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What I found were several posts and videos with women who took several hours or all day to wash their hair with beautiful results.
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After reading the wash posts blog posts and watching the videos of other hair bloggers, I came to the conclusion that I wasn't taking washing my hair seriously and added some steps and products to my wash days. This resulted in several of my wash days including the following steps:
Yep, you read right. My wash days would be about 3 1/2 hours long. Basically taking me all afternoon or evening. And that's not taking into consideration the time I would spend doing any other types of treatments such as protein treatments.
I did the long wash days for a little more than a year and then got to the point where I didn't feel like spending so much time on my hair. My wash days now only include four steps and take me less than two hours:
The funny thing is I think my hair is in the best shape it's been since I shortened my wash days. While I think doing all those steps and taking extra special care of my hair during wash days was needed at the beginning of my hair journey I don't think it's necessary with the progress I've made. So shorter wash days are here to stay for the time being.
- Detangling: 20 minutes
- Pre-pooing: 60 minutes
- Cleansing: 30 minutes
- Tea rinse and deep condition: 30+ minutes
- Air dry: 1+ hours
- Moisturize, seal, and finish drying with a hooded dryer: 60 minutes
Yep, you read right. My wash days would be about 3 1/2 hours long. Basically taking me all afternoon or evening. And that's not taking into consideration the time I would spend doing any other types of treatments such as protein treatments.
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I did the long wash days for a little more than a year and then got to the point where I didn't feel like spending so much time on my hair. My wash days now only include four steps and take me less than two hours:
- Detangling and a deep condition pre-poo: 30 minutes
- Cleansing: 10 minutes
- Tea rinse, apple cider vinegar rinse, and deep condition: 30 minutes
- Moisturize, seal, and dry with a blow dryer: 40 minutes
The funny thing is I think my hair is in the best shape it's been since I shortened my wash days. While I think doing all those steps and taking extra special care of my hair during wash days was needed at the beginning of my hair journey I don't think it's necessary with the progress I've made. So shorter wash days are here to stay for the time being.
How long do your wash days take?
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Wash days need not to be long. I like it short, uncomplicated steps and quick styling.
ReplyDeleteWhat are your wash day step? Thanks for reading.
DeleteWhen I was in the thick of really being healthy with my hair it would take at least three hours but could take overnight for my hair to dry on rods. Most recently as wash days have been after my hair comes out of my twists I actually haven't been doing the full day thing but it still takes a few hours. I'll see how long it takes after these come down again and I'm mostly tending to my hair out of a protective style. That may be a while though. Protective styles are the business lol.
ReplyDeleteProtective styles are great! Thanks for reading.
Deletemine was always around the three hour mark but depends on what my hair needs it can be shorter
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading!
DeleteWhat are the best shampoos that you've found!
ReplyDeleteI've listed a few good shampoos in this post https://www.arelaxedgal.com/2016/05/8-great-shampoos-for-summer-hair-care.html
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