Upon sitting down to dinner last night, my pal announced, "I will never use normal towels again." Now, she's rather dramatic, so I expected her to launch into a tale of why towels were the reason for all the world's problems. No dice. Before cluing me in to anything more, she added, ". . . and you shouldn't either."

She eventually clarified that face washing and showering were OK, but said she'll never again use one to dry her hair. Her decision came from a new stylist who advocates for the Curly Girl Method. In addition to their "no-poo" rule (that's no shampoo with sulfates), the method recommends drying hair with old t-shirts in an approach called plopping.

Totally intrigued, even with the silly-sounding slogans, I did some research and found that plopping sounded like something I'd want to try for my curly hair as well. Learn all about it when you read more