Prism
March 4th, 2010, 01:35 PM
Ever since I switched up my routine to start using a deep clarifier (Joico) weekly and Suave's daily clarifying (it actually has a cone) along with no-cone conditioner and ceasing blow drying with heat (I still use the no-heat setting), my hair has been staticky. I don't know if it's just a coincidence with the weather, but I think it's the change in routine.
My questions are what causes the static and is it damaging to hair?
I was thinking that lack of moisture would cause the static, so I heavily oiled my hair with the new coconut oil that arrived in the mail today. EVEN with it heavily coated, when I ran my fingers through it, it had static.
So I read online about what static is. With hair, the hair gets rubbed, and a positive charge builds up. Things with a positive charge repel each other. The result is each individual hair all trying to get away from other individual hairs.
But I'm thinking on a microscopic level, static is probably really bad for hair. If an individually positively charged strand repels other positively charged strands, I bet the cuticle is also flaring out as it repels other "shingles" near it.
My blow dryer is an "ionic" blow dryer, and it's interesting that when I air dry the static is much worse than when I blow dry. Perhaps there really is some truth to those ionic claims.
Anyway, what's strange to me is that my hair could be this staticky when it's loaded (I mean total greasy, not-leaving-the-house degree) with coconut oil. Most of the articles stated the static tends to be worse in people with dry air and hair that is stripped of moisture. I moisturize daily. My hair looks shiny and feels soft. It doesn't squeak when I wash it like hair does when it's stripped.
You gals/guys noted any more static with reduction in use of cones? Anything else? I wonder if the ionic feature of the blow dryer still works when it's used with a no-heat setting? What I did do was take my misting bottle of water mixed with a little no-cone conditioner and spray that on top of the oily hair, and that seemed to do the trick at calming the static. Strange.
My questions are what causes the static and is it damaging to hair?
I was thinking that lack of moisture would cause the static, so I heavily oiled my hair with the new coconut oil that arrived in the mail today. EVEN with it heavily coated, when I ran my fingers through it, it had static.
So I read online about what static is. With hair, the hair gets rubbed, and a positive charge builds up. Things with a positive charge repel each other. The result is each individual hair all trying to get away from other individual hairs.
But I'm thinking on a microscopic level, static is probably really bad for hair. If an individually positively charged strand repels other positively charged strands, I bet the cuticle is also flaring out as it repels other "shingles" near it.
My blow dryer is an "ionic" blow dryer, and it's interesting that when I air dry the static is much worse than when I blow dry. Perhaps there really is some truth to those ionic claims.
Anyway, what's strange to me is that my hair could be this staticky when it's loaded (I mean total greasy, not-leaving-the-house degree) with coconut oil. Most of the articles stated the static tends to be worse in people with dry air and hair that is stripped of moisture. I moisturize daily. My hair looks shiny and feels soft. It doesn't squeak when I wash it like hair does when it's stripped.
You gals/guys noted any more static with reduction in use of cones? Anything else? I wonder if the ionic feature of the blow dryer still works when it's used with a no-heat setting? What I did do was take my misting bottle of water mixed with a little no-cone conditioner and spray that on top of the oily hair, and that seemed to do the trick at calming the static. Strange.