second, third, FOURTH day hair?

[Anonymous]

how do you do it? I have fine, straight hair, but a lot of it. I shower/shampoo everyday, unless I'm pulling my hair back into a ponytail, because my hair shows grease so quickly. Dry shampoo seems to just make my hair sticky and feel like a helmet. So....how do you do it?

[Anonymous]

I have no idea. I have the same problem as you. It's a grease pit the next day. Must shampoo daily. I have long reddish blond hair and it just looks so gross if I don't shampoo every day.

When I read about women on this forum whose blowout lasts days, I don't get it. Just sleeping on it makes it cowlicky and tangled.

I'd love to know how they do it too. It's bothersome to shampoo daily.

[Anonymous]

My hair changed after pregnancy and got drier, so it was easier to skip days. Highlighting also makes it drier than it would naturally be. I really think your hair just adjusts if you start skipping days, though. I have fine but thick hair and used to believe that I had to shampoo every day until I heard enough people extolling the virtues of rarer shampoos. I finally did it, and after toughing it out the first time, it stopped being so greasy. Now it usually looks best the day after I wash it. The day after that, it still looks clean. After that, I need to wash it again.

[Anonymous]

Apparently when you shampoo less often your body adjusts and makes less oil. The adjustment period was too rough for me to bear, however.

[Anonymous]

I wash every two or three days. If it does get greasy on the third, I do a ponytail or a braid. or else use a little hairspray to really fix it into place--with hairspray it doesn't look greasy, but I'm not sure why. I totally believe that your hair adjusts. Personally I couldn't stand to dry my hair every day. That would make me nuts.

[Anonymous]

I can do it in the winter when it has blown out very well. Not in the summer, and not without a good blowout. And never more than two days.

[Anonymous]

PPs are correct, your hair will adapt and be less oily. I wash every other day and it holds up pretty well on the second day. My hair is fairly fine, straight, and shoulder-length. And I do all-over color on it.

[Anonymous]

I go as long as possible w/out washing. I don't think other people notice as much as you do. I notice that the more I wash, the more i NEED to wash. The longer I wait to wash, the better my hair looks on wash day, and for days after.

Maybe if your hair is looking ill on day 2 you should try switching up your shampoo/conditioner.

[Anonymous]

One great thing that happened to my hair was adding a filter onto our shower head. WoW! Try it!

[Anonymous]

You lower your standards. I'm on "third day hair" today. I should have washed it but I wanted those 20 minutes of sleep more than I wanted a good hair day. As a result, its in a ponytail, and I tell myself that no one else really cares what my hair looks like. Honestly, I have no idea how often my friends/colleagues wash their hair, so I figure no one knows how often I do.

[Anonymous]

Third day hair here.. sometimes get to four days (washed hair last Thursday morning and wore it pulled back in a clip, kept it back Friday, straightened it Friday night, wore it down and straight on Saturday, pulled back into ponytail Sunday, washed Monday). I'm just relieved it works for me because I am L-A-Z-Y. Maybe you should try a few new shampoo/conditioner combinations... I'm no help, I don't know which kinds, but it might work?

[Anonymous]

Dragging out time between washes does NOT work for everyone. This is simply not true for everyone.

I am a very oily person, I have never even used moisturizer in my entire life, don't even own it. T he good news is that I don't wrinkle, don't get stretch marks, and my skin is very elastic, but the trade off is that is have to wash my hair daily. Every inch of my body is naturally moisturized and this extends to my hair. The bright side in regards to my hair is that I can process the heck out of it and it never breaks, splits, or gets damaged. It can take a lot of abuse because the natural oils are the best protectant.

So, I think if I could choose, I'd still pick the oily hair that needs a daily wash and blowdry. I'm glad that this comes along with naturally moisturized skin, that even the harshest and dryest winder does not impact resulting in no wrinkles so far at 40, I'm sure they are coming, but so far so good.

[Anonymous]

Thanks folks -- OP here. I'll try less moisturizing shampoo/conditioner. I color my hair and figure I need the moisture to repair the damage, then again, shampooing everyday could be working against me. I think I may be like the PP who can skip days in winter, but not summer. Maybe i'll give it another shot now that it's colder.

[Anonymous]

I don't wash my hair more than twice a week. It actually look the worst on the day i wash it because its so dry.

i used to wash it everyday but now coloring it, its too dry and washes out the color too.

[Anonymous]

The only way I can go two days without a shampoo (and without a ponytail on day 2) is if I use Morroccan Hair Oil. Counter-intuitive, but my hair feels cleaner when I put this stuff in it. Without it, I feel disgusting and look greasy after ~30 hours. I also have a lot of very fine, very straight hair.

I am intrigued by the recommendation for a shower filter. We have a whole-house filter, but I haven't noticed a difference in my hair.