E.Lo thoughts 2020-2021

I think “training” is partly training yourself to understand your hair and how much washing it really needs. I think there is some truth to washing it less helps it to last longer because if you wash too often, you strip the oils from your hair, but your hair is supposed to have oils, and your body overcompensates. Also, it worked for me! I have bleached hair, so it’s pretty dry but I can go longer without washing because of how porous it is. I’m not sure if I could have pulled this off when I had my natural brown hair. I felt like it got greasy faster, but I didn’t use very good quality shampoo back then either.

Now, I go a week before I need to really wash it, but I have “trained” myself to work with my greasy days. I hate the way my hair looks the day I shower, it is frizzy after blow drying, so I shower at night and the next day is ok, but still kind of frizzy (day 1). I usually air dry if I don’t go straight to bed. Day 2 and 3, I wear it down and it looks the best these days. Day 4 and 5 is probably a ponytail or braids day. Day 6 (or 7 if I really want to stretch it out), is a hat day.

I work out often and, this might sound weird, but the sweat hair adds texture – in a good way. Just bathe after and don’t wash my hair until it needs it. It’s weird. My hair doesn’t really get “greasy” it’s more just limp towards the end. I used to get greasy and I just don’t anymore. My skin on my face does though @.@

Everyone’s hair is different but are you willing to wash it less and less and see if your body eventually stops overcompensating with the oils? Cuz it does look bad during that transition time, so I get why people don’t bother trying.

Also if your hair tends to get greasy at the roots, use a 100% boar bristle brush to distribute. I detangle with a wet brush, then use the bbb afterwards and probably 3-4 times a day. This has made a big difference. Also, I took some photos of my hair each day this week: