Who doesn’t not wash their hair for almost two weeks?
Anyone? Anyone?
Whenever I go see my fabulous stylist, I relish the wine, the time, the wine and the way I shine when I leave the salon. Upon my arrival, the desk dude always says to my stylist, “China, your bull has arrived.” Wonder why?
Hot head.
After getting pink nestled in my locks, I wait as long as possible to wash my hair, letting the dye really sink in. Typically I will get my hair colored on a Wednesday or Thursday night so I have the weekend to wear my hair up, washing my mane on Monday morning.
The day after my dye job.
This time was no different, except I overslept on Monday and didn’t have time to wash my hair, so I threw it up in a bun.
At this point, I was on day five with no shampoo touching my scalp.
After work, I went to hot yoga and got extremely sweaty. Normally, the bun doesn’t hold up through class but somehow this time, it did.
Hot bun.
I took a bath when I got home, leaving the bun in place, planning to take it down Tuesday morning. But when I woke up…it looked fresh out of the oven done. So, I left it in – again. I hit up the park after work for a long walk, fully planning on sudsing my locks afterward. But…
Welp, whether you think it’s gross or not…
That made it an entire seven days with not washing my hair. And, I got lazy on Wednesday night with no working out, therefore, the bun survived with another evening. (And when I say survived, I mean I’m doing nothing to it except loading it with more hairspray every day. I’m not taking it down and putting it back up.) So Thursday, my bun and I made our eighth appearance together.
By this point, if you follow me on Instagram, this was the hot topic in my stories. It had been referred to as Bungate, I was told that I was turning into one of those old church ladies who only has her hair ‘set’ once per week, leaves it in an updo until my next beauty shop appointment. One wire pick away from Grandmaville…
Especially when I announced my now disgustingly beloved bun was on its fifth day of perfection.
My direct messages were nothing short of hysterical upon my posting of day five with the bun.
My bald friend across the pond even joined in on the fun making a bow bun for himself.
Since it was Friday, I thought fuck it, I will just wash it tomorrow and had some Skinny Pirates with what was now basically my Siamese twin.
Skinny buns.
Waking up to bun perfection on Saturday, I went to the park to walk…maybe jog.
Run or walk?
When I posed the run or walk scenario on my stories, I got the most important response.
I heeded the advice given to me and walked. Then I headed out to Dada CBXB’s for a Hawkeye game watch. Problem was, I needed to stop at my mothership, Target on the way and IT WAS RAINING.
With no shame in my game, I raced into run my errands and then arrived in time for kick-off. While watching the game, Cousin Eddie, one of my dad’s cats (that naturally I gave to him), took great interest in the knot on my head. Ed loves hair and heads (like he sleeps on my head when I stay there), so I was fairly certain it would be bye-bye bun.
Bun thwarter.
But he was willing to wait until after the game. However, Dada CBXB tried to smush the bun with a helmet during one of our Family Tradition touchdown shots.
Helmet head.
The bun survived both threats.
I woke up on Sunday like this…
Upon leaving heavy-handed from Dada CBXB’s, I took great precaution again, putting my makeshift grandma hair net on before setting out into the rainy day.
Bags, bowls and a protected bun.
Buns anonymous, here I come. Because the goddamn thing was still in on Monday morning.
Thankfully.
Wondering if I washed it before work? You bet your ass I didn’t. Although by this point, I was having to carry around my envelope opener to itch the inside of my bun because it was beyond scratchy. Also, I used about half a bottle of perfume, just dousing my top knot in it daily to avoid looks from others due to the greasy fumes that were emanating from my head.
Monday night, I again went to yoga…and the next morning…
So adorbs. It felt like ten year old plastic Barbie hair to the touch.
Sexy Plastic and I know it.
The back of my head was a different story…
Cat’s nest.
After an hour long shower, four shampoo cycles, and one deep conditioner left on for 20 minutes, I was good to go. So much so, I thought about calling Suave and offering to be a hair model for the day.
The exquisitely preserved pink.
I don’t think that old saying, “one must suffer to be beautiful,” really applies to my situation but I’m going to pretend that’s why I waited so long to end Bungate.
Now I’m off, being too busy washing my hair to do anything else. Then, I’ll start working on my next bun of steel.
CBXB
Cowboys and Crossbones 