I’m with you here - I tried the no-shampoo thing a few years ago (when it was still around waist-length, I’ve since lopped it off to chin-length as well) and it just made my super-dense, very fine, stick straight hair into a cap of itchy greasy clumps. Plus I was treated like a leper at school because of my appearance. Not fun.
I’ve seen this attributed to Steven Wright, but I don’t know if it’s Wright (or not).
“Don’t buy shampoo…demand real poo!”
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“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
“Whenever I fill out an application and it says ‘In case of an emergency notify…,’ I put Doctor. What the hell is my mother gonna do?”
“I went into this restaurant that serves you breakfast at any time, so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
“I wish my first word was ‘quote’, so when I died I could say ‘un-quote’.”
“This next song doesn’t go ‘something’ like this; it goes ‘exactly’ like this.”
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Opal, you’re a juggler?! Huzzah!!!
Oh, and your hair looks nice, too. 
Why do you do the ‘repeat’ part, though? Shampoos are detergents and if you have enough on the first lather to actually lather (cause suds and bubbles), than you have more than enough to carry away the dirt and oil in your hair (the lather is extra soap). All repeating is gonna do is make you run through shampoo faster and line the pockets of the shampoo company’s stockowners.
Since this is indirectly pointed at me, I thought I’d post a couple of pictures (taken a few minutes ago) to see whether in fact all of my best friends are lying to me.
Hair! The first four pictures are the ones taken most recently. Opinions?
Just wow. I will not leave my house without washing my hair unless my house is on fire and even then, I would give it a moments thought.
To be fair to everybody else I have the worlds oiliest skin. I’m still getting zits at 45 for fucks sake.
Yup, have been since about 1983! In fact I met my boyfriend 4 years ago at the International Jugglers’ Association Festival in Buffalo, NY. I’m going to this year’s festival in July in Lexington, KY. I <3 juggling Are you a juggler?
Oh, and thanks!
I don’t own any styling products. I don’t blow dry my hair, either. I have it colored a few times a year and I figure that’s about as much damage as it can take :X
Yer cute.
Oh, and your hair looks perfectly fine.
I heard about this a couple of months ago, and decided to give it a try. I have very short (1/2") hair and a moderately receding hairline. All I do is vigorously massage my scalp while rinsing out my hair with the hottest water I can stand. I figure this gets rid of any flaking skin or dirt. The first couple of weeks were the toughest, as my hair got a little greasy. Hanging in there paid off, though; after a month, my hair got less greasy. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the results: nice hair, no dirt or smell. What’s not to like? Ya gotta be patient, is all…
Keep in mind I sweat like a pig during my every-other-day workouts. Still no problem.
Yep, started seriously in high school with ball tricks, but fell off after that. Learned a bit about clubs in college, but not a ton, also started contact juggling and doing fire performance there too. Haven’t learned much new in the last few years, which is depressing. I’m like a cat when I see new toys, and can’t concentrate on my old ones enough to get good at them.
The friend I used to juggle in HS with sent me a vid a couple years ago, and he had kept up with it and worked up to 5 balls. Plus a flawless Berke’s Barrage, and a 4 ball tennis. My best trick is my mills mess 
(you had a nice one, btw).
I haven’t made it to an IJA fest, though I’d really like to at some point. That and Burning Man.
Sorry for the hijack everyone. Juggling discussions get me hot! I just can’t stop.
Yeah Mills Mess is about the best I can do, too. I’m trying to learn Rubenstein’s Revenge. (Incidentally I know both Steve Mills and Rick Rubenstein–from IJA festivals.) Passing 7 clubs with no tricks is the most objects I can help stay aloft. My four ball pattern blows. My boyfriend can do 5 clubs and 7 balls. He’s way better than I am. 
Probably because I took about a dozen years off in the middle where I didn’t juggle at all, and he didn’t.
Speaker, my post wasn’t pointed at any one person in this thread, and in Real Life only if your name is Melissa. You don’t look like a Melissa. I was referring to the ‘never shampoo’ crowd. I certainly never said your friends were liars. There’s no need for you to feel defensive, I meant no offense to anyone.
Count me in as another shampooer. Whenever I’ve gone a day or so without, it just looks awful–all flat and lifeless. I wash every day and my hair is known for its good qualities (very big, very thick…just huge quantities of it). I figure whatever I’m doing isn’t hurting it, so whatevers.
I’m not sure why that would happen. Doesn’t the skin produce what it’s going to produce regardless of what you remove after it’s been secreted? Would it really “sense” how much oil was already secreted and left on the skin before continuing to do what it’s been doing?
I don’t know how it knows, but it knows. Possibly the detergent in the shampoo dries out the scalp, which increases its oil production.