To not get this not washing your hair thing?!

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Recent trip to the hairdresser resulted in me getting told off (gently) for washing my hair every day. Post pregnancy my hair is a lot thinner and prone to breaking, and in the last few months I’ve had the nastiest greasy roots. I mean proper crispy hair, it’s grim!

I’ve always washed my hair daily since childhood, but now I’m told I shouldn’t.

Problem is by the end of the day I haven’t washed I look a mess! My fringe looks like a oil slick, it is horrible.

Do I go back to daily washing and just go bald? Or am I missing a trick that everyone else knows and I don’t?

I think you should try Aveda shampure shampoo and conditioner, it smells amazing and I just have a feeling it will help your hair.

Expensive though, I can't afford it right now and my hair isn't happy. Or you could try their rosemary and mint if it's your scalp you worry about, but I think the Shampure is gentler and has more proteins. Not sure, you could ask. Then try to just wash every two or three days. Also their paddle brush is supposed to be amazing, recommended by Caroline Hirons, and having a better hair brush might reduce breakage too. I keep meaning to buy one.

I also bought batiste dry shampoo the other day for the first time, £1.50 and smells amazing.

I find I need to wash my hair daily. If I run my fingers though the roots at the end of the day, I can smell it. Unpleasant, dirty smell. I agree my hair does not style once it is a day old. But it is the smell I can't do. I have got very fine auburn hair.

It is true. Washing your hair every day makes it ten times more greasy, and I know that because I used to do it

I just get greasier and greasier. After a period in hospital where I couldn't wash my hair for 6 weeks, I kept expecting something miraculous to happen and have lovely hair. Never happened

I STILL remember that first hair wash, omg it was amazing!

Blackeyed - depends on hair type. I never brush or comb mine

My hair was getting horrendously greasy and disgusting and put down to the type of shampoo I was using or hard water in new house, but I was really surprised that since I was prescribed mega dose Vit D and Iron (as was deficient) and had a small increase in my levothyroxine, my hair has improved beyond recognition. I try to take Vit Bs as well. Haven't changed my shampoo or regime at all. (I use an eco shampoo btw)

You can lie to fit your own race-card-playing agenda if you like - and god, I dread to think what you're like in real life if you get this uppity about a hair thread - but it doesn't paint you in a very good light

Uppity? Interesting choice of word

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/yep-uppity-racist/335160/

I'm glad mine only needs washing twice a week. Though I do wear it up - I notice if I wear it down, it gets greasy much quicker. Not sure why that is...

I wash my hair every day as I swim. I just let it dry naturally and never use any products and it's in really good condition. the hairdresser always comments on it. So I think it's fine.

Wow

I posted this before going to work this morning and wasn’t quite expecting this much feedback!

Thanks everyone, it’ll take a while to get through all these but I can see dry shampoo mentioned a lot.

Meaningful reply to follow when toddler is in bed

@existentialmoment - you're the one trying to turn a thread about hair into a political rant by playing the race card over something that was never said in the first place, then lying about it when you're called out to make it fit your agenda. I think it's you who has the problem and the massive chip on her shoulder, don't you? I suggest you find something a bit more productive to channel your misplaced ire into. Seriously, are you like this in the workplace, or another every day life situation? You must be very tiring to be around. What happens when you're genuinely discriminated against, if you've cried wolf over something so silly that never happened in the first place?!

have it your way. It's definitely NOT racist to tell black people that their hair stinks, every single one of them.
Ok, sure. Go say it to a few people, see what they tell you.

I wish people would stop saying this as if it were a fact. It might be true for some people, but others just do have oily hair, and if you don't wash it frequently it does not get any better, you just have to walk around with oily hair!!

This! I have fine thin hair and if I don't wash it for long periods, it does not 'improve' for being left, just looks and feels bloody awful. So I wash every day and always will.

have it your way. It's definitely NOT racist to tell black people that their hair stinks, every single one of them.
Ok, sure. Go say it to a few people, see what they tell you.

I agree with you. But that isn't what was said. Not once did anyone utter the words "black people stink", let alone "every single one of them". Not once. You're seeing something that simply isn't there, and that's your own agenda, I'm afraid.

So who has the chip on their shoulder, exactly?

Have a nice day, but I suggest you stop taking offence quite so easily. Your life will be all the more pleasant for not doing so; it must be exhausting being you.

In fact, what you've done there, @existentialmoment, is seen someone say that someone had thick curly hair that stank, and assumed that the poster was talking about a black person because they said they had thick curly hair, and attacked them accordingly. Big problem. Massive problem. Then you twisted it to fit your own agenda, called that person a "racist twat", then lied and said they'd said "all black people stink" when called on it. You have massive, massive issues that I sincerely hope you're not passing on to your kids.

Not once did anyone utter the words "black people stink", let alone "every single one of them". Not once. You're seeing something that simply isn't there, and that's your own agenda, I'm afraid

You obviously missed it.
Racist GF says "everyone who doesn't wash their hair daily is disgusting and stinks"
Me "well black people don't wash their hair anything like daily, far from it, you surely can't be suggesting that every black person is disgusting and stinks"
Racist GF says "yes, I do mean exactly that".

Don't really need a map to find the problem, do you?

And if its my agenda why did so many posters agree with me (the ones who saw the deleted posts)?

Exercise more care when calling things like this disgusting or gross.

In fact, what you've done there, @existentialmoment, is seen someone say that someone had thick curly hair that stank, and assumed that the poster was talking about a black person because they said they had thick curly hair, and attacked them accordingly. Big problem. Massive problem

Big problem yourself because I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT GF'S FRIEND, I WAS RESPONDING TO HER OTHER COMMENTS. As I've told you already.

So keep on defending the racist GF all you like, but try to actually understand first?

norugratsatall we have the same hair

I love the poster who gave all the advice and then said 'I cut down from washing every 2-3 days to every 5'. They really really don't get it.

existentialmoment
Din't respond, they only joined today

*don't

Im gonna stop washing my fanny and armpits too to make them more luxurious and nice smelling

existentialmoment

That's not what was said at all. Nobody said "black people stink". Nobody said "yes, I do mean exactly that". Perhaps you'd like to ask to see the deleted posts.

It must be terrible being so bitter and angry that not only will you deliberately place the race card over something that never happened, you'll then lie about it to prove your "rightness". I hope things improve for you - you must be an extremely miserable person. Not only that, but people like you make it more difficult for people suffering actual, real racism and discrimination to be taken seriously. You really should be ashamed of yourself, for that if nothing else.