Nonie, you said you have no tangles in the process. I guess "shed" hair would be the more proper term. I'm really looking to deshed my hair. I usually wear my hair loose (like in the picture or twistouts). My hair is very tightly coiled/kinked, so it naturally tangles around itself. Similar to a curly headed person who would call this "clumping". What I'm really looking to do is remove shed hairs! I like taht you can remove them daily w/no problem. Good tip on the scurl. I just concocted my very own "juice" for the first time (aloe vera/jojoba/castor oil).
Right now I'm in twists so when I fingercomb a twist at a time as shown in
this clip, the shed hair just slides out as I stroke my hair from base to ends. So it's not something I even give thought to as it happens just as a BTW. When I'm wearing my hair out--usually in a shrunken afro--I believe the shed hair comes out when I comb it to style or to put in braids at night. In other words, I do not spend time removing shed hair. I don't even find myself thinking about it. It takes about 5-10 minutes to style my hair in the AM (from taking out my braids and putting it into a puff) and about the same time to plait it in the evening and put on a baggy.
Finger-combing my whole head would take me a long time, I guess, but when wearing my hair out, I usually use a comb. I only finger-comb when wearing braids or twists and then I only work on one section at a time...and the reason for that is when in braid and twists, my hair is woven in a way that a comb would cause havoc since it has no eyes to see what it's doing. When my hair is out, because I take care not to let it tangle, I can run a comb (pick) through it with no worries as shown in
this clip. I was in the middle of conditioning in that clip. I will usually
rebraid that combed out section and comb out another. Once all have been combed through, I put my head under the spray of a shower head and while head is under water I undo a braid and comb through then rebraid back. Each time, I am rebraiding to ensure my strands do not get a chance to curl around each other. I then let my hair dry in the braid. This was
that section airdried and w/o products. Now I would not comb it again until I had sprayed it with S Curl to get it soft and slippery again. I also make sure to stretch out my strands with one hand when combing, kinda like the comb chase method, only this is a finger chase method.