Okay, so it's been five days since I washed my hair with normal shampoo. Yesterday and today I washed with the 1/3 cider vinegar, 2/3 water, vaguely pee-colored misture that Ryan suggested, and it's actually helping I think! Like, WAY more legitimately than I thought it would, for sure. It's still a little more greasy than I would like, but it's already better than it was at the beginning of the week and I assume it'll keep getting better as my hair acclimates to not being destroyed in the shower every morning? Not to mention the fact that my hair is SUPER CURLY when I leave it down, and it's only ever usually this curly...never. Certainly not in this kind of a controllable way. Usually to get it to do something like this involves a diffuser and half a can of curl serum, which was not necessary at all! This is a scrunch and air dry folks!
As for the smell, my mom says that my hair smells like camp a little bit? Like...musty? I'm not sure that's good but really who ever comes up to you and smells your hair? I'm sure that will acclimate too, otherwise I'm going to put essences of things in it, also as Ryan suggested. Before long I really will be living a sustainable 1850s-type lifestyle! Look out nuclear holocaust...I'll still have nice hair even if you happen! As long as I can find a stockpile of cider vinegar, and non-radiation-filled water...
The point is, what IS it with hair anyway? Sometimes I wish I could wear hats instead of worrying about my hair, but I don't seem to be a hat person. I'm pretty good with my hair, but this not washing with shampoo thing is going to be a rough transition for me 'cause I'm a creature of habit and I always have to remember not to reach for the shampoo bottle, but for the pee-colored bottle instead. When I was little I used to be told how women used to have to cover their hair in church because "a woman's hair is her crown."
So I guess I'm really doing this because...I WANNA CROWN, DAMMIT. A crown that's cheap, and environmentally-sustainable! Turns out chemicals like those in shampoo eff with fish genders anyways.
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dude! your hair looks really good in that pic! when mine was long it would be super curly after a washed it too! sometimes i would use bar soap around the edges of my scalp after i worked out...just in the real sweaty spots...
oh btw...it does look like pee...this is why i hid my "shampoo" when i lived at the hostel so as not to freak guests out...and i had to warn my roommate that i was not, in fact, in the midst of conducting some sort of pee ritual in the shower
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