How To Make Your Shampoo and Conditioner Last Longer
Close your eyes and imagine… you’re in Sephora and you’re determined to finally buy a shampoo/conditioner duo to save your color. You pick up a bottle and see that it’s $30-40 for an 8oz bottle and just about shit yourself. You laugh out loud, put the bottle back, march straight to Target, and buy your good old OGX. Then you repeat the process a month later cause your trusty OGX didn’t last, your color is f*cked, and your scalp is dry/flaky/oily.
Well I’m here to explain to you how to PROPERLY use those $30 tiny ass shampoo bottles, because they’re not as tiny as you think if used correctly. You don’t use professional products like you use your [not so] trusty drug store ones. Your professional products should be lasting you a minimum of 4 months. Most professional products are either completely void or lacking water and fillers which is why they’re usually much thicker. The water comes from the shower faucet, so why pay for a bottle of it?
Dime sized shampoo
For people with smaller heads and/or fine hair.
Nickel sized shampoo
For people with a dome [all in good fun], and/or thick hair. You read that right. Size [of your noggin] DOES matter. We all have different sized heads, get over it.
Shampoo only goes on your scalp!
Nickel sized conditioner
For people with fine or short hair.
Half dollar sized conditioner
For people with long and/or thick hair.
Conditioner only goes on your ends!
Now I know what you’re thinking… there’s no way in hell a dime sized bead is going to clean my hair. This is where the number of times you wash your hair comes in. Instead of globbing on a pint of shampoo and washing your hair once, you should be using small amounts of shampoo and washing your hair multiple times. Think of it like washing a dish that’s been slathered in oil. Unless you were raised by dogs, you wouldn’t just rinse your dish under some water and call it a day, would you? You may not even wash it with soap only once, because there would still be that pesky oily film over everything. You might let the pan soak in some soapy water, then scrub it two or three times, yeah? Well… that pan is now your scalp. You need to break up the build up of products and oil over multiple washes. “Wash, rinse, repeat as the saying goes.” I have a video on my Instagram called “How to wash your hair” showing you a what I mean if you’re a visual learner.
Let me put it this way… I wash my hair once a week. After all the working out, house projects, dry shampoo, greasy hands through my hair, etc. I will sometimes shampoo my hair 4 times to really make sure I’m getting a good clean. And IF you are using good product, you don’t have to obsess over the shampooing fading your color too fast.