I Haven't Had A Hair-Dryer In 4 Months, And This Is What Happened
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I Haven't Had A Hair-Dryer In 4 Months, And This Is What Happened

My hair is softer and silkier than it's ever been.

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I Haven't Had A Hair-Dryer In 4 Months, And This Is What Happened
Sarah Holliman

All through high school, every morning before school I would wake up to wash and blow-dry my hair. By the end of each day my hair would be super greasy. This gave me no other choice but to wash it the next morning.

It turned into this daily routine of me waking up an hour early just to make sure I had enough time to shower and dry my hair and also have time to do everything else I needed to do to get myself ready for school.

A lot of girls just wore their hair up in a ponytail if it was getting a little greasy, but I rarely wore my hair up because I thought that my ears were massive.

I had also been told by a lot of people that it really wasn’t all that great for your hair to wash it every single day and that I was stripping it of a lot of the natural oils that my scalp produced naturally by washing it that regularly. I always thought that if my hair was greasy it wasn’t clean or presentable.


Frankly it just embarrassed me to have even slightly greasy hair.

When I moved out of my parents’ house to go to college, I slowly got away from washing my hair every day to washing it every other day. I still blow-dried my hair every time I washed it though.

My hair seemed to be looking and feeling a lot healthier. I ruled that as a side effect of my new herbal essences shampoo that I had started buying religiously my freshman year of college. I was washing it a lot less often and my hair surprisingly seemed a lot healthier.

I also knew that using heat on my hair dried it out and could cause sometimes irreversible heat damage. This is the hair I have to live with, so about four months ago I stopped using a hair-dryer altogether, and I am just amazed at how far my hair has come.

I can get away with not washing my hair for a few days and it’s fine! I can wear it down for two days with little or no grease and I don’t even feel self conscious about it. The third day I usually either wash it or wear it up in a ponytail or a messy bun.
Whenever I wash my hair I just let it air dry naturally. It takes about an hour and a half for my hair to dry completely, but that extra time is so worth it.

It is softer and silkier than it has ever been.

I’m not sure I even want to go back to blow-drying my hair again in the future. I mean, it’s been four months already, and life is just easier when I don’t have to allot myself an extra 15 minutes every morning to dry my hair. That is 15 more minutes that I can snooze my alarm!

I absolutely love the new confidence that my healthier hair gives me!

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