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12:24pm January 14, 2014

➸ When your hair doesn't want to just do one thing.

clatterbane:

youneedacat:

The front portion of my hair (which looks mostly straight (with waves near the scalp) when unhealthy, slightly wavy when healthy) holds onto oil so well that even washing it with coconut milk means I have to use actual shampoo to get some of the oil out, and even then it won’t get all the way out.

That does sound frustrating to deal with. :(

I wish I could think of some things that might work, but while mine can be pretty visually chaotic, there’s not that much variation in how it responds to care. I get basically the reverse pattern going, where the canopy needs more conditioning than the underlayers, but not nearly to the same extent from the sound of things. :/

Out of curiosity, has yours always behaved similarly? Because I know that sometimes medications can have weird effects on what people’s hair will do, including texture. I’ve had some lower-level experiences with that before, and have known people who say lost hair on Depakote and had it grow back in very curly on just some parts of their heads when it was never curly before. Not that this would make it any easier to deal with, but it just occurred to me that medication(s) might be helping it do frustrating things.

I really don’t know, because I didn’t used to take care of it all that well.  When I was a younger kid my mom took care of it, and she didn’t really know what to do with hair beyond what everyone was taught.  When I got older I was supposed to take care of it but couldn’t, so it rarely got washed, conditioned, or brushed at all and just turned into giant snarls.

I suspect the variety of texture has always been there, because it always got more tangled underneath than it did on the outside, so it’s always probably been the curliest underneath.

The floating test showed weird results, like parts of my hair sank but most of it floated (I mean even in the same strands), meaning I guess it’s low porosity? 

IDK.