No-Poo Update Peace

I have curl again. Mmmm....sorta. 

My hair has been so weighed down with conditioners that my curl was more of a crimp gone bad. Now it's kinda like a crimp gone not so bad. 

(The 80's were made for my kind of hair.) 

After Day 1 of no shampoo, I'm feeling a little more at ease about not using my shampoo.

A few things I like:

1. My hair isn't as weighed down. 

Conditioner keeps my frizzies down a bit, but it keeps the rest if my hair down too.

2. My curl is more defined. Not Shirley Temple curly, more like a weird after surfing, stick your head out the window while driving curl. (I don't surf)

3. I feel better about what's going on my skin and what's going down the drain! 

A few things that will take some getting used to:

1. Obviously, no lather. We often associate lather with clean. I often associate lather with clean. 

2. My wet hair feels "clingy". That's the only way I can describe it. Not static clingy, like, "clean" clingy. Dry hair feels normal though. 

3. I missed a few spots and they still feel greasy. I have a lot of hair. I do everything in layers with my hair and it takes a lot of shampoo to get it all clean. My baking soda application method was super willy nilly. It was so foreign to me that I just stood there looking at the baking soda in a stupor. So for day #2, I put the baking soda in an old spice jar so I can "shake" it on my hair. 

Here's a couple of pictures: 

No grease on the top. You're welcome world. 

 

The last one was my wet hair. Pre frizz stage. (It felt very strange taking a "selfie")

My hair is naturally frizzy and I don't expect that to change. But I am impressed that the no-poo method does not make my hair frizzier. Win.