Heavy
oiling is when you feed the hair more oil than you know it can absorb. This of
course means it’s not really something you can look presentable in public with
and it will most likely result in dripping. I prefer doing my Ankylosaurus or
Nodosaurus to oil just the length, but other longhairs use different methods
and oil the scalp too. This can of course also depend on the different oil
since not all oils work for all scalps. Heavy oiling is usually messy and need
some sort of containment.
Light
oiling is when you feed the hair less oil than you know it can absorb. This of
course means that you can add oil to the hair and go about your daily business
and no one will be the wiser. No evident greasiness or dripping. Usually people
will add some drops of oil focussing on the ends. Personally, I prefer an oil
spray to do this. I bought a nice oil spray for kitchen use with a pump-action.
It does a nice “dusting” of oil over my ends and just needs a quick combing
though afterwards.
I have a
pretty random mix of oils in mine at the moment: Bit of olive, some camellia
leftovers, hemp, argan and walnut. It works “double” for me too since my ends
always have dried a bit too much for my taste before I finish putting my hair
up. I can do a quick re-moistening of them with the oil spray and I’m good to
go.
My parents
have a really clever oil spray! It was bought as a mixer for oil and vinegar
for salads, but since it’s just two containers with an adjustable spray, it
would work for two oils too. You can slide it between 100% of canister 1 and
100% of canister 2 with all mixes in between. I thought it was really clever
and I just might get one for myself even though I don’t consider myself a
“real” oil user. I’m imagining filling it with something like a heavy oil mix
and a light oil mix that you can adjust.
I had
expected it to be really expensive since it’s one of those typical Scandinavian
Simplicity-design things, but it is about half what I paid for my own oil pump
so that’s pretty cheap and tempting!
Wow! That's a cool spritzer!
ReplyDeleteI tend to do oilings only before a wash--my hair is oily to begin with and looks so gross if any oil is on it.