There is an embarrassing story coming (so just hold out
until the bottom…or skip to the bottom)
When I was young I hated the color. It was red and I hated that I stood out and
people always made comments on my hair color.
I hated that in 1st grade we learned about bar graphs and
when we did hair color the teacher forgot to put “red” as an option so I was
left off the list. I died it once only
to find out you can’t use “temporary” dye on red hair since it just absorbs the
color so I had odd brayish (brown and gray) hair for like a year. I like the color now, but Jordan is not
convinced I’m a redhead. She insists
that it is brown.
The length is an issue.
I prefer a nice short cut. It’s
quick and easy to take care of. But when
the wind blows you can’t put it in a ponytail…and that sucks, because like my
feet (see here), my face is opposed to being touched. Long hair can get heavy (despite what Paul
says) and having it up all day gives me a headache. It takes 20x longer to brush and wash and
dry. But my hubby prefers it long, and
now that I’ve had it long for so long I’m sure I’d hate having short hair.
The real reason I’m writing today is the perception of
hair. Hair is what makes you look fresh
and clean or like you haven’t showered in a week. Hair is what makes you look put together or like
you don’t own a brush or maybe you enjoy the nest forming on the back of your
head because you want a place for hummingbirds to feel welcome. I have no idea why a hummingbird was my bird
of choice.
So I’ve heard of this “No Poo” thing…where you don’t use
shampoo and conditioner because according to people out here somewhere shampoo
strips your hair of natural oils and destroys it (or something like that)…so
like 6 months ago I gave it a shot.
HORRIBLE idea. My hair was a
greasy mess, like I just dipped my head in bowl of old KFC fryer oil. The vinegar and baking soda are supposed to “wash”
your hair. LIES I tell you! I tried it
for 2 weeks and it was the nastiest thing I’d ever done.
THEN to fix the problem I had created I went and bought a
nice expensive “salon quality” shampoo and all that did was leave my hair
feeling like it was caked in melted wax.
I spent a lot of money on it, so I had to use it all (because I’m cheap
like that) so for the last 4-5 months on the days I washed my hair…it was gross…the
days I just rinsed with water my hair looked awesome…so I knew it was the
horrible shampoo.
All that to say the last few months my hair has been a nasty
nightmare. So when somebody pulled me
aside at work today to make a comment on how sometimes it looked like I didn’t
bathe because my hair looked sort of dirty I sort of freaked out
internally. First I thought HOW EMBARRASSING. I thanked them for “letting me know” because
really they were doing it to try and help me and did not mean it in a bad
way. I fought the urge to tell them WHY
my hair had been like a greasy KFC candle because I didn’t NEED to justify my
horrible hair.
Instead I blog my justifications so I feel a little better
about myself. I do shower, I swear. I just had a couple failed experiments with
my red locks.
However, rest assured that the awful shampoo is gone (only
because Taylor dumped out half of the bottle to make a very expensive bubble
bath) and I am back to my normal shampoo so I have shiny (not oily) and bouncy
(not waxy) hair once more that actually looks better after shampooing instead of
worse.
What lesson did I learn? Don’t experiment with your hair
when you still have to actually show up to work looking professional.
And proof I have red hair and an excuse to show you one of
my favorite pictures of all time.
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