I have also been "training" my hair for about the last year. I had read on so many blogs about people going 4-5 days or a week between washing their hair, and I was like "that is so not me!! I could never getaway with that!" I felt like I must have had the greasiest hair on the planet. I could barely go two days without it looking bad. So I started doing some research....and learned how to train my hair to be less oily. I don't know why the concept had never occurred to me before but it can be compared to many other functions of the human body. For example, you wash your face...you rehydrate it with moisturizer, or your face can over produce oils to compensate. The comparison I related to most though was actually breast feeding. As long as there is a demand for milk the body will keep producing. The more you nurse the more milk your body produces, the less and less you nurse your body adjusts and slows down milk production. It finally clicked for me!
The more I wash my hair, the more oils my body is producing to try to compensate for me stripping my hair of them every two days or less. So if I start stretching out the times between washing....I should be able to regulate my oiliness! Yay....and hallelujah!!! So I began slow....I started pushing my washes to every 3 days...usually planning it so I was home on the third day! I also picked up some dry shampoo to get me through the really bad days. Eventually things evened out, so I pushed to the 4th day. And so on and so on! I now wash my hair every 4-5 days, and it looks great in between too! Here's proof!
It also really helps if I style it well the first day, here it is just blow dried with a round brush! Day 1
I honestly woke up out of bed tossed on some mascara and got dressed. I did not touch my hair Day 2!
Day 3 I get more volume and curl in it again, but still didn't do much of anything with it!
Day 4 I usually wear it back, something like this.... if needed I will toss in a little dry shampoo!
And this is an old picture, as was the last, but this is typically how I do my hair if I push it to Day 5!!! Just a nice big bun, similar to those sock buns floating around the internet!!
Either way, I love that I can get sooooo much wear out of my hair these days. Added to that the thick lush prego hair and this girl is one happy camper!!
