Hair Webbing
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Ivonnovi
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I had to look up what hair webbing is: https://www.howtomakeyourhairgrowfa...keep-your-hair-hydrated-to-stop-hair-webbing/
I haven't reviewed the entire article, but Hydration and Moisture are important considerations, along with styling habits.
I haven't reviewed the entire article, but Hydration and Moisture are important considerations, along with styling habits.
Lylddlebit
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I agree with that article for the most part even though my strands definitely aren't fine. When my hair starts webbing I know I need to wash and condition or cowash immediately. I loosely jut normally refer to this as tangles but when I read that article I said "that's what my hair does when I need to wash it!" My hair will show signs of webbing 3 days to 1 week before it either breaks or matts. As soon as I put my hair under the stream of water the webbing melts away.
LostInAdream
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Came in to say the same!! At first sign of webbing wash!!! Then figure out when that happens so you can wash a day or so before to prevent it.
snookes
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Thank you that's a good link. Also I have fine hair which is prone to webbing
PlanetCybertron
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My hair webs pretty much every single time it’s washed. I think it also depends slightly on porosity. With my hair being chemically altered, and fine textured, I have very high porosity. When getting out the shower, I notice my hair webs pretty much all over my head, however, the more it dries, the less the hairs stick to one another, which is why I now leave my hair alone, and just make sure it dries all going in one direction. When it gets to the semi-damp stage I’ll either put a butter or a serum on my hair to encourage the strands to further separate, and that’s mostly it. Then I go about styling.
sunflora
Flowah Powah
This problem occurs on one side of my hair more than the other. It is the 'dry side' as I call it. I make sure to moisturize and seal, perhaps with more product than I would use by the rest of my hair. It'll still start to web after a few days. When I can no longer prevent it, it's time to wash and reset.
snookes
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That sounds like how mine goes when wet or after washing. I think am gonna try the way you do it as I also notice the drier my hair the less webbing
PlanetCybertron
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I don’t think webbing is inherently bad. There’s plenty of natural haired ladies, and I’m assuming yourself as well to be natural who experience webbing, but I also think it’s more of a symptom of fine hair in general. With hair that’s got a bigger diameter, I feel like the weight of the individual strands pull them down enough to where they aren’t getting in each others way and looping around one another, espeacially when wet.
With fine hair I’ve noticed, at least for myself, that the water doesn’t completely separate the strands. It’ll get them going in one direction enough to detangle but as soon as I come from out of the shower the wet hairs are still very compacted around one another.
Hopefully any of that makes any sense lol
snoop
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My hair is constantly webbing so I try to keep it stretched in twists as much as possible. Even to wash it.
For the most part I ignore it since I don't aim for 100% detangled and I don't fuss with detangling my hair all of the time. I'd love to find something that will melt the webs away when I need them gone, though.
For the most part I ignore it since I don't aim for 100% detangled and I don't fuss with detangling my hair all of the time. I'd love to find something that will melt the webs away when I need them gone, though.
faithVA
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In January I starteed rinsing, conditioning, finger detangling, smoothing every other day and my hair is webbing so much less than it use to. Webbing for me leads to splits so the more i can reduce it the better.
I'm about 45 days in. I will see if there is any further improvement in 90 days.
I'm about 45 days in. I will see if there is any further improvement in 90 days.
snookes
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The webbing I find makes my hair very difficult to part
snoop
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Same, so I part, finger detangle, twist and leave it like that for two weeks. After that I either break the twists down again or combine them, depending on the size that I initially start out with. With smaller twists, I feel like I reduce the chances of webbing or at least I find that it stays detangled better than if I leave my hair in larger twists.
snookes
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I know what you mean
snoop
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As an aside, when I'm doing smaller twists and the two sections mesh together, I've noticed more often than not it's because I twist the meshing strands together. As in, I will twist the stray strands to the wrong side instead of smoothing them along the side that they're supposed to be on. I'm not sure if that makes sense.
spacetygrss
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Webbing definitely equals poorly moisturized or poorly stretched/detangled hair for me. It's especially bad if I repeatedly rinse my hair while in twists. I can never restore the moisture so when I take them down it's horrendous.
