HAIR CARE 101: DETANGLING

No, no, no, no. Your eyes have not betrayed you. This is indeed a hair related post. I know, I know, I know. It has been more than a while since I have popped one of these up here which is scandalous seeing as the first dozen or so posts I published after the inception of this blog were hair related. But it is mostly because I have been a bit bored with my hair at the moment and want to it undergo some "radical" transformation. I've been toying with the idea of transitioning to go natural, dyeing it, chopping it all off, braiding it as well as wacking on a weave. Needless to say, the topic of hair care has done more than confuse me haha. However, I've had a brief moment of clarity and have decided to seize it to discuss:

The Art of Detangling

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Yes, I know this is not a terribly exciting topic but if you cast your minds back to my last Hair Care 101 post you may remember me saying that I was going to share a bit more info on each major aspect of a hair regimen. So, here I am, about to throw in my 2 p on The Art of Detangling. I do not know about you guys but my hair strands are quite prone to getting all knotty, twisted... tangled - I now want to watch the movie Tangled haha. Before I am able to even consider doing a pre-shampoo treatment I have to first of all tackle the dense forest that is my hair. The best way I have found to go about doing this is to divide my hair into four quadrants, clipping them with my butterfly clips, and then detangle each section with as much patience as I can muster so as to minimise breakage. On the days I am feeling extra perky,  I try to further divide each quadrant into smaller sections and use only my fingers to detangle my hair. The days when I'm not so eager to wash my hair I use a wide-tooth comb, starting at the ends of my hair, and gradually comb each quadrant; when I come to a knotty section I drop the comb and finger detangle it on semi-good days and yank the knot(s) out on very bad days.

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I am aware that each person has their own way of doing things but I've found that if I don't detangle my hair at the start of the wash day it is a nightmare to work through my hair once it is wet. And as my hair is relaxed and is quite weak to begin with, detangling when wet is a big no no for my hair as the hair strands simply glide off my head; they don't even snap guys lol. And there you have it. My 2 p on The Art of Detangling.

How do you detangle your hair?

Mo xx