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So not terribly on topic but figure since all of you ladies are so good at discovery and have been doing the birchbox thing for awhile, maybe one of you might have input... so I've never been great at the "girl" thing mostly because my mom never taught me and was always more of a tomboy and had other tomboy girlfriends, but something I've always been curious about...
I have really fine, thin, oily hair/scalp, though it does respond well to heat and with certain products will at least look good throughout the day on a simple blow out. But I've always heard not to wash your hair daily. But with oily hair, if I don't wash daily, it looks greasy (so I don't skip). But supposedly this is damaging. I color my hair, and wash daily (with crap shampoo to boot... because if I'm washing daily, not going to spend extra money on something that will need replacing often) and my hair is seemingly healthy. Minimal split ends, shiny, mostly soft except when the thin/fine part kicks in and it's slightly tangly, but should I be looking into ways to cut down on washing regardless? Could this potentially be damaging in the long run? Or does this just not apply to those with oily hair?
Sorry for the off topic questions, if anyone has insight, would be much appreciated!
Your hair sounds just like mine (up until about a year ago when mine changed...PCOS and thyroid problems dried me up from the neck up, lol). I grew up with greasy roots, that by the next morning looked like somebody poured bacon grease on my head. I had to wash every day, and my mom wouldn't buy the "good" shampoo either. I also had to use conditioner because my hair would tangle into a birds nest if you even looked at it the wrong way.
By the time I was a teenager working though, I took my hair care into my own hands/wallet. I quit using products for oily or fine hair, because I realized after some experiments, that the more I "mopped up" the oiliness or dried it out with the "fine hair" stuff, the more oil my scalp produced. I started using a moisturizing formula shampoo, with conditioner only on the ends, detangler spray on the top half...and it started to even out the oil, I could finally go two days on one hair wash.
I also had good response from brushing my hair out gently each day with a boar bristle brush. It pulls the oil down the hair shaft, and helps with tangles too.
It is expensive, but the LuLu Organics Lavender & Clary Sage hair powder works really well, and lots of people swear by the Klorane dry shampoo. Sprinkle/spray all over your roots, scrub in with fingers, brush out with brush..if needed "re dry" a few minutes with the hair dryer, and it'll look and feel like you just washed it. Heat styling works well after dry shampoos too, the added texture holds the style better.
Your scalp is just like facial oil problems...they more you wash, more harsh products you use, the oilier your skin gets, to over compensate the lack of oil from washing it all away. I usually takes a little while to get used to it/get the oil regulated, but a lot of people have good luck washing every other day (or longer for drier hair).
