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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Moodi-Judi-555 on 2024-09-08 23:12:59+00:00.
So for reasons that I won't explain because they're irrelevant, I've been so burnt-out lately that I haven't taken a shower in like two weeks. I know it's unhygienic but I just haven't had the energy lately. So anyway today I finally had enough and decided that the best way to get myself to take a shower was to put in a hair mask on the logic that I would have to take a shower to wash it out. So I grabbed a tube of hair mask, brushed my hair, and put the mask in. I then put it in a bun and wrapped it in a plastic bag to keep it moist and set a timer on my phone for when I needed to shower it off. I usually like to shower in the evening or at night before I go to sleep, so the timer I set was for 6:00 pm. But I forgot to check what time it was and as it turns out I put the mask in around 3:30. Now with a normal conditioning mask this would probably have been fine, but I didn't use a conditioning mask. No no. I used a hair-growth mask that you're supposed to massage into your hair and immediately rinse out. it's supposed to stay in your hair for 3 minutes, tops. So 3 hours later I hop in the shower and start washing it out. But then I realized that clumps of my hair were falling out, and not only that, but it was breaking too. So I rinsed out the rest of the mask and immediately pack normal conditioner on to try and do damage control. I then got out of the shower and wrapped my hair back up. So yeah. I'm currently sitting in my room with a plastic bag over my head, trying not to think about what just happened. Any advice?
TL;DR: I put a hair mask in my hair for three hours and my hair started falling out and breaking, so I put normal conditioner in my hair and wrapped it back up again. I'm now in my room in denial.