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I have curls. I hate washing my hair, but if I don’t wash it, it just gets harder and harder to wash when I do. Ideally, it would be 2 to 3 times a week. In practice it’s about once a week (sometimes less than that)
saaaaaame
Same for me. I’ve got soft (Irish?) curls/waves. My hair keeps a lot more of its texture if I stick to about once a week for a full wash. I’ll sometimes do a mid week water rinse and follow it with some leave in conditioner, but any more often and I get very frizzy.
Twice a week. Longer hair helps, plus combing it morning and night to distribute oils throughout the length and not letting it build up at the roots.
That’s a really good tip! How long do you comb it for?
Not long, just a minute or two. Feels good in the AM to scratch my scalp a bit too.
Ahhh my scalp flakes a lot so I couldn’t risk that
In the last year I’ve got it down to every 2 days and my hair is a lot less greasy for it! Really pleased.
That’s great! Washing & drying hair can be such a boring chore, it’s nice to not have to do it as often :)
once or twice a week, usually once a week 😅 I have curly hair.
How do you do that? My curls last like 2-3 days before becoming an unrecogniseable mess
do you use Curly Girl Method?
in my experience usually it’s sleeping that disturbs my curls, so I pineapple my hair and wear a silk bonnet to sleep and that helps significantly- it’s also just good for your hair, avoiding damage and so on
if I need to reset my curls but it’s not time for a wash, sometimes I can get away with wetting my hair with cold water and then letting it dry and usually my curls are back
Ohh, that just nicht be it
I regularly get compliments on my hair after I neglect it for a while. So I reckon whatever I’m doing is wrong.
??? tell me your secrets, sis
i have to wash it like every other day/ 3 days or else
I’m just lucky I guess. I have no secret. My hair is dense and just a bit wavey. Just enough that the ends curl a little on their own, like I used a curler to add volume but it just does that on its own.
I wash it a few times a week with really cheap shampoo and conditioner, then I let it air dry and forget to brush it most days.
It seems to work. I don’t understand why.
I go about 5 days between. When I am lazy I prolong this by using baby powder as dry shampoo.
Daily. One or two days with just water, but interspersed with soap days for when things get gross.
More frequent soap days over the summer or if I’m doing a lot of exercise or such. Less frequent soap days on lazy periods or winters.
I’ve got wavy hair so it’s quite forgiving - I wash it once or twice a week with just hot water and lots of combing with my hands - then wash my hands off the oil and repeat 2-3 times.
I only use shampoo when I get something really small and deeply absorbed in it - like if I’ve been near an open fire and my hair smells really smoky - otherwise I avoid shampoo as it dries out my scalp and gives me dandruff
it’s weird how your hair is really oily at first but then it just kind of adjusts and stays at a baseline - random people still comment that my hair looks nice so I don’t think it’s noticeable
Every day, once or twice. Male with relatively short hair.
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My bad :)
I have curly hair that I’m growing out, but I just cowash with conditioner basically every day, and use shampoo somewhere in the range of every other day to every other week depending on when I feel like it’ll help (typically every like 4-5 days or so).
once or twice a week i’ll wash with shampoo, the rest of the week i rinse it with luke warm water after work or other sweaty activities; cool water in colder months and on days I’m not sweating. i brush and comb my hair in the mornings and evenings.
Every other day, usually. Sometimes every three or four days, if I can stave off the grease with dry shampoo. And although my hair isn’t dyed right now, spacing out washes is also important for making the color stay longer.
usually every other day, unless i do something particularly messy/sweaty. id wait longer but my bangs get greasy a lot faster than the rest of my hair
My wavy hair doesn’t like too many washes, and leave-in conditioner keeps me from frizzing out in between. I’m on an A/B system with my routines because it’s too hard to neatly divide seven days, so I’ll wash my hair twice on an A week and three times on a B week.
