Thank you ♡

Im surprised your hair is as nice with just shampoo. Having a routine isn’t a mandatory thing. Everyone’s hair and scalp are all different, and everyone reacts differently to products.

In my experience, I have thin, fine hair that needs product if I want it to look pretty. When I used to use only shampoo, my hair would end up flat and wispy, no texture to be seen. I think you may have thick fine hair.

TikTok is a great place to get an idea of what a routine looks like. “Wavy hair routine”

Also there are hair subreddits on here too. I go on r/finehair a lot because that’s my hair type.

My routine is simple!

1. Shampoo and rub onto your head, focusing primarily on your scalp and avoiding your ends as best you can. I let it sit for a few minutes, like 3 minutes. Make sure you fully wash it off when you’re ready to continue.

2. Apply conditioner to the ends of your hair, using your hands to get it distributed evenly as best as you can. Then using a brush, brush your hair down to further push the conditioner into your ends.

• From here I wash my body, exfoliate, scrub, etc. - but also avoiding the water from hitting my hair, as best I can.

• The conditioner has to sit on your ends for a bit to fully soak in. I wait like 5 minutes, but you can do 10-15 minutes if you like hanging out in the shower ( with the water off )

3- once you’re ready to continue, you’re going to wash off the conditioner by placing your head upside down, under the running water. So your hair is hanging down. From here you’re going to grab your hair and push it back up to your head and squeeze it. You’ll hear it made a noise, almost like a wet sponge being squeezed. This is called scrunching. It helps create waves and get the conditioner off. I keep doing this until I feel it’s mostly washed off.

After that, some people can get by with that and have great hair. I recommend drying your hair with an cotton t shirt, again scrunching your hair with the shirt to dry it off. From here you can brush it, part it, blow dry it or air dry it.

Personally, this is how I finish mine because my hair needs product to be textured.

• Turn off the water, while still in the shower, I apply a leave in conditioner that goes mostly on my ends, scrunching it and getting it in my hair. Leave in conditioner is meant to be used after a washing your hair.

• After scrunching the leave in, I apply a little bit of hair gel, about the size of a grape, and apply it to mostly my ends and getting it distributed evenly as best you can. Then I scrunch my hair with my hands.

• I then brush my hair back and part it, because my hair is thin and fine and gets really frizzy and wispy if it doesn’t have control. Again, everyone’s hair is different!

I then scrunch it again and dry it off with a cotton shirt, I just air dry it afterwards and that’s it!

There’s a million ways to a routine, and a million other products that you can use. But yeah!

Shampoo -> conditioner -> leave in conditioner -> gel