The 14 Eternal Struggles of Having to Wash Your Hair Every Day

​1. You have to wash your hair every day.

That's a struggle in itself. Because it's at least 10 minutes less in bed each morning.

2. You get through a LOT of shampoo.

Your shampoo bills are through the roof. Take it from us, the stuff's not cheap.

3. You don't understand how people can get away with just washing it once or twice a week.

And actually pass for a fully-functioning, hygienic human. IT'S NOT FAIR.

4. Yeah, we know it strips the hair of its essential oils.

But it's either that, or walk around with hair so greasy people will think I'm suffering from the bubonic plague. I know which one I'm going to pick.

 5. And we're aware it's a habit we've got to break.

People like to remind us of this fairly regularly, especially hairdressers. And I'll get round to it, honestly I will. When I'm prepared to not leave the house for a week. But in the meantime, I've got to go to work and I'd rather not get sacked for looking offensive.

6. Festivals are a no-go.

You can put as many flower garlands as you want on top of your head, but it won't hide the greasy monstrosity that lies beneath. There's only one thing for it: cornrows.

7. You've heard hair is self-cleaning.

But if yours is anything to go by, that's nothing but a lie. A vicious rumour. And anyone who wants to wait the six months or whatever it takes to see if it works probably isn't someone you want to meet.

8. Dry shampoo just doesn't cut the mustard.

As nice as I look with grey, static hair not dissimilar to an untamed bush, that wasn't the look I was intending to debut today. So I'll jump in the shower and wash it with the real stuff, if that's not too much of a problem.

9. Neither does 'wearing it up'.

Because five minutes after leaving the house you'll have greasy Mel C bits hanging down over your face, and only then will you realise that you don't have any Kirby grips in your possession. Cheers, life.

10. ​You thought it was just a teenage phase.​

​"You'll grow out of having oily hair," your mum desperately promised you in the height of your hormonal imbalance. But here we are, ten years down the line, and you're still waiting.​

11. Sometimes, SOMETIMES you can get away with just wetting your hair in the shower and not washing it.

But this is only acceptable on two occasions: A) when you have no shampoo left, and B) when you plan simply to go to work, and come straight home afterwards, interacting with as few people as possible in between.

12. Baths are simply not possible.

Because we have to wash our hair, don't we? It's just time wasted if we don't because we'll only have to shower afterwards. And don't start suggesting it's ok to rinse it in a pool full of your own bodily scum, because that is WRONG.

13. If we don't wash our hair, we face leaving the house looking something like this:

Now do you understand why it's not okay??

14. This kind of comment is just ignorant. IT'S NOT A CHOICE YOU KNOW.

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