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"Awhile back commentor loves2read asked for an affordable product suggest that would get her hair super clean, which made me think now was as good a time as ever to share with you my own guilty little / totally genius secret for getting cover-girl like hair. Read on, but don&amp;amp;#8217;t judge until you&amp;amp;#8217;ve heard it all. One of the many complaints I have about my tiny NYC apartment (besides my grumpy landlord and the fratty upstairs neighbors) is that I&amp;amp;#8217;m convinced the shower plumbing is weird. No matter how many times I rinse my hair, or try the most amazing de-gunking shampoos, I&amp;amp;#8217;m left with a dull, semi-gross residue on my hair. So much so that 45 minutes after I&amp;amp;#8217;m out of the shower and have blown my hair dry I look like I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t washed my hair in 2 days. Strange right? Anyway, when I told a very, very fancy friend of mine (and when I say fancy I mean fancy: girlfriend lives in London, works in Paris, is BFF with Thakoon, Westwood and Manolo&amp;amp;#8212;yeah, that Manolo) about my plight she said &amp;amp;#8220;Suuuuusan, darling, you simply MUST try washing your hair with Evian! It&amp;amp;#8217;s what I have to do when I&amp;amp;#8217;m in Paris&amp;amp;#8212;water there is horrid for the hair!&amp;amp;#8221; I was amused by her off-the-wall suggestion and shelved it in the &amp;amp;#8220;Yeah Right, Only if I Were an Out-of-My-Mind Bratty Heiress Circa 2002&amp;amp;#8221; section of my brain along with some of her other well-meaning, but impractical ideas like calling a towncar to take me to the grocery store and splurging on a pair of mushroom-looking multi-color designer platforms because &amp;amp;#8220;they would work with any outfit, including cut-offs and a tank-top.&amp;amp;#8221; That was up until two weeks ago. As I was about to jump in my post-work-out shower, I noticed an old bottled water rolling around in the bottom of my bag. (Like I said, don&amp;#x27;t judge--I don&amp;#x27;t usually buy bottled water, but after seeing a few kids get &amp;quot;playful&amp;quot; with their chewing gum and the gym drinking fountains, I buckled and bought one to take with me on the treadmill.) Doubtful that it was still in the drinkable phase (my Mom&amp;amp;#8217;s very unscientific &amp;amp;#8220;YOU CAN ONLY DRINK OUT OF THOSE PLASTIC BOTTLES 2 WEEK AFTER OPENED&amp;amp;#8212;OTHERWISE YOU&amp;amp;#8217;RE JUST DRINKING CHEMICALS&amp;amp;#8221; disclaimer is stuck in my brain and guides these things) but feeling too guilty to pour the H20 down the drain, I decided to try my friend&amp;amp;#8217;s trick. I started by using Neutrogena&amp;amp;#8217;s Anti-Residue Shampoo ($6 at drugstores), a once-weekly deep-clean treatment that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve used before and been pretty pleased by the results. I then rinsed my hair as usual and finished by pouring my old gym-bag bottled water directly on the roots and the crown. (I used about a cup&amp;#x27;s worth, maybe less.) The water was a little bit cooler than the shower water, which reminded me of something a hairstylist once told me: rinsing hair with cold water prevents the scalp from sweating and the grease from settling around the roots. And it worked. Seriously, after I blow-dried my long locks, my hair looked incredibly clean. And it felt sooooo much better. (Just ask my boyfriend, who I kept asking to touch my hair and tell me that it didn&amp;amp;#8217;t feel insanely soft and clean. He, dutifully, agreed.) And three fellow staffers complimented me on it next day, saying that my hair looked amazing! But listen ladies, don&amp;amp;#8217;t get me wrong: I&amp;#x27;m NOT planning on doing this every day, or even every week. I&amp;amp;#8217;m NOT about to go off and start buying bottled water to wash my hair (nor would I suggest that you do--I think the trick here is to rinse with water from somewhere else but my own weird pipes--I filled an old bottle full of water from my office last night and used that and it worked like a dream.) But I am pretty thrilled that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve found a way to make the most of the bottles that I do buy once in a blue moon and that while I don&amp;amp;#8217;t live in a palace&amp;amp;#8212;where one only wears mushroom shoes and is driven to pick up eggs and O.J. &amp;amp;#8212;at least my hair can look like a million bucks. Ever been faced with weird water? What did you do? I tried something else--and it turned my hair green--but that&amp;#x27;s a story I&amp;#x27;ll share with you later. Do you have any random tricks to getting clean/shiny/gorgeous hair? Want more lazy-girl tricks to getting gorgeous hair? We got &amp;#x27;em. Plus, 7 ways to spend less on your hair. Photo: Kenneth Willardt. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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