if you love someone, set them on fire

Last night I discovered the ideal way to condition one's hair. Forgive me if this is old news to you, but if not, please brace yourself - I'm about to change your life.

It actually came out of a dire situation -- I had gotten into the shower and had, as happens in showers, become drenched, before I realized that I hadn't remembered to grab a new bottle of shampoo or conditioner. Being how I am, I also had two damn near empty bottles left in the shower.


Also note that my hair, which is long and curly and extremely unruly was at its unruliest, and the conditioner I had managed to scrape and shake out of the damn near empty bottle was taming about half of it.


SO. Here's what I did. I filled the damn near empty bottle of conditioner to the brim with water, and dumped it over my head. Voila! Completely conditioned. The tangles went screaming from my hair like - I don't know - can't think of anything not terribly dirty - still can't - going to have to settle for - cockroaches from the kitchen floor when the light comes on.


This was such a superior conditioning that I'm planning to test out whether it works the same way if you drop a dab of conditioner down to the bottom of an empty bottle, fill, and dump, but I suspect that something about the incredible surface area that the conditioner was spread over in the near empty bottle was key in getting superior conditioning. I suppose I could cap the bottle and shake, so as to dilute the drop of conditioner sufficiently, but that might be one or two more steps than I'm ready to accept into my conditioning routine.

I will, of course, keep you posted.