Monday, January 5, 2015

"Normal"

We were on a vacation recently, and our hotel had the usual complimentary shampoo and conditioner.  Anyone that has walked down the shampoo isle at a grocery store knows that there are many different types of shampoo claiming to do many different types of things.  I am pro-shampoo and all that it claims it can do.  Some shampoos claim it will help moisturize, some add volume, some help dandruff, and the list goes on and on.  My typical shampoo at home has a ton of moisture in it because I kill my hair every other month by having my hair dresser bleach it as blond as no natural head of hair could ever be, but I like it that color, so I have to moisture the heck out of it in-between appointments so it won't break off and fall out.  In fact just writing about it makes me stressed out.  I feel like I need to run and put some deep conditioner on my hair right now.  I believe in using shampoo and conditioner that are right for your type of hair.
I also like to try to save room when I'm traveling with my three kids because I don't love to carry around a million suitcases, so I usually don't bring my big bottles of shampoo and conditioner on vacation.  I figure that, hopefully, my hair can survive for a week with hotel shampoo.  So, on this recent vacation as I was in the shower using the hotel shampoo I squinted down and saw that I was using "normalizing" shampoo.  I couldn't get over this, hence the picture I took of the shampoo.  What in the world is normalizing shampoo.  Who is to say what "normal" hair is anyway?  Don't we all have widely different hair in this world?  Oh my goodness, but if we use this shampoo we will all have "normal" hair.  So, I used it on myself and kids for a week, and I didn't notice a difference in any of us.  Maybe we had normal hair to begin with....  ha ha.  I can't believe they have a normalizing shampoo.  It made me want to rebel and not be normal.  I don't even know what that means for hair, but you bet I don't want normal hair just because this shampoo claims I should.    Who wants normal?  That is just boring.  Be yourself, and love the hair you have.  Of course if it's really dry from bleach please do use a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner.  I can't say enough about them!

When I got home I looked online to see if they sell this, and fancy this, Neutrogena doesn't have this on their website anymore.  I guess they gave up trying to normalize the general public's hair... just the people that stay at certain hotels.  Silly stuff.