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teaberryblueI got a new haircut today.
A few people have asked me lately about the whole shampoo-free thing. So, just so you know, yes, I am still doing it, and I have used commercial shampoo exactly twice in the past almost-year: once when I got some icky goo in my hair, and another time when I wanted to put henna in it and needed to shampoo it first.
Instead, I’ve been washing my hair with honey once a week, or a mixture of honey and vinegar if it’s really dirty) conditioning it every day with silicone-free conditioner (Trader Joe’s has really cheap silicone-free conditioner, btw), combing a little oil into it (castor oil, jojoba oil and vegetable glycerine).
I have literally not had a bad hair day since I’ve started doing this, with the exception of October in Louisiana, when it didn’t matter how much conditioner or oil I put in my hair, because my hair wanted to look like this and there was just no convincing it otherwise.
Anyway, today I got the first haircut I’ve had since November, 2008.
Before!
After!
I don’t know if people can tell that it’s any different! It looked much, much more different in the salon but the weather on the way home was so blustery that by the time I got in, it looked more like this again. So I put a little shea butter and oil in it and there you go.
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Date: 2010-05-19 01:48 am (UTC)I got a haircut last week, because we are in full-summer here and that means even my hair cannot deal with being more than a few inches long.
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Date: 2010-05-19 01:52 am (UTC)When are you coming back to the frozen north?
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:06 am (UTC)Anyway, your haircut looks good! :D
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-19 02:08 am (UTC)My husband doesn't wash his hair with shampoo either. He only uses conditioner and on the rare occasion he does wash it, he regrets it the moment it's dry. I know quite a few kiwis who don't wash their hair in fact, particularly those whose hair is naturally curly to some extent.
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:23 am (UTC)After going this long without shampoo or most other hair products, I've got to say it's the best beauty choice I've ever made. Now I can tell what a major effect using hair products had on my hair.
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:13 am (UTC)I've been cutting back on my shampoo days. I did no-poo a long, long time ago, but there was a point where my hair wasn't thriving with it and I got fed up. Of course, I also have very straight, very dry hair that I kill with dye.
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:27 am (UTC)Yeah, I don't know if it's for everyone, but it's been such an improvement for me.
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:18 am (UTC)I like the cut, and admire your shampoo free routine. Is it more time consuming that the shampoo/condition routine?
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:25 am (UTC)If you want to learn more about it, you can check this (http://antagonia.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/fizzgig.jpg).
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:01 am (UTC)I love the fact you do so little to your hair and it looks great. Then again, I feel smug whenever I see some poor sucker shelling out $300+ for hair straighteners, or chemical straightening. I shudder to think of the collective money spent each year on hair products and treatments, where usually the destructive 'upkeep' is the only thing that necessitates the purchase of 'aftercare' items.
And you've now reminded me how I wanted to start a blog that rejoices in bed hair. Sometimes I am amazed at what happens to my hair overnight (the elves are messing with me, I'm sure of it), and feel compelled to share.
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:14 am (UTC)And yeah, my hair is so much healthier and softer and always looks good now that I've stopped using products. I let her put product in my hair today and it already feels icky to me. I'll wash it out tomorrow morning!
And gosh you are probably adorable with bed hair. I would read this blog.
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Date: 2010-05-20 01:41 am (UTC)I can't believe the salon lady said it was okay to only get hair cut once or twice a year! You seem to do the same trick as me - I get my hair cut just as frequently, but I usually get these bewildered or slightly disapproving looks when I get asked when the last time I had a cut was, and I reply 'oh, about this time last year'. I don't really mind getting an expensive cut either, 'cos I only do it once a year, and there have been that many times when I've gone to a cheap hairdresser only to go to a better one later on to fix whatever I'm not happy with.
What frustrates me the most is hairdressers that push their producty agenda onto me, even after I've said that all I want with my hair is to be able to put it all back in a neat bun, and I do my hair typically at 0500 so I don't have time for straighteners and five different styling products. Then they go and give me fancy layers which need to be clipped back so they don't end up in people's food, or a fringe which doesn't go with my natural part (I don't have time to retrain my hair to fall a different way every morning?!), or blow dry my hair in such a way that I just feel like a freshly groomed poodle when I walk out of there. Ugh.
Sometimes I get some pretty monster bed hair, because I undo my military bun last thing at night. And the elves. I blame the elves.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:52 am (UTC)How much honey do you use to wash your hair? Does it take long to rinse? I've never heard of someone doing that!
ETA: And of course, it looks awesome!
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Date: 2010-05-19 01:50 pm (UTC)I use honey the same way I used to use shampoo. Palm-sized blob, applied to roots, massage in, rinse. It dissolves very quickly once it hits water and doesn't take that long to get out. You just want to make sure you get all of it so your hair isn't sticky, but as much as I read that warning the first time I tried it, I've never had sticky hair. If I think I need more, I add more. I do that about once a week.
Then I add conditioner. I just check the label to make sure there aren't any silicones in it (you can find lists online for this by searching "silicone-free conditioner"). I comb through and sometimes use a hell of a lot of conditioner. I only rinse it out to get the excess out of my hair, and sometimes I add more. Then I put a quarter-sized drop of oil in my palm, rub my palms together, and run the oil through my hair at the front and top of my head. If the ends look dry, I'll put a little on the ends, but I find sometimes it leaves spots on my clothes. Then I wrap my whole head in a men's XXL cotton tee shirt with my hair piled on top of my head. (not a towel, terrycloth bits get between hair strands and separate them so they can frizz). Then I get dressed, do morning stuff, and undo the tee-shirt last minute before walking out the door. No styling.
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Date: 2010-05-19 11:41 am (UTC)Do you ever wear your hair in a French braid? It's a cool style, and you might like how your hair looks after you unbraid it. Especially if you braid it after applying moisturiser to your hair.
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Date: 2010-05-19 01:54 pm (UTC)And no, I hate the way my hair looks when I take it out of braids. It just frizzes and loses all the curl definition. I don't ever wear my hair up unless I absolutely have to. I got into a bad habit of putting it up out of laziness and when I went back to work in 2006, which was the first time I had hair long enough to put up in a while, I made a rule that I would not put my hair up more than twice a week. Then I dropped it to once a week. Currently, I haven't put my hair up at the job I have now ever.
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Date: 2010-05-20 12:25 am (UTC)ALSO I HAVE A QUESTION. Feel free to say no obv because I don't know how busy you are, but I have decided it is FINALLY time for me to start working seriously towards publication of some short stories. I have a couple that I wrote for a class a couple years ago and I know they need some editing... but my idea of editing tends to be "I will just scrap this and rewrite them from a totally different POV!"
It would be nice to have someone else's eye on these before I start trying to push them on unwitting short story journals, and I immediately thought of you because I know you are capable of a solid critique and will be honest with me, unlike a good chunk of my fandom friends, god love 'em.
But anyway, feel free to say no if you can't or just don't want to! I can probably find someone else whose opinion I trust... almost as much.
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Date: 2010-05-20 01:19 am (UTC)On your question: I would be happy to help, but I will be up front-- I am notoriously flaky about reading things when my friends ask me to and I hate letting people down. So I am going to say, why not shoot me one short thing? And see if I get through it. And if I do that, then I can try looking at another.
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