How To Wash Your Hair In The Bathtub

640_bath-victoria-albert-york-bathtub I wake upwardly the other morn, and head to the bathroom, because I'g man and that's what most of us do.

The night earlier, I stayed up til 2AM dyeing my pilus "natural black", which for anyone whose e'er dyed their hair black at dwelling knows that really means "jet blackness." And then I twisted it. (I am obsessed with the Curlicue Souffle past Curls. It makes my hair soft and CBW likes to sniff information technology.) And and then I spent the next hour and half, wiping down everything, because while I've more than or less mastered how to do damn about everything to my pilus, I haven't, in all these years, figured out how not to make a mess.

So I'm in bed by 4:30, upwards by 8 to write. And I walk into the bathroom to encounter CBW aptitude over the tub in his "work jeans", you know the ones that guys but wear to shovel snow, and pigment, and movement stuff in. The floor mats are discarded in a pile in a corner and at that place are dirty wet towels all over the bathroom floor. And a reconfigured hanger. This is not how I left things the dark before.

Me: What are you lot doing?

I should have known the answer.

Him: The tub was clogged Over again!!!!

He doesn't say it. He roars it.

Now, CBW is commonly pretty mild tempered. Like he takes the Jamaican stereotype of "No Problem" to the side by side level nigh of the time. Merely today he is pissed, and I can't arraign him. This isn't the first time the tub has been clogged.

Oh, why the tub, you ask? Considering that's where I wash my hair.

I residue on my knees and bend my head nether the faucet to wash my pilus. I know this sounds crazy, merely it's the but water supply in the house with plenty pressure to get-up-in all my fluff. I got hair. A lot of information technology. And that sink and that little spray-y thing that I can't call up the name of will get h2o in my hair, only it won't go the grime or the shampoo out. If I want clean hair, it's to the tub I go.

I've been doing this for years, and never thought of it as remotely aberrant until CBW moved in. He comes home one day, sees me kneeling on the tub with my tush in the air and is like, "uhh… I like it. I don't know what you're doing, I'm confused past information technology, only I like information technology." What he doesn't similar is that it clogs the drain.

And then. Earlier you think I'chiliad an animal for leaving the tub clogged, I did not know it was chock-full this time. I used The Method the last time I washed my hair in the tub. It should've been fine… ish.

Ok. So The Method is me getting that curved needle that folks apply to highlight pilus when you pull information technology through the plastic highlighting cap. The bleed has a silver cap on information technology, with holes in information technology. So every other time, I wash my hair, afterward, I stick the needle in the drain, and pull the stuck hair out, so that it won't get clogged. For excessive clogs, I pour Dran-O down at that place, which a guy friend told me to stop doing all the time considering eventually it erodes your pipes. When I stopped using Dran-O, the tub backed up all the time, which is how we arrive at the electric current problem.

Anyhow, possibly I had some massive shedding last night, or maybe I'yard not getting all the hair out with the hook and it'south piled upwards. (Ding!)

CBW points to the drain. He's removed the drain cap then I can meet down into the drain. Information technology's gross in at that place. There's gumps of hair, non like, beautiful picayune kinks, coils and spirals. Like information technology looks like it could crawl out and attack me.

Oh, love.

So because it's my pilus and it's super gross, I offer to get it out using The Method. He looks at me like I'g simple. I have that at my cue to pee and leave him to his ain devices. (Secretly, men love to prepare ish… just non, perhaps at 8AM when they need to have a shower and go to work on time.)

So because my normally mellow husband is pissed about the tub being chock-full—once more— I figured maybe I should take some preventive measure out to avoid this problem in the future.

Then I did what I always do when I'm clueless, I asked. And lo and behold this is a REALLY common problem, especially for natural girls. (And look at me, thinking I was lonely on this 1.)

How to unclog your bleed—or keep information technology from being clogged in the first place, AND without ruining your pipes:

ane. Before and after y'all wash your pilus pour boiling hot h2o downward the drain. Another suggestion was to pour a mixture of backing soda and vinegar down in that location, let it sit down overnight, then pour boiling water down.

2. Place a stocking or a knee high over the drain. Water passes but catches the pilus, and so simply throw the pilus away. (Simple enough, and aye, it works.)

iii. Cascade pre-mixed relaxers down the bleed. FB friend‪Barhynn J. swears by this. " Iit eats the hair right up" she says. "Sorry ladies with relaxed hair.

4. Some other "friend"‪Heather S.actually enjoys taking the drain apart and physically removes the pilus one time a month. "I snake the drain, and put everything back. It'southward annoying merely it makes me feel similar MacGuyver." LOL.

5.And for the ladies that tin't be bothered with all of that, at that place are bleed strainers. If you have a drain cap, remove it and put this one in its place.

Danco Hair Strainer, Home Depot

My real-earth friend Nicole H. swears by this ane. "It catches all my hair during and post wash...and it is easy to clean," she says.

And because aesthetics matter: Another friend added, "It's very easy to install (simply replace the drain plate). The hair basket is fabricated of plastic while the outer rim is metal. After ordering information technology, I regretted getting the white version instead of the metal one, because I thought it might look cheap. But it doesn't look cheap at all."

Happy (co-) washing!