Hair Brained

I'm falling out of love with my hair. I know its fickle. My poor hair can only do so much when faced with challenges like high humidity, very hard , iron laden,salt treated water and the lack of a shampoo that works under these conditions. Lets not even get in to the fact that I abuse it regularly with color treatment and sun and horse shmutz. Ad to that, the new torment of my ever present wool beanie and the zipper of my winter jacket. Sigh,can you blame it for looking so... well ... lack luster? I'm finding these long, brassy, wiry hairs woven into the carpet, stuck to the sofa, and laying forlornly around the drain in our shower. I even found one clinging to the lemonade bottle in the fridge! This is not Kosher. I am not happy! My goal has been to wear long hair until I'm to old for it and then get it cut in a reasonable, old lady do, that I will happily dye "blue" and have set in rollers once a week at the local "sal-on". I may be forced to consider other options. That makes me desperate. I don't know about you, but desperation makes me do some out of character things sometimes. This particular time it drove me to watch and consider an infomercial! I'm sure you all have seen it. It features Mellisa Gilbert for heavens sakes. Who is more trust worthy than Laura Beth from Little House on The Prairie? NO ONE! So after a quick conversation with myself : "wait... what's this? ugh... infomercial( rolls eyes)... hair care product? Back the bus up! maybe its the answer!...OK but if anyone comes in the room switch the channel fast" I settled down to watch lots of women with gorgeous hair rinse and comb a product called "WEN" into their scalps. Well now, this was interesting. According to the creator of this product, this was a soap free alternative to hair care. HMMMMM.... "soap free? does that mean no drying?" I asked the TV. Why , yes! yes it does mean the end to crispy, unruly, lack luster hair! I was interested.... very interested. Despite his resemblance to the artist formerly know as Prince,Mr Chaz Dean, Wen creator, himself had faaaaabulous hair darling. I was ready to pay what ever it took by the end of that half hour. Turns out I didn't have to though as I was actually gifted a starter pack! Oh the excitement of washing my hair. It was labour intensive lots of pumping, lots of rinsing, lots of massaging, lots of combing. But, it came out beautifully, and my hair once I dried it was uber shiny and uber bouncy! I was in love! It had no heavy fragrance. My hair stayed wonderful between washings, it was a miracle! Until I realized how much one has to use on hair the same length as Melisa Gilbert and I. Lets just say that the budget wasn't going to allow this kind of decadence. I didn't give up though. My hair was a changed woman, some one else out there had to have a similar product, a knock off even, that I could afford. Many thanks to google search and YouTube as apparently there are people out there who review products on camera for the whole Internet to witness. That's where I found Sally beauty supplies Wen knock off. Its a fraction, A FRACTION of the price. So cheap in fact I ordered all their flavors with shipping for under what one bottle of Wen would cost me. If you could buy one bottle of WEN that is, it seems to only come in sets. Anyhow, this new stuff , Hair One, is pretty good. It doesn't come with a wide tooth comb like WEN or packaged in a nice box with raffia shreds for packing like WEN, but I found out after ordering my Hair One, I can actually go down to Wilmington and buy it locally at Sally's Beauty Supply. What could be better? Now don't get me wrong, I'm still going to scour amazon for deals on WEN as I feel I owe it to Melissa and Chaz. ( I would die to score a salon size jug!) But until then I'll happily use my impersonator and fall in love with my hair all over again.