0xalis - the untangling gymnastics become necessary as one's hair grows longer.
Joules - you have Houdini hair like TatsuOni.
Ed
I never get tangling near the roots well maybe if I swim in the sea with my hair down and loose, but in this case everything is tangled and I'm in trouble my hair is very slippery (no wonder considering how much product I put into it), so I don't think I ever get tangles, everything just slides out and unravels on its own.
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0xalis - the untangling gymnastics become necessary as one's hair grows longer.
Joules - you have Houdini hair like TatsuOni.
Ed
If there's something strange with your long hair / Who you gonna call? / L-H-C! (sung to the tune of Ghostbusters)
If there's something strange with your long hair / Who you gonna call? / L-H-C! (sung to the tune of Ghostbusters)
Yep. Even what appear to be intractable big knots/pre-dreadlocks almost always yield to this technique...find the hairs that come out easily, and eventually the whole knot falls apart (with or without a core piece of lint). This likely would be much more difficult if the knot was closer to the scalp.
YMMV! Even though EdG and I have the same hair type, I never get scalp tangles even if I've gotten into a headful of tangly contaminants. I have noticed that my hair shafts emerge at nearly a right angle to the scalp, rather than lying flatter.
Haha! You with buffs and me with pony scrubs.
One thing that I use when there are a lot of fine contaminants in my hair is a fine tooth wood comb...I used this rather more when I was WO. Obviously this would have to follow a full detangle and preen. The fine teeth do get right to the roots of the hair.
Joules maybe gets to say "hair free of tangle" but for me? Never, something is always tangling.
I can't imagine the frustration of dealing with tangles tight to the scalp.
trolleypup - I should get a fine-tooth wooden comb. I know that tangles can pass right through the tines of my wide-tooth wooden comb.
lapushka - yes, I use water-only washing. I credit sebum for being a great lint remover because of its waxiness.
Ed
If there's something strange with your long hair / Who you gonna call? / L-H-C! (sung to the tune of Ghostbusters)
I can't tell how much lint comes out during washing, but during combing I find much more lint on my comb with water-only washing than with shampoo washing. Sebum's waxiness causes lint to stick to the comb, which pulls the lint right out. That did not happen with shampoo washing. My conclusion is that waxiness is a useful property.Originally Posted by lapushka
BTW, I tried immersing my comb (briefly). Really fine lint comes out in water. Less fine lint remains on the comb.
Ed
Last edited by EdG; February 18th, 2020 at 04:21 PM.
If there's something strange with your long hair / Who you gonna call? / L-H-C! (sung to the tune of Ghostbusters)
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