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Question:
What should I do when my hair gets sweaty after a workout but I don't have time to wash and comb it?
Answer:
After a workout (or getting caught in the rain, if your hair gets unintentionally wet in the shower, or after waking up in the morning), it's great to smooth your hair to refresh all your pretty curls. This technique works to smooth any frizzies between washings and combings: Wet your hands, and add a dime-size drop of a combing conditioner (or more, depending on how fuzzy your hair is), rub that between your hands. Then smooth your wet hands over your hair to smooth out any fuzz on your hair line and refresh your curls there.
By wetting your hands and smoothing them over your hairline, you are helping to even out the wetness in your hair. This way all your curls will be coiling up to about the same tightness. Otherwise, the curls closest to your scalp that got the wettest will start to curl up tighter and separate away from the hair that may still be dry. By wetting your hands and smoothing over your hair, you are distributing the moisture evenly, so your curls are more likely to all curl to the same tightness.
You might need to do this a few times (adding more water and conditioner each time). Often this will refresh your whole head, making your curls spring back as they dry, and this keeps them more defined, and causes no damage, and moisturizes them. Then, wet your hands again, add more conditioner to them, and smooth over your ends to refresh all your curls.
If you find you have fuzzy areas, wet your hands again, add more conditioner, and if needed, go through your hair, and find fuzzy parts. Start at the root of the fuzzy curl/section, and smooth the curl by running your wet conditioner-fingers up to the tips a few times, helping meld the curl together instead of picking it apart. This helps snap it back into a curl instead of fuzz, and again, this causes no damage, and moisturizes it. It's best to use a good conditioner for this. Do this until all or the majority of fuzzy spots are gone, or you have gotten the even look you like.
If you have more time, you could conditioner-wash your hair, since this is most likely between your washing-your-hair-days (conditioner washing is more gentle on your hair than using shampoo, and it's great to use if you need to wet your hair, but you don't want to actually shampoo it). You could wet your hair thoroughly, add a rinsing conditioner, then rinse it out again. Then you can add a combing conditioner, and comb and define your curls.
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