I keep writing "sol invictus" on everything.

[prillalar]

The rising of the sun, the running of the deer,
All merry people rise and greet the turning of the year.

Every year on the winter solstice, I worry that the sun won't actually rise the next day and we will live in darkness forever. So, I'll probably spam you with posts today, just in case.

Thing 1: I have stopped washing my hair. Now, you might think that this is the result of some sort of seasonal depression where I never change out of my pyjamas and forgo any attempts at basic personal hygiene. But you would be wrong. My pyjamas are just comfortable, that's all. And I finally realised that my hair looks like shit if I wash it every day. Even on day 2 it looks all fluffy and horrible. I wonder if I can just not wash it at all ever again. How often do you wash your hair?

Thing 2: I watched Part 1 of the new Garo special. I liked it a lot, very stylish, like the show always was. However, there was a big flaw. I mean, besides Kouga's leather pants. How do they get him into those things? There must be baby powder involved. No Kaoru! Well, except for a fake Kaoru in one scene. But she was the reason I kept watching the show in the first place. Who cares about all the hot boys fighting monsters and each other? Well, okay. But still. On the other hand, Zero's leather pants were quite pleasing and, god, Rei is looking fine. And Tsubasa, the new boy! Could he be any prettier? Could he and Zero please fight each other until they're exhausted and then rest up and then have sex until they're exhausted again? I hope Jabi has some serious asskicking in part two, because she's just too cool to be the damsel in distress. And I hope Kaoru shows up and says she wants to move to Canada and marry me. Cause I'm way cooler than that boring asshole Kouga.

Thing 3: I like cheese.

Comments

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

What kind of cheese? :)

I was my hair every two days. It usually behaves itself fairly well.

[prillalar]

I like lots of cheese, but an old, sharp cheddar is still my favourite. Also, havarti. And feta. Gouda. Monteray jack with caraway seeds. Parmesan. And so many more.

[annotated_em]

Wash my hair daily. It gets greasy and yucky by the end of the day, and once I've slept on it, there's just no hope for it.

[prillalar]

The not-washing has done away with my usual bedhead! This is handy, since I like to go out in the morning before I've showered. (I'm still showering, though, in case you thought I wasn't washing anything. *g*)

[shrift.livejournal.com]

Thing 1: I have stopped using conditioner, although I still have to wash my hair almost every day or it looks like crap. I wouldn't care if I didn't have to leave the apartment and go to work. Bah.

Thing 3: I'm craving Havarti RIGHT NOW.

[prillalar]

I may still use conditioner, just not shampoo. I can't believe how much better my hair looks today (day 3) than just after I washed it. And I still have fairly short hair.

I think I have some Havarti in the refrigerator. Mmm.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

I wash my hair every day, out of self defense. It's thin and oily, and if I don't it starts looking all greasy and strandy and it gets itchy and stupid and then I feel like Snape all the time.

That being said, a hippy friend of mine experimented with not washing her hair one summer and she claimed (this is unsubstantiated since i didn't see it for myself) that after a week or two it started kind of self-regulating such that it didn't actually get greasy and nasty.

[prillalar]

Yeah, my hair is pretty thick, so maybe it takes the oil better. I'm glad to hear about your friend -- I think I'll try that myself and see how it works out.

[knw.livejournal.com]

I used to wash my hair every other day, but that does make it greasier faster and it's just ick. Over the holidays (when no one could see it being nasty) I changed to washing it the third day in each three and although it took a while it looks better for longer now.

[prillalar]

When I had long hair, I would wash once a week, and that was fine. When I shaved my head, I would just use face exfolient on my scalp and that was fine too. It's this in-between hair that's tricky, somehow.

