I have long lush curly hair. Everyones hair and scalp are unique, you have to think of the following factors. >scalp dry or oily >hair dry or oil
Based on that you pick you products.
I use tgel charcoal shampoo because my scalp is dry af. I oil the shit out of my hair too, no choice, it is also Hella dry.
check'd >hair hella dry
have you tried taking long long breaks between shampoo? talking several weeks? I used to think I had dry hair until I put myself in a position to let the natural oils start coming back in. Imo it helps to get sun and sweat a little throughout the day.
I have and it was great but my job is fricking dusty and I end up washing it every 3-4 days. I bomb it with a scalp oil, my wife just takes care of buying me things, looks like picrel. I also use hair oil.
check'd again! >job is dusty
that's a hard one then, sounds like you've gone as far as you can with it. Only other suggestions i see if you end up with dry hair is swapping your pillow case to a silky one or wearing something to bed to preserve oils.
I climb indoors a fair amount and the chalk can definitely get to my hair after a day or two of working out, can't imagine working in a dusty space over time. good luck to you anon, sounds like your wife is a keeper
check'd again! >job is dusty
that's a hard one then, sounds like you've gone as far as you can with it. Only other suggestions i see if you end up with dry hair is swapping your pillow case to a silky one or wearing something to bed to preserve oils.
I climb indoors a fair amount and the chalk can definitely get to my hair after a day or two of working out, can't imagine working in a dusty space over time. Good luck to you anon, sounds like your wife is a keeper
this is my first time knowing about someone gets fatique from taking fin. I honestly don't know man, I took fin at different times, and I never felt any difference
literally this easy if you have textured hair. Stop washing it daily, even weekly. Condition when its dry. Wash/dry thoroughly when its time. that's it. i've been enjoying a microfiber cloth for drying, but by no means necessary. pic related.
also stop using your 3in1 just for men bodywash+shampoo. Go to a salon. Buy high quality shampoo and conditioner per a trusted stylists recommendation. reap the reward.
I get people commenting on my hair a lot, so I'll give my routine. Note that I have hair like in your OP pic, but curlier. If you have straight hair or of a different texture, then your results may vary. Hair density, strand thickness, porosity, etc vary a lot and one person's routine can wreck another person's. Enough blabbering.
After ~1 year of experimenting I found that shampooing every day is utterly worthless. Shampoo when your hair feels gross or heavy from oils. If you just wing it for a while you'll instinctively learn when.
Despite rumors, I found that I love sulfate shampoos. They aggressively remove oil, which is what you want when you're shampooing once a week like I do. I use a SLES based one. SLS is even harsher, for people with super greasy hair.
I hate in-shower conditioners and exclusively use leave in ones. On the day you shampoo, be generous all throughout. For the following days, only add a small amount to the ends. Learn how your hair reacts and when you need to shampoo to strip all the old oils off. For me, as I said, I can do this for a week.
Finally, I learned how to make my own conditioner using BTMS-50 so I could get one suited to my hair in particular.
Recipe for conditioner:
6-10% shea butter. I use 6%.
3% vitamin E/jojoba oil mixture, which is mostly vitamin E.
3% argan oil
1-4% essential oil of your choice, or a mixture combining to 1-4% of total volume. At more than 2.5% the essential oils will be quite strong. Avoid getting the conditioner in your eye, and do not use it on your junk. I recommend peppermint for the cooling feeling.
3% glycerin. Honey is an alternative.
4% BTMS-50. This is the emulsifier and a conditioning agent that allows oils and waters to mix. 3% is the minimum.
The rest should be water.
Put all ingredients into a jar, put the jar into a pot of water, and boil to melt ingredients together. Making 100g at a time, this mixture lasts me around 2 months because you don't need much.
Hey, so, I think we have the same hair, but my problem is I need to shampoo often or I get dandruff (already tried reducing shampoo usage, didn't work). What would you do if you HAD to shampoo everyday? More conditioner? Different formula? Doesn't need to be perfect, but I'd like to know your intuition.
