Princess Elsie and the Magic Shampoo

Once upon a time Princess Elsie ran out of her favorite shampoo and had to go buy some more.  On her way to the store, she saw a pink shop. Everything about this shop was pink. The building was pink, the door was pink, the chimney was pink and even the windows looked a little pink. Since Princess Elsie loved the color pink, she decided she just had to go into the pink shop and see what was inside…maybe she could even find some shampoo in there.

Once inside, Princess Elsie noticed that everything inside the store was pink too! There were pink clothes, pink shoes, pink dolls, pink food, and even a pink kitten playing on the shop floor (which, of course, was pink).

Princess Elsie went up to the shopkeeper and asked the lady if she had any shampoo. The nice lady with the long hair said that she had one bottle of shampoo left, but that she didn’t think Princess Elsie would want it.

Before the lady could explain further, Princess Elsie took the shampoo from the lady’s hand and insisted on buying the shampoo. 

Later that day, Princess Elsie decided to try her new, pink shampoo.  It smelled just like strawberries! And not like how most shampoos smell sort of like strawberries, but this smelled exactly like a fresh picked strawberry. The shampoo itself was glittery and sparkled. And Elsie couldn’t believe it, but the bubbles the shampoo made were pink too! They floated right up the ceiling and popped, sending out the smell of strawberries.

After washing her hair, Princess Elsie combed and dried her hair, then went to bed and usual.

When she looked in the mirror the next morning, Princess Elsie was shocked to discover that her hair was now at least six inches longer than it had been when she went to bed. Her hair now reached her waste!

At first, Princess Elsie was shocked, but then she decided that she rather liked having waste length hair and spent the day flipping her hair around and smelling the strawberry scent that surrounded her every time she did so.

That night Princess Elsie washed her hair just like she usually did. She still only had the pink shampoo, and she wondered if anything would happen a second time.

By next morning, Princess Elsie had completely forgotten about the shampoo…until she looked in the mirror!

“Oh, my!” she said. Princess Elsie’s hair was now long enough that she could sit on it. All day long she had to be careful not to sit on her hair because when she did it would pull her hair.

Even though her hair was in the way when she would sit down, Princess Elsie loved her new long hair.

That night, Princess Elsie once again used the pink shampoo. She wondered if her hair would continue to grow and grow and grow!

Sure enough, the next morning Princess Elsie found that her hair was down to her knees! Now she had the longest hair in the entire kingdom.

She washed her hair again that night and woke to find that her hair was to her feet! All day long she went around showing off the longest hair in the kingdom.

That night, she once again washed her hair with the pink shampoo. She had to use a lot of it because she had so much hair. Princess Elsie said to herself, “There is no way my hair could get any longer, so there is no reason not to use this wonderful smelling shampoo.”

She was wrong.

When she woke up, Princess Elsie could barely move. Her hair was wrapped around her from tossing and turning in the bed.  When she finally managed to get untangled from her own hair, she found out that her hair was three feet longer than she was tall!

This would never do. Princess Elsie immediately went to her mom and made her cut her hair back to the length it was before she ever used the shampoo.  Then Princess Elsie went out and bought her regular shampoo.  It didn’t smell as good as the pink shampoo, or have pink bubbles that floated to the ceiling and popped, but at least her hair would grow at a normal rate!

Princess Elsie didn’t throw the pink shampoo away though. She decided to keep it and every once in awhile she would use just enough to make her hair a little longer for special occasions, but she always had her mom cut it again because she decided long hair wasn’t good for every day.

The End