In one of my frugal moments a couple years ago, I went and rescued a professional esthetician product case from Torrey's garbage when she was moving from her house and clearing out. It was a really nice large suitcase type thing with internal compartments, and I figured it cost her hundreds when she was in esthetician school. I couldn't bear to just have it tossed; so under cover of dark, I grabbed it from the sidewalk and took it home. She had left some products in there, which I logically reassigned to my bathroom. One was a generous size jar of optimal tinted conditioning cream. It was particularly heavy, and evidently had never been used. I threw it under the sink, thinking someday if I ever went blonde again, it might be appropriate.
Well, yesterday I decided that "appropriate" might as well mean finally using it up, and seeing if this stuff would change the color of my dark hair. I mean, live on the wild side. There were no directions on how to use it, how long to leave it on, etc. Maybe it was like a mask and should stay in for 30 mins? So I took it into the shower, and after washing my long brown locks, I took gobs of this thick creamy light tan stuff and slathered throughout my hair. It felt really strange, not like my hair was getting silky and untanglely at all.
Immediately I had an AHA moment. It occured to me that conditioning cream and conditioner just might not be synonyms after all. For some reason when I first saw this jar I had thought it was for hair because of the size of it. Even though it plainly said moisturizer. For two years, it stayed a hair product in my mind. Till I put it on my hair.
Four times I washed my hair to try and get it out. The shower floor stubbornly stayed light tan for a prolonged time. My hair is still not the same, and wants to know when I will go ahead and try adding highlights with rescued lipstick.
How does one get SOOOO old and stay SOOOOOOOO dumb?
Well, even if my hair is a little on the lame side this week, my face is in heaven. I never tried tinted cream moisturizer before, and it is amazing! This is called "Supreme Secrets" by Janssen Cosmeceutical Care, made in Germany. I feel it takes off 10 years, even if it is full of ingredients I can't pronounce. Just wish I'd tried it sooner!
So thank you, Torrey. I don't know how I ever got it into my head that you were once upon a time a hairdresser. But that's the "magic" of being me; not just thinking outside the box, but living there. In a very scary place.
