{"id":369,"date":"2016-05-13T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/?p=369"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:47:46","slug":"my-bad-hair-days-and-the-story-behind-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Story: My Bad Hair Days and the Story Behind Them My Bad Hair Days and the Story Behind Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When both of my sons were little, I noticed that the texture of my hair seemed to have changed overnight. Regardless of what shampoo\/conditioner combo I bought, how many times I blow dried it and how many haircuts I got, I could not seem to control the unruliness of my hair.<br \/>\nThe only time my hair looked good was after a beauty salon haircut and blow dry. This pattern continued shampoo after shampoo for around eight months. Needless to say, I was very distressed about this problem and thought that perhaps becoming a mom had changed the chemistry composition of my hair and that I was probably stuck with the new texture forever.<br \/>\nTo make a long story short, this pattern stopped abruptly one day when I walked into one of my restrooms and noticed that my oldest son was pouring liquid hand soap into my shampoo bottle.<br \/>\nMe:  What in the world are you doing?<br \/>\nSon: I was just doing an experiment.<br \/>\nMe: Why would you be using my shampoo bottle to do experiments?<br \/>\nSon: Well, my teacher at school mixes all type of liquids during science class, your shampoo bottle was handy and I wanted to try it myself.<br \/>\nMe: (Suddenly making a connection between my different hair texture and these experiments) How long have you been doing this?<br \/>\nSon: Since the new school year started.<br \/>\nMe: (Trying to remain calm) What else has you been mixing?<br \/>\nSon: Well, every time I take a bath, I mix things into your shampoo.<br \/>\nMe: What kind of things?<br \/>\nSon: Things like dishwashing liquid, mouth wash, hand lotion, toothpaste, laundry detergent, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide ext<br \/>\nMe: (Getting very agitated) Don\u2019t you realize that I wash my hair with the shampoo and lately my hair has been looking like crap?<br \/>\nSon: Yes, I noticed that your hair looked messed up lately.<br \/>\nMe: (Trying to control my Puerto Rican temper) Well, if you noticed, didn\u2019t it occur to you that you should stop this behavior?<br \/>\nSon: Well, I wanted to see how different your hair looked when I poured different liquids into the shampoo.<br \/>\nMe: Don\u2019t you realize that I have a job and want my hair to look decent when I report to work?<br \/>\nSon: Well, mom, I did not think of that. I am so sorry.<br \/>\nMe: Omg, you better be sorry and stop this behavior immediately.<br \/>\nSon: I will and again I am sorry, but I really was hoping to find the magic ingredient that would make your hair look great.<br \/>\nMe: I appreciate the idea behind it, but perhaps you can use your own shampoo bottle to do these types of experiments.<br \/>\nWell, my son was grounded from playing video games for a week and as far as I know, stopped this behavior and never tried the same experiments using his own shampoo bottle. Gee, so much for quantitative style research. smile emoticon<br \/>\nSo the moral of this story is that if you are a young mom and your hair starts responding differently to your shampoo, question your kids as I cannot believe that I am the only young mom that has had this experience. I can laugh about it now, but it really was not fun having unnecessary bad hair days.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of me and my kids on one of those bad hair days.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids-300x238.png\" alt=\"NellKids\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids-768x610.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids-1024x813.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids-816x648.png 816w, https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NellKids.png 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When both of my sons were little, I noticed that the texture of my hair seemed to have changed overnight. Regardless of what shampoo\/conditioner combo I bought, how many times I blow dried it and how many haircuts I got, I could not seem to control the unruliness of my hair. The only time my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,1],"tags":[235,234],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-memories","category-memories","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-hair-days","tag-motherhood"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}