Whack Wednesday: Working Out Ruined My Hair

This Wednesday what is real whack is when your trying to change your life style, get healthy and workout but your terrified that your hair is going to be ruined! As a African American women, I know a lot of you can relate, there is a long process when we do our hair. In most cases we have to wash, condition, blow dry, and straighten. Even for women with relaxed hair, relaxer can still sweats out when working out. Its so frustrating, sweat is never our friend. We cannot wash our hair every day for so many reasons. I recently have been trying to get on my workout tip and right now I have braids but before I had the basic press and curl. When I would work out and feel good I would look at my hair and scream. All the curls sweated out. I would look like a hot ass mess. Even though working out and sweating is soooo good for your heath is great your really can suffer for it. So if your like me your wondering what to do??? Now I have my own way of keeping my hair together (don't know if its the best thing to do, but it works:) by either wrapping or rolling my hair before working out and I don't take it out until my hair is completely dry and nine times out of ten it comes out still good, still curled. Its also good to apply a leave in conditioner (small amount) to keep hair from drying out but I only recommend this more for women who are all the way natural and do protective hair styles because leave in conditioners still make your hair wet and your curls can still drop (my personal experience.) I also looked online and found some GREAT TIPS FROM EBONY MAG ! On Ebony.com they give 5 detailed tips on how African American women can protect their hair while working out and here is tip #1:
Protect Your Hair From Sweat
Protecting your hair from sweat as much as possible is a must. If you have long natural hair, placing it in a high ponytail or bun is the best method. If your hair isn’t long enough to pull back, protective styles such as twists and braids are strongly advised. After you’ve chosen your workout style, place a silk scarf or sweat headband around the edges of your hair. The more you sweat, the puffier your edges will become, and we all know that can be quite a monster to tame. I usually put my locs in a really high bun, and wrap my hairline with a silk scarf, making sure that both the front and back edges are covered.
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/style/5-tips-for-working-out-with-natural-hair-374#ixzz3fKfNlr7c

I hope all of this helped :) Thank you soooooo much for reading....and make sure to check out my You Tube Channel: A.J Marie. Hope you are have a lovely Wednesday :)