Has YOUR Hair Ever Been Perpendicular to Your Face?

Last Saturday I washed with Baking Soda and rinsed with Vinegar.
On Tuesday I rinsed.
On Wednesday. I played softball. Here's what that looked like:

I'll confess to not always wanting hair
that defied gravity

I'll remind everyone that it was like 91 last Wednesday. And no, thanks for asking, but we tied. There was no way in hell that rinse was going to last that long. As it was, my hair was a greasy mess. But why wash it that morning when I knew I was going to have to wash it after softball? 

I walked into the shower, and my tube had the same issue that Edwina's tube had. It was crusty (and not in a...wait...crusty is never sexy). I added water to it. Shook it like it owed me money (cause, honestly, that GoToob was NOT cheap!), and squeezed some out. It seemed a little thick, so I added a bit of shower water to it before massaging it onto my scalp. Finished with the vinegar rinse. Huzzah!

NO. There was no "huzzah" to be had. The first real time I massaged my scalp with the baking soda mixture it felt great, soft, blowing. Wonderful. This time? Straw. If I were a mule I'd eat my own hair it was that dry. I was dejected.

The fault of the internet is the lack of
impact on senses outside of sight. 

Trust me, that's me looking dejected with straw like hair.

I was rather worried about what the baking soda was doing to the color I put on my hair (yes, I know...let me remove some chemicals from my scalp, but keep others on my hair...I know it's non-sensical, but this whole naturoo thing to me is out of vanity anyway so there!). Enter fabulous hairdresser (I'm calling her Faha from now on so I don't have to type out "fabulous hairdresser" each time) . I called to make an appointment to get my roots dyed. I warned her that I've "been doing that natural shampoo thing."
"Oh, ok," she said in a quite non-judgmental tone. "What does your hair feel like?"
"Well, greasy," I admitted, "and today it feels like straw too."
She went on to say that she hasn't had many clients that continue with it after they start trying it, and she usually tries to dissuade folks from it, but that we'd talk about it at my appointment on Saturday.

Saturday rolled around. My hair was only just starting to feel almost like hair again, but it was still straw like, and tangled. Faha lifted strands. "I don't like this," she said.
I sighed. Honestly, I don't like it either. I'm giving it the good ol' college try. If it doesn't work itself out in two months, I'll have to figure something else out. I also told her I thought I was done with the baking soda regiment due to what it's done this time. "You could try using just conditioner," she said, giving me an out. I told her I'd think about it after this trial period ends if it's unsuccessful. She did say "You know, they used to use baking soda in the 20s and 30s," I nodded, she kept on, "and there's a reason they invented shampoo."

This is the part where I'm torn between whether that reason was cleanliness, softness, and body, or if it was the commercialism that my skeptical self suspects.

She lathered the dye on my short tresses. She read her magazine, and I sat there knitting. She moved me to the sink, let it sit on the ends for a bit, and then rinsed the dye off, and washed using only conditioner.

Cheating has never ever in a million eons felt as good. The color, the color is beautiful. The movement, it swings. She rolled the edges under. It had a sheen (that was NOT grease!). It was light and fluffy and wonderful. This was "huzzah" worthy!

If you could feel the silky softness,
this photo would mean a LOT more.

And honestly, I have to say, that was saturday and it's almost Tuesday and it still looks pretty good. Granted, it's only two days, and that makes sense, but still.

Anyway, I do mean it. I'm done with the baking soda. Next up will be a honey and aloe gel mix from Code Red Hat. I picked up some aloe gel from Whole Foods (nothing like a trip to the aloe area of Whole Foods to make you realize how much you're NOT a hippie!) and I apparently have a honey hookup from Bee Raw and am super psyched to use this very tasty honey (I might have opened it today to taste it before using it in naturoo...). So that'll probably happen on Thursday morning after Wednesday's softball game. Stay tuned!

# of days since last commercial shampoo: 19 (the conditioning at the salon doesn't count, right? It wasn't really shampoo...)

# of days since last naturoo: 4

Masseuse Check: It looks really good, Jenn!

Public Perception Paranoia Scale: 3/10