My hair is longer than it’s been in 30 years. I don’t know why I decided to let it grow beyond my normal blonde bob, but I did. And I’m loving it.
What I don’t love is the time it takes to maintain it. I have very thick hair. Combine that with long hair, and it’s more time than I care to spend on it. Particularly blow drying. I hate blow-drying my hair.
That’s why I plan my week around my hair-washing schedule. As ridiculous as it sounds, it’s true. I will plan out on Sunday what days I’m going to wash my hair based on days I’m in the office, have a work dinner or happy hour with friends, am volunteering in my son’s class, or something to do where I can’t show up with my hair looking a mess. Although I’ve done that plenty of times. (That’s when a hat comes in handy.)
My typical wash days are Monday evenings and Thursday mornings, if I can get away with only two washes a week. Some weekends I have to squeeze in a Saturday afternoon wash. In between, my secret is to put some baby powder on the roots to take care of any grease that has accumulated. A friend of mine can go weeks without washing her hair! And it always looks flawless. How?!
I don’t ever straighten my hair because I’ve never had to. But once it grew past my shoulders, it decided to get wavy. I use two blow dryers — one regular dryer just to get the wetness out and get it mostly dry, then I use a round brush hairdryer. If I have more time, I let it mostly air dry, then take the round brush dryer to it for a few minutes.
It’s normally on day two, especially if it’s humid out, or if I’ve worked out and had it tied up, that it starts to get really unruly.
I kept seeing videos about the TYMO Hair Straightener Brush which looked easy and fast, so I ordered one. What I like about it is that I can just straighten the bottom of my hair. It’s more like a brush than a flat iron, so it doesn’t go completely limp. I hate my hair super straight — I’ve had one Brazilian blowout and that was enough to know I didn’t want another one. I’m used to volume since I have so much hair.
This new little gadget seems to be helping me stick to my two-a-week washing schedule, so I’ll keep the hair long for now — until I get tired of having to do more than just my simple blow-dry.
