fuck my shit up.
my hair has been all over the place... i am not one for regular haircuts, and tend to postpone getting my haircut until it gets too much to handle. i got my hair cut on thursday, it was one of those days.
my sisters used up all of my clear shampoo and left me with the standard dove shampoo they use, which left me with a silicon-y feeling in my hair that i couldn't wash out no matter what i did. i stopped using non-clear shampoo for that exact reason. i don't understand why they create shampoo that doesn't actually clean your hair. do people actually use it and say "yes this is exactly what i need. a shit smell and still greasy hair". i can't function with my hair like that. i could feel the individual follicles as i went the work a few days before. on walking home those days, i kept needing to move the hair out my hair as the combination of sweat, silicon and hand oils from earlier attempts to move it out the way kept it flat in my face and eyes. not a fun time at all. on days where my hair feels like that, all my effort is spent in avoiding buzzing my hair off. it culminated with booking my barber for a next day appointment.
if i could put it in one word, i would have to say my barber is solid. hes an levelheaded guy and i am the type to not like speaking much during the cutting outside of catching up and saying bye, so i respect him catching onto that and letting my close my eyes for a bit. i've gotten good at telling him exactly what i want, and nowadays i have a picture of the last good haircut he gave me and i show it to him each time i go in. i try to refresh myself every two or three months. my hair grows fast and soon becomes annoying if i dont. despite showing him his past work, each time i open my eyes its always a bit of a gamble. i am not a haircutter but i know myself enough to know when something doesn't look right. a bad haircut can ruin my self image for months, so i wouldn't hesitate to ask him to fix something. luckily this time it was acceptable. a bit too short on top in comparison to the last time, however its the summer now. the more i can avoid adjusting my hair, the better.
anyways, hair turned out cute regardless, i'm happy. i was also able to get most of that silicon-y feeling and am back to my clear shampoo. every time i cut my hair, i debate going no shampoo in an effort to cut down on the frequency of when i wash my hair. i'm on two day wash schedule right now, and that's fine for me, but ideal would be a comfortable three days. by the time i wake up and am set to wash my hair on that second day, its over for me. brushing it out and putting in dry shampoo powder would help me push it to a third day, but im unwilling to go through with that if i'm out and about that day. why does hair care need to be so hard. what if i just want to wash my hair every morning? does that make me the villan? i just want to have the feeling of a clean head every single day. but society tells me that only makes it greasier faster. why does this need to be so complicated.