Haircut!

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I 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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[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous!! I have curly hair, but it's very fine, so I have found very few things I can use to style it without it turning into one giant unsexy matted clump.

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!

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

My hair is really fine, too. It's just that I think mine forms tighter curls than yours, I think, from pics I've seen. But when I wake up in the morning, my hair is a big Brill-o pad, too.

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.