No shampoo?

I tried this trick years ago with disastrous results. 

I decided to give it a go again. 

With definite feelings of trepidation. 

First, some back story.

I have a friend who has become my heart this last year. I won't try to take the time to describe our relationship-it's beautiful and complex and the most Christ-centered friendship I've ever had. 

We bonded more one day over the story of Elizabeth and Mary, and she started calling me her "Mary." I figured that made her Elizabeth. But that's our relationship. The joy and the amazement at what God is doing in us individually and together bonds us together in the most unique way.

She's also the funniest human alive. It's to the point now when I'm looking at my phone and laughing/crying/wheezing/snorting, my husband will look over and say, "What's Elizabeth up to now?"

She's funny.

But she's also hard on me.

One day I did something pretty embarrassing. In front of people. Instead of consoling me like a good friend would, she gave me a once over from head to toe and said, "Well, at least you're having a good hair day..."

Yep. That's Elizabeth.

It became a running joke. She'd text me in the middle of a crisis, and as I was digging through Scripture or praying for wisdom/discernment, she's interrupt the conversation with, "So how is your hair today?"

As a result I started to text her pictures of my hair in various states of disarray-first thing in the morning, after a run, while I was making part of it red, whatever would prove to her that I did actually not have great hair. 

It became a huge, silly, stress relieving joke.

Hold on to that long story.

I found a post the other day about this whole "no shampoo" things, and it reminded me of the time I tried this a few years ago.

(here is the link: Shampoo Free )

It was a disaster last time, but for some reason, I decided I needed to give it a try again. When I was getting a facial last week (hush, it was a gift) the nice lady commented that it looked like I was perhaps allergic to my shampoo/conditioner by the way my skin looked around my hairline.

It was time to try this Shampoo Free thing again. It's so cheap, and I was willing to give it a whirl.

A down side to this process is that you really have to brush your hair out. It's a long story why, but trust me. You have to brush your hair. A lot.

I try not to do that. 

Why, you ask? 

Well. Back to my crazy friend and my insane habit of texting her horrible pictures of my hair.

I showed this soon-to-come picture to another friend last week and she said, "Dude, like seriously, don't ever show that to anyone..." or something along those lines. And she laughed really hard.

But you know what? I'm tired of all of this social media bull crap. I'm tired of the perfect profile pictures, the constant reassurances that we're perfect people with no problems and that our lives are so sweet and happy and blessed and never, ever suck. I try to ram against that, but I'm not sure I really do that good of a job. I toyed with the idea of using a really horrible picture of me as my profile picture (and I have tons of them) on Facebook and Twitter, but I admit it. I wasn't brave enough.

So I'm going to keep it real and post what my honest to goodness hair looks like after it has had a good brushing. And this ought to be good for not only a few laughs, but some bonus points for being real.

{{Also, in the vein of keeping it real, I also sinned at least eight times today. I'd list them, but I'm really tired and I want to go to bed. I'll save that for another day... I did honestly repent though}}

So here's to real:

There you go. Hope I still have friends after this. *wink*