Wash day for a body wave

A body wave does not need a weekly intervention. It needs cool water, a sulfate-free shampoo, and the patience to detangle before the hair is fully wet.

Start at the ends. A wide-tooth comb, the hair still dry, working up toward the weft. Water swells the strand and makes a knot harder, not easier. If you shampoo a tangle, you felt it into the wave.

What we actually use

Cool water. Our hydration shampoo, once, through the lengths and not ground into the lace or the weft track. A rinse until the slip is gone. Then the leave-in mist, a light pass, and the hair set on a stand or over a chair back. A towel turban overnight creases the wave and holds the water in the cuticle.

• Flat iron under 180°C, and not every morning. Virgin hair remembers heat.
• No silicone bath and no “shine” serum that coats the strand. The wave already has its own.
• Sleep on satin. A cotton pillowcase is a quiet way to rough the cuticle.

If a later wash does not match the hair you ordered, write to us with the order number and a photograph in daylight. Shop body wave when you want that same movement.