Western flavoured hair

At a company event this week, there was a fun Western evening event with cowboy hats, line dancing and chequered shirts. There was even a bucking bronco in the restaurant and a live bull outside. Yeah I work for a great company!!

Anyway, there was a huge Western style barbeque in the centre. It was (at least) outside and the smell of the wood burning was authentic and smoky. You could hear the yee-hars and the horses galloping amongst the cacti in the dessert. Getting the picture!

We had to queue up for our ribs and corn and get exposed to the whole ambience. It was a splendid event.

However the next day, I felt differently.

You see unlike most people, I have fixed hair washing days. Unlike others, I don’t wash my hair systematically in the shower, every morning. This is simply because I don’t have my hair on my head in the shower! Kind of obvious when you think about it. 

So that morning, as I was about to leave, I shook my hair as usual, and put it on my head. However the stench that came from it was b a d !

It was smoky and barbeque-y!

Disgusting!

I had not thought about that had I?  That will teach me to hang around the open fire, shooting the breeze with nice colleagues.  But there was nothing I could do. I didn’t know any tricks on how to freshen up a smelly wig, beyond the gentle spraying of my perfume! Yikes.

So left with no choice, I decided not to worry about it, and wore my Western flavoured hair all day.

When possible I stood in the wind or stood outside chatting and ideally with as many other people as I could. At some point in the day, I either stopped noticing or it stopped smelling! I guess it was the former, but I truly hoped it was the latter!

Either way, a huge lesson to me, don’t stand near an open fire when you are not in a position to wash your hair that evening or better still, plan to wash your hair when away from home if needed.

What would you have done??? Would you have had any ideas or resources? I was stumped on this one!!