00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this is two weeks of not washing my hair.
00:04Oh no, now what?
00:08Hey guys!
00:09What is up?
00:10It's Lucy.
00:11This week is all about...
00:15Hair.
00:16Dirty hair.
00:18Typically Try Living With Lucy episodes are only five days long,
00:21but this was such a highly requested topic,
00:24and truly I did not feel like five days was long enough to do it justice.
00:27So, instead of starting on Monday today and doing five days of not washing my hair,
00:32I actually started this experiment last Monday.
00:35So this is two weeks of not washing my hair and I'm currently on day eight.
00:39Is this the best Lucy you've ever seen?
00:41Before we get into it, check out this recap of last week.
00:44This is my last time washing my hair for two weeks.
00:48My last condition.
00:51It's Monday morning.
00:52I just got out of the shower.
00:54Now I'm going to let my hair dry naturally.
00:55And then it's no shampoo, no conditioner, and no water for two whole weeks.
01:01Day two.
01:01Feeling great.
01:02Feeling very normal at this point.
01:05I just sneezed on my hair.
01:07Day three.
01:08The oil is coming on.
01:10Greasy.
01:10Itchy.
01:12Right here it feels like almost flat.
01:15Yeah, it looks flat as well.
01:16It looks flat as well.
01:18Day four.
01:19I think I need to wear my hair up today.
01:22It's really not good.
01:23Day five.
01:25It's pretty brutal.
01:27It looks fine right now, but in a couple days and after spin class tomorrow morning,
01:31it's going to be terrible.
01:33I've been doing this six days now.
01:35Time to spin.
01:36Wish us luck.
01:38Oh no.
01:39So this is my hair post sweaty spin class.
01:43That feels really good but dandruff is falling all over my workout pants.
01:47Day seven.
01:48Should I lie to the camera and say it looks good?
01:51No.
01:51No.
01:51Tell them exactly what it looks like.
01:53I don't know if that's dandruff, but there's definitely something in there.
01:58What is it?
01:58So here I am now, day eight, smelling not great.
02:03Natural hair is not a new concept these days, and I'm no beauty expert, but I do have to say
02:08I'm a little bit confused by what's right and wrong when it comes to this situation.
02:12If you look up no shampoo on Google, you get about 10 million search results and it sort
02:17of seems like half of them tell you that it's really healthy to not wash your hair and you'll
02:21get the best hair of your life, whereas the other half seem to say you need to wash your
02:26hair every day in order to have good scalp health.
02:28So what's the answer?
02:30There are a whole bunch of alternative shampooing methods out there.
02:34Things like baking soda and apple cider vinegar, co-washing where you can cleanse with conditioner
02:39and that way you don't use any of the harsh detergents or fillers that are normally found
02:43in shampoos.
02:44But for this experiment, I wanted to do none of that.
02:47So the first thing I need to do as soon as I get home today is change my pillowcase for
02:51the third time this week.
02:52I realize that dirt and oil from my hair can build up on my pillowcase and cause me to break
02:57out, so I've been really cautious about that.
02:59Tonight, I'm going to a dance class, so my hair is about to get really sweaty for the
03:04second time.
03:05So we'll see what happens.
03:08It's Tuesday and I'm in the office.
03:11Last night's dance class was so much fun, but I walked out and my hair was wet.
03:17I'm dripping sweat.
03:18My whole body's wet.
03:19I need to take a shower.
03:20I need to wash my face.
03:21This is my life this week.
03:24So earlier this morning, I pulled it up into a really high ponytail and I put on this bandana
03:29just to sort of detract attention from it throughout the day.
03:33Earlier today, I hung out with Mee-Anne, the beauty writer at Refinery29, and she helped
03:38answer some of my questions.
03:40How's your hair?
03:41So it's day nine.
03:45Yeah.
03:45In terms of the controversial issue around washing your hair, I think it's more about
03:50what you personally want to do.
03:52Cause there are people who have drier, coarser, a lot of people with curly hair, who don't
03:56need to wash their hair every day because their scalp doesn't produce a lot of oil.
04:00But then there are other people, like me for example, I produce more oil, I like to wash
04:04my hair more often.
04:05In light of this new experiment that you're doing, I brought a few products that I think
04:09will come in handy.
04:10You brought me gifts?
04:11A Bora Bristle brush and a very powerful dry shampoo by Living Proof.
04:16Honestly, I'm excited for anything to brush my hair right now because I haven't brushed
04:20it in nine days either.
04:21So I'm going to brush your hair first.
04:23Oh, please.
04:25Doesn't it feel weird?
04:26Uh huh.
04:27It feels like a dream.
04:29A Bora Bristle brush, great for distributing oil from the root of your scalp to the ends of
04:36your hair.
04:37Mee-Anne?
04:38What's up?
04:38I know how a dog feels.
04:41I like to like section it off.
04:43It's going to go in white.
04:45It's because this is powerful stuff guys.
04:48Spray it into the root.
