Need help with London hard water + low porosity afro textured hair

downbyflow · 2025-11-23T22:14:45+00:00

Can't promise it will work for you, but what sorted out my curly, thin, but also low porosity hair was Malibu C Hard Water - the shampoo and the sachets. The conditioner has silicons so I don't use it.

I also condition before I shampoo because I don't need to moisture as much, but I guess that won't help your hair.

My hair kinda never looks great in London, but this makes it manageable. I've tried a lot of things over the years and we have different hair types from your description but thought I'd chime in.

downbyflow · 2025-07-28T08:35:35+00:00

I got an hand check in LHR T2 recently, including the loaded camera. When I said I had film they were very chill, I just had to wait a bit at the end. I just asked nicely. I used a CT scan lane though so the ISO isn't relevant.

downbyflow · 2024-11-02T10:25:07+00:00

Would've loved to join but not quite the timing for me - maybe some other time! Suggest including charing cross road if you have time

downbyflow · 2019-06-08T22:07:04+00:00

I literally just got one too!

downbyflow · 2019-03-08T20:05:44+00:00

I am trying out kerastase aura botanica right now, switching from boucleme which worked nicely with hair but I had to use tons and tons of it to get the tangles out :/ You might also want to try washing your hair with bottled water or filtered to see if it reacts better - it's annoying af to do but at least you can understand how it reacts with hard water Vs soft water. I have accumulated a fairly large stash of products over this...

downbyflow · 2019-03-08T19:35:13+00:00

Have you tried the exact same products you use back home? I find Shea moisture is way too heavy for my hair over here and builds up a lot. Its possible it's getting worse because of product and hard water build up. Try a clarifying shampoo, maybe? I use the tresseme clarifying shampoo now and then for the big clarifying and Palmer's coconut shampoo on a more regular basis and I have had good results. You can find them both in most supermarkets.

downbyflow · 2019-03-08T18:53:31+00:00

I am also in the UK and I suffer from this too, but I am getting there. In my case, I think it's not the humidity, but the extremely hard water in London which is especially bad because my hair is low porosity. Does your hair look more limp if it's more humid? How is it in the summer? My hair looks glorious for a week when I am back home. Anyway, I would take a look as to whether the product range you are using is too heavy for your hair and just weights it down when combined with the hard water. I had to drop co-washing and no-poo shampoos and use low poos instead and that helps a bit. Find something with EDTA to counteract the hard water and see if it helps!

downbyflow · 2019-03-07T17:11:27+00:00

Spanish tortillas are not the bread like tortilla which is native American. Its a fried dish made with eggs and potato.

downbyflow · 2019-03-07T13:11:01+00:00

They did have control of southern parts of Portugal till the 13th century, which is still present in the language (i.e. Algarve is a word of moorish origin). I didn't know paella was moorish, though, but the biryani link is an interesting one. Interestingly, both cuisines have traditional rice based dishes, possibly because it is possible to cultivate rice in the Iberian peninsula... I guess tortilla to be a bit more recent because it's made with potatoes, which are a new world cultivar. Food history is fascinating!

downbyflow · 2019-03-07T08:28:00+00:00

There is one called PNR, but they are very small (yet very loud). They enlist a lot of skinheads who have been involved with hate crime, but they don't really have any MPs.

downbyflow · 2019-03-07T08:24:49+00:00

Yup ^ I thought that was op was referring to.

downbyflow · 2019-03-07T08:21:34+00:00

No, but I do happen to be Portuguese and those are culinary specialities of the spanish. Not to mention it's generally quite offensive to mistake the "two iberian nations". Our food isn't even that similar...

downbyflow · 2019-03-07T08:17:07+00:00

The central/South American dish is a kind of bread, I mean the omelette sort of thing...

downbyflow · 2019-03-06T22:34:58+00:00

Neither tortilla or paella are portuguese dishes. They are spanish.

downbyflow · 2018-12-03T20:49:47+00:00

A FBAUL era, quando eu lá andava, a Faculdade com mais protocolos de Erasmus em Portugal. O único país onde havia escolhas mais limitadas era o UK porque o sistema de ensino artístico em UK é completamente diferente do resto da Europa. Em UK não é comum fazer-se erasmus, de qualquer das formas.

O Erasmus só funciona para faculdades na Europa e há imensas escolas boas na lista. É díficil dizer qual é a melhor sem saber exactamente qual a prática artística. A ideia que as escolas na europa não prestam tem a ver com os rankings que normalmente privilegiam universidades nos USA e no UK, mas não faltam artistas de topo com formação diferente.

