file under: "unusual grooming habits."

Courtesy of the UK Daily Mail

This girl does not shampoo her hair:

Neither does this girl:

Or this girl

Or this girl

They're responding to the "BBC NEWS PRESENTER CHALLENGE" (as I'll call it). A BBC guy named Andrew Marr decided that the human scalp is distressed from the detergents in shampoo and instead trusts the oils in his skin to keep his hair in a state of...BIOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM (as I'll call it). A handful of women decided to give it a shot right along with Andy.

Here's the thing:

I am not disgusted by this.

I visited Amsterdam as a teenager and the first thing the Dutch scoffed at (aside from the fact that we failed to appreciate the true artisan nature of their fresh bread and ruined it by "using up" all of their meat and cheese in typically overindulgent style) was our "American" grooming habits. More specifically, our "wash our hair every day" compulsion.

In a similarly European style, most of the women responding to The CHALLENGE indicated that, Pre-Challenge, they shampooed every several days at most.

They're permitted to rinse their hair as much as they like, but no shampoo - theory holds that after a few weeks their scalp will equalize and they won't deal with the "greasy on top, frizzy at the bottom" phenomenon that MOST women experience after a Survivor-esque sprint without the lather-rinse-repeat ritual because the scalp isn't trying to compensate for being scrubbed clean and chemical-dry by over-producing that lovely grease. Mmmmmm.

Call me filthy, but basically: it works. Our Pantene'd, Biolage'd, Herbal Essence'd heads really AREN'T operating at maximum efficiency.

I won't mention how often I personally shampoo, but let's just leave it at: I look just like every other girl on the street - no greasier - and it's my "dirty" little secret.

I'd just look hotter on "Survivor" than the chicks still trying to overcome the addictive stranglehold that Suave shampoo has on their poor heads!