The Bag-to-Bowl

Thanks to their tapered bottoms, most chip bags are inherently unstable. But if you don’t have a couch cushion to prop your bag against (or a bowl at hand), @kennamox has your back. Once you open your chips, push the bottom of the bag up from the center and fold the pointed corners in. Then, pinch around the edges to create a concave bottom. Now your chips will stand upright, no bowl needed!