{"id":33,"date":"2006-07-24T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-07-24T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T17:21:59","slug":"damn-you-herbal-essences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/damn-you-herbal-essences\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn you Herbal Essences&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!<\/strong><br \/>\nLife was good. After years of cohabitation, my wife and I had settled on a single brand and variety of shampoo. I could even be relied on to purchase a bottle of shampoo without coming home with the wrong item. (Despite the fact that I have thinning hair and my wife, great flowy tresses, we could use the same product.)<\/p>\n<p>It was a blissful, idyllic age where children played in the park and Dr. Ruth hawked its sensual qualities.<\/p>\n<p>But, damn you Clairol. You just had to change it. Not just eliminating my particular favorite flavor of Herbal Essences. Not just changing the bottle, either. You had to go and #^@%! the whole product line.<\/p>\n<p>No more could I purchase shampoo based on the type of my hair. No, now I have to purchase a product based on how it complements my attitude. I used to be the green bottle guy. Now, I&#8217;m Drama Clean or Body Envy or Hello Hydration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no marketing genius, but Herbal Essences already had a great identity and very-much recognizable bottle. I went to the store last night and searched up and down the shampoo aisle for the signature bottle before reading a sign telling me that, indeed, these bright Fruitopia-themed abominations were my shampoo brand of choice.<\/p>\n<p>I ranted a bit in store, joined by a few others also lamenting the changes. Nobody could figure out which ones to buy. I opted for Drama Clean \u00e2\u20ac\u201c hoping they hadn&#8217;t changed the formula too much and taking heart that, since it was on sale, I wouldn&#8217;t suffer too much.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they had to change something. Target had done a pretty good job with their generic version, but we still preferred the original.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Clairol, I did not leave Herbal Essences.<\/p>\n<p>It left me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!! Life was good. After years of cohabitation, my wife and I had settled on a single brand and variety of shampoo. I could even be relied on to purchase a bottle of shampoo without coming home with the wrong item. (Despite the fact that I have thinning hair and my wife, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant-andor-rave","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}