I’ve written about this before but I wish I’d listened earlier to the “stop brushing your dry hair” brigade. I had really tangly hair growing up - like to the point that it was the main quality I thought my hair had. All these ladies on the old naturallycurly board kept saying to stop brushing it and I thought they were batshit crazy, or just had different hair, because mine never split, never had obvious damage of any sort just tangled with any movement at all. So I’d always detangled before washing it, to be able to actually wash it.
Well eventually I tried it and once a crop of never brushed hair had grown in, I’ll be damned it worked. My hair has not been super tangled for 20 years now. I can literally comb the shampoo through, then put down the comb and not touch it till next washday. Like magic.
I’ve written about this before but I wish I’d listened earlier to the “stop brushing your dry hair” brigade. I had really tangly hair growing up - like to the point that it was the main quality I thought my hair had. All these ladies on the old naturallycurly board kept saying to stop brushing it and I thought they were batshit crazy, or just had different hair, because mine never split, never had obvious damage of any sort just tangled with any movement at all. So I’d always detangled before washing it, to be able to actually wash it.
Well eventually I tried it and once a crop of never brushed hair had grown in, I’ll be damned it worked. My hair has not been super tangled for 20 years now. I can literally comb the shampoo through, then put down the comb and not touch it till next washday. Like magic.