05-01-2022, 06:00 PM
So it's day two after my second water only hair wash/shower.
My hair feels absolutely amazing. The texture is incredible. It doesn't look greasy, it's just smooth and full of body.
That's what really gets me about it... the voluminous aspect.
Greasy hair is stereotypically all slick and flat and gross looking, but that's only because it isn't cared for properly after it reaches that oily point.
I have been taking about 20 minutes daily to massage my scalp and then brush my hair (boar bristle) very thoroughly. I do this at night, typically while watching Gunsmoke.
It's a really pleasurable experience, particularly the massage... the brushing aspect is a bit annoying at times and a tad boring. Before I really begin brushing with the boar bristle brush, I use a high quality boar bristle and plastic bristle combo brush just for ultimate stiff brushing. The hair is just sooo textured and thick that a boar bristle brush by itself (even the HARD ones) isn't gonna cut it and get all the way through. But a pre-brush with that combo bristle brush does the trick and sets the stage for that boar bristle brush to come through and just spread those oils like you wouldn't believe.
When I tried this experiment damn near a year ago, I couldn't get the oil past the halfway mark on my hair. Even with showering (water-only washing) and brushing several times per day (with the combo brush), still couldn't work the oil from root to tip. The boar bristle brush though? Wow. You know for YEARS I thought it was a load of BS how the boar bristles make all the difference in the world to work the oil through (apparently the composition of boar bristles are very close to human hair, look it up) but by golly is it ever true! I've just never used a boar bristle brush before at length because the damn thing isn't hard enough to get through to the scalp for me. Problem solved though, so I hope anybody who's curious about this water-only hair care method tries out the combo brush as a step two.
So now the steps are...
1. Massage scalp with fingertips and various aforementioned tools
2. Brush hair through with boar bristle and plastic (or metal) bristle combo brush
3. Brush hair through with firm boar bristle brush thoroughly
I touched on the texture and the appearance of the hair (doesn't look greasy, has great body/texture), but let me try to explain the smell...
So obviously I can't smell my own scalp. Lol. But if I rub my fingers all into my scalp really hard, there's no unpleasant smelling sweaty or dirty odor at all. If I smell the lengths of my hair, it smells like... hmmm. Well, it's almost like an ever so faint residual smell of the last shampoo I had or something. I did spritz some strawberry scented body spray the other day and walk through the mist... maybe that's what it is. I can't imagine it's still shampoo scent left over from the final wash, at least not after 2 water-only washes. Regardless, it smells fine. There's nothing offputting about either the appearance nor the smell of the hair.
It seems like as long as you do the water wash about once every two days, you'd never even need to use anything extra to soak up any residual oils. And that's where we get into the topic of corn starch. My plan was if the oil gets out of hand even when I've washed my hair (with water) recently, then I will just start powdering the roots, letting it soak up any excess oil, then brushing the hair til it looks clean. I KNOW this method works from past experience. But I just really don't wanna do that, and I'll tell you why. The feeling of the hair is sooo nice. I'm serious. It FEELS so nice to the touch. It's absolutely wonderful and I don't wanna screw that up and dry it out with the powder. And besides, I want to make certain that the hair has been saturated with enough oil over time from root to tip. I want this process of coating the hair to be thorough.
I will use the powder if I ultimately feel like I need to... but man I am just really enjoying the way the hair feels. Soaking and cleaning up the oil with corn starch (or any of the other natural powder substances known to be effective for this purpose) will give the hair a shit ton of body as well. It's already voluminous enough as it is... it's gonna start being some out of control cavewoman mob of hair if I get any more volume in it.
Which is CRAZY. See, volume is what I've ALWAYS wanted in my hair. I have always wanted hair with BODY. But my hair has always been just super straight (when it's long) and has no body at all when it's shampooed and stripped of oil. It kinda pisses me off that the secret to the voluminous hair I've dreamed of for all these years has been sooo simple and natural. Damn, y'all. Screw these asshole corporations who concoct these crazy soaps and shampoos and make cash cows out of us. They literally make products to strip your hair of nutrients, and then try to sell you products that put life and volume etc. back into your hair, it's twisted.
So glad I'm trying this again, and doing it the REAL right way this time. So far, this hair experiment is a glowing success.
