Eponymous Hair Products At Last

Mmmm. New blogger automatically makes my titles bold.

This past weekend, M and I were making one of our Olympian Shopper's Drug Mart runs, where the total ends up in the triple digits and everyone comes out of the store well stocked with vitamins, moisturizers, razor blades and pain killers. Shopping for personal grooming products has always been a pleasant, shared experience for us. However, this past weekend my beloved threw me for a loop. As I placed a new, wonderfully named shampoo and conditioner in the basket, M said to me "Don't you already have a lot of those?" I was stunned, shocked and appalled. This man who I've loved for many years, raised by a master of personal grooming, owner of 4 different pomades for his own hair, was suggesting that I was purchasing unnecessary hair care products! I couldn't believe it. It was like I had entered bizzaro world. "Doesn't he know me?" I thought to myself. "He's seen our bathroom, right?" I was shaken. I stammered out a "No, I don't really have that much." to which he responded "Really? I think you do." Gasp! Had he fallen on his head in the greeting card isle, irrecoverably changed from the metrosexual I fit so well with into a man who thinks that having 5 different shampoos and 3 different conditioners is too much?

The answer is no. He's still the man I love, because I was able to purchase another shampoo and conditioner, Brilliant Brunette. Yay! Of course, after using it for a couple of days I can say that my hair sure is brown. There haven't been any dramatic results, but like other colour shampoos and conditioners, it adds a lot of shine, makes my hair look healthy and gives the natural highlights in my hair a bit of a boost. Nothing dramatic though. I imagine it would work really well on colour treated hair, much like the Aveda colour shampoos do, but for a whole $4 less. And the name... well, I just can't stop being amused by the name.

Today's sing-a-long song: "She's always in my hair" by D'Angelo

HRH