As the sun gets hotter and the humidity rises, many girls who straighten their hair most of the year opt to go curly. If you're considering going curly for the season, you might be intrigued by the idea of a curling shampoo.

But, according to The Beauty Brains, you probably shouldn't waste your money.

Today over at Stylelist there is a great gallery that reveals the hair care secrets of some of the best-headed celebrities out there, like Jennifers Aniston and Lopez.

Even better, most of the gallery descriptions include the drug store equivalents of the pricey Hollywood treatments.

Your mother's "I don't want to go on a date with you" excuse is ruined. But that's okay, because your mother doesn't get asked out anymore.

"I'm washing my hair" is now passe. You can always wash your hair a couple days later. Or not at all!

Check out this NY Times article about people with dirty hair.

Me? I come from a long line of greasy women. Seriously. It's fine by me; it keeps all of our skin from aging, but not wash my hair? That's crazy talk.

I decided to give it a go, though. My mother gave me a bottle of powder shampoo she got talked into and didn't want from Aveda that has been staring at me from my cabinet for a long time. Um, how does one apply powder to hair? Well, people, I tried, and I still don't really know. There's a lot of powder in a lot of places now.

I guess the powder mopped up some grease, but it made my hair crunchy and weird. Actually, my hair feels dirty. Which it is. It's like my hair was greasy and then I put dirt in it.

I could try and get used to it, but I really want a shower. I think this ship's gonna have to sail on by me. Bon voyage dirty hair ship!

I wash my hair with good-old-fashioned shampoo, and I figured I was lookin' alright. But today I learn that if I want my hair to really shine, I need to spend the big bucks.

At least, that's how it works for Catherine Zeta Jones, who apparently has so much money that she can spend more than £200 (about $400) just washing her hair. How is this even possible, you ask? Does she light her bathroom with fires made from burning money?

Not exactly (but almost). The actress believes she got her shiny locks by lathering her scalp in truffles and caviar. A spa near London flies in the fish eggs from Iran five days ahead of every treatment, then, upon Miss Zeta-Jones' arrival, washes her hair in a truffle-based shampoo before smearing on the caviar -- all while the star sips champagne and nibbles on culinary delicacies.

According to a source for the UK's Daily Mail, "The eggs are packed with omega-3 fatty acids necessary for the formation of structural proteins" which are supposed to repair dry and damaged hair.

According to me, this salon is scamming rich people and getting away with it.

Last summer I wrote of my secret love for PureOlogy. I hoarded the bottles I got at a PR event for months. Delicious, wonderful stuff but it was hard to justify $20 bottles of shampoo to my frugal life. Perhaps that will change now that PureOlogy has been sold to L'Oreal for an undisclosed amount. The company PureOlogy Research LLC, did $207 million in retail sales for the most recent 12 months. The brand will now join the L'Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Matrix, Redken and Mizani brands. I've got my fingers crossed that the end result of this buyout will lead to PureOlogy, magic recipe unchanged, available everywhere for a lower price. Oh well, a drugstore beauty queen can dream...

You know how it goes. You've tried three different foundations in the last four months and still, none of them seem to have that perfect, well, je ne sais quois that makes your face a perfectly smooth blank canvas for the rest of your makeup. What do you do? You ask your friends, your sisters, your sister's sister-in-law and every person in your office who wears makeup, even John in Accounting. You want to know what everyone else is using.

We're not saying that any single person or source has the final answer on the best of anything, since each of us has our favorites for whatever reason, but for the next few weeks, some of us will be taking time to share with you our personal lists of products we swear by for hair, skin, and makeup.

To get us started, this are my favorites, which I've pulled from my list over on ThisNext:

We might look to some of the glamour glossies for lists of the best beauty products, but Health magazine has named their choices for Best Beauty Products, that not only do their job of cleaning, moisturizing, covering up, lenthening or plumping, but are also healthy for you. They've tested hundreds of products and came up with these, everything from the drugstore to the department store:

• Best Facial Cleanser for normal to dry skin - Aveeno Ultra-Calming Foaming Cleanser ($6.99)
• Best Eye Cream for all skin types -Prescriptives Intensive Rebuilding Eye Cream ($65)
• Best Sunblock for all skin types - Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunblock SPF 55 ($9.49)
• Best Makeup - Almay Smart Shade Makeup
• Best Body Moisturizer - Vaseline Intensive Care Renewal Age Redefining Body Lotion
• Best Shampoo - Garnier Fructis Body & Volume Fortifying Shampoo ($3.79)
• Best Mascara - Ramy Triumph! Mascara Revitalizer ($19)
• Best Conditioner - Burt's Bees Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Conditioner ($8)
  
• Best Lip Moisturizer - Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Plump Perfect Lip Moisture Cream SPF 30 ($27.50)
  
• Best Hair Styling Product - PureOlogy DryShine Styler
• Best for Pedicures - OPI Feet By OPI
• Best for Manicure - Carol's Daughter Lemon Ginger Mint Manicure in a Jar ($10)
  

I wouldn't currently define my hair as color-treated. I might instead call it, in color recovery, after all, I've been slowly growing out my highlights for the last few years, gradually learning that I am not now, and truly have never been, a blonde (since I was about six, at least) Nevertheless, I recently checked out a line of hair care for color treated hair. I received a sample of the PureOlogy line when I was working behind the scenes at a pre-Emmy event last month.

The PureOlogy products are designed to help hair retain color and the shampoo and conditioner contain something they call nanotechnology. The products also use a zero sulfate formula that is both salt-free and vegan. The product is pricier than what I am used to (it seems to sell for $18 to $20 per 10-ounce bottle online) but it does an amazing job leaving hair full of body and very shiny and manageable. It also has a wonderful scent that is sweet and flowery without being overly chemical. They have a complete styling line and several different types of shampoos and conditioners. If I were going to start coloring my hair again, this would be the product I'd be saving my pennies for.