[jain]

I wash my hair once or twice a week. I'm lazy. :)

[prillalar]

I'm all for that. :)

[trinityhelix.livejournal.com]

i have really dry hair, (i color it a lot, hence the chemicals draining everything that is Good and Holy in my natural hair), so i find it best to wash every 2 days. (this means i wash on the third day).

i also shampoo and conditioner on the same day, and even then it is still fluffy. XD i only have good hair days on the third day, but unfortunately this is when i must wash it or have an itchy scalp.

*sighs* such is life...

[prillalar]

I do itch a bit -- I'm hoping that will clear up after a while. I can't be bothered to colour my hair, though I think it would be cool. I especially like it when people bleach their hair that really fake straw yellow colour and you can see their dark roots.

The thing I hate most about life is all the bloody maintenance!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I used to wash it only twice a week, but that was when I had a perm and long hair and it looked reasonably good. Now that it's short and straight, it gets visibly greasy faster, so I wash it round about every other day. Although if I'm not going out of the house, it may be closer to every three days.

[prillalar]

Long hair was great for that -- if it looked a bit dull, I could just braid it or something instead of washing.

[shikishi.livejournal.com]

I have very fine thin curly hair. I wash is every 2-3 days or else it gets to fly away.

[prillalar]

I wish my hair were finer. It's so thick, I have trouble keeping it from sticking up.

[branchandroot]

Cheese is, indeed, very wonderful. Especially good, flavorful cheese that isn't, you know, yellow plastic.

I wash my hair daily, being part of the thin-fine-lank brigade. However, both my spouse and various friends have experimented with not-washing. Takes a week or two for your scalp to recover from the industrial bleach-like cleansers in most shampoo and stop overproducing oils, but after that just rinsing seems to work fine for them.

[prillalar]

Cheeeeeeese! A good flavourful cheese, a square of really bitter dark chocolate, a handful of almosds, and a glass of single malt is my holiday heaven.

Good to hear about the not-washing thing! I think I'll just leave it alone over the holidays and see how it goes.

[lihsa.livejournal.com]

Oh, the sun will come out tommorow! Bet your bottom dollar that- *stops*

1. I wash my hair about twice a week, but only out of neccesity (sweat, bleeeh). Now that I have short hair I've discovered that the less I do to it, the more it looks like I sat around for hours trying to make it look stylishly messy. It's fun!

3. Oh, cheese! I live in a country with awfull, awfull cheese, but recently I've been gifted with a shipment of delicious dutch cheese and I've been doing nothing but nibble cheese for the past week. *bliss*

[prillalar]

Don't jinx it!

I could never get my hair to be stylishly messy. I have unfortunate cowlicks. :) But the not-washing thing is keeping them under control, so yay!

[spurious.livejournal.com]

I try to wash my hair every day, but it's usually okay if I leave it for a day. After that, it starts to stick up at weird angles and stay there, since I've bleached and dyed it so much that it's already really moldable. Actually, this icon is an example of what my hair will do if I don't wash it.

Cheese is so much with the good.

[prillalar]

Oh, that looks great!

[mad_maudlin]

I wash my hair about twice a week, more frequently if I'm using conditioner--basically whenever both the time and the need a present. (I hate walking outside with wet hair so I'll only wash it on days when I've got some time to let it dry.)

BTW, that version of the "The Holly and the Ivy" you quote here--do you know where I could find the full lyrics?

[prillalar]

Yeah, drying takes forever once it gets even a bit long.

I don't know where, no, but I do think that the second line is a modern version, not traditional, if that helps. I'd try tossing terms like "solstice" or "pagen" in with your google search; I think that's how I found it in the first place.

It's my charm, to make the sun rise. :)

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

I quit washing my hair over the summer -- I basically scrub some dandruff shampoo into my scalp, because otherwise I die of itchiness, and rinse it right out. My (dry, curly, medium-length) hair has never looked better. (I also quit combing it. Who know low maintenance could look so good?)

I aim to shower every other day, but often it's every third or fourth, depending on current levels of The Laze.

