Any naturals who DONT co-wash often?

[MissFallon]

What is your regimen? How do you style your hair everyday? How do you keep your hair moisturized? With fall/winter coming up and myself wanting to bc soon I wanted to know how to keep my hair looking good and staying moisturized w/o co-washing like many of the naturals on here do.

 

[firecracker]

I am natural for the first time 3/05. Oh I wear a puff, afro, twist, ponytail and front cornrows. I have no hair issues outside of missing a relaxer every now and then. That was more work for me so I'll stick to natural cuz I'm lazy. My hair is healthier and more resilient natural.

I don't co wash. It weights my hair down and just doesn't work. I don't think I have a regime. I have been using the same stuff for years relaxed and textured. The only added item is ICE gel the clear one works for my hair but not the blue . I wash at least three times a week. I use Nexus shampoo and condition. I use Humectress as a leave except during the rare press and curl occasion.

I'm patiently awaiting length. I figure I have two more years.

 

[FlowerHair]

I just moisturize daily with a leave in cream, that's all. Sometimes if I'm wearing a pony tail I'll wet it with my hands a little to revive the curls. I can't walk around with wet hair all day in this icy country. Brrr....:crazy:

 

[scribblescrabble2]

Since my hair color incident early this year, my scalp hasn't allowed me to co-wash at all. So I wash my hair once a week, and I moisturize and/or oil like every couple of days. On the days I don't moisturize or oil I lightly wet my hands and run them over my hair. I mainly wear hair styles like twists, twist outs and braids without extentions.

 

[tropicexotic]

I don't co-wash often...I like styles that are protective and can stay in for weeks at a time and co-washing them just makes twists or braids fuzzy. Sometimes if I do twists I might co-wash at the end of the first week then wash w/ shampoo and condish the second week and redo.

 

[natstar]

I don't co-wash often...I like styles that are protective and can stay in for weeks at a time and co-washing them just makes twists or braids fuzzy. Sometimes if I do twists I might co-wash at the end of the first week then wash w/ shampoo and condish the second week and redo.

I do the same thing. I co-wash infrequently. Mostly I just wear twists and I hate detangling twists after I co-wash (it gets matted up). If I am not wearing twists, I still try to avoid co-washing. This is because water in my area is really hard and it takes a toll (drying effect) on my hair. Hopefully one day I can get a water softener and I won't have any problems.

 

[Poobity]

Co-wash?

I barely have time to wash my hair half the time, lol. Whenever I do wash my hair, I use shampoo and conditioner.

The main difference between my summer and winter regimen is that I use shea butter and Kemi Oyl on my hair in the winter. In the summer time I use curl activator gel. I also wear more protective styles in the winter.

That is all.

 

[Brownshugaz]

lol Ditto Poohbear. I'm waaaay to lazy to cowash anymore. Once my hair got to a certain length I stopped cowashign because it got too time consuming and tangles everywhere. I just wash my hair with shampoo and conditioner (whatever I have on hand) when my hair feels dirty. Could be 1 week could be 2 or 3 weeks if i have twists in.

 

[MissFallon]

Do any of you ladies not wear twists? I don't plan on wearing them because they would look atrocious on me. I plan on wearing mostly straight styles by rollersetting or wearing it curly when it gets to shoulder length. I only plan on washing once a week or bi-weekly depending on how difficult it is to handle my hair at that time.

 

[joyous]

I've never worn twists or braids, they just don't work for my hair and I'm to scared of thinning. I never co wash, I only wash and deep condition once a week. I usually wear my hair in a bun 95% of the time, the other 5% rollersets, occassionally I will get my hair flat-ironed. I don't use moisturizers in between washes. If I need to revive my bun I just wet my hands and slick it back, then tie with a satin scarf.

 

[Candiss]

I wear twists all the time. I part them with my fingers so they have a more natural blended look. I don't co wash because it just never appealed to me. I wash and condition once every two weeks. I pre condition my dry hair with a mix of olive oil, lekair and honey. Then I wash in the shower and detangle with suave and then use Fructis. I'm all about the conditioning. I moisturize my ends every day. I use this isoplus ocmplex that has ylang-ylang in it or sometimes the lemon. I also use Fantasia leave in. The most important thing for me is keeping my hair moisturized all the time especially the ends.

 

[FineChyna]

I just moisturize daily with a leave in cream, that's all. Sometimes if I'm wearing a pony tail I'll wet it with my hands a little to revive the curls. I can't walk around with wet hair all day in this icy country. Brrr....:crazy:

same here. not only do i not have time to do a co wash frequently i find that it does nothing for my hair. weekly i do the full shampoo, condition regieme and then i keep my hair moisterized daily.

 

[blazingthru]

I think twist are nice on some people others it doesn't look so nice but I think its how they style it. theres a woman at work who wears them and she looks terrible, she doesn't style them according to how her facial structure is I just nod my head and mind my business. I use to co wash every single day twice a day until I develop a horrible ear infection. So I had to stop doing that. Ear infections are no joke. I stopped doing that and then didnt' know what to do with my hair since its no longer a Teeney weenie afro, I had to do something so I made the buttercream listed on this site and finger parted my hair while it was dry and made some twist in it. In the morning I took them out and my hair was so cute. I started doing that every night I finger part it and twist it and it looks like a curly afro but really cute and shiny. I colored my hair a few weeks back. I get compliments all the time on my hair. I do it like rolling up your hair back in the day it was something you had to do like a religion every single day and so I twist it up every night and tie it up with a silk scarf and finger comb it out in the morning. Sometimes I wear a bandana. Large White gold or Silver earrings and I be looking so sharp. So sharp relaxers are asking me how I did my hair. They copy but it looks better on natural hair because its a much fuller and sharp looking. Since I did that I feel a lot better about my hair then I did before. I was just co washing and putting in three kinds of moisturizer. One I made- Fruitos or whatever the name is leave in conditioner for curly hair and NTM leaving in conditioner moisturizer. I am good for the moisture, I have had no breakage none whatsoever. Plus I spray my hair whenever I think about it. I have to take pictures and post them because I look so cute.

 

[kristina]

I'm not a big co-washer- I find that it doesn't get my scalp clean enough (still build up remaining). The only time I co-wash is when I feel like changing my hairstyle. I wash my hair with shampoo every two weeks.

 

[firecracker]

Do any of you ladies not wear twists? I don't plan on wearing them because they would look atrocious on me. I plan on wearing mostly straight styles by rollersetting or wearing it curly when it gets to shoulder length. I only plan on washing once a week or bi-weekly depending on how difficult it is to handle my hair at that time.

I don't wear twist right now because they don't look good at my current length. When I do twist it is strictly so I can wear hats for a few days then undo the twist for a twisted out afro look. Twist are to timeconsuming for me to take them immediately out. I am thinking about going the ole skool route ie:large plaits w/reg lotion rolled up on sponge rollers, allowed to dry overnite then taken out for a textured look. I remember my older sister doing this in Jr High.