04:49If I was going to not wash my hair, I would probably use the stretcher.
04:53Okay.
04:54Let it sit in the hair, especially if your hair is like this oily.
04:58I would like let it work its magic a little bit and then start like, you start judging
05:02your hair.
05:04You're like working all that powder into your roots.
05:07My dandruff is snowing down.
05:09I'm ready to go about my day without being embarrassed for who I am.
05:19Day 10.
05:21We have officially hit double digits of not washing my hair.
05:25Mee-Anne really got me thinking yesterday that this whole experiment is different for every
05:29single person because everyone has different hair.
05:32Today I brought my camera around the Refinery29 office and I heard from a whole bunch of different
05:37people.
05:37Hey Anissa.
05:39Can I talk to you for a second?
05:40Hi Lucinda.
05:41Hey Lucy.
05:42Hey Zach.
05:42Hey Shauna.
05:43Oh my god.
05:44I asked how often they wash their hair.
05:46Well I'm brown so I wash my hair like once every week and a half.
05:51I would say every other day.
05:53Every other day.
05:54One or two times a week.
05:55Every other day probably.
05:56Every two days.
05:58I then told them how long it's been since I've washed my hair.
06:02I'm currently on day 10 of not washing.
06:05Wow.
06:06Wow.
06:07I mean I would never be able to tell.
06:0910 days.
06:10Really?
06:11Wait are you serious?
06:12And for the most part people were shocked when I told them that I hadn't washed my hair
06:16in 10 days.
06:17I can't.
06:17It still looks good though.
06:18I can't get over it.
06:19Like look at this.
06:20It looks really good.
06:21Then I asked them all to bury their noses in my unwashed hair.
06:26Which everyone did willingly.
06:28And I asked them to give me a rating on a scale from 1 to 10.
06:311 being your hair smells absolutely beautiful and you're a princess.
06:35And 10 being this is the most disgusting I've ever smelled.
06:38I'm gonna give you a two and a half.
06:39Two and a half.
06:40Pretty good.
06:41Okay.
06:41It smells fresh.
06:42Like a two and a half cream.
06:44Like a two?
06:45A three.
06:46A four.
06:46I'm gonna say two.
06:47A solid two.
06:49Oh you're like negative one.
06:51And you know what?
06:52The average number that I got was about a two.
06:55So either my friends are lying to me or the dry shampoo really worked.
06:59Two more days and then we can wash this puppy.
07:02And I'm not kidding it actually feels like a dog.
07:07I actually think my hair looks fine today.
07:10But looks can be deceiving.
07:11Today I went to Phillip Kingsley, a trichological clinic in New York and I met with a trichologist.
07:16Primary function of trichologists are to address concerns that people have about their hair
07:21and scalp.
07:22This woman was the real deal.
07:25I am doing a two week challenge of not washing my hair.
07:29Why?
07:30Do your face look?
07:32I have a couple of concerns.
07:34So what would you say about these people whose YouTube videos I've seen where they say that
07:39they haven't washed their hair for two years and their hair looks great?
07:42So I'm not here to tell them that that's not what they should do or whatever.
07:48But I would also say look, unless I'm looking at the actual scalp health integrity, I'm not
07:54sure that it is in fact as great as it might be.
07:56And then she gave me a full scalp examination under a magnifying glass.
08:01I saw the shots of what it looked like deep in my scalp and guys let me tell you, it's
08:06not pretty.
08:08I mean already what I'm seeing is a lot of flaking and build up on the hair.
08:15And that's part of what you're feeling in terms of the itching.
08:18So Lucy, on a one to ten, how itchy and how high has the level of discomfort or how would
08:26you rate it?
08:27I think right now it's around a four.
08:31At one point it was maybe like a seven or an eight.
08:34Right.
08:34But it kind of got more tolerable.
08:36Right.
08:37And I think, as I said, you probably got some benefit, if you will, benefit from the dry shampoo.
08:46As she was looking through my scalp with forceps, she told me that she saw a little bit of glitter
08:51in there.
08:52You got some glitter in here, Lucy.
08:54I do.
08:55Guys, why is there glitter in my scalp?
08:57And I can only think of one thing.
08:59Last week I worked on a DIY art project with glitter and it stuck in my scalp from last week.
09:04So it's either that or maybe I'm just a unicorn and I have glitter instead of dandruff.
09:12Today is wash day.
09:14At the end of the week, guys, my hair is so dirty.
09:18Like uncomfortably dirty.
09:19I have learned so much about scalps and hair this week and I think that my major takeaway
09:24here is that there is a huge difference between doing something like what I did and cutting
09:28out all forms of cleansing whatsoever versus doing something a little bit less extreme,
09:34like cutting out the harsh detergents in shampoos and replacing it with a milder product.
09:38You know what they say, everyone's hair is full of secrets.
09:41And now I'm off to shower.
09:44Five, four, three, two, one.
09:50Five, three, two, one.
09:51Oh, it's sleepily.
09:58Nothing's ever felt so good.
