It’s no
secret that curly/coily/kinky hair is naturally dry. We will never have to wash
our hair every day because of oil build-up. Think about our hair like a straw:
When a straw is straight, the liquid can go up and down fast and easy. But
when it is bent, it struggles and only a little bit at a time can get up the
straw. That’s our hair. Our follicles tend to be curled or bent in S or
Z-shapes so the oils that our body naturally produces struggle to saturate our
strands. That is why we rely heavily on water and oils. In this post I just
wanted to share with you guys how I keep my hair 100% moisturized for days at a
time with only water and Shea butter!
I do get lazy but the best way to make sure my hair is soft and well-moisturized is to do it in sections. The lazier I am, the bigger the sections are but I never just run my hands over the tips of my hair and call it a night.
I start by spraying
the medium section with water (I use an old bottle from Shea Moisture because
it lets out the water in a light mist rather than soaking my hair and resulting
in ultimate shrinkage). Then I seal the section with my whipped Shea butter [with
sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, castor oil, coconut oil and olive oil in the
butter]. To set it, I just twist my hair
and wrap my scarf around it.
How do you keep your hair moisturized?
