Rosa Harris
May 6th, 2014, 03:08 PM
Ok. I had a bizarre incident yesterday with sweat. I have been going cone and sulfate free and my hair has been wigging out - dry, rough, tangly feeling and wanting to frizzball like crazy. Its actually not damaged hair at all despite how gross it has been feeling. Its only had henna on it twice and never anything else. I don't even get in pools because I want to protect my hair. I have been super protective since its first fragile sprouts six years ago. Losing it made me baby it when it started to come back.
Anyway here is what happened:
So yesterday I ended up sitting in the car in about 90 degree heat for about 20 minutes with my rough tangly manic bugged out cone free mane because my husband forgot to leave me the keys when he went in to check on a job on the way out to Walmarts.
Needless to say me and my hair was soaked. So much so I was embarrassed to go in the store when I finally got there. Ever seen a sweat soaked fat chick who is doing no apparent excercise riding a disability rider?
But sitting in the car I kept wiping the sweat back out of my eyes up into my hair then suddent at one point there was a 'what the heck?' moment when I realized my hair felt as silky sooth as it had been with any cones or ever, period. It was a strange moment. I took down my bun and started to finger out the sweat down the length of my hair. Actually I was trying to fluff dry it out a bit. The feeling moved down the hairshaft the more sweat wet the drier hair that had been bunned got.
So now I am totally trippin when I fully realize the hair texture but sure this would go crazy again as soon as dry, right? It has just GOT to be too good to be true, right?
Well, wrong!
It dried as shiney silky as it felt sweat soaked. It was amazingly light reflective as if coated with coconut oil but super light without the oil weight.
But leave me and my hair sweat soaked? On a gut level I just could not manage that no matter how tempting it was and it was very tempting so I decided to wash with just Vo5 strawberry to hopefully just cleanse away the sweaat-stink-smell so hubby would let me in the bed thinking that this is after all South Georgia and I can get some sweat in the flower beds anytime for sure to repeat and see if it happens again.
BUT to my absolute astonishment the hair feeling did not wash away. It is just as amazingly soft and shiny right now after two conditions, cold rinse, pat dry and plop - no other products yet fluffy wavy as well. Its not as wavy as fluffed up as the profile pic with the gel, bt its nice loose silky waves... that hubby could not leave alone.
So what the freak the getting soaked with sweat do? Soaking my hair with sweat would not have been one of those things I would think of doing fo my hair. I figure it pushed out natural sebum into the hair, perhaps? The the cone free condition only clod rinse did not strip the natural sebum out again?
Looking around the site I have also come across preening which sounds like what I did accidentally along with the sweat. My hair is usually too dry - my skinscalp to have any obvious sebum, tho.
Anyway here is what happened:
So yesterday I ended up sitting in the car in about 90 degree heat for about 20 minutes with my rough tangly manic bugged out cone free mane because my husband forgot to leave me the keys when he went in to check on a job on the way out to Walmarts.
Needless to say me and my hair was soaked. So much so I was embarrassed to go in the store when I finally got there. Ever seen a sweat soaked fat chick who is doing no apparent excercise riding a disability rider?
But sitting in the car I kept wiping the sweat back out of my eyes up into my hair then suddent at one point there was a 'what the heck?' moment when I realized my hair felt as silky sooth as it had been with any cones or ever, period. It was a strange moment. I took down my bun and started to finger out the sweat down the length of my hair. Actually I was trying to fluff dry it out a bit. The feeling moved down the hairshaft the more sweat wet the drier hair that had been bunned got.
So now I am totally trippin when I fully realize the hair texture but sure this would go crazy again as soon as dry, right? It has just GOT to be too good to be true, right?
Well, wrong!
It dried as shiney silky as it felt sweat soaked. It was amazingly light reflective as if coated with coconut oil but super light without the oil weight.
But leave me and my hair sweat soaked? On a gut level I just could not manage that no matter how tempting it was and it was very tempting so I decided to wash with just Vo5 strawberry to hopefully just cleanse away the sweaat-stink-smell so hubby would let me in the bed thinking that this is after all South Georgia and I can get some sweat in the flower beds anytime for sure to repeat and see if it happens again.
BUT to my absolute astonishment the hair feeling did not wash away. It is just as amazingly soft and shiny right now after two conditions, cold rinse, pat dry and plop - no other products yet fluffy wavy as well. Its not as wavy as fluffed up as the profile pic with the gel, bt its nice loose silky waves... that hubby could not leave alone.
So what the freak the getting soaked with sweat do? Soaking my hair with sweat would not have been one of those things I would think of doing fo my hair. I figure it pushed out natural sebum into the hair, perhaps? The the cone free condition only clod rinse did not strip the natural sebum out again?
Looking around the site I have also come across preening which sounds like what I did accidentally along with the sweat. My hair is usually too dry - my skinscalp to have any obvious sebum, tho.