So, Friday night, SD15 told DH she needed shampoo and conditioner. He told her to come tell me, as I am the one who makes the list for the store and does the shopping. She never did come tell me. Now, lucky for her, DH told me, so I added it to my list.

Now, my friend, who is a stylist, told SD15 a while ago during a hair cut that I needed to buy her Tresemme Anti-Breakage...saying it was just as good as the salon stuff, and way better for the hair than the more expensive shampoos. She said it would help with all the damage to SD15's hair due to repeatedly using a straightener, as well as SD15 always using grocery store hair dyes (which are very damaging if you use them often, because most of them do a heavy lift on the hair). So, that is what I buy her, and what I bought her Saturday. Well, she comes home from BM's with some expensive shampoo that is $6 for 9 oz (looked it up online) as opposed to the $6 for 25 oz that the Tresemme costs. Just out of curiosity, I looked up the shampoo on the web...OMG! The reviews on this stuff is terrible! It's supposed to be some special shampoo to make your hair grow faster, but all the reviews say that it doesn't work, and many found that they had to stop using the stuff because it dried their hair out too much! So, why did I spend $12 for shampoo and conditioner at the store for SD15 that she is not going to use, but rather she is just going to destroy her hair with this other crap?

It goes back to the whole SD15 isn't happy unless it is some expensive thing that you get from someplace like Ulta or Sephora! The regular grocery store stuff is not good enough for her, even though most of the time, it is far better quality! She buys into all the crap the world is selling her that more expensive or at specialty shops must mean it is better!

Oh, and then she started bugging again today that she needed Proactive! The girl only has a couple of zits on her forehead and chin. She doesn't eat right, and she goes to bed with her makeup on (though the way she tells it, she NEVER goes to bed with her makeup on...that is why she wakes up with raccoon eyes). When she does wash her face, she insists on using wipes, which don't exfoliate and do not get all the dirt and grime off her face. She has been provided with wash cloths and a very good face scrub which she doesn't use. Why? Well, because she was told if she doesn't want to break out, she needs to use a new wash cloth daily (this is what I do, and she has been provided with enough wash cloths that she could go a week and a half between washing them). Oh, that means she has to do laundry on a regular basis? That means she actually has to work to not have zits? Oh no...she thinks we need to spend $30/month on a Proactive system and that will fix everything! She doesn't realize...that stuff is for people with serious acne problems...who have tried everything else...not someone who just has a couple of zits because they refuse to wash their face properly or eat right!

Next time she asks for any kind of shampoo or something like that, I have half a mind to just say, "Go ask your mother...because that is what you do anyway because you don't like what I buy you!"