Dirtbag Hair Care
- March 2017
- Hi Steph Simple Living
Hey Steph, love the site! As a male with shoulder length hair, I’m curious how you take care of your hair while out on multi-week climbing trips without water/shower? Mine turns into knots and dreads.
Colby
Hi Colby,
I usually just comb my hair with a wide tooth comb when it’s wet, and if it’s windy or I’m climbing, I keep it tied up. Wind seems like the main tangler. My biggest advice to you with regards to dreads is PREVENT! Dreads don’t happen in 5 minutes but they’re kind of stealthy so it can seem like everything’s fine and then it’s all too late..!! If you get one trying to sneak in under the back there, take the 3 minutes to comb it out with your fingers or with a comb.
I also really recommend dry shampoo
You also can do a really good job of keeping clean between showers with just one gallon of water if you want to by washing face/pits/naughtybits with soap and a washcloth, then pour about half the gallon of water over your head, shampoo up, and then rinse it with the rest of the gallon. If you want to use some conditioner for dread prevention, use some leave-in and that will really help too.
🙂 Steph
“Dry Shampoo”
Out of water? What to do?
Why not try the dry shampoo?
Dries the oils and even lice
Makes your hair look really nice
If you haven’t any spray
Corn-starch works, so shake away
If you later need a snack
Shake your hair to get it back
Hope that helps.
“Stephy D. Good” (hat tip to the late great Chuck Berry)
Deep down in Mary Land, close to Wash DC
In an ordinary middle class family
There lived an old piano made of lovely wood
And a quiet little girl named Stephy D. Good
Who practiced every day til she played so well
Until she played piano just like ringing a bell
Go go,
Go Stephy go go
Go Stephy go go
Go Stephy go go
Stephy D. Good
She went to U of Maryland to earn degree
Then she got a Master’s for a Prof to be
Oh, she spent a week in law-school ‘for she up and quit
Decided that a lawyer’s life was full of shit
Instead she hit the road in an SUV
To be the best at climbing any one could be
(Chorus)
Now she leads the life of a climbing star
Really pushed the limits in a beat up car
Many people coming from miles around
To see her climb the cliffs ‘for she then jumps down
Maybe someday somebody will do what she did
But that won’t take away from the Flyin’ Kid
(Chorus)
Hi I was wondering if the corn starch made hair texture gross ever, and if bugs seemed at all more attracted. Thanks!