Massive Detangling Sessions

After getting off work today I came home and detangled my hair. It took me ONE HOUR! This was no typical detangling session. This was the type of detangling session that takes place after you haven't combed/brushed your hair for a week, but have been finger detangling the entire time (which I'm starting to realize isn't good enough for my hair) and you haven't been covering your hair at night, and you still wake up each morning and co-wash and rock a wash n go! Whewwww. Lets not let this happen too often :)

I am getting so tired of doing my hair. I need cornrows. My hair tangles so easily! If I don't detangle my hair with a brush for say, two days, my hair begins to loc up. I then have to break pieces of hair to get the tangles out. My problem area seems to be the middle of my head.

I use:

Treseme Moisture Rich Conditiner
Knock-off "Denman" brush by Conair
Towel (to put around my shoulders for dripping conditioner, and to wipe shed hairs on)
Optional-a bowl with water (to rinse shed hairs off hands as I'm sitting down detangling)

This is how I detangle:

1. wet hair in shower
2. rub pads of fingers on scalp to lift dirt
3. apply handful of conditioner to hair
4. smooth through hair

Then I get out of the shower and let the conditioner sit in my hair.
I put a spaghetti strap or button up shirt on, basically anything that I don't have to pull over my head because the conditioner is still in it.

Then the detangling part starts. I use my knock off Denman brush. It's by Conair and you can buy it at Rite-Aid. You may choose to section of your hair before hand or just grab sections as you go along. Avoid brushing the whole head at once until you have detangled the entire head. The conditioner should still be in your hair from the shower! You can choose to leave it in for a bit so the hair becomes more slippery. Put a towel around your shoulders as the conditioner will drip out of the brush and off of your hands as you detangled.

1. grab a small section starting right above the ear
2. hold the middle/end of the hair, and gently put the brush at the root of the hair (try your best to stay in that section)
3. gently pull the brush half way to the end (you will notice that the brush can not go any further. Moving further would require you to rip through strands of hair, so to combat this you finish detangling the ends of the hair).
****As you detangle, if you notice any shed hairs on your hand, wipe them on a towel or if you are detangling at a sink rinse the hair off of your hands so they can not be redeposited in the hair thus creating more tangling****
4. now detangle the end of hair. Be gentle, and be patient. This part may take a while. I usually hold the hair in my hand using my thumb, and I let the brush rub across my palm. For some reason this really helps detangle because I smooth the hair with my hand and detangle with the brush at the same time, thus both movements remove shed hair at the same time!
5. finish the section with a brush stroke starting from root to tip to ensure that the entire section has been detangled thoroughly.

Repeat until the entire head is detangled. Rinse hair, and apply leave in conditioner. I use a bit of coconut oil.

So, that's how I detangle my hair. And yes it takes me 1 hour! The time actually went by really fast because I was sitting down. I sat in front of the tv and watched CNN. I would definitely suggest you detangle while sitting down, just make sure you have a towel or even a bowl with water in it to wipe/rinse shed hairs off your hand as you detangle. I have detangled while in the shower, and I've found that I lose more hair because I am rushing (I don't want to waste water). And when I've detangled in front of the sink I've lost more hairs because I start to get tired of standing up, and I am constantly turning the faucet on and off to rinse shed hairs off my hands! So sitting down has been the best.

I hope this helps. I used to finger detangle but I've realized that my hair is tangling too much, especially if I wear my hair out and then sleep with it uncovered.


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