The Things We Do To Our Hair For Love
Dear Amalah,
In 20 days I will be traveling to a foreign country where the showers are OK in temperature, but water pressure? The water pressure is akin to a girl scout shower at daycamp, where they know you are going home in two hours anyway and where merely showing you how to poke holes in that water jug in order to appease your pre-pubescent need to destroy things.
As a girl with decently long hair, I have a major concern just being able to rinse shampoo and conditioner out of my hair– or even get the water all the way through my hair in the first place.
I have three options:
1. Just rinse until the product washes out. This leads to a lack of hot water (the apartment is unheated, you DO.NOT. WANT.THIS.) as well as possibly running out of water all together which may or may not be replaced in a few days. I cannot take that option.
2. Shampoo and just have to rip my hair apart when I brush it later, also? The static!
3. Find a quick-rinsing, light shampoo and conditioner.
This is where I was hoping you could help with option 3. Do you know of any especially light products that rinse quickly and cleanly? I have to look good, I am seeing my husband for 10 days, for the first time in 6 months.
Super huge thanks,
Julianna
Okay! I have thought long and hard about your question. I have done most of that thinking in the shower. My new shower, which actually HAS water pressure. For the first time in five years, I no longer have to worry about getting out of the shower and discovering a big clump of shampoo still in my hair. This is why I now do all my best thinking in the shower. I may make dinner and a salad in there later, like Kramer.
Anyway! In response to your three options, I have three possible solutions. (Yes, I maybe have a touch of an OCD tic when it comes to number symmetry, sorry.)
1) Wash your body in the nice hot shower, but wash your hair in the sink, using cold water. I know! Icky. Annoying. And cold. But did you know that cold water is actually better for washing and rinsing long hair? Something about closing up the follicles, I don
