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BiscuitLover3678 · 2022-04-18T17:43:34+00:00

I keep seeing instagram models with gorgeous hair saying they only wash it once a week. How?? I’m the same age, sadly 30s. Mine gets so greasy so quickly. How do people do it? Is it dry shampoo? But isn’t that also bad for it?

SommerTen · 25/04/2022 19:32

My hair can just about go 1.5 days between washes as it's very fine & quite curly but gets greasy easily, dry shampoo has no effect.

PickAChew · 25/04/2022 23:45

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Yours must be short and fine. Minectakes more than 2 minutes to even get properly wet - and 4-8 hours to air dry.

90sBritPop · 27/04/2022 16:58

During 1st lockdown when I was WFH every day and just going for walks in the country/coast I could wash my hair Sunday night and then not wash it again until the following Sunday. Since everything has opened up and I spend a lot of time in the city it’s every 2 days or maybe I can eek it out to 3 with a fringe wash ☺️

I watched a YouTube video on Victorian women and their hair recently (random I know) and they used to brush their hair a lot every morning and night and what it does, is it distributes the oil from your scalp through your hair so there’s less of a greasy build up on your scalp. You’d think that build up would just be spread through the rest of your hair but apparently it works to keep it cleaner longer. I’m yet to try this ☺️

90sBritPop · 27/04/2022 17:00

PickAChew · 25/04/2022 23:45

Yours must be short and fine. Minectakes more than 2 minutes to even get properly wet - and 4-8 hours to air dry.

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My hair is very proud from over dying it and so it takes about 20 mins to hairdryer dry and if I washed it now and let it air dry, it would still be damp at half 10 when I plan to go to bed 😣

90sBritPop · 27/04/2022 17:00

I meant porous, it’s definitely not proud 🤣

ArabeI · 27/04/2022 17:04

90sBritPop · 27/04/2022 16:58

During 1st lockdown when I was WFH every day and just going for walks in the country/coast I could wash my hair Sunday night and then not wash it again until the following Sunday. Since everything has opened up and I spend a lot of time in the city it’s every 2 days or maybe I can eek it out to 3 with a fringe wash ☺️

I watched a YouTube video on Victorian women and their hair recently (random I know) and they used to brush their hair a lot every morning and night and what it does, is it distributes the oil from your scalp through your hair so there’s less of a greasy build up on your scalp. You’d think that build up would just be spread through the rest of your hair but apparently it works to keep it cleaner longer. I’m yet to try this ☺️

I've heard of this, too. I've never tried it. (I don't know if it would suit my wavy hair), but apparently boar bristle, or similar brushes work well with this method.

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BiscuitLover3678 · 27/04/2022 18:48

90sBritPop · 27/04/2022 16:58

During 1st lockdown when I was WFH every day and just going for walks in the country/coast I could wash my hair Sunday night and then not wash it again until the following Sunday. Since everything has opened up and I spend a lot of time in the city it’s every 2 days or maybe I can eek it out to 3 with a fringe wash ☺️

I watched a YouTube video on Victorian women and their hair recently (random I know) and they used to brush their hair a lot every morning and night and what it does, is it distributes the oil from your scalp through your hair so there’s less of a greasy build up on your scalp. You’d think that build up would just be spread through the rest of your hair but apparently it works to keep it cleaner longer. I’m yet to try this ☺️

I love this

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Ringmaster27 · 27/04/2022 18:51

I can get away with once a week, with a bit of dry shampoo in between.
I don’t like to wait that long though, as it just feels grim and itchy from the product build up. 4-5 days is my comfortable limit.

Ringmaster27 · 27/04/2022 18:52

@90sBritPop im the same. If I was my hair in the evening (around now) and sleep with it wet, it will still be damp when I get up in the morning 🤯