Out With The Old...

Sometime around the holidays I was flipping through past issues of fashion magazines I had scattered about my house when I came across a small article, if it can even be called an article, more like a paragraph in the March 2011 issue of Lucky on a random person sharing the idea of constantly switching shampoos and conditioners to prevent build-up. I found the small read to be interesting, but since it didn't pertain to any hair dilemma I was experiencing at the time I merely tossed the magazine aside and grabbed another.

 

Fast forward a month or two into the new year, and my favorite shampoo and conditioner, which I had been completely faithful to, had let me down... literally. Instead of the once soft, bouncy hair it had once given me, now it had left me limp and stringy! I begin ransacking my house looking for this particular article. The image of me mindlessly throwing out a stack of magazines a few weeks before played over and over in my mind in the hopes that the one that donned Heidi Klum on the cover was not in it. After locating it in it's clever little hiding place, I re-read my past discovery. OK, sounds easy enough, I thought, out with the old and in with new... three new shampoos and conditioners to be exact.

Yes, I now have three different brands of shampoos and their conditioners in my shower. I switch shampoo/conditioners everyday, none of which are super fancy, and are all bought at Target. And if I ever get tired of one, I simply replace it and add the new one into the rotation. It may seem ridiculous to have three sets of shampoo/conditioners in the shower, but the random girl in the Lucky article was right, frequently changing shampoos and conditioners does help prevent build-up, leaving the hair soft and bouncy! If you are experiencing build-up in your hair, but don't want to invest in three sets, or have limited shower space, try using the travel size versions of different shampoos and conditioners instead of the regular size.