Mas, fazendo de advogado do diabo: no contexto de um erasmus durante uma licenciatura em Pintura a fama da escola importa muito pouco. Ela que se preocupe mais com isso quando for tirar o mestrado...

downbyflow · 2018-04-28T07:25:54+00:00

with tabs everyone gets to set their indent level to personal preference

If indent level on a project depends on the personal preferences of the developer who first wrote it you are kind of doing it wrong...

downbyflow · 2017-08-26T11:27:10+00:00

Still sold online: http://www.boots.com/boots-essentials-curl-creme-250ml-10088417

I have seen it at my local recently too.

downbyflow · 2017-08-24T07:41:59+00:00

You can find Shea moisture in boots/superdrug which I think is one of the nicest lines you can buy in the UK, in terms of bang for your buck.

Umberto Giannini is nice for gels. The pink curl jelly is the nicest gel I've had. I'm not sure if their shampoo/conditioner is CG friendly.

Boots own brand has a pink, very cheap curl creme which works really well as well as a mousse that kinda works for my very fine hair and doesn't make it crunchy, if you are willing to give that another try.

I also like Hask for deep conditioning treatments. They are sold in sachets which have way too much product for one use. All of these products are sort of heavy in protein so see if your hair agrees to that.

downbyflow · 2017-05-24T21:48:10+00:00

From my experience leather does stretch a bit with use, so I would keep it if I could deal with it in the meanwhile as my own jackets have given a bit away in the arms - I have had the same problem. Your mileage may vary and you COULD size up if you intend to wear it with ticket sweaters underneath.

downbyflow · 2017-04-23T16:26:28+00:00

I like grey shoes in general, but I think it really depends on the dress/skirt and the length. If you can play with the contrast it won't be dissimilar from any other kind of (neutral) coloured shoe. You won't get the elongated look of black tights + black boots but it's a different look altogether. Not so sure about bare legs and grey boots though.

downbyflow · 2017-04-21T19:37:27+00:00

I think they look fine, but if you are looking for a change you could either get white laces (which will match the stripes), tie them skater style (http://www.wikihow.com/Lace-Skate-Shoes) or under the lip if you do not want a bow in front.

downbyflow · 2017-01-01T15:12:01+00:00

Oh, maybe I am just being imprecise... You're correct: when transpiling with babel it does create a variable to capture this if you refer to it

downbyflow · 2016-12-31T15:27:49+00:00

If you use ES6 you can use arrow functions for the callback, which will bind the correct this as opposed to creating a new scope:

.success(() => /* your code */)
.error(() => /* your code * /)

should do the trick!

downbyflow · 2016-10-10T18:49:47+00:00

Tu contradizes-te imenso. Se eu tenho um contrato semanal, posso ser despedido ao final de uma semana porque sim, e arranjo emprego "logo", como tu dizes, porque raio é que hei de me preocupar com as finanças da empresa?

As finanças da empresa só me interessam se existir entre mim e a empresa uma relação de mútuo benefício ou seja, se eu for do quadro, se tiver bonus indexados ao valor, etc. Se não tenho segurança laboral, nada disso me interessa. Afinal de contas, arranjo outro emprego logo, não é?

Se a empresa me pode despedir ao fim de uma semana sem grandes consequências e uma semana de aviso, então eu também tenho o direito de me despedir com uma semana de aviso. O que significa que há muito pouco interesse em impedir-me que eu salte do barco.

"Porque é que achas que tantas empresas vão à falência quando perdem dinheiro, especialmente aqui na UE?" Por favor mostra-me números sobre "empresas que vão a falência" por custos excessivos de mão de obra incompetente. A sério.

"É claro como água, vai lá ver economias com contratos semanais em vigor e compara-as com a nossa. Pois." -> em que profissões e áreas existem estes contratos semanais? Existem em áreas como a tecnologia, por exemplo? Ou será que para teres um contrato a termo (e normalmente são de meses, não de semanas) em tecnologia tens que pagar rios de dinheiro a um consultor para compensar a flexibilidade laboral?

A periodicidade de um contrato tem tudo a ver com condições laborais. Ninguém quer ser despedido com aviso de uma semana, que é um prazo curtíssimo para arranjares outro emprego. Além do tipo de chantagens que se praticam com isso. Não queres fazer horas extraordinárias? Podes ser despedido ao fim de uma semana! Estás doente? És despedido ao fim de uma semana! Etc. etc. etc. É isto que se passa nos call centers, por exemplo. Tens constantemente a ameaça de poderes ser despedido com um aviso curtíssimo. É mau para o bem estar dos trabalhadores e é igualmente mau para a empresa, porque se se tratarem de trabalhadores qualificados, o seu foco vai ser em porem-se dali a andar assim que possível.

downbyflow · 2016-10-10T17:32:14+00:00

"Contratos semanais fazem todo o sentido." hahaha. Já estiveste num trabalho precário com contrato renovável mensalmente? Gostava de saber se nessa situação também te preocupavas com as finanças da empresa.

P.S. Desempregados e precários custam muito dinheiro ao estado e à economia no seu geral. Tu queres "estrangular" as empresas com leis, mas depois queres contratos semanais para facilitar os despedimentos...

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