Plagued by lies , read lice!

Ever had to lie to a boyfriend, hairstylist or a friend about the incessant scalp itching and as to why your nails are constantly digging into your scalp and your face looks like its going to explode??? Ever had to give silly excuses and admitting rather nonchalantly ,to having dandruff or sometimes writing off the itch as “effects of pollution” or “jus worked out so scalp sweat makes you itch” . Hey! Admitting to dandruff is embarrassing by itself but when it competes with the embarrassment of admitting to having hair lice, having tiny white flakes that stick on your shirt every time you move your head left to right, doesn’t seem so bad after all..

Well that’s pretty much how iv been dealing with this rather miserable and not to mention scalp burning catastrophe which struck me like thunderbolt (ok exaggerating a little here! ) . Here is how it happened!..

A couple of days ago my dads personal maid approached me with rather pink cheeks. ( ok ! so she is dark but the problem she had was worthy of blushing or so I assumed if she were a bit lighter in complexion, this is probably what I would have gotten to see!!) she complained to me about live lice and nits (head louse’s little babies aka eggs) infestation on her hair . Now ! I don’t claim to be a miss-know-it-all, but as a very confused and angry 10 year old, I remember the long painful hours I sat with my mother hovering over my head with a lice comb. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s a instrument of torture which was supposed to have targeted the lice but instead rips the scalp open of the user!. So I had a fair knowledge of how to deal with itchy situations like these. I straightened my shoulders with pride of being asked solution to a intimate problem as this, and started imagining the prospective bond she and I would share eventually. She would come to me with flowers and thank me many many times for helping her out in a tight situation and I would tell her its ok and she would wash my clothes with extra care coz she feels indebted etc…. all this day dreaming was interrupted by her sudden bout of maniacal itching!. So, I gave her the solution I deemed fit, and forgot about it.

In my selfish , ego centric desire to have the upper hand by helping her, I forgot the basics of having hair lice. The damned creatures can apparently jump upto seven heads to find a new home for breeding. So guess who was itching like a psycho a week after she left? Yes, that’s right, little-miss-know-it-all herself!!!

I started to frantically search for the instrument of torture . the reason I had to refer to my days as a 10 year old was that ever since then I haven’t really been bothered by lice, have had many many more reasons for headaches though! And as luck would have it, I obviously didn’t have “the comb”. So I began to fret and frown and decided to beg my mom to get one of those as I was obviously too embarrassed to step out while my scalp was itching till no ends!

Come on! Lets face it, the last thing we want is to be running ,our presumptuously soft and yummy smelling, freshly washed hair on our boyfriends faces and a hair lice ends up in his eye or worse! Mouth!!!..... ewwwwwwwwwww and very very worthy of going underground for the next ten years!

That’s when it occurred to me, HOW MANY PRODUCTS ARE THERE IN THE MARKET THAT CATER TO ADULT HEAD LICE????... iv tried and tested many products as a child, but never needed to venture in that line of thought as an adult until now!. The reason I was looking for a adult scalp treatment was that unlike children who are hardly bothered about having touch-me-soft hair and fancy expensive haircuts, or even the need to have a head full of fluffy hair to entice anyone who sets their eyes on it, all they are bothered about is to make their heads un habitat able to the creatures who have mistaken it to be their new home! But we as adults , are VAIN! And by that I mean , we not only want the little creatures out of their new settlement, but also aim for the treatment to be a miracle in other senses. We want the product to deliver, soft, manageable, frizz free, shiny, color protected, nourished, and of course fluffy hair!!!!!...........

Go figure~!!

The only product the shop keeper had was mediker, an anti lice treatment. Which does exactly and ONLY what it claims to be “ an anti lice treatment”. So, if a person wants accolades and a possible nobel prize all they have to do is to invent a magic potion that does all of the above , and I promise, they ‘ll find a place in “The history of hair treatment –the book”