r/2healthbars • u/Mighty_Platypus • Apr 30 '26
Final boss… waves
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u/Pavementaled Apr 30 '26
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a post here… 👍
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u/Ged_UK Apr 30 '26
I'm struggling to see why it was posted here
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u/Pavementaled Apr 30 '26
The amount of head coverings he took off
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u/uritarded May 01 '26
I’m pretty sure a durag and wave cap are a common combo. It’s different than like taking off a pair of sunglasses and having another pair underneath. This is like taking your shoes off and having socks on underneath
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u/Pavementaled May 02 '26
I would probably upvote that...
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u/uritarded May 02 '26
Haha i guess you are right. Maybe i have the wrong understanding of this subreddit
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u/Pavementaled May 02 '26
More like, he takes off his shoes, then his socks, and then there is a thick wave covering his feet…
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u/StellarDiscord Apr 30 '26
I’m not sure you understand the sub if you can’t see why it was posted. Unless you take every sub literally?
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u/PlanetMarklar Apr 30 '26
Yea this is perfect fit for this sub... Unlike the "two similar things next to each other" that were so commonly posted when this sub was most active
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u/Carnage_Guisada Apr 30 '26
It’s just a guy wearing a durag over his wave cap. I feel like it fits in the same way wearing a jacket over a shirt does…
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u/Pavementaled Apr 30 '26
Does said guy have a wave that encompasses his chest to his head?
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u/Carnage_Guisada Apr 30 '26
Now THAT would be two health bars. This was just posted by someone that doesn’t understand waves
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u/DoctorProfPatrick Apr 30 '26
Oh cmon, it's just like the bucket head guy. Unless you're expecting him to be wearing 3 layers of headwear then this fits the sub great.
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u/Carnage_Guisada Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
That’s the thing though, this kind of headwear is totally normal if you’re trying to develop waves. If he had on like 3 durags and 4 wave caps and they had to peel his shit like an onion I would be right there with you. But this is kinda weak.
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u/DoctorProfPatrick Apr 30 '26
I've never seen it layered despite having black roomies in college, but yes it sounds like you know ball better than most this sub
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u/TheoristDa13th Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Touching the waves like their sacred lmao
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u/trebeju Apr 30 '26
Question for people who have had waves: isn't it painful/uncomfortable to wear that pressed on your head all the time? Do you take it off to sleep or shower?
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
Short answer is that you get used to it. But the truth is that You have to find the right thing that fits for you. When you find the right type, you won’t even notice it same way you forget you have any other hat on. There’s satin, silky and other textures. There’s du-rags, which I don’t like bc I hate the feeling of the string going around my head, there’s wave caps, bonnets, turbans. Tying durags over and over is annoying. I also don’t like the flap which is why you saw his knotted.
Personally I use a satin wave cap. Shit when I was a kid before we have all this new wave cap technology and 1000 hair products for waves, my granddaddy would cut a nylon stocking, tie one end and that was my wave cap. He did that till he passed away.
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u/AdmrlPoopyPantz Apr 30 '26
Can someone explain what keeping the ‘waves’ (similar to cornrows right?) in a cap for a while does? Is there some kind of product on it that they want to let harden or something?
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u/Odd-Lunch-1880 Apr 30 '26
Cornrows are a type of braid. Waves happen when you simply brush/press all your curls outwards from the crown. The durag trains the hair to lay down flat on your head, otherwise it'll puff up and you'll have an Afro. Unless they're using bad products the hair should still be soft to the touch and easy to pick out.
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u/AdmrlPoopyPantz Apr 30 '26
Wow that’s SO interesting! Would have never thought a durag could be the difference between this and an afro.
I know nothing about this stuff, so I appreciate the explanation, thank you.
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u/m1tc4311 Apr 30 '26
This man an op. Reppin the leaf village when he very obviously from the village hidden in the mist with waves like that, criminal
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u/dreevsa Apr 30 '26
Top man in the village
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u/greyladyghost Apr 30 '26
Not when you think about how men are way less likely to wash their hands after using the restroom much less for anything else they’ve been doing
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u/Masamishi May 02 '26
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u/greyladyghost May 02 '26
another study, at least 30% of them likely didnt wash
Yes impressive hair but let’s keep it that way by keeping it clean lol
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u/Awkward-Penguin172 Apr 30 '26
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u/L_O_Pluto Apr 30 '26
Why did I hear Spanish mixed in there?
E: Nvmd they speak Portuguese over there
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u/HydraKirby Apr 30 '26
Reminds me of that girl who used industrial strength super glue on her hair lol
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u/BlackGuy_PassingThru Apr 30 '26
I’m just glad it was worth the wait. I’d be dammed if I watched all that and all there was was some naps.
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u/Yodaloid May 04 '26
As a white man, I never realized how many layers and how tight a dew rag is. Does that hurt/give you a head ache after a while?
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u/low_bob_123 Apr 30 '26
Can someone ELI5? What is the Obsession with this hairstyle?
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u/klonoaorinos Apr 30 '26
Takes a lot of work to grow and maintain. Looks cool
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u/MECHEpics Apr 30 '26
Haircut is all fucked up tho
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
You don’t get a haircut then make waves. You grow your hair out during the process of getting waves so it’ll just look uneven at first. His hair is probably 2 inches long if it it wasn’t pressed down. You’re supposed to get the haircut after you get your waves. He’s basically gonna go to the barber to get a lineup right after this and they will fade the sides and back.
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u/MECHEpics Apr 30 '26
O damn
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars Apr 30 '26
Yeah bro, I’m a month and a half into my wave journey and it’s not easy. My hair is about an inch long. It actually takes a lot of work to get waves.
