Powder ≠ Good Idea.

I remember the time I came home from Young Women's camp when I was 16 years old.  I had such a blast and hardly slept the entire week.  When I came home, my nephew greeted me with a Watermelon Jolly Rancher and insisted that I try one of his new favorite candies.  I barely had the wrapper off, when I immediately crash landed on the living room floor and fell asleep.  When I woke up, hours later, I had the WORST taste in my mouth.... not to mention my arm and face were sticky.  That didn't bother me as much as the terrible taste I had in my mouth.  I tried to drink water and brush my teeth, but I couldn't get rid of it.  Even through dinner I could still taste that wretched candy.  It felt like it was in my nasal passages and with every swallow, I could taste it.  It didn't go away for a long time, that evening.

This morning, I woke up with that same feeling...  

I straightened my hair on Tuesday, and wanted to have it straight for an event I have tonight. I liked the way I FINALLY had it.  It was just the right amount of oil and weighed my hair down just perfectly....so I didn't wash it last night.  However, yesterday I came across a friend's blog that said inbetween her 3-4 days apart of hair washing, she uses baby powder to absorb any extra oil, from her scalp.  I thought I'd do that last night.

Bad, BAD mistake....

Oh man, I couldn't fall asleep because of the strong scent of baby powder ALL around me.  I felt like I was inhaling it in by boatload.  And then my eyes started to dry out.  I had to put eye drops in my eyes!!  I started to feel eye boogies forming.....it was the damn powder. I got up, brushed my extremely dry hair, tied it up into pigtails and a scarf.  This was ridiculous!!! I couldn't breathe.  It felt like everything around me was covered in baby powder. Geez, I didn't think I put that much on. 

When I woke up this morning, my lovely, perfectly oily, straight hair was gone!! My hair was now dry and terribly frizzy!!! YUCK!!! And I felt like powder was still coming off of my scalp and hair.  No matter how much I brushed it, it wasn't making a difference.

Hello shower.

UGH. So my word of advice.... don't do it, unless you have fine hair and a bristle brush. And half of a palm full of powder is MORE than enough.

Dangit..... now I've gotta straighten it all over again and HOPE it'll look good for tonight. Shucks.