[prillalar]

Oh, the scalp shampoo is a good idea. I'll keep that one in mind. Thanks! I'm also wondering if using my face exfolient on my scalp once a week or so would do the same thing. Shall experiment.

[emo-spicy.livejournal.com]

about every two days

[prillalar]

That seems to be usual for a lot of people.

[inthetatras]

Thing 1: I wash my hair every few days.

Thing 3: I believe we already knew this? ^_~ At any rate, any suggestions? Certain flavors/types that you've recently discovered you love? Bueller?

[prillalar]

I know I keep going on about cheese. It's like a fandom to me. :) But I'm kind of boring in my tastes: usually I stick with really good sharp Cheddar and squishy Havarti and such.

[meemobunny.livejournal.com]

i wash my hair every other day (with 2-in-1 shampoo because i am much too lazy to deal with separate shampoo and conditioner XD) -- it usually gets pretty greasy by the end of the second day though. :S but reading the other comments, i'm thinking that maybe i should start washing my hair less...

[prillalar]

I'm def going to try it over the next week or so. How did we get so obsessed with removing all the stuff our bodies produce to keep us healthy?

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

You can get away with not washing your hair if you're willing to stick with it for a few weeks - no_poo because like everyone said, your hair will eventually get used to it.

I think though, that you just have to work out when your hair gets grossly oily and wash it then. For me that's every 2 days, but it seems longer for you.

Please take our sun. The fires are burning like crazy here :(

[prillalar]

The fires sound so terrible. :(

Late to the party, but...

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I wash my hair about twice a week, or every third day. I realize that nowadays, a lot of people think this is gross, so I don't usually mention it. My hair is *extremely* dry, and washing just strips the oils right out of it and turns it brittle and frizzy. I think it's looked and behaved much better since I stopped washing it every day.

Back when white women had their hair "done" in salons, they would go a week or more between washings. I understand that lot of women of African descent, especially if they have their hair relaxed, wash their hair less frequently than daily as well.

Re: Late to the party, but...

[prillalar]

The lack of bed-head is turning out to be the greatest benefit. I wanted to transition to showering in the late afternoon/evening but I couldn't make my hair behave without getting it completely soaked first.

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

If I don't wash my hair every three days it looks horrible, puffy and greasy. I'm okay with that, especially in winter when having to dry over two feet of hair is not nice. Then again, having two feet of hair to dry is never nice. But it looks best after I wash it... It does this to annoy me, I know.

[prillalar]

I used to have long hair and, wow, what a pain to dry, yes! I can recommend the #2 clipper cut for easy care. :D

[iamrosalita.livejournal.com]

I have to wash my hair every day or it looks godawful. Sometimes on weekends, if I know I'm not going anywhere, I'll let it go for one day.

[prillalar]

It sounds from the comments like your scalp can adjust if you leave it for a few weeks. But that probably only works if you can take a few weeks of looking like shit first, which most people can't.

[prillalar]

Caseum amo. Presuming amare takes the accusative, which I think it does. :)

[thawrecka]

3 - Cheese is awesome in many different varieties.

1 - Every two days. If I leave it longer than that it becomes disgustingly greasy and looks lank and lifeless. I refuse to wash it any more often than that because it's really long and takes forever and a day to wash and dry.

[prillalar]

I remember what a project long hair was. No more!

[ajat.livejournal.com]

I wash my hair every other day when 'm home for more than a day. If out, then I wash daily.

[prillalar]

Yeah, being at home certainly has its advantages!

[don-amoeba.livejournal.com]

1. I wash mine once a day. If you're having trouble with your hair, maybe you can try switching to another brand of shampoo? What are you using now anyway?

3. Am lactose intolerant. I miss out on a lot of finer things in life. :(

[prillalar]

I can't even remember which shampoo -- I switch around a bit. I forgot to take some along when I went to visit my parents in Nov and for four days I washed it with Dove bar soap. That probably wasn't the best move. *g*

Man, no cheese. :( That completely sucks.