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DON’T WASH YOUR HAIR FOR A WEEK? WF’s Jaymie Hooper breaks up with shampoo in the name of bouncier locks
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second-day hair, I wasn’t too worried about looking like a post-breakdown Linsday Lohan a couple of days in, but when day four rolled around, I lost it. After half a week of workouts, getting caught in the rain and sleeping next to the sweaty inferno that is my BF, I looked like I’d taken a bath in a deep fryer. The only upside was that my ends weren’t as dry as usual, and I guess my strands felt thicker, but I wasn’t convinced these changes were worth it. Day five wasn’t much better, with my tresses looking dull thanks to all that product build-up. On day six, just before my dignity was about to call it quits, the magic happened. Okay, so my hair might not have smelled that nice, but it looked… good. More than good. The ends were shiny, the overflow of oil had stopped and, most importantly, I had body. My strands no longer felt flimsy – they felt strong, sturdy and full of volume. Usually it takes half a can of hairspray for my curls to stay in place, but all it took was a sprinkle of texture powder and a little finessing with my fingers before I felt styled enough to open Snapchat. At the end of my experiment, I lathered, rinsed and repeated faster than I ever had before, but I was so impressed with the end results that I decided to start the whole thing again. Sure, maybe by day seven I just got used to having greasy hair, but I’ve got body, and that’s something I’ve never had, so I’m going to stick with this one-or-two-daysa-week routine for a little longer. Or, at least, until I run out of dry shampoo.
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SWEET SATISFACTION The beauty moments almost too good to be true Opening a new eyeshadow palette for the very first time. OMG rating:
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TWO WEEKS AGO I DID SOMETHING THAT TOTALLY CHANGED MY LIFE. It was radical, entirely out of character and, dare I say, a touch risqué. Nope, I didn’t quit my job to stalk Beyoncè around the globe on her tour – I decided to not wash my hair for a week. If you feel like that little titbit wasn’t worth the three-sentence build-up, let’s agree to disagree so we can all learn about the transformative powers of skipping the suds. First things first, here’s something you should know about me: I have super-thin hair that’s dry on the ends and oily on top if I miss one too many rinses, and since I work out five days a week, I pretty much clean my hair every day. Cursed with fine hair since birth, I’d accepted that I’ll never have Victoria’s Secret-worthy waves, but after reading about one blogger’s month of no shampoo and the luscious locks she scored at the end, I decided to test the trend myself. Why would anyone follow the questionably named ‘no ’poo’ movement, you ask? In a nutshell, stripping your scalp of its natural oils (which is what happens when you wash your hair) sometimes makes it produce even more oil, leaving your tresses in a hot (greasy) mess. Skip the everyday cleanse, though, and no-wash devotees say your locks will turn from drab to I’m-readyfor-my-close-up thanks to the regulation of oil flow. Bonus side effects include serious softness (since you’re not roughing up your cuticles with chemicals) and greater ease of styling (because gritty hair holds better than hair that’s squeaky clean). After giving my strands their last wash for the next seven days, they felt like their usual limp-but-still-shiny self, so I smoothed down a few fly-aways and went on my merry way. Since I was used to working with