If you happen to come here looking forward to a slew of pictures from the weekend, I hate to disappoint you, but I was a total bum this weekend.  Well, not total, but pictures of the six loads of laundry, the grocery shopping, the weeding, the cleaning of the playroom … I’m thinking that they’re not nearly as fun as the usual spate of pictures.  I hope you’ll forgive me.  Especially if I offer you something else instead.

Avocados.  No denying that avocados are a favorite fruit (yes, they really are a fruit) amongst the Sweetnicks readers, but how about an alternative use for them?  Like as in a hair mask?  I know.  I know.  It’s sounds completely disgusting.  And it is.  But hang with me for a bit.  I swear it’s worth it.

Sometimes you have an avocado that just got too ripe too fast and now you can’t eat it.  Such a pity to waste it.  I abhor waste.  What to do?  I happened to be reading the latest issue of InStyle magazine when I spied my answer.  A hair treatment!

After applying an astringent mix to your hair to strip out all the dirt and build-up, then you apply the avocado treatment.  I second-guessed it from the moment I started, so I’m right there with you.  Here’s how I got through it…

First.  I did it after I came home from Saturday night plans, and I didn’t have anything going on for Sunday morning except my Zumba class, so if all my hair fell out or turned brilliant shades of green (worst case scenarios of course), I had time to fix it.

Second.  I tried not to worry what the different ingredients would do to my hair.  The first step includes mouthwash.  I worried about using the right one.  What if the “whitening” one I had on hand had something extra in it that I shouldn’t be putting on my hair?  I also colored my hair recently (first time since an ill-fated decision to put a thick blonde streak in my hair in my early 20s) … what if this wasn’t for colored hair?  So many questions.  No answers.

Third.  I tried to ignore the mess.  Because eww.  It’s messy.  I did it all over the bathroom sink and I swear there are little bits of avocado in places that there shouldn’t be.  It looked like an avocado massacre in the sink.  And I will probably still be picking out little bits of avocado from my hair for the rest of the week.  Well, no, I think I got it all, but it’s a few shades short of a disgusting process.

But all that being said … do it.  My hair has seriously never been softer.  Smoother.  All for about 30 minutes of my time and with ingredients I mostly had on hand (only had to buy Witch Hazel and a shower cap).  Of course, I will now have to find alternative uses for Witch Hazel since I have a lot of it left over (what the heck can you use it for?), but it’s cheap.

(Before mixing)

I will totally do this hair treatment again, probably monthly, avocado-massacre-in-my-sink be damned.

Trust me.  I won’t steer you wrong….

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