Washing Your Hair Is Overrated

Here is attempt #2 at the Messy Challenge.

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This was made after 6 days of not washing my hair! Today would make 7 and an entire week...But I will probably break down and wash it at some point during this day...so yeah, and without further ado...(is that a thing?)

If you're wondering how my hair looked each day of the challenge, these puppies are in order

 

Yup...that's 6 days of no washing my hair. Dirty hair, don't care. What up?

All I would like to say, is I hope that you, too, learn to embrace the mess. It's an amazing thing that will truly set you free :)

Beautiful Inside & Out

First and foremost, I suck at not washing my hair! I only made it two full days with no washing! This morning I woke up and my hair was all stuck to my head and I just had to wash it! This is what it looked like at the end of the day yesterday. Ga-ross. 

I'm sorry, but the Messy Challenge was too much for my grease-ball hair to handle! 

So this morning, I shower, blow-dried, and even straightened (I like...never straighten. I love that full just blown out look) and...

Voila. All Clean. 

But on that note, let's get down to the nitty-gritty.

Seems how I just finished (and was defeated by) the Messy Challenge, I figured it would be a good time to talk about self-image and why we do the things we do with our appearance. 

I think that, yes, often times the only reason that we get all dolled up is for someone else. Maybe we feel like we need to impress someone or that it's required of us to look a certain way due to the fact that we have a certain role or that we're female. But I think there's a lot of other reasons to get up in the morning with the intent to look fabulous. 

Being recently single, I've made it a point to dress particularly nice and look extra lovely each day. I don't do that because I want to catch the fancy of a new man (although, it would be nice...). I do it because it makes me feel good. It feels good to walk around at work and be confident in who I am. Sometimes it's really nice to show your confidence on the out side. Personally, it was something that I didn't care all that much about when I was in a relationship. It didn't matter to me if I looked nice because J wasn't around to care about how pretty I looked that day...

Things have changed. I look great because I want to look great. I dress up and put on some make-up because feeling beautiful makes me feel good. It's for me and for no one else. 

The Mess

I've decided to do something awesome.

I'm participating in The Messy Challenge.  That means, that I'm going to have some really gross hair for the next few days.

I have super oily hair. Lately, I've been trying not to wash it every day in an attempt to teach it not to produce so much oil. It has sort of been working, but I'm still a big ol' grease ball...

Here's what it looked like at the end of a single day without washing...

The idea behind this challenge, is that you shouldn't be required to wash your hair every day and do your make-up absolutely perfect so that society will accept you. It's about going against the grain and doing what you want to do with your appearance.

So I'm going to try not to wash my hair and let me tell you, it's going to get gross...

This morning I threw in this french braid and flexed for the camera to look cool.

That braid is my go-to "messy" hair-do

Messy.Dirty.Hair

And so it has begun. Day two with my greasy grossness. But isn't that muscle impressive? ;)