Welcome!
Welcome!
Howdy, nice to meet you! I think at least some of the frizziness may be caused by your hair being a little wavier than you realize, which is making it poof and frizz when you brush it. You might try a) not brushing your hair at all when it is dry, or b) letting your hair dry in a bun or braid. I find that, if I let my hair dry in a bun (especially one that is not "twisted"), I can comb or brush it later in the week without provoking too much frizz. Many people with wavy hair swear by brushing/combing only when it is wet, and either finger-detangling the rest of the time or just letting the hair be. That is definitely the best way to go if you want to make your hair look curlier, but either method should help control the frizz a little.
Thank you for sharing this.
I have always brushed my hair when it's dry and it's been frizzy for years now. I didn't hear about "don't brush when dry" until a short while ago.
One of the reasons I felt like I needed to brush when dry lately was because the process of washing my hair with chickpea flour paste was creating tangles in the shower. And my attempt to brush the tangles out under the shower, even when I was being my most careful, so I could avoid brushing when dry ripped out more hair than I wanted.
I am now in my trial month of a shampoo bar I am trying. Hopefully that doesn't create as many tangles during washing.
What's your strategy to exit the shower tangle free?
Well, I haven't used dry shampoos in ages so some of my advice might not be applicable with the chickpea flour method, but should probably apply okay with the shampoo bar. I am mostly a conditioner-only washer these days, with conventional shampoo a few times a year. Many people swear by brushes that are specifically made for wet use, but I just use this kind. I got one at Target probably a decade ago, picked off the balls at the ends of the tines with a tweezer, and it has held up just fine ever since. I don't really try to detangle my hair at all until I put in conditioner. At that point, I get any major tangles out by picking them out with my fingers, then go through slowly with a brush from bottom to top. I don't wash my hair upside-down, which I have never learned how to do without getting tangles. Instead, I just put my hair into two sections--parted down the middle as it usually is, left and right--and try not to do any motions that seem like it could tangle the hair while applying or rinsing out products. After I rinse out the conditioner and turn the water off, I usually squeeze out a little bit of the water with my hands and do one more quick brush-through while the hair is still very wet. Generally I put it up in a bun immediately, or more rarely a braid. I always get tangles in the little "baby hairs" around the hairline and which are too short to be incorporated in the braid or bun, but this method really helps me keep tangles out of the lengths.
The chickpea flour paste is just chick pea flour (untoasted) mixed with water into a paste. Kind of the thickness of a conditioner. Then you apply this to wet hair and really massage it into the scalp, and this process tends to create tangles in my hair with this paste. There's also no slip or slick to the paste so it's hard to work into the scalp.
I can't really view the ulta website (it says access denied, must have something to do with being in the netherlands). But I might try one of those shampoo/wet brushes. They're cheap enough and I've seen some in the local drug stores. Something I want to look into as well is a conditioner that doesn't weigh down my thin hair and doesn't create this film on the hair that makes it attract dust and makes my hair greasier earlier.
Hopefully the shampoo bar I'm using will create enough slick during the shower so I can detangle with the shampoo in my hair during the washing.
I'm looking forward to putting my wet hair in a braid since that always looks beautiful when it's dry.
Thank you for giving me a detailed run though about what you do to keep the tangles away.
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