The shampoo I have been using lately is nasty crap and makes my hair look like and old sea hag. So, today after work I decided to go to Ulta and just browse the shampoo to see if anything catches my fancy (and to see if that thing which caught my fancy was on sale, being the cheapskate/poor person that I am).
The second I walked in the door a shampoo which always works really good for my hair was sitting there on this well lighted and prominent sale pedestal as if to say (in a sultry welcoming voice) "I've been waiting for you" so I go over and proceed to take off the cap and smell it, cause that's what I do, I smell things. Anyways it is at this point that I realize that the smell of this shampoo/conditioner duo makes me want to vomit, which is why I stopped using it.
Thankfully all the other varieties of this shampoo were ALSO on sale so I go about smelling all of them and reading each one's proclaimed benefits (makes hair feel soft and smooth....like butter! for instance). And here is where it started getting complicated. It seemed like if the smell was pleasing, it was definitely not made for a hair type such as mine (Smell: Cherry Almond, good. 'Specially formulated for African fro-hair' - not me). If it was the right type for my hair it smelled like sweaty boy armpits.
From here I decided to look at other brands, which is when I cracked and started going a little nutters (you know, crazy) wandering around the store excessively smelling rows and rows of shampoo bottles. The girl that worked there kept asking if she could help me find anything and would shoot me looks of concern every so often. I on the other hand could barely stop in my quest for shampoo/conditioner nirvana, to reply that I was doing great, and didn't need help finding anything at all.
On my third or fourth circuit of the store I started thinking that really I didn't need shampoo/conditioner, so my hair felt like a raffia-steel wool combination and I didn't go out in public anymore because it looked nasty. So what! I come from sturdy pioneer stock, I would find a way to carry on! Then I started thinking that the cost of shampoo is ridiculous these days and who even invented shampoo anyways and why should I be pay $14 when I could get a bottle of Suave for $2.75!? It just seemed wrong. THEN, I started thinking that I could buy some shampoo but, what if it was crappy like the stuff I already had at home!? Buying it would be a gamble, and I decided long ago that gambling is not for me! Then, then.......
I reached back and brushed a lock of hair over my shoulder and it felt just awful and I realized that I needed new shampoo and I needed it tonight! I trudged back up to the front of the store and grabbed one of the smell good bottles.
SO, if you see me sporting some African fro hair, you will know why.......
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