Do you have an arsenal of styles that you kind of rotate throughout your natural hair journey? Most of us do but some of us prefer to just rock one type of style because that style gives us what we are looking for from our hair. For some its wearing the hair straight all the time, for others its a braid out, but for me it’s a wash and go.
I love wash and go’s and for now while my hair is medium length it works for me. Things might change in a few years but I can only speak for the present and right this minute I love me a good old fashioned wash and go no matter what season it is.
So you might wonder, what do you do when its cold? Well, I do a dry wash and go. A dry wash n go? I know you’re probably reading this like, “She has finally lost her mind”, but just bear with me.
Since winter is officially making her presence known, it might be too much of a risk to wash your hair and go straight outside without either applying heat or having a super cold head. This option works just fine for me, so if you are a wash and go kind of girl but at a loss as to what you should do in the cold, I can help, so here are three reasons why and how you should rock a dry wash n go this winter:
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This style is going to be done on dry hair and it’ll take less than 20 minutes to complete. Simply separate a small section of hair and clip up the rest. Lightly spritz your hair with water or a leave in conditioning spray.
You don’t want to drench your hair, but you want it to be wet so that it’s easier to manipulate. You can actually skip the spray bottle step, but it helps prevent the dry, crunchy gel feeling that you would have if you only used a water based gel. Here’s what you have to do:
1. Grab your wide tooth comb* and detangle that small section of hair. This will remove any shed hair and will make your curls more defined. Make sure to detangle from ends to root and make sure that your roots are fully detangled so that the style looks neat when you’re finished.
2. Rub a small amount of styler between your fingers before applying it to the section of hair. Concentrate a small amount of gel on your roots so that they can lay down. Repeat this all over your head.
3. You can style your hair anyway you’d like afterwards. You can also take an afro pick to fluff out your roots once you’re done. It isn’t shown in the video, but you can take an oil of your choice and apply it to your hair after the gel to soften.
I don’t why they call this a wash and go. this is a all day process
It’s called that because you don’t manipulate your natural curl pattern into a different one.
It’s not an all day process – it’ll take about 25 minutes if you’re working all the product through your hair and it lasts a few days 🙂
I do this all the time.. especially the day after I actually wear my wash and go (wash day). And my hair grows so much faster when I just wear it curly and add my moisturizer daily.
Good looking good hairstyle sweet thing
Everyday ain’t got time cause I have to get back to doing nothing!
No no no lol not for me
I do wash and go’s all the time.
How can I wash and go wheny hair texture don’t look like that. Get real smh
Your hair texture doesn’t have to look like that to achieve a dry wash n go. My hair texture doesn’t look like that either but my curls come out great!
I do a wash & go & my hair Damn sure don’t look like that! Smh ugh
I LOVE wash and go. It is my go to style. Hopefully this will work for me!
I like this idea! My youngest daughter has really bad allergies and I hate to wet her head up and then send her to bed a slightly damp head at night. I will defiantly be trying this the next time that she needs to have her hair washed( I just cowashed it last night). I’ll also try this on my oldest daughter’s head too. Thanks for the tip and share!
Aw yaay, I’m glad that it could help you! Try it out and share some photos 🙂
Nicely written.
Although this would probably work for someone out here…this post is actually NOT the method she uses. I DO know 😉
I just use Kinky Curly in the summer. Wash with WEN Fig, apply Knot Today, a little Qhemet Biologics BRBC, Kinky Curly Curling Custard & I’m done in about 15″ – 30″ depending on my hair’s mood & how much of a hurry I’m in. I refresh with water in a spray bottle. Lasts 4-5 days. BTW, I have fine type 4a/b neck length hair