Dyer Consequences

Wednesday I washed my hair with the new, more potent formula. I really dug in and scrubbed my scalp more than I had on Tuesday. Really laid into it. Results were actually pretty great.

Day of second naturoo experience, everything is groovy!

There was a breeze. My hair moved. It moved! It was fine and felt just like it had been washed with traditional shampoo! We have a winner!

But (there's always a "but," isn't there?)...

Further research is leading me to worry about the effects of the baking soda on the dye I use in my hair. To the point where there has been a nightmare where my hair dresser refuses to dye my hair because she heard I'd been using the baking soda mixture. A friend who goes to the same hairdresser I do was telling me the hairdresser told her that dye doesn't take well to hair that's been washed with baking soda and vinegar. Panic has ensued. I looked into alternatives like Dr. Brommer's Castille Soap, and found a comment by the makers that it's not good for dyed hair. I looked at honey washes, but found that not everyone finds that actually cleanses hair. I've looked at coffee grinds, and might try that next.

The thing I'm finding the hardest about this whole experience is that it's all based on others' experience. There really does seem to be a lack of science and professionals weighing in. That creates a dearth of hard and fast rules of what you should and shouldn't do, and I rather like rules. They help make it so I don't have to think ALL the time, just some of the time. I did, however, find a page on the blog: How To Hair Girl that seems to be an experiment of how the baking soda solution works on dyed hair. I'm taking solace in that experiment for now. The goal is to wash the hair only once a week, so minimizing the baking soda will be good in the long run for my scalp and my dye. I hope that it's just an issue of getting through the transition phase unscathed.

So I repeated Wednesday's process on Saturday, since I had a family event to go to. Similar results. Softness, but stopping short of the volume I've read others experiencing elsewhere. That was the last time I washed, and today we're getting back to greaseville.

There's a bit of separation going on...

I'm not feeling too too bad about this, but I doubt it's going to make it until Saturday. You can't see here, but the roots are really growing out, so that means making an appointment with my hairdresser for more dye. I'm hoping to be able to see her on Saturday, when I'll pepper her with questions about this natural thing, and see if she has any pro tips/tricks to share. Since I don't want to wash right before I see her, if I can hold out until Wednesday to wash again, I think that might work for everyone involved...

# of days since last commercial shampoo: 12

# of days since last naturoo: 3

Public Perception Paranoia Scale: 5/10