Sensory Overload

Yesterday I was out running errands with Natalie. Lisa asked me if I would stop at the grocery store and get, among other things, some shampoo and conditioner for her. I said sure, unaware of what a traumatic event awaited me.

Natalie and I had just a few minutes in the grocery store when we finally made it there because we were running on a tight schedule (She had a birthday party to get to in about 30 minutes). I walked into the shampoo aisle and I was absolutely blown away! There are WAY too many choices in that aisle!

There must be 50 different brands of shampoo out there, and each one of them has 10 or 15 families of shampoo (normal hair, oily hair, dry hair, straight hair, curly hair, fine hair, thick hair, color treated hair, wind damaged hair, hair that's been under a hat all day, thinning hair, hair with dandruff, just to name a few). And each individual family of shampoo has its own shampoo, conditioner, mousse, hair spray, gel, and on and on and on.

How does ANYONE find anything in this aisle? It's overwhelming! And is it really necessary? Are there really this many different types of hair that we need this many types of shampoo?

I use Pert, shampoo and conditioner all in one bottle. It's a bright green bottle that's easy to spot in the shampoo aisle, so I'd never really noticed before the sensory overload that comes from looking for a specific bottle in a multicolored aisle. I may have nightmares for weeks.