Tuesday looked to be a relaxing evening - the house is clean, basic to do list is done. So I thought, you know, it IS winter - perhaps I should do a hair mask and a face mask to control the frizz and dry skin. Inspired idea, don't you think. I had honey, I had oatmeal, I had a banana, and I had a free evening. Turns out these are not only the ingredients to recipes for natural beauty treatments, they are a recipe for disaster. (Ha ha, do you like how I set that up.) I was feeling pretty mellow just at the thought of a long, hot pampering bath - so rather than blend or food process the hair mask, I thought it's just a banana, a fork will do. Oh, how wrong I was.
I run the bath water, add a little salt to it to add to the natural beauty treatments, I settle in with my little concoctions and a book nearby. I slather my hair with the mixture of one banana and approx. a tablespoon of honey, cover with the shower cap to lock in the juices. I then apply my face mask of oatmeal and honey (1/4 a cup to a dollop - I know but it would have required more washing to measure) I set the timer for twenty minutes and lean back with my book and relax. Ahhhh.
Beep Beep Beep. Okay, stand up switch to shower mode, first wash off crusty oatmeal, check - no problem here - just mentally preparing to clean the goo off the shower floor before in cements. Next, remove shower cap - thoroughly rinse so no stray banana bits cause a future moldy surprise, check, again no problems. Lastly, prepare to rinse out hair mask in order to have the lovely conditioned hair the recipe promised - Danger! Danger! Here is when the lack of food processing makes itself known. First, the water started a little to hot - great, bake a few pieces of banana, wonderful. Wait - where did all these tangles come from? Crap! Fast forward to nearly forty minutes in the shower picking mini chunks of banana from my head, enough hair pulled out from tangles to form a sculpture of a pet hamster (I shall name it Hairold - ha ha, nerd). What is a girl to do. Well I will tell you. At the forty minute mark, this girl decides to get out, let hair dry the brush out dry flakes of leftover banana (which HAS to be easier than the wet version) and shower again in the morning. So Lesson here - it is worth it to dig out the food processor.
CONFESSIONAL TIME: This is a review lesson - I had the exact same experience minus the hamster sculpture with an avocado mask earlier this year. Great treatment when run through the food processor, new torture method when not.
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