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What can be done about frizzy hair? If I haven't washed my hair in 3 days, it's usually fine, but after washing it's a big wavy frizzy mess! It feels so dry. Even if I condition. It's not the good waviness, but the kind that just flips way up in the air. I found one of the best things to do is wash no more than once every 3 days. Keep it dry (wear a shower cap) and don't brush it while it's dry. The best thing to do is wash and condition, brush and style it while it's still wet, and then leave it totally alone. You can run your fingers through it occasionally to get tangles out, and I assume this also helps to spread the natural oils down the hair a little? Sleeping helps a lot as my hair is much better the next day when I wake up. But don't dry brush and don't overwash! Those seem to be the 2 most important things for me. When my hair is frizzy it seems to all stick together in frizzy single little strands, but after a few days it feels soft and stronger and falls in little groups of strands rather than in a big afro and feels moisturized and not frizzy at all. What is the beeswax stuff someone mentioned? Does this stuff work? Does it damage hair? What about that "Nicky Clarke" straightening iron?
If your hair is frizzy, you should not be brushing it at all, unless you want it to be frizzy. Longhairs with hair prone to frizziness often use a widetoothed comb only, and they may only use it once a day other than for minor neatening-up, and that is right after showering, when their hair is wet.
You don't want to be washing your hair every day of course, but you can moisten it to enable your defrizzing morning combing. (Yeah, morning is the best time because sleeping will inevitably stir up some frizz.) I find patting handfuls of cool water on my head to work best for this purpose, laying off the water at the point it's just starting to cause drips off your ends.
I can be frizzy:
Or not!
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We seem to have quite similar hair. I used to try to wash it not-very-often, which straightened and made my hair lay down. However, it gets so greasy,oily,and shiny in 2 days it just sticks in place, running my hands thru it makes it spikey. Ive got a thing I have been doing that I am still working out the bugs on. What I do is is put beeswax in my wet hair in the shower, but I haven't figured out whether I should put it over dirty or clean hair. Then I brush it (wet, in the shower)with this brush thats got little groups of plastic spikes, or teeth, or whatever, to get it spread around. Then I wash it with pantene shampoo + conditioner, moisturizing. I lather up like the guys in the shampoo commercial, using more or less shampoo depending on how greasy/oily it is. I dont know how much to use yet, how long to leave it in, whether to wash only the scalp, etc. Im trying different things every night to get it figured out. Rinse it real good. Then I comb it down because I have very bad wavy cowicks in the front and sides of my hair, and put a winter hat over it. I wear it until the hair is dry, which is like 2 hours. I shower at night so I can just put it on and go to bed, then when You wakeup during the night you can take it off if you want.
The result- Very clean looking, quite straight, soft, tame blond hair (my hair is brown and nasty using the less-wash method or lots of conditioner) Lasts all day.
I wash over the beeswax because it is petroleum (oil) based, like some conditoners. There are other "pomades" That are water based, but I haven't tried them because they are more than 10 times as expensive (Redken waterwax). Basically I think what the wax does is increase the diamater of the hairs so that they attract more moisture, or they wick the oil my scalp produces better, so it reaches the ends. I don't know for sure though. I wash everyday (or at least, everytime I shower) because after a few days the wax breaks down or something and the hair will be kind of dry, but still straight. I took conditioner out of the "plan" for now, I was using Thermasilk. I think it breaks down rapidly because it looks good for awhile but frizzes later, in a few hours. Plus it darkened my hair.
Official longhair rules I break constantly, and have gotten good results:
1. Dont wash hair everyday
2. Dont brush wet
3. Use a widetoothed comb
4. Lather up my hair real good
5. Recently stopped using conditioner
5. Used to use Thermasilk conditioner. Supposedly, it sucks. (I may stop breaking this one though)
The only thing I do right is use pantene, I guess (thats supposed to be good stuff, right?
Good luck!
I use pantene also and find it doesn't make much of a difference. I even use the smooth and sleek one and follow the directions exactly, except for not washing everyday and I never "repeat if desired." I tried leaving the shampoo in for a shorter period of time, not washing as hard, and leaving the conditioner in for a minute or so, but to no avail. But I will look into this beeswax stuff. Any idea where I can get it?
I meant that, I like pantene. It seems gentle and no other shampoo I have used (and I have tried a whole lot) seems to work better. Pantene gets it as soft as mine gets and kills a lot of frizz. I plan to continue using it. Beeswax can be found at Walmart or Pharmacies, the ethnic aisle, and it comes in small tubs, should be yellow but you may find black also. Quite cheap, 2 bucks or so, and you can probably use it 30+ times.
Do you use Pantene Pro-V? I do, the sleek and smooth kind I think it's called? What do you use? It doesn't do shit for me, but I'm glad it works for you. I looked at Walgreens today for the beeswax and couldn't find, I looked in the hair products aisle. What is the ethnic isle?