How often?

My hairdresser has been bugging me for about a year to not wash my hair as often as I do.  She says I should ideally only wash it twice a week, but should at least aim for no more than every other day.

I'm a shower every day person, and that includes washing my hair.  This girl's got to be clean.  Actually, I thought that everybody liked to have showers, until a few years ago when I took in a tenant as a favour to a friend.  It didn't work out too well.  To summarize only a small portion of her freakishness, she showered on average once every eight days.  In the four months that she stayed with me, she did her laundry twice and I washed the sheets on her bed (my sheets) three times.  Had I not walked into her room and demanded the sheets, I suspect they'd have gone unwashed the entire time.  Needless to say, I wore a has-mat suit to muck out her room when she left.  However, I've got to say that I really thought she was an anomaly in this world.

Then, I read a post over at Carma Sez that says otherwise.  Apparently, there are people in this world who look for ways to avoid showering as long as possible.    That, I don't understand.  When it comes down to it, I can't be comfortable if I'm not clean; and that includes my hair.

So, it took a lot for my hairdresser to convince me that hair doesn't get all that dirty unless I'm doing some serious sweating, and that I should cut back the number of times that I wash my hair.  I finally broke down and agreed to give it a try, but I don't think it's going very well.  Tuesday night, I tied up my hair in a clip and carefully showered so as not to get it wet.  Yesterday, I had to wear my hair in a ponytail because otherwise it looked limp and lackluster to me.  I felt as though I was walking around with a sign saying that I hadn't washed my hair.

Lord only knows why, but I tried again to not wash my hair tonight.  Once again, I carefully tied up my hair and contorted myself in the shower (I've got a rain-head shower) to keep my head dry.

Then I went outside to water the gardens, leaned over and stuck my head into a peony bush that's about to bloom (and therefore loaded with nectar-loving ants).  Apparently, that's a great way to piss them off, because they very quickly climbed on for the ride and then started to bite.  I managed to shake them out of my clothes, but when I had to pick two of them out of my hair, I ran for the shower and washed them out.

I think... my hair will continue to be washed daily.  If that dries it out, then I think that probably means that I'm meant to have shorter hair.  Is that really so bad?