My hair feels absolutely amazing. The texture is incredible. It doesn't look greasy, it's just smooth and full of body.
That's what really gets me about it... the voluminous aspect.
Greasy hair is stereotypically all slick and flat and gross looking, but that's only because it isn't cared for properly after it reaches that oily point.
I have been taking about 20 minutes daily to massage my scalp and then brush my hair (boar bristle) very thoroughly. I do this at night, typically while watching Gunsmoke.
It's a really pleasurable experience, particularly the massage... the brushing aspect is a bit annoying at times and a tad boring. Before I really begin brushing with the boar bristle brush, I use a high quality boar bristle and plastic bristle combo brush just for ultimate stiff brushing. The hair is just sooo textured and thick that a boar bristle brush by itself (even the HARD ones) isn't gonna cut it and get all the way through. But a pre-brush with that combo bristle brush does the trick and sets the stage for that boar bristle brush to come through and just spread those oils like you wouldn't believe.
When I tried this experiment damn near a year ago, I couldn't get the oil past the halfway mark on my hair. Even with showering (water-only washing) and brushing several times per day (with the combo brush), still couldn't work the oil from root to tip. The boar bristle brush though? Wow. You know for YEARS I thought it was a load of BS how the boar bristles make all the difference in the world to work the oil through (apparently the composition of boar bristles are very close to human hair, look it up) but by golly is it ever true! I've just never used a boar bristle brush before at length because the damn thing isn't hard enough to get through to the scalp for me. Problem solved though, so I hope anybody who's curious about this water-only hair care method tries out the combo brush as a step two.
So now the steps are...
1. Massage scalp with fingertips and various aforementioned tools
2. Brush hair through with boar bristle and plastic (or metal) bristle combo brush
3. Brush hair through with firm boar bristle brush thoroughly
I touched on the texture and the appearance of the hair (doesn't look greasy, has great body/texture), but let me try to explain the smell...
So obviously I can't smell my own scalp. Lol. But if I rub my fingers all into my scalp really hard, there's no unpleasant smelling sweaty or dirty odor at all. If I smell the lengths of my hair, it smells like... hmmm. Well, it's almost like an ever so faint residual smell of the last shampoo I had or something. I did spritz some strawberry scented body spray the other day and walk through the mist... maybe that's what it is. I can't imagine it's still shampoo scent left over from the final wash, at least not after 2 water-only washes. Regardless, it smells fine. There's nothing offputting about either the appearance nor the smell of the hair.
It seems like as long as you do the water wash about once every two days, you'd never even need to use anything extra to soak up any residual oils. And that's where we get into the topic of corn starch. My plan was if the oil gets out of hand even when I've washed my hair (with water) recently, then I will just start powdering the roots, letting it soak up any excess oil, then brushing the hair til it looks clean. I KNOW this method works from past experience. But I just really don't wanna do that, and I'll tell you why. The feeling of the hair is sooo nice. I'm serious. It FEELS so nice to the touch. It's absolutely wonderful and I don't wanna screw that up and dry it out with the powder. And besides, I want to make certain that the hair has been saturated with enough oil over time from root to tip. I want this process of coating the hair to be thorough.
I will use the powder if I ultimately feel like I need to... but man I am just really enjoying the way the hair feels. Soaking and cleaning up the oil with corn starch (or any of the other natural powder substances known to be effective for this purpose) will give the hair a shit ton of body as well. It's already voluminous enough as it is... it's gonna start being some out of control cavewoman mob of hair if I get any more volume in it.
Which is CRAZY. See, volume is what I've ALWAYS wanted in my hair. I have always wanted hair with BODY. But my hair has always been just super straight (when it's long) and has no body at all when it's shampooed and stripped of oil. It kinda pisses me off that the secret to the voluminous hair I've dreamed of for all these years has been sooo simple and natural. Damn, y'all. Screw these asshole corporations who concoct these crazy soaps and shampoos and make cash cows out of us. They literally make products to strip your hair of nutrients, and then try to sell you products that put life and volume etc. back into your hair, it's twisted.
So glad I'm trying this again, and doing it the REAL right way this time. So far, this hair experiment is a glowing success.
