No Poo Dare - Week 1
My first No Poo wash and I'm ready with 1 tbsp baking soda and a cup of water as per How to wash your hair without shampoo. Am I sure I want to do this? For years I've longed to have beautiful waves-and it's after years that I finally got them. Now, am I ready to risk it all?
I get in to wash my hair. I didn't want to try the vinegar rinse as yet...just to see how this works by itself...experimenting you know. Wet my hair and begin to pour out the baking soda water little by little. No lather...and I'm not used to this. I try massaging my hair like I did when I used shampoo...but this was just plain boring. I already miss my shampoo! Now I'm wondering if it's going to work at all. As I rinsed my hair, I realized the hair fall that I would generally have at every hair wash wasn't there! That's a ray of hope, I thought to myself. A little satisfied with my first wash, I step out to dry my hair.
And the rude shock. My hair continued to fall just as much as it did when I shampooed it. You know, the horrible hair loss post childbirth? Oh well, I really really missed the wonderful feel of the shampoo foam in my hair.
Then as my hair began to dry...I felt it really really dry! Day after day after day. Oh God! No! This is not possible! It was coarse, rigid, dull and totally unmanageable-not even a comb could make it's way through it. The tears were stuck inside of me. I still have one month to go...to see if this is going to work or not...and at the end of week 1 I already wanted to give up. The only thing that kept me going is the fact that I hadn't shared with anyone that I had already started this dare...and NO ONE noticed!!! I would wear my hair always tied up coz I didn't want anyone to notice. So maybe I could pull through this...just maybe.
Here's what it looked like by then.
I get in to wash my hair. I didn't want to try the vinegar rinse as yet...just to see how this works by itself...experimenting you know. Wet my hair and begin to pour out the baking soda water little by little. No lather...and I'm not used to this. I try massaging my hair like I did when I used shampoo...but this was just plain boring. I already miss my shampoo! Now I'm wondering if it's going to work at all. As I rinsed my hair, I realized the hair fall that I would generally have at every hair wash wasn't there! That's a ray of hope, I thought to myself. A little satisfied with my first wash, I step out to dry my hair.
And the rude shock. My hair continued to fall just as much as it did when I shampooed it. You know, the horrible hair loss post childbirth? Oh well, I really really missed the wonderful feel of the shampoo foam in my hair.
Then as my hair began to dry...I felt it really really dry! Day after day after day. Oh God! No! This is not possible! It was coarse, rigid, dull and totally unmanageable-not even a comb could make it's way through it. The tears were stuck inside of me. I still have one month to go...to see if this is going to work or not...and at the end of week 1 I already wanted to give up. The only thing that kept me going is the fact that I hadn't shared with anyone that I had already started this dare...and NO ONE noticed!!! I would wear my hair always tied up coz I didn't want anyone to notice. So maybe I could pull through this...just maybe.
Here's what it looked like by then.
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