Rapunzel, Rapunzel, what hair products do you use? | Aging

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Labeled for the presbyopian

My hair is medium length – not short and not long. Over the years, I have found that different hair products do not change my hair much. It doesn’t matter how much I pay for them or what wonderful things they do for the starlets that advertise them. In fact, I have evidence to prove that theory.

First, I have presbyopia.

pres·by·o·pi·a/ˌprezbēˈōpēə/, noun  

 
Farsightedness caused by loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye, occurring typically in middle and old age. Like gray hair and wrinkles, presbyopia is a symptom caused by the natural course of aging, usually first noticed between the ages of 40 and 50.

Shine on left, lens cleaner on right

What that really means is that I play trombone with any reading material hoping to find the correct distance so I can make out the letters. Like most people, I find it annoying and when I don’t have my reading glasses on, I try to ignore it and strain to read what I need to see.

It’s actually not all bad because I have noticed that as my presbyopia gets worse, my wrinkles and pore size have improved greatly.

So what does that have to do with my hair? Applying hair products is one of the tasks I do without glasses, struggling to see what the bottle says. In the past few months I have made some revolutionary discoveries:

  • Eyeglass cleaner does not put a shine on your hair. I used the cleaner for about three weeks before I realized it was not a hair shine spray. I am not sure if either of them make you hair shiny!
  • Detangler and hairspray are packaged identically by Pantene so of course, I switched it up. Most of the time, I used the detangler to “set” my “do.” Of course, within an hour it was all flat and pasty. That one took me a while to figure out.

I am a quick learner — ok, not so quick, but a learner anyway. I now amend the labels appropriately so I use the proper potions on my tresses. Alas, my hair looks the same as when I used the weird stuff.

Just in case you are concerned, I do not store the super glue packets anywhere near my eye “tears” refresher. Now that would be a helluva blog!

17 thoughts on “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, what hair products do you use? | Aging”

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  2. I like the way you write about this. Aging is hard, but it does provide us with blog content. 🙂

    You would think some smart marketer would come along and put big labels on things for all of us Boomers.

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  6. I don’t mind so much being nearsighted in the shower, except that one time there was a blurry black spot, so I got really close, and it was a really big hairy spider.
    For years now, I have used contact lenses correcting my vision in what the doctor calls monovision. It means one lens is corrected for distance, and one is slightly modified for reading. My brain just sorts it out and it works really well…. except my eyeliner on one side is hard to get straight!

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    • My eye doc has suggested that a couple times but I am not sure I want to go back to contact lenses. I wore them for 35 years, then got the correction surgery (which doesn’t correct the presbyopia).

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  7. Just this week I accidentally used body wash (with exfoliating granules) in place of toothpaste while I was in the shower. Note to self: toothpaste in white with blue tube, body wash in blue with white tube. Your post made me laugh. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. This is hilarious Kate. I find too that of course one cannot wear reading glasses in the shower so you had better have the right treatment laid out before getting in. lol
    And you are also right……doesn’t matter what you pay…..my hair is still ultra fine and thinning. YIKES! I hate it but c’est la vie.

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