way, way, way off-topic

Aruba!

This is really what the place looks like; the ocean is bright turquoise. I always thought those images had been Photoshopped but they haven't. Amazing.

Aruba is only 12 degrees or so above the equator, and the trade winds, which are humid, never die down, making the place wet & arid at the same time. The island is covered in cactus but the air is moist and so are you.

The result for humans: movie star hair. I'm serious. My hair looked pretty much like that every day we were there, only better: shorter, shiner (way shinier), & no roots. Also no stylists. All I had to do was brush out the dreadlocks I woke up with each morning, et voila. It was a dream come true. I speak as a person with the kind of hair one normally sees on P.E. teachers.^*

So here's my question: is there any way to produce Aruba hair in New York in January?

Also: why would trade winds make hair shiny? I understand the volume part; hair gets bigger when it rains.

But where does the shine come from?

I need to know.


^* Benfield Sports College