Day 9: No Swimming So My Hair Would Look Good
Did you ever not workout because you didn't want to mess up your hair?
Scheduling workouts in our busy lives can be daunting. Altering workouts based on business meetings or the time it takes to fix my hair is a whole other story.
On Monday and Wednesday nights, I enjoy my swim clinics, but the chlorine in the pool strips my color and dries it out. I need to wash the chlorine out of my hair and off my body after every swim.
At my beauty salon, I told them how often I'm swimming now and the damage it's doing to my locks to get their suggestions and feedback. They recommended a product, Kerastase Soleil Aqua-Seal, a highly protective fluid-cream with waterproof effect for very sensitized (code for colored) hair. For $39 a bottle, I hope it highly protects my hair.
It still leaves the problem of hair grooming. My hair gets a trim (I hate when they say they're only cutting an inch and I see a swept up football size hairball on the floor afterwards) and a stylish blow out which is perfect timing for my client meeting the next day. That's one less task I need to do in the morning and it gives me an edge knowing my hair looks good.
This I know. Sacrifices and compromises are a part of life. So what if I gave up swimming for one night to have good hair and less stress the next day. It gave me more time and energy to work on my presentation. It's funny, though, how much energy is involved with my hair, how long it takes to fix it and how it controls my life sometimes. Can every day be a good hair day? In your dreams...but make sure you wear a scrunchie. It's less ridges.