But alas, my commitment is more like training bonsai than letting land lie fallow. And, like bonsai, it takes as much work as patience.
So how low-maintenance is this mass of hair?
- For starters, I'm using a blow dryer. I've done that maybe three times in my life up until I started this experiment, but now I use it to melt wax, as well as to dry my hair if I'm going to wear a hat or it's just really humid out.
- Then, there's loose hair management and blunting the tips. These are both activities that take teamwork to do somewhat easily, and they also both often have to be repeated.
- Yesterday I rebackcombed a couple of stubbornly loose locks. I wasn't expecting to have to do that again, ever, but for at least one of the two it definitely helped tighten it up.
- Every day I take a few minutes to palmroll, and days without wax I also do some clockwise rubbing to create new knots.
Here's a video about blunting those tips:
I'll talk a bit about specialty products in an upcoming post.
So no, I'm not finding this to be an experiment in low maintenance. It's actually one of the longest-term, highest-time-investment commitments I've ever made.
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