{"id":6299,"date":"2013-04-15T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2013-04-15T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T20:35:26","slug":"ladies-how-often-do-you-wash-your-braids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/fb\/ladies-how-often-do-you-wash-your-braids.html","title":{"rendered":"Ladies, How Often Do You Wash Your Braids?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know as Black women, there is so much that we can do to our hair. The options are almost limitless. \u00a0A lot of people don’t know it, but my hair is natural now. I have not had a perm in it for a while now, maybe almost a year? I don’t know the date exactly. I went natural because I started wearing weaves often, and I would perm my hair and put a weave in two days later, which was very bad for my hair.<\/p>\n

I’ll tell my hair story some other day. Right now, I’m wondering how often you wash your braids, if at all. Before now, I honestly did not wash my braids often because I didn’t know what will become of them after washing them. I did obsessively apply nice-smelling products on my hair, and I’m assuming it worked because Igwe did not complain. He’s not the kind to sugar coat anything. He would tell me straight up that my hair is funky, if he feels that way. But he didn’t.<\/p>\n

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My wet braids, not that you can tell they are wet.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s been two weeks since I braided my hair, and I just washed it. I have a notoriously dry scalp, so I soak it with scalp oil every other day. I just hate the dryness! \u00a0So when I washed it yesterday, I concentrated on my scalp, trying to wash away all the products. I didn’t use my finger nails (they’re quite long) on my scalp, but I did use the tips of my fingers to rub it all over the place. And it felt good.<\/p>\n

\"Cantu<\/a>

Cantu leave-in conditionder<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I towel-dried it and put in some leave-in conditioner. This is the conditioner I \u00a0used, and it does make my hair soft, but I don’t know if it’s appropriate for natural hair. I have no intention of giving it up until I use every last drop. Don’t worry, it’s almost gone.<\/p>\n

So I really want to know how often you wash your braids? And how do you do it? Do you apply any special products to it? I have been so mean to my hair without even knowing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know as Black women, there is so much that we can do to our hair. The options are almost limitless. \u00a0A lot of people don’t know it, but my hair is natural now. I have not had a perm in it for a while now, maybe almost a year? 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