My fourth curly cut

January–April 2024

My fourth curly cut was on January 10, 2024. I’d say this is the period time where I started to get reliably good results most wash days, and for a few days beyond, too. My technique had improved, but my hair was definitely healthier and more used to being wavy, so everything was just working better. It was really dang nice!

A major contributor to getting my wash days to last longer was a silk sleeping bonnet. I purchased a silk dress at a thrift shop for $10 and turned it into a rather amateurish (but effective!) bonnet mid-January and I became an immediate convert. I’d been sleeping on silk pillowcases for months, but they didn’t do much compared to the bonnet. I went from needing to refresh every day after wash day to getting two or three good days post-wash without any refreshing! Absolutely astounding.

I spent most of March 2024 in New Zealand and Australia and learned the annoying way that Dyson hair dryers do not work with converters. I ended up carrying it around the entire trip without being able to use it, while the lovely Melissa from Pure Nature helped me get my hands on a universal diffuser that I could use throughout the trip with the random hair dryers my carious accommodations had. Even with four curly cuts, 1.5 years, and the humidity of Down Under, my hair will not do much of anything wavy without being diffused most of the way dry.