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Original poster

to not understand grease?

29 replies

ChaosTrulyReigns · 24/03/2011 21:59

Does it have buckling legs?

Surely gravity should insist it stays on my scalp?

How the sassoon does it get 2 whole inches down my shaft?

Follicles.

[fume]

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Zettelbox · 24/03/2011 22:00

you don't need to understand it, just sit down with a bowl of popcorn and enjoy Mr Travolta's cheesy acting

KurriKurri · 24/03/2011 22:02

Do you ever stop banging on about your shaft?

KurriKurri · 24/03/2011 23:04

Oh no - I've lowered the tone so much I've killed your thread Chaos -

Try tea tree shampoo.

LadyOfTheManor · 24/03/2011 23:08

I thought you meant the film....

poochela · 24/03/2011 23:10

But how does it happen so blummin fast? It could be like 7.00am and I think my hair'll do for today and then by 9.00am I'm being chased by some greenpeace activist trying to hose me down with fairy liquid.

Why, Lord? Why? Why must you smite me with greasy hair?

KurriKurri · 24/03/2011 23:20

Have you Name changed Chaos?

damn those militant environmentalists

Original poster

ChaosTrulyReigns · 25/03/2011 11:25

Nope, I'm still me Kurri.

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FreeButtonBee · 25/03/2011 11:41

I feel your pain. And how can it be dry and frizzy at the ends and yet still greasy, I don't know.

And those dry shampoos are shite.

Mandy2003 · 25/03/2011 11:49

Don't wash it for as long as you can bear - frequent washing overstimulates it!

Mutt · 25/03/2011 11:52

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exhausted2011 · 25/03/2011 11:54

every morning, every day of my life
tried everything over the years, just have to get on with it

Buda · 25/03/2011 12:04

Actually I have spent the last year or so trying to get away from daily washing. It's working. I can now get 2 days out of a wash.

But I know what you mean - I get so fed up looking in the mirror in the morning and thinking it's ok and then by 11 it's greasy! Where does it COME from?!

lesley33 · 25/03/2011 12:08

My hair gets greasy by the end of the day. I also have very fine hair so if I don't wash it every day it looks terrible. If I am going for a night out I will wash it once in the morning and once at night.

I tried for quite a while not to wash it as frequently. It didn't help one bit and I just looked terrible.

thumbwitch · 25/03/2011 12:11

Take Mandy's advice - just get over the fact that it will take a while to extend the period between washes. It makes it much better, honest. Mine only gets washed once a week - any more than that and it goes haywire. Once, when I was young and easily influenced by peer pressure, I started to wash it twice a week (hence knowing about it going haywire) - it took a few weeks to train it back to being washed once a week. But soooooo worth it.

And it doesn't smell, acksherly - not until the day it needs washing anyway.

Carrotsandcelery · 25/03/2011 12:12

If you have fine hair then you need a very very light shampoo that says it leaves no residue. When you condition do the ends but not your head. Try to avoid products on your hair. Vary your shampoo frequently too. Maybe buy travel sizes until you find one that works well for you.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 25/03/2011 12:17

Good advice from carrots. DD is getting to an age now where she is starting to get greasy hair. I find that if she washes it on alternate days and only conditiions the last 20cm, her scalp stays relatively grease free.

Mutt · 25/03/2011 12:22

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HopeEternal · 25/03/2011 12:27

The menopause solved the greasy hair problem for me. I was an every day washer before but I now only wash my hair about once a week. Even then it's not greasy, just a bit dull.

shemademedoit · 25/03/2011 12:28

I've only ever washed my hair every second day. OMG I'm really manky, aren't I?

thumbwitch · 25/03/2011 12:31

Mutt - no it doesn't. I think I might have noticed, or someone else noticed and told me, in the 30 odd years that I have not washed it more than once a week. Just because you don't believe it, doesn't mean it's not true.

At the end of my pg, I didn't need to wash my hair for about 6 weeks (thank GOD! couldn't bend over the bath) because it just didn't get greasy at all. That was fab!

Johnny Ball did that show about Bodies back in the 80s, I think - some woman with incredibly long hair volunteered to see how long it would take before her hair sorted itself out - took 8 weeks, apparently. First week was ok, 2nd a bit unpleasant, weeks 3 and 4 were utterly minging, 5 and 6 not good either but by week 8 you couldn't tell her hair hadn't been washed.

lesley33 · 25/03/2011 12:39

I would love to be able to wash my hair only once a week.

I once watched a discussion programme about people who don't wash their hair at all. In general their hair lookerd perfectly clean. Apart from 1 woman who looked like she had very fine hair like me. Her hair was greasy and horrible looking.

If I got to the seaside within a couple of hours of salt being blown into my hair, my hair is greasy and horrible.

I do only use a small amount of shampoo and change my shampoo frequently.

spatchcock · 25/03/2011 13:05

I have to wash mine every day, tried everything else, including a manky period at uni when I went two months without washing. Everyone's scalp/hair/oil glands are different so there is no rule of thumb for washing hair.

thumbwitch · 25/03/2011 13:20

hormones do appear to have something to do with it...

mistressploppy · 25/03/2011 13:37

I'm a grease-spot too and because my hair's curly I do wash it everyday, just to get it under control. Being pregnant was fab though - not only did it not fall out, but it was much less greasy.

poochela · 25/03/2011 19:57

I was told that brushing your hair 100 times at night with a real bristle brush will sort it out ie 25 either side and 50 down the back. Something to do with the natural bristles draw the oil down the shaft and condition the hair....

But have you seen how much a real bristle brush costs?

Hence I too have tried to string it out between washes, but no chance - my hair is minging every morning. Vile.

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