Faepirate
September 18th, 2008, 03:43 AM
I have had this exact same hair problem for months and months and months now. That is hair that feels kind of stiff at the ends, and stringy-ish. Well not just the ends, but it's more noticable at the ends. I know what hair should feel like because once upon a time I had hair that moved.. like hair. :p
I know curly hair behaves differently from straight hair, and my hair does clump into curls, but the curls - though they look fine - feel rought and weird even when I leave them alone (i.e. no combing/brushing) and if I brush them out, they look OK once I've oiled but they still feel weird.
I don't think it's dryness. I know dryness on my hair - I had very dry hair for years. And right now, moisture treatments do not fix this, so...
If I put my hair in an updo it will pretty much retain the shape of that updo when I take it down, even after brushing. If I bun my hair at night, my hair in the morning when I take it down is nothing short of horrrific :bigeyes:! I put my hair in a braid last night. And, sure enough, when I took it out, my hair stayed in three braid strands. HA. I've managed to get it to look sort of normal again but it's still hanging in slightly stiff-feeling clumps. It doesn't feel right.
Since January I've used cones very very sparingly, if at all. All my conditioners have been cone-free. I CO-washed for a few months, during Spring/Summer. Since July I WO-washed but after a few weeks started adding conditioner to prevent my ends from drying out.
Could it be some kind of non-cone build-up, do you think...? Or some other problem? Is this stiffness familiar to anyone? :confused: If so how did you solve it and do you know what caused it?
I noticed that my hair was nice with WO for a while and then I used my old coconut and sweet almond conditioner (no cones) and my hair started to go downhill and I couldn't get it back to being nice again.
I tried vinegar rinses and they didn't help. I tried a gentle clarifying (organic and herbal) shampoo and it didn't help. Should I try a stronger sulphate shampoo?
I really hope there's a way to get past this. It is seriously annoying having ends that are not damaged but feel funky whatever I do and stick out at funny angles for no apparent reason.
I know curly hair behaves differently from straight hair, and my hair does clump into curls, but the curls - though they look fine - feel rought and weird even when I leave them alone (i.e. no combing/brushing) and if I brush them out, they look OK once I've oiled but they still feel weird.
I don't think it's dryness. I know dryness on my hair - I had very dry hair for years. And right now, moisture treatments do not fix this, so...
If I put my hair in an updo it will pretty much retain the shape of that updo when I take it down, even after brushing. If I bun my hair at night, my hair in the morning when I take it down is nothing short of horrrific :bigeyes:! I put my hair in a braid last night. And, sure enough, when I took it out, my hair stayed in three braid strands. HA. I've managed to get it to look sort of normal again but it's still hanging in slightly stiff-feeling clumps. It doesn't feel right.
Since January I've used cones very very sparingly, if at all. All my conditioners have been cone-free. I CO-washed for a few months, during Spring/Summer. Since July I WO-washed but after a few weeks started adding conditioner to prevent my ends from drying out.
Could it be some kind of non-cone build-up, do you think...? Or some other problem? Is this stiffness familiar to anyone? :confused: If so how did you solve it and do you know what caused it?
I noticed that my hair was nice with WO for a while and then I used my old coconut and sweet almond conditioner (no cones) and my hair started to go downhill and I couldn't get it back to being nice again.
I tried vinegar rinses and they didn't help. I tried a gentle clarifying (organic and herbal) shampoo and it didn't help. Should I try a stronger sulphate shampoo?
I really hope there's a way to get past this. It is seriously annoying having ends that are not damaged but feel funky whatever I do and stick out at funny angles for no apparent reason.