DETAILED POST – My hair wash day – 6th August 2015 – deep conditioning day!
Hi people. Today, I want to break down my wash day step by step.
1. Wash day started about 6.30 pm.
2. I sprayed Phytotraxil hair spray on my scalp.
3. Divided hair in 4 sections
4. Detangled in these sections. I used my wide-tooth comb first starting from the ends and working my way upwards. I followed up with my medium-sized comb doing the same thing. I detangled again with my wide tooth comb to make sure my hair was well detangled. My hair was well moisturized prior to detangling. I had moisturized it in the morning.
5. Applied my deep conditioning mix to each section. [Pura Body Naturals chocolate hair smoothie, Brown Butter Beauty Babassu Cream Deep Conditioner, NJoy’s Long & Healthy Hair Growth Oil, Now Foods avocado oil, coconut oil and Jamaican black castor oil]. Covered my hair with 2 disposable shower caps.
6. Sat underneath my standing bonnet dryer for 15 minutes. Afterwards, covered the shower caps with a thicker conditioning cap (to conserve the heat) for an extra 1 hr 45 minutes while I finished up with the kids and dinner.
7. Got into the shower. Massaged my scalp like I was shampooing it. Gently rubbed hair downwards like I were rubbing in a shampoo. Hair was still in sections.
8. Rinsed it out with warm water, detangling under the stream of the shower. The deep conditioning mix gives me good slip and that’s why I can afford to do comb in the shower with minimal breakage. If the conditioner didn’t have slip, I wouldn’t try this! Very important to note this point! Using warm water helps to remove excess oils since I didn’t use shampoo. I detangled section by section with my wide tooth comb. When I was done gently detangling one section, I clipped it and went to the next section.
9. Did the rest of my usual showertime stuff and then did a final rinse with cool water. This helps to ‘close’ the hair cuticle and make the hair feel smooth.
10. Absorbed excess water from my hair with a t-shirt also using it to smooth the hair downwards. Sprayed Phytostim hair spray on my scalp.
11. Sprayed Belnuovo coco castor nectar leave-in conditioner all over my hair. Applied Tropic Isle Living Hair therapy oil to my scalp, massaging it in lightly and then gently smoothed hair downwards. I mentioned these products in my last product haul video/post.
12. Clipped hair back into 4 sections. Wore a t-shirt over my hair for for about 1 hr.
13. Changed it for a dry one and went to bed. This was about midnight.
14. In the morning, took off the t-shirt. My hair was 95% dry & felt very soft and smooth. Although I didn’t feel any tangles, I still went ahead to thoroughly detangle my hair. I separated each section into smaller sub-sections and I detangled hair each sub-section with a wide tooth comb first. I didn’t apply any product because my hair was not really tangled. (Recall that I had detangled my hair before conditioning and again while rinsing out the conditioner in the shower). If it were tangled, I would have used a detangling leave-in conditioner or spray.
15. After using the wide tooth comb, I used my fingers to separate the smaller tangles that it couldn’t reach. Moisturized each subsection with Kurlee Belle thirsty kurls leave-in conditioner. Although the hair breakage I experienced was minimal, I’ll try a few things slightly different on my next wash day: I’ll moisturize my hair first before detangling to see if there is less breakage. Secondly, I’ll seal in the moisture with an oil or butter. I used to like argan oil but now, I’m not so sure anymore. 🙁
16. At the back section, I keep getting annoying tangles at the ends of my hair so I trimmed them a little.
17. Banded my hair in sections (using regular elastic bands). I usually snap them off when I want to take them out. Clipped the roots to keep them stretched.
18. Tied a scarf to smoothen the top of my hair and lay down the edges.
19. On top of the scarf, I put on my satin pocket bonnet to keep my hair off my shoulders.
20. When I was ready to go out, I took off the scarf, pocket bonnet and clips then packed the banded hair together into a bun and that was the end of my wash day! I was quite happy with my hair!
P/S: I relaxed my hair last month but I haven’t gotten around to giving you an update. I promise that will be my next hair post. Other hair posts coming soon will be: my length check, my mid-week co-wash routine, another curl former set and a weekly hair diary.
Thanks for reading. How was your last wash day?
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I’m washing every two or three weeks now so they are long but pretty uneventful. Your hair looks great. I love banding my hair as it really stretches the new growth. I want to learn African Threading.
Thanks Jay! I haven’t gone longer than 2 weeks between wash days in a long time except when I am in a long-term protective style. I believe there are YouTube videos on African threading. I used to have them done all the time when I was in primary and high school! 🙂
Informative post. Thank u Dr Fomsky for sharing
U are most welcome dear. It is always a pleasure blogging about stuff I do.