wash and baggy.
I see this one a lot. I know it involves some kind of hair maintenance but I am not familiar with the term. I have been in this forum lurking a lot but here is a term that I have not been able to figure out: bagging. I know it involves some kind of process for moisturizing hair... but that is about all I know.
mariefof, baggying is putting on a plastic cap, plastic bag, Saran wrap...or any sort of plastic over your whole head or just part of your hair like a bun before you apply a phony pony in order to prevent moisture loss from your hair. It also creates heat inside the cap that seem to recycle moisture or infuse your strands with moisture. I think it also encourages sebum production. Green House Effect is another term you will see used which IMO means the same thing but some people say GHE involves applying products on scalp not hair; others say it involves baggying hair wet with water instead of product. I thought it meant baggying with no product on hair as I do. Today I decided that for me, I will use the words interchangeably as they both have to do with trapping moisture within plastic so you don't lose it.
Most people baggy with a product on their hair and it's like they give their hair a moisture treatment with the cap on. Some people baggy with nothing on (like me). When I put on a plastic cap on my bare hair for the night, the last conditioner smell gets magnified as if I am getting a whole repeat of the conditioning process and my hair smells as if freshly conditioned when I wake up. It also means that the moisture I got from my last conditioning isn't lost to my bedding or a scarf. I also wrap Saran wrap around my head when wearing headwraps or hats for the same reason that I want to retain whatever moisture my hair has.
A lot of people find baggying the whole head uncomfortable, either because it's suffocating to them, or their hair gets so wet especially if they had a lot of product. Some people poke holes to overcome this. Other people find baggying for the night impossible because the rustling of the plastic keeps them awake. This is where Saran wrap comes in handy and it actually is good for retaining a style sort of the same way you might tie a scarf to keep a style fresh. Of course you wouldn't baggy if you are trying to keep a straight style and are natural because the moisture would cause reversion.
This link below shows you one of my idols
adrienne0914 baggying the ends of her hair before putting on a drawstring phony pony. (BTW the reason baggying ends is a good idea is because hair ends are the oldest part of your hair and the first to lose moisture as they are like an open end of a cylinder. This why people seal their ends to prevent moisture loss since dryness leads to breakage/splitting. So if you baggy your ends, you basically put a stop to any moisture loss. Hence it is a good protective regimen):
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/1283174 (Click on the thumbprints to the left to read through each step of the process)