SAPNK
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My hair webs badly. My strands are very fine. I've started moisturizing consistently and detangled throughout the whole wash process, but the webbing made it difficult to part and plait my hair. I'm going to investigate the issue more.
It really does look/act like spider webs stuck together.
It really does look/act like spider webs stuck together.
SAPNK
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Just an anecdote. My mother and I both have 4c hair. Her strands are much thicker than mine, and when she stretches her hair in twists, I'm able to easily part and flat twist/braid it. No snagging, snapping, and popping. So, it might just be a fine hair thing, moisture or not.
snookes
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That's me
snookes
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I think it has something to with fine hair hate it lol
flyygirlll2
Lioness mane
Hmmmm.... I guess I’m the anomaly here because I have thick/coarse strands and my hair webs/tangles a lot. It could partially be due to my hair being very coily and a porosity issue at this point.
SAPNK
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I'm going to try a few things:
Henna
Castor oil
Shea butter
Protein
I know I cant thicken my strands, but having henna coat the hair, making it stronger should help.
I'm also hoping that applying shea and castor oil will weigh my strands down, and prevent them from webbing. I've read people with fine hair say that these heavy oils aren't good for their hair, so it's a risk. I'm assuming the issue is that the added weight causes breakage of the fine strands, but I'm not sure.
Don't think I've ever done a protein treatment so I'll have to find one. I am using rice water, though. Not sure if it's doing anything. but I'll keep it up.
I'll see what happens.
Henna
Castor oil
Shea butter
Protein
I know I cant thicken my strands, but having henna coat the hair, making it stronger should help.
I'm also hoping that applying shea and castor oil will weigh my strands down, and prevent them from webbing. I've read people with fine hair say that these heavy oils aren't good for their hair, so it's a risk. I'm assuming the issue is that the added weight causes breakage of the fine strands, but I'm not sure.
Don't think I've ever done a protein treatment so I'll have to find one. I am using rice water, though. Not sure if it's doing anything. but I'll keep it up.
I'll see what happens.
icsonia22
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-detangling hair that has been deep conditioned with tgin honey miracle moisture mask (Aussie moist works if I'm just going for a rinse out conditioner)
-using my Felicia leatherwood brush from ends to root
-washing conditioner out in twist that have the last inch platted to prevent unraveling
-applying tgin butter cream to each section and blow drying with revair level 7 high heat
-applying whipped Shea butter to stretched hair to seal in moisture and provide lubrication
My scalp used to be sore just trying to part my hair and the single strand knots kept coming. I've been using the above regimen since january of this year and I'm happy to report that I have no webbing, no tangling, and never run into more than 3 or 4 single strand knots each month (I try not to let my hair shrink).
-using my Felicia leatherwood brush from ends to root
-washing conditioner out in twist that have the last inch platted to prevent unraveling
-applying tgin butter cream to each section and blow drying with revair level 7 high heat
-applying whipped Shea butter to stretched hair to seal in moisture and provide lubrication
My scalp used to be sore just trying to part my hair and the single strand knots kept coming. I've been using the above regimen since january of this year and I'm happy to report that I have no webbing, no tangling, and never run into more than 3 or 4 single strand knots each month (I try not to let my hair shrink).
I have fine hair as well and my hair does this all the time. For me it doesn't have to do with the moisture or even to an extent the detangling because it will do it after detangling as well. I used to be worried about it because it makes these big balls of clumped hair, but then I noticed that if I just pull all the way through, let the hair clump, then keep parting the clumped hair, there are actually no knots or breakage. I saw this method in Naptural85's finger detangling video. Instead of parting of combing using multiple fingers (which did cause knots for me with the webbing), you use either your thumb or index and just part the section in half while stretching all the hair in a downward motion.
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