Big Country Singer Hair Comparison and Review: Big Sexy Hair Powder Play ($16) vs. Not Your Mother's Girl Powder ($6) (picture heavy post)

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Some brilliant and beautiful friends were talking about the fucking amazingness of volumizing powder, and after they showed me their results, I was really intrigued. My hair isn't thin, but it's fine and pretty flat. I've never figured out how to tease volume into it - the best I could do was blow dry it upside down and get a little more volume that way, but it's never been dramatic.

So I was pretty happy to get a sample of Big Sexy Hair Powder Play in my June Glam Bag. It made my hair really big! And it was easy to use. This is definitely another hairstyling technique for the lazy and/or incompetent. I'll get to more about how it works below, but the photo above shows my results.

The downside of the the Big Sexy powder is that it usually sells for around $16. From Amazon, you can get it for less than $9 right now (with free shipping if you have Prime). I was going to buy it from ULTA on sale, but when I missed the sale, I started to look around for a cheaper alternative. What I found was Not Your Mother's Girl Powder, which sells for $6 on drugstore.com $7 on Amazon. It sounded like the same kind of thing, so I decided to pick one up and compare.

What I failed to notice is that the BSH product contains 15 g, while the NYM is only 6 g. That means that per unit, the BSH is actually only slightly more expensive at full price and significantly cheaper from Amazon. Oops! Read the labels, people. Do as I say, not as I do, etc. Anyway, the comparison must go on, because if one works significantly better than the other, than the price might not be the most important factor.

And how did they compare?