People who were painted or had photographs taken were rich! They certainly had their hair set and done by other people for those occasions. But infernal, everyone smelled, had lice and bed bugs and it was all very unhygienic and people died of many preventable infections due to this.

Anonymous wrote:Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.

I should have been born in the 80s! I'm white with ringlets (well they could be if I used $$$ products daily). I don't have time to do it daily so I straighten my hair.

Anonymous wrote:They went to the beauty parlor!

This. They went once a week for wash and set. They slept in a hair net. They wore bonnets to keep it from getting wet. And for photographs, they were photographed much less frequently and in more formal settings (where they would have fresh hair).

Salon services were less expensive and tips were much less back then too.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

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I can smell how oily people's hair is when they don't wash it daily. I also smell dry shampoo and it stinks! Silky hair must be washed daily, no exceptions.

You're so rigid and ignorant. Individuals vary, PP. Your scalp adjusts the production of sebum to its environment. People who don't wash their hair frequently don't get oily hair immediately after washing their hair, and if they brush it carefully, they spread the little oil there is to the tips, thus protecting the hair shaft. People have added oil in their hair too, because long hair become dry and needs additional protection. Just a couple of drops are sufficient. This is what people did for millenia before indoor plumbing and clean and affordable water.

Hair odor is body odor, and highly depending on the person and the colonies of bacteria they host on their skin. Some people just don't stink as much as others. It's just a fact. My husband and son never stink except when they work out very intensely in the heat. My daughter and I stink at the drop of a hat. Life is not fair

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

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I can smell how oily people's hair is when they don't wash it daily. I also smell dry shampoo and it stinks! Silky hair must be washed daily, no exceptions.

My stylist says to wash only once a week - which is hard to do especially in the summer time. Washing drys it out and strips the color.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

+1
I can smell how oily people's hair is when they don't wash it daily. I also smell dry shampoo and it stinks! Silky hair must be washed daily, no exceptions.

You're so rigid and ignorant. Individuals vary, PP. Your scalp adjusts the production of sebum to its environment. People who don't wash their hair frequently don't get oily hair immediately after washing their hair, and if they brush it carefully, they spread the little oil there is to the tips, thus protecting the hair shaft. People have added oil in their hair too, because long hair become dry and needs additional protection. Just a couple of drops are sufficient. This is what people did for millenia before indoor plumbing and clean and affordable water.

Hair odor is body odor, and highly depending on the person and the colonies of bacteria they host on their skin. Some people just don't stink as much as others. It's just a fact. My husband and son never stink except when they work out very intensely in the heat. My daughter and I stink at the drop of a hat. Life is not fair

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

+1
I can smell how oily people's hair is when they don't wash it daily. I also smell dry shampoo and it stinks! Silky hair must be washed daily, no exceptions.

I disagree with the adjective silky here. My hair is dry as straw if washed daily. So I am at least one exception

Anonymous wrote:Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

+1
I can smell how oily people's hair is when they don't wash it daily. I also smell dry shampoo and it stinks! Silky hair must be washed daily, no exceptions.

Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.

I once went on a monthlong camping trip during which I never washed my hair. Your hair first gets greasy then the natural oils kinda start cleaning your hair on their own. My hair actually looked pretty good at the end.

FWIW, I did bathe in lakes and rivers but it was a pretty stinky month.

My dirty hair looks and photographs much better than my clean hair, which is usually frizzy and/or too soft.

I usually wash my hair 2-3 times a week.

Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

They went to the beauty parlor!

They had straighteners and curling irons a long time ago - you heated them in the fire.
But those fancy up-dos were often wigs.

People bathed less, there weren’t fancy shampoos and conditioners and countless other hair products, not to mention straighteners, curling irons, heck even blow dryers.

So why do women’s hairs always look so much better thab mine in old photos and paintings? I mean even way back in time.