Sunday, March 24, 2013

Wash Day/Set Back?

I had the most horrible wash day experience of my journey thus far, I hope to never again have one of those.
On Thursday I decided to detangle and section my hair into four. I saturated my hair with EVOO to help take the curls out and make the process easier. I was being as gentle as I possibly could, (or I thought I was) but I ended up losing way more hair than I was comfortable with as pictured below.











        I figured my hair was in desperate need of moisture so I decided to use conditioner as my prepoo. After saturating my hair, tying a plastic bag over, and then my scarf, I went to exercise. I spent over two hours exercising and decided that instead of dealing with all the hassle that night I would wash early the next morning (Read bad idea). My scalp itched like mad in the middle of the night, I could hardly sleep.  When I got up on Friday I took the scarf and bag off to let my hair cool down before stepping into the shower to wash.
          I took the first plait down and began to rinse the conditioner out when I realized I had a massive tangle. I was flabbergasted! I had no idea how it happened. I stood in the shower trying my best to work it out, and to my credit I got a good amount of it out after awhile. After about a good 5 minutes I got the bright idea that a clarifying shampoo might help (I thought dirt was my problem), it's no surprise that this didn't help my cause and after about twenty minutes I rinsed the shampoo from my hair and got out of the shower. I went back into my room and spent over an hour trying to get the knot out to no avail. I even tried using my baby bro's just for me detangler lol, that didn't help. The thought that I might have to cut it out had me shaking with sadness and fear. I was contemplating whether or not to cut it out when it was suggested that I wait for my cousin to get home from school. It took her awhile and I lost some length, but it's less that I would have lost if I had used the scissors so... 
 This is a picture of the knot, not the clearest, but the best I could do. The tangle was dangerously close to my root (shudders). 

The amount of hair I lost after my cousin got it out.









Even though I wanted to cry because it seemed all my progress over the past couple months was finding it's way off my head, I breathed deeply and continued with my wash day.  The accompanying picture is the hair I lost after the entire process and thoroughly detangling.











Needless to say that I am NOT happy with the amount of hair I lost. Now I have more sections in my nape that I have to concentrate on regrowing sigh... Nobody said this would be easy.




Belle Moi

4 comments:

  1. Oh no! I almost cried looking at the clump of hair in your hand. :'(
    It reminds me of the one and only time I had microbraids for about 3 months straight. My mistake was not spending the time detangling before shampooing (I didnt know better) and I ended up with a knot really close to my scalp. I decided not to cut it either I just kept trying to comb and brush it out and adding moisturizer. I lost a lot of hair just like you and my hair is already not very thick. I cried and cried and cried. I am so sorry that you had such a bad wash experience. I wonder how this happened... :(

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    1. Thanks Andrea, it really is sad that either of us went through this; Losing so much hair and being unable to stop it smh. My only assumption at this time is that my scratching during the night caused it to clump together.

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  2. Oh no chica! Wash day catastrophe! I'm sure that your next wash day will be 100x better than this one. Never forget that setbacks are only setups for greatness.

    Besitos!

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    1. Indeed it was! Thanks for your encouraging words.

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