Effectively, all shampoo does is reduce the dirt and old, oxidized oils on your scalp. Contrary to popular belief, hair does not absorb things (well, except for some ingredients like coconut oil) to the cortex, and most emollients, occlusives, etc like oils (including natural hair oils which are effectively sebum) just sit atop the strand and fill in the gaps between the rough 'shingles' of the cuticle. By shampooing every day with anti-dandruff shampoo you're constantly stripping too many oils. Dandruff or dry scalp I'd imagine can be helped with the addition of humectants -- ingredients which pull water from the air and hydrate, such as glycerin or honey. My suggestion would be to experiment with the following things:
Use more conditioner. Avoid the roots of your hair if it starts to weigh down/look flat. Just keep plopping more on until your hair starts looking greasy/no volume, then back off a few steps.
Look at your supermarket for glycerin. Most sell it in the first aid section. Add a few drops to your hands, and try to get it on your scalp. Feel free to experiment and see how much your hair likes. I hadn't done any research before this line, but upon googling it seems there's scientific literature on the subject of glycerin and other humectants and dandruff. It must be left in the hair and used 3 times a week at least, or alternatively use a leave-in conditioner and add a tiny bit to it every time you use it. Please refer to PMID 25134312 on pubmed.
Avoid proteins such as onions protein, hydrolyzed collagen, wheat protein, keratin, silk protein, amino acids, and rice protein. If you have hair like mine, then protein buildup will make your hair seem brittle, thin, and dry no matter how much oil you add.
Try leaving in your conditioner, if you don't already. I really don't understand the point of in-shower conditioners when so many good things are washed away in the water, and the whole point of conditioner is to get more oils and whatnot into the hair.
cont.
Consider trying pure hair oils as addition to your conditioner, so you can use less. There are other ingredients besides oils that provide some use but weigh your hair down way more. BTMS-50 is one such ingredient and that's why I keep it at a minimum. Argan or jojoba are the most popular. My hair hates coconut oil, but your hair might like it. Just 3-4 squirts in your palm, not much. I prefer argan over jojoba, it's lighter feeling. Jojoba is more available and cheaper, and honestly 90% as good.
I don't mean this in a condescending or "I know your health better than you" sorta way, but consider talking to a dermatologist or something to see if your dandruff issue is actually dandruff. Technically speaking, dandruff is a fungal infection that is contagious via combs and whatnot. Most people who think they have dandruff actually just have very dry scalp skin. However, since you said you tried not shampooing I'm somewhat on the side that you actually have dandruff.
I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor.
My name is Patrick Bateman.
I’m 27 years old.
I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine.
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an icepack while doing my stomach crunches.
I can do a thousand now.
After I remove the icepack, I use a deep-pore cleanser lotion.
In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser.
Then a honey-almond bodyscrub.
And on the face, an exfoliating gel-scrub.
Then I apply an herb mint facial masque,
which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol,
because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older.
Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman.
Some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me.
Only an entity– something illusory.
And though I can hide my cold gaze…
and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours…
and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable,
I simply am not there.
>wake up >take fin >shower, maybe use shampoo and conditioner once every 4 days or so
balding ruined my youth but if I can keep it where it currently is at vegetamode I guess I can ride out the rest of my 20s
I mean he's not wrong but unfortunately for him its projection and he probably cared way more how others would see him if he took proper steps to keep his hair than taking that idgaf attitude to save it then watching baldlets cope like I do. LOL
you're referring to the texture of the hair, same thing here
https://i.imgur.com/VBQJQY1.png
literally this easy if you have textured hair. Stop washing it daily, even weekly. Condition when its dry. Wash/dry thoroughly when its time. that's it. i've been enjoying a microfiber cloth for drying, but by no means necessary. pic related.
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also this tbh
. Its largely referred to as "wavy" which is basically large curly chunks/grouped strands falling loosely. >how does one make their hair like this
its partially genetics, but if your hair frizzes i'd pay attention to how you dry it and look into products to use while drying. Curl enhancers are one solution. go to a salon and see if your hair/texture is a good fit.
Comb with as coarse as a brush as possible. I use pic rel. The more you touch your hair while it dries, the frizzier it will be.
Find out your hair porosity and what ingredients your hair likes. How much/what kind of humectant it likes, whether it likes hydrolyzed proteins, etc. It's really as simple as reading ingredients lists and seeing what your hair likes and what it doesn't. Google things.
Natural Oil based non sulfate shampoo n conditioner. If you use sulfate shampoo your nuking your hair oils stop it if you don't frizz anymore.
>If you use sulfate shampoo your nuking your hair oils stop it if you don't frizz anymore.
