hair rant! only the most hard hitting topics on this blog, folks.

oh hey! remember how i mentioned i dyed my hair red and then never brought it up again?

this is what it looks like (although granted, not what *i* usually look like):(this, as i'm sure you've guessed, is another scavenger hunt item. partly. more to come on that next week after the presentation of the hunts this weekend.)

this is more what i usually look like, dopey facial expression included:
I LOVE IT.

i've had some feedback that maybe i would look really good if i tried like a brown? that had red in it? *helpful face* but i wanted RED, darn it. i now have red. i am happy.

one reason i love dyeing my hair - completely unrelated to the resulting color - is how much better my hair behaves when it's colored. my hair is super super fine, and very thin. also limp, and resistant to retaining whatever styling i try and force upon it. and also necessitates showering EVERY SINGLE EFFING DAY, due to aforementioned thinness and fineness.

now, this is where everyone on the ENTIRE INTERNET explains to me that if i just TRAINED my hair, i could totally wash it every other day! and i can't just expect my hair to go from daily washing to every-other-day washing overnight! trust me, explains the internet stranger who has never met me and has not seen my hair. i know EXACTLY WHAT YOUR HAIR IS LIKE because i have a friend with thin hair, and i convinced HER to wash her hair every other day and now she's happier and prettier and richer and seriously you should just TRY, and listen, you have to realize it won't happen overnight, m'kay?

and this is where i explain to everyone who has ever condescendingly explained this to me that they are wrong. and i know this because when my hair is dyed, i only wash it once every other day - or once every THREE days. I KNOW! THREE!

the fact is that my hair is very fine, very thin, and very permeable to oil when left to its own devices. however, when it's damaged a bit by color? or in this case, being bleached out THEN colored? it becomes HARDY! like... normal people's hair, i would assume!

and GOD IT IS FANTASTIC. it is so freeing not to have to wash it every day. i washed it on TUESDAY NIGHT this week, and while it could *use* a wash today, it doesn't DESPERATELY NEED a wash the way my old hair would after just one night sleeping on it. we're not talking "eh, i guess i can see what you're talking about; it IS a tad oily," we're talking "dude, did you.. maybe.. spill salad dressing? ..on your hair...?"

so when my hair is colored, i happily go about my business like normal-haired women of the world, washing my hair when i WANT TO, which is never every day, and all is well.

and then about 6 weeks later, my color starts to fade, my roots start to become super noticeable, and all of a sudden i notice that i can't go two days without washing my hair anymore due to the salad dressing issue.

so, well-meaning but condescending internet people: it's my hair. it has nothing to do with "training" it. i think 6 weeks of training - on VIRGIN HAIR up at the top of my scalp - would be enough to change my hair's mind, if it was going to be changed. it won't be changed. except by hair dye, THANK YOU JEEBUS FOR CREATING HAIR DYE I LOVE IT.

boy. apparently that rant was a long time coming, eh? nothing like a good friday afternoon rant to gear you up for the rest of the work day.

ok fine, one more scavenger hunt item: