Friday, May 12, 2006

To Wash or Not To Wash


that is the question...and i ask myself that every morning as i drag my tired self out of bed. its always with baited breath that i tip toe into the bathroom, flick on the light, and with squinty eyes, take a look at my bed head. to wash or not to wash usually has a three point analysis: is my hair going in more than four different directions? are my roots three shades darker than the rest of my hair because of the oil/product build-up? and last, is there something important happening at work today? if i can answer yes to any of these questions, i moan with utter despair because i have just added at least thirty minutes to my morning routine.

there's the shampooing, the conditioning, the leave in treatment, the combing, the spritzing, the mousing, the drying, the sculpting, the flipping and the flopping. its just too much.

maybe one day i will be rich enough to afford my own man servant who will wash my hair for me using expensive things like otter milk and lavender...or maybe i'll be so rich that i can just walk around in one of those gaudy rich lady turbans...then i'd never have wash my hair again.

7 comments:

Smedelicious said...

I ask myself those same quetsions every morning...actually today I said to myself..can I get away with not washing it? Do I have any meetings? Damn. I have to wash.

Beanorama said...

ew, and then you can smell my bed head. cause i never wash my hair.

Smedelicious said...

If I go 12 hours without washing, I look like a dirty oily rat...is there something wrong with me? I love the smell of your bed head beanie!

Jody said...

I definitely did not wash my hair/ shower yet today. But I did last night! I don't really want to wash my hair tonight either because I spent 12 minutes straightening my hair this morning and I don't want to spent Saturday morning doing it all over again...

MJL said...

I may be part of a small male contingent that visits So Unpretty, but I can actually relate to this post (somewhat). I told my girl recently that I only wash my hair every other day -- at absolute most -- and she was borderline shocked.

I'm a guy, and it takes a mere 60 seconds to wash my 'do. But I don't find it necessary to do every day, even if I do put "crap" in it (as she eloquently stated).

So whose side are you on? Am I gross for sometimes going 3 or 4 days without shampooing?

Help.

Sincerely,

Baffled in Bethesda

Anonymous said...

Well, I'm an "every-other-day" shampooer for most of the year (i fugure that since I rinse and repeat that counts for two days) but when the Philly humidity settles in I find myself going through that bottle of Dove Volumizing like there's no tomorrow!!
You know what's the worst... every so often someone will say "hey, your hair looks cute today" This NEVER happens on a day I actually have clean hair. Apparently dirty hair is much more attractive than clean. Why bother?

Beanorama said...

cousin, don't you worry about a thing. i would gladly go three days without a shampoo and be glad about it. but since nasty people at work sneak up behind me and smell my head and get off on it, i limit myself to every other day, just to keep them from the pleasure.

wait, i am grossing myself out.

love, dirty hair, responding from ING Direct Cafe since I have no internet.