Sulfates are perfectly fine. Don't be a suburban mom shilling all natural shit just because you don't understand the purpose of different ingredients or how to use them or because a product doesn't suite your hair in particular.
sulfate shampoos tend to be filled with unnecessary ingredients tho. Sulfate free is best for daily washing. >Don't be a suburban mom shilling all natural shit just because you don't understand the purpose of different ingredients or how to use them or because a product doesn't suite your hair in particular.
The context was how to deal with frizzy hair I addressed it, since I have frizzy hair.
I literally have no idea how to grow my hair out. I've always done buzzcut because it's simple. What do you do with the hair that starts poking over the top of your ears? does that eventually get heavy enough to not do that anymore?
Wash hair then apply flaxseed gel I boiled to my hair, comb from the tips until I get to the root. I don't just apply but dip my hair and sometimes my entire head in the bowl.
That's it, all girls love it. I'd be a virgin if it weren't for it.
>wake up
>hair routine done
how does fit feels knowing that this french BVLL twink mogs you irl?
I have long lush curly hair. Everyones hair and scalp are unique, you have to think of the following factors.
>scalp dry or oily
>hair dry or oil
Based on that you pick you products.
I use tgel charcoal shampoo because my scalp is dry af. I oil the shit out of my hair too, no choice, it is also Hella dry.
check'd
>hair hella dry
have you tried taking long long breaks between shampoo? talking several weeks? I used to think I had dry hair until I put myself in a position to let the natural oils start coming back in. Imo it helps to get sun and sweat a little throughout the day.
I have and it was great but my job is fricking dusty and I end up washing it every 3-4 days. I bomb it with a scalp oil, my wife just takes care of buying me things, looks like picrel. I also use hair oil.
check'd again!
>job is dusty
that's a hard one then, sounds like you've gone as far as you can with it. Only other suggestions i see if you end up with dry hair is swapping your pillow case to a silky one or wearing something to bed to preserve oils.
I climb indoors a fair amount and the chalk can definitely get to my hair after a day or two of working out, can't imagine working in a dusty space over time. good luck to you anon, sounds like your wife is a keeper
Checked indeed
My hair looks really good once natural oils are back in but then my scalp feels like a greasy mess
rub Rogaine on my head for 30 seconds to a minute, then take a fin pill in the middle of the day
why is taking fin in the middle of the day so much better? I don't get any fatigue or sides when I take it smack center of the day.
this is my first time knowing about someone gets fatique from taking fin. I honestly don't know man, I took fin at different times, and I never felt any difference
I take it once roughly 12 hours because my sleep schedule is a mess, never felt a thing
Beautiful hair
>NEVER use shampoo unless my hair is literally caked in mud
>wash with water
>use conditioner and leave it in while I wash my penor, then rinse
>dry
literally this easy if you have textured hair. Stop washing it daily, even weekly. Condition when its dry. Wash/dry thoroughly when its time. that's it. i've been enjoying a microfiber cloth for drying, but by no means necessary. pic related.
also this tbh
also stop using your 3in1 just for men bodywash+shampoo. Go to a salon. Buy high quality shampoo and conditioner per a trusted stylists recommendation. reap the reward.
>baldies be like "yeah he'd look better bald"
I get people commenting on my hair a lot, so I'll give my routine. Note that I have hair like in your OP pic, but curlier. If you have straight hair or of a different texture, then your results may vary. Hair density, strand thickness, porosity, etc vary a lot and one person's routine can wreck another person's. Enough blabbering.
After ~1 year of experimenting I found that shampooing every day is utterly worthless. Shampoo when your hair feels gross or heavy from oils. If you just wing it for a while you'll instinctively learn when.
Despite rumors, I found that I love sulfate shampoos. They aggressively remove oil, which is what you want when you're shampooing once a week like I do. I use a SLES based one. SLS is even harsher, for people with super greasy hair.
I hate in-shower conditioners and exclusively use leave in ones. On the day you shampoo, be generous all throughout. For the following days, only add a small amount to the ends. Learn how your hair reacts and when you need to shampoo to strip all the old oils off. For me, as I said, I can do this for a week.
Finally, I learned how to make my own conditioner using BTMS-50 so I could get one suited to my hair in particular.
Recipe for conditioner:
6-10% shea butter. I use 6%.
3% vitamin E/jojoba oil mixture, which is mostly vitamin E.
