Natural Haircare Musings
Since I made the decision earlier this year to allow my hair to grow to its natural color, I’ve become almost obsessed with checking it daily. I dust it regularly for split ends, I don’t put any chemicals in it, and don’t dry it. I will put some Giovanni organic leave-in conditioner because my hair gets very dry.
And since I no longer dye or highlight it blonde, I’ve noticed I have gray hairs. Not a lot, just a few strands and only along the front where I used to keep a rather bleached blonde strip.
At first I thought, “You know, I’m 26 years old, do I really want to be showing gray hairs yet? Maybe I should dye everything brown? Maybe I should just keep dying it blonde? I don’t want to look -old-.” I even started plucking a few of them to help reduce the “aged” look.
Then I realized, I don’t want to be one of those women. You know the type, the women in the beauty salon getting their roots done because amix all of their badly dyed red and dirty blonde they have that strip of foreign gray down the center of their scalp. It looks undoubtedly ridiculous, and I don’t know about you, but when I see them I can’t help but stare.
So no, I won’t be “dying” my hair with any sort of permanent color. I don’t want to be a skunk anymore. Dying my hair all these years has made it dry, frizzy, and brittle. Where growing up it was always stick straight and silky.
I have, however, been considering the environmental and beauty benefits of henna. It’s vegetable based, it’s a single-compound dye, it’s healthy for your hair, and it comes in great colors. Best of all, less chance of skunkage. But only if I find out I don’t like my natural color, which so far I do, as dark as it is. I’m still bewildered at the amount of shine compared to the dead stuff left on the ends. I’ll be anxious to see it all gone.
In other news, the benefit of using drugstore.com to order my “Kiss-my-Face” products, is if you order two, you get one free. Which allows me to experiment with different products. I’ve gotten free organic soap, toothpaste, and deodorant. And I’m very picky about my deodorant. I’ve tried several organic brands and haven’t found one I liked yet. So far the “Liquid Rock” from Kiss-my-Face seems to be working well, though unscented. And best of all, it was free 
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