Day 17

I haven't forgotten about you.

I am simply super annoyed at my insanely disgusting hair. It's been almost 3 weeks and the only change I see is for the worse. my locks are greasy and flat. i have to change my pillow cases on a daily basis, and still my face is breaking out from the oils.

eric is disgusted by it, so i've been using that soap i bought at whole foods the day that i see him, then just flat ironing or pinning my hair up for the few days i'm at his place.

and on top of it all, i feel like a disgusting blob. my hair/face were the only things i was comfortable with about myself, and now that i don't have that, i feel completely horrible.

so on that note, i will not be posting a picture today, as i am grumpy and have no desire to share my grossness with you.

trying to get past this
Bekkuh

Day 9

Hello there,

I was away from the computer all weekend, hence no update. Eric made me wash my hair :/ but i used an 'all purpose soap' so all is ok. I think one of the main reasons my hair feels a bit healthier is because I also haven't been blow drying or straightening at all. I just wash my scalp with the soap and hot water then rinse with cold water, then i let it air dry if i have time. When I don't have the time, I dry with cold air just to speed things up a bit. Driving with my windows down helps too, and it's fun :)

I'm not sure if I'll see Eric this weekend or not, but if I don't, I'm going to try to stop using the soap altogether for a while, just to see what happens.

I got a few compliments at work Saturday, day 5, when my hair was super dirty before I washed it. They said my hair looked so nice! I didn't tell them how dirty it was :)

your dirty girl,
Bekkuh

Day 4

Hello people!

Last night I took a shower and used a drop (literally) of dr. bronners on my roots where i part my hair. I didn't use any sort of clarifying soap like is suggested. I just rinsed with water.

I decided to let my hair dry au naturale. my hair is extremely wavy and when it's dirty it's much wavier and the waves hold a lot longer. I figure the best way to get through the dirty stage is to just wear it up in a clip and the top pinned. Much cuter than straight greasy hair :)

My boyfriend doesn't like dirty hair, so I went to whole foods and bought a bottle of 'multi purpose' sort of like dr. bronners, just to humor him. it's not shampoo and it doesn't have the ingredients that shampoo does that kill your hair. it's not 100% organic, but I made sure all the ingredients were not those that i'm trying to avoid. I'll use a little tonight probably but then I'll go back to not washing since I won't see him again for a while.

Trying to keep it dirty!
Bekkuh

Day 3

Hello world,

I went out dancing last night, on day 2 of my disgusting hair. I felt icky, and it threw off my whole night. my locks were laying flat so i pinned the top back and today i'm doing the same thing, in hopes of masking my nappy hair from view.

i have the entire day off, so it's going to take all my willpower to not wash my hair. i feel like a dirty, DIRTY hippie. so far the only difference i've noticed is for the worse, but supposedly it takes a while.

anyways, i'm going to go try and sidetrack myself, maybe throw out all the shampoo in the house :)

Disgustingly yours
Bekkuh

No-POO movement (Day 2)

Hello world,

I've done a lot of research and I've decided to jump on the no shampoo bandwagon. Over the years I have tried a million different things to make my hair healthy, shiny, grow faster, etc... but nothing helps! I've sat and watched as my sister's hair (same length as mine to begin with) has gotten longer and longer and mine pretty much stays the same. And might I add how ANNOYING this is!!!

It's not fair.. so I started reading articles on ways to make my hair healthier and grow faster. A lot of the articles came back to the same, your hair is dead. It grows at the root but all in all, it's just dead cells, hanging off your head. All these products that claim to 'add life' to your hair are pretty much complete bullshit. Really what they are doing is stripping your hair of the natural oils that help keep your hair healthy, while damaging your scalp in the process, and charging you $5+ for a little bottle!

So today I start an adventure. I last washed my hair with shampoo on Tuesday, Nov 2nd. Today I washed my hair with nothing but water, so It's officially been 2 days.

So now that I have something to blog about, I should be back on here on a regular basis to update on my hair's progress, and my emotional progress with this whole situation.

I'm going to try a few methods and see which works best for me. I'll start with taking out shampoo altogether, quitting it cold turkey!

Wish me luck!
Bekkuh