3% argan oil
1-4% essential oil of your choice, or a mixture combining to 1-4% of total volume. At more than 2.5% the essential oils will be quite strong. Avoid getting the conditioner in your eye, and do not use it on your junk. I recommend peppermint for the cooling feeling.
3% glycerin. Honey is an alternative.
4% BTMS-50. This is the emulsifier and a conditioning agent that allows oils and waters to mix. 3% is the minimum.
The rest should be water.
Put all ingredients into a jar, put the jar into a pot of water, and boil to melt ingredients together. Making 100g at a time, this mixture lasts me around 2 months because you don't need much.
Hey, so, I think we have the same hair, but my problem is I need to shampoo often or I get dandruff (already tried reducing shampoo usage, didn't work). What would you do if you HAD to shampoo everyday? More conditioner? Different formula? Doesn't need to be perfect, but I'd like to know your intuition.
Effectively, all shampoo does is reduce the dirt and old, oxidized oils on your scalp. Contrary to popular belief, hair does not absorb things (well, except for some ingredients like coconut oil) to the cortex, and most emollients, occlusives, etc like oils (including natural hair oils which are effectively sebum) just sit atop the strand and fill in the gaps between the rough 'shingles' of the cuticle. By shampooing every day with anti-dandruff shampoo you're constantly stripping too many oils. Dandruff or dry scalp I'd imagine can be helped with the addition of humectants -- ingredients which pull water from the air and hydrate, such as glycerin or honey. My suggestion would be to experiment with the following things:
Use more conditioner. Avoid the roots of your hair if it starts to weigh down/look flat. Just keep plopping more on until your hair starts looking greasy/no volume, then back off a few steps.
Look at your supermarket for glycerin. Most sell it in the first aid section. Add a few drops to your hands, and try to get it on your scalp. Feel free to experiment and see how much your hair likes. I hadn't done any research before this line, but upon googling it seems there's scientific literature on the subject of glycerin and other humectants and dandruff. It must be left in the hair and used 3 times a week at least, or alternatively use a leave-in conditioner and add a tiny bit to it every time you use it. Please refer to PMID 25134312 on pubmed.
Avoid proteins such as onions protein, hydrolyzed collagen, wheat protein, keratin, silk protein, amino acids, and rice protein. If you have hair like mine, then protein buildup will make your hair seem brittle, thin, and dry no matter how much oil you add.
Try leaving in your conditioner, if you don't already. I really don't understand the point of in-shower conditioners when so many good things are washed away in the water, and the whole point of conditioner is to get more oils and whatnot into the hair.
cont.
Consider trying pure hair oils as addition to your conditioner, so you can use less. There are other ingredients besides oils that provide some use but weigh your hair down way more. BTMS-50 is one such ingredient and that's why I keep it at a minimum. Argan or jojoba are the most popular. My hair hates coconut oil, but your hair might like it. Just 3-4 squirts in your palm, not much. I prefer argan over jojoba, it's lighter feeling. Jojoba is more available and cheaper, and honestly 90% as good.
I don't mean this in a condescending or "I know your health better than you" sorta way, but consider talking to a dermatologist or something to see if your dandruff issue is actually dandruff. Technically speaking, dandruff is a fungal infection that is contagious via combs and whatnot. Most people who think they have dandruff actually just have very dry scalp skin. However, since you said you tried not shampooing I'm somewhat on the side that you actually have dandruff.
>jojoba
I use this. Tried to find a bottle of argan oil only yesterday. Never in stock.
I used to put coconut oil in my hair but found my pillow would absorb it.
trim hair every so often
put egg in blender and use as conditioner
EDTA
that's it
I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor.
My name is Patrick Bateman.
I’m 27 years old.
I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine.
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an icepack while doing my stomach crunches.
I can do a thousand now.
After I remove the icepack, I use a deep-pore cleanser lotion.
In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser.
Then a honey-almond bodyscrub.
And on the face, an exfoliating gel-scrub.
Then I apply an herb mint facial masque,
which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol,
because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older.
Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman.
Some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me.
Only an entity– something illusory.
And though I can hide my cold gaze…
and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours…
and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable,
I simply am not there.
Shampoo once per week, condition every 3 days
Keto carnivore. It's the only way my hair is free of dandruff and excess oil. Now it looks and feels incredibly silky without using anything on it
Succinic acid, a few glasses of wine a week.
