clarity
January 27th, 2009, 07:48 AM
While I've had long hair pretty much my whole life, I never learned any helpful ways to take care of it. It's relatively thick but stick straight. Now I have two girls also with long hair and we're flailing. I need a care routine that is most importantly, fast. I have been poking around here and getting more confused about the many options. Natural options are most appealing, but efficient is a higher priority. I also wouldn't mind combining chemical and natural. I probably don't want a super shiny/oily look.
Me: hair between bra and waist. Damage from ponytails. Highlights growing out from one year ago. Starting some gray. I weaned from long term nursing recently and had a big shed that has thinned out my hair a lot - I am finding that worrying. I'm going to see my acupunturist and regular doc to look at thyroid. Anyone with experience there? Also possibly related: for about 6 months I have experienced a scalp condition for the first time. Big scabby scales on the back on my head. Started small and spread. tar, salicylic, and pyrithione zinc shampoos no effect. Tried grapefruit seed extract. Vinegar rinse was much more successful and has it under better control. I am suspecting a fungal component? Would a dermatologist be at all helpful? I use generally Lush salt and SLS shampoo - Big, and sometimes a cone conditioner on the ends. Wash about 3x week.
Daughter 1: waist length, straight, moderately thick. Some ponytail damage but not much. Ends prone to tangle...she's been on cone shampoo and conditioner and I think we need a new conditioning strategy. When we try something else it's obvious how dry her hair is. We ended up going that way because all the kid oriented natural products I tried were not useful for kids who had long hair by the time they were a year old. Wash 1-2 times week
Daughter 2: Never cut off her baby hair. It's below her shoulderblades with some chunks she cut herself off the ends looking somewhat like layers. Wash her once a week with cone shampoo and conditioner but we're having a lot of nape hair tangling. She hates hair stuff. washing, brushing, having it up.
this week I implemented nighttime widetooth combout with detangling spray for each of us, with a braid for the night for the older child. Before I use a boar brush on dry hair in the morning. I was looking at getting a better comb...one of hairsense's on ebay? I saw that through a link here. Detangling product advice needed too. I've tried some I like and some I hated.
I know this is a lot, but any routine and product suggestions would be so helpful. I've gotten really desperate.
For non damaging hair styles, I have to do dance buns for Daughter 1 (her hair's getting awfully big for the ponytail and twist it around style...) and I can hold mine up with hairsticks and that's about it. Pointers to a thread with videos for the inept might also be in order.
Thanks!
Me: hair between bra and waist. Damage from ponytails. Highlights growing out from one year ago. Starting some gray. I weaned from long term nursing recently and had a big shed that has thinned out my hair a lot - I am finding that worrying. I'm going to see my acupunturist and regular doc to look at thyroid. Anyone with experience there? Also possibly related: for about 6 months I have experienced a scalp condition for the first time. Big scabby scales on the back on my head. Started small and spread. tar, salicylic, and pyrithione zinc shampoos no effect. Tried grapefruit seed extract. Vinegar rinse was much more successful and has it under better control. I am suspecting a fungal component? Would a dermatologist be at all helpful? I use generally Lush salt and SLS shampoo - Big, and sometimes a cone conditioner on the ends. Wash about 3x week.
Daughter 1: waist length, straight, moderately thick. Some ponytail damage but not much. Ends prone to tangle...she's been on cone shampoo and conditioner and I think we need a new conditioning strategy. When we try something else it's obvious how dry her hair is. We ended up going that way because all the kid oriented natural products I tried were not useful for kids who had long hair by the time they were a year old. Wash 1-2 times week
Daughter 2: Never cut off her baby hair. It's below her shoulderblades with some chunks she cut herself off the ends looking somewhat like layers. Wash her once a week with cone shampoo and conditioner but we're having a lot of nape hair tangling. She hates hair stuff. washing, brushing, having it up.
this week I implemented nighttime widetooth combout with detangling spray for each of us, with a braid for the night for the older child. Before I use a boar brush on dry hair in the morning. I was looking at getting a better comb...one of hairsense's on ebay? I saw that through a link here. Detangling product advice needed too. I've tried some I like and some I hated.
I know this is a lot, but any routine and product suggestions would be so helpful. I've gotten really desperate.
For non damaging hair styles, I have to do dance buns for Daughter 1 (her hair's getting awfully big for the ponytail and twist it around style...) and I can hold mine up with hairsticks and that's about it. Pointers to a thread with videos for the inept might also be in order.
Thanks!