Literally nothing but wash it occasionally and put some American crew fiber in it for combing to the side.
the israelites fear the middle part
face > all
>wake up
>take fin
>shower, maybe use shampoo and conditioner once every 4 days or so
balding ruined my youth but if I can keep it where it currently is at vegetamode I guess I can ride out the rest of my 20s
Where are you currently sir?
NW3 at 25 sir
Vegeta mode looks worse than bald, why even bother keeping that?
It just works.
b-b-b-b-but the chad embrace!??!?!?!?!
Genetics 3x10
grow it for a year then wash and condition it once before i donate it to some chemo patient. actually a month late on that right now
I'm balding haha
Shave the beard, coward.
I mean he's not wrong but unfortunately for him its projection and he probably cared way more how others would see him if he took proper steps to keep his hair than taking that idgaf attitude to save it then watching baldlets cope like I do. LOL
Bar of soap, bamboo silica 3000mg, vitamin mk4 200mg
how does one make their hair "heavy" like this and fall down in identifiable groups of strands, as opposed to just being frizzy and going everywhere
Natural Oil based non sulfate shampoo n conditioner. If you use sulfate shampoo your nuking your hair oils stop it if you don't frizz anymore.
probably some kind of hair cream.
you're referring to the texture of the hair, same thing here
. Its largely referred to as "wavy" which is basically large curly chunks/grouped strands falling loosely.
>how does one make their hair like this
its partially genetics, but if your hair frizzes i'd pay attention to how you dry it and look into products to use while drying. Curl enhancers are one solution. go to a salon and see if your hair/texture is a good fit.
Comb with as coarse as a brush as possible. I use pic rel. The more you touch your hair while it dries, the frizzier it will be.
Find out your hair porosity and what ingredients your hair likes. How much/what kind of humectant it likes, whether it likes hydrolyzed proteins, etc. It's really as simple as reading ingredients lists and seeing what your hair likes and what it doesn't. Google things.
>If you use sulfate shampoo your nuking your hair oils stop it if you don't frizz anymore.
Sulfates are perfectly fine. Don't be a suburban mom shilling all natural shit just because you don't understand the purpose of different ingredients or how to use them or because a product doesn't suite your hair in particular.
sulfate shampoos tend to be filled with unnecessary ingredients tho. Sulfate free is best for daily washing.
>Don't be a suburban mom shilling all natural shit just because you don't understand the purpose of different ingredients or how to use them or because a product doesn't suite your hair in particular.
The context was how to deal with frizzy hair I addressed it, since I have frizzy hair.
>Daily washing
Fair point, we have entirely different routines so your choice of a far less harsh surfactant makes sense.
I got more and more compliments the shorter I cut it so I keep it buzzed with stubble (not balding)
I shave my head once a week. And I lift more. Thats my hair routine
does my current haircut suit me bros? I may just have this cut for the rest of my life it seems.
stop posting on IST and get back to work on the next super mario bros
go to a salon
I literally have no idea how to grow my hair out. I've always done buzzcut because it's simple. What do you do with the hair that starts poking over the top of your ears? does that eventually get heavy enough to not do that anymore?
It'll get long enough for you to either cover your ears or part it around your ears, whichever looks better on you
Wash hair then apply flaxseed gel I boiled to my hair, comb from the tips until I get to the root. I don't just apply but dip my hair and sometimes my entire head in the bowl.
That's it, all girls love it. I'd be a virgin if it weren't for it.
Painting the ceiling with a shotgun slug cause I’m balding
Jesus Christ he's so fricking hot
leave in conditioner and this protein cream after shower
i dont shampoo only do water and scrub scalp otherwise my hair gets really dry and looks weird
Exfoliation once a week and moisturizer twice a week
Started losing my hair at a very young age, thinking about using fin now. What haircut should I use to hide my baldness?
you probably need to grow your hair out more to get a textured hair cut that u can have your hair go forward and cover temples.
the hair cut is called a textured fringe.
what the frick bro, please start rogaine
dude how old are you now? if you wanted to have a regular 'mature' hairline you should have gotten on fin 3-5 years ago
I am 23 years old. My only option is hair transplant... right?
cum in it
>this Black person is a year older than me (27) and still looks like prime teen heart throb
lucky bastard. i need to get lean bros.
Genetics xF
I have women ask me about my hair im 27, tell them idk i use shampoo once instead of twice like the instructions say