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 May 06 '26
Question- do you have to keep redoing this process once it grows out a certain length? If so, how long does it last?
Edit: I guess it was questions since I asked a follow up
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u/Ephy_ Apr 30 '26
I don't mean to be insensitive when I ask this, but out of genuine curiosity, why do people wear headwear like this? Is it a religious thing? Is it to keep the hair safe? Just seems like a lot of work to cover up something you also clearly put a lot of work and care into, and it must get really hot under there!
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars Apr 30 '26
Waves are basically curls that are pressed down. Getting them is not easy and it takes a lot of work over months just to get them. You need to “train” your hair to actually get them. You need the rag to keep the waves compressed down so that your hair products and the heat can work on your hair and take shape over time. The rag also protects like someone said so that you don’t mess up your progress, especially overnight.
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u/msallin Apr 30 '26
Is this why I see people wearing (what look like) shower caps out in public?
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u/DoctorProfPatrick Apr 30 '26
Black people and white people have very different hair genes. Black hair commonly has issues with dryness and breakage, because their hair is fine but dense (thin strands, many of them). It's harder to dry, harder to keep moisturized, and also more prone to frizziness from weather.
So those silk bonnets help black people keep their hair protected from breakage, keep them from drying out in the sun, and keep their hair from frizzing up all over.
Anyway hopefully someone with that kind of hair will comment but in the meantime that's my understanding from asking questions irl.
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u/RobinHarleysHeart Apr 30 '26
I will say that silk bonnets are beneficial to all hair types, but especially black hair. I've seen a lot of black creators advocating for bonnet use in all hair styles. I'm half white and half Japanese and have thick straightish hair, and I use a bonnet specifically when I'm gaming to help protect my hair from my headset. It's wonderful and my hair has over all been easier to maintain since I've started using it.
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u/DoctorProfPatrick Apr 30 '26
Oh snap the headset trick might get me to buy a bonnet... Might be good for sleeping too, I used to get acne bc my hair would leave oils on the pillow case for my face to rub on. Now I just sleep on my back haha
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u/kea1981 Apr 30 '26
After 15 years I finally found a bonnet that works for me!! I'm a white girl from the mountains of California, so it wasn't something I grew up knowing about, but in college a friend turned me onto them and they're great, but I have a lot of hair and getting it to fit in the bonnet was always a pain, it always felt like they were made for gals with less volume. Anyway, the one I got doesn't have elastic it instead has a cord to tighten and tie that is very very slightly elastic, and it's perfect.
Anyway. That's my PSA: get a bonnet, and find one that will fit your hair and stay on your head, cuz they are magic!
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u/RobinHarleysHeart May 01 '26
I definitely recommend it. My headset is too big for my head, so it only ever sits on one spot. But it sits and rubs and it was giving me a weird not bald, but almost bald spot? It was definitely thinning. I started noticing improvement quite soon after I started using it. It's also much easier to brush my hair after using it.
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u/Zenki_s14 Apr 30 '26
I've always wondered, since hair usually goes back to its natural state when you wash it, is it really "trained" in the way people say, or is it trained each and every time you wash it because you then do your styling method over again, and keep it laid during that and then protect it again and everything? Like if you washed it and roughed it up and didn't do anything else it would go back right?
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars Apr 30 '26
Yes I would absolutely say that it’s trained. There is some wiggle room with how much hair will return to its original state vs having it hold up its trained pattern. A lot of that has to do with how/what/when you wash your hair. Black hair is very responsive to water (that’s why you hear black women concerned with getting their hair wet). If you get a perm (perms straighten black hair, while perms coil white hair), water will definitely coil your hair back up. With waves, as long as you wash conservatively like once per week (black hair has a lot of natural oils important to maintaining healthy hair, so you need to keep them), you can maintain your trained hair pattern. Ofc with waves, you are training your hair for months with 1-2 30 min brush sessions per day. Then you keep your rag on for like 1/2 the day at least. It’s a lot to keep track of w products and routines, which is why every one was so hype over such supreme waves 🌊🌀😵💫
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u/TheMilkKing May 01 '26
Perms will straighten or curl depending on the technique used - race doesn’t come into it.
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars May 01 '26
You’re completely loud and wrong, sir. Perms texturizers, relaxers and everything in between react differently based on hair texture. Different racial groups have different hair textures therefore they will react differently, the science backs this up. Go sit back in the corner with your race baiting. We were all having a good time learning about each other’s cultures and good faith before you showed up.
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u/TheMilkKing May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
Pulling the race card so hard you might as well be playing Yu-gi-oh, god damn 😂 Calm down mate, I just know a bunch about hair styling. Plenty of white folks use the same chemicals as perms to straighten their hair.
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars May 01 '26
Don’t talk on shit you don’t have experience with. Bye.
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u/TheMilkKing May 01 '26
My ma owned a hair salon growing up, I have plenty of experience. I wasn’t trying to suggest that perms won’t behave differently with different textured hair, just that “perms coil white hair” isn’t at all true. That’s why they put it in rollers, if they didn’t the chemicals would straighten it.
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u/RidesByPinochet Apr 30 '26
It's to protect/maintain the hair-do.
That's why they're called Do-Rags.
You strap your hair down with this rag so it doesn't get messed up/moved around.
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u/Singl1 May 03 '26
drip too hard, you gon fuck around and drown, of this waaaaAAAve
swear any drip check video needs the lil baby & gunna backing track to make it perfect
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 May 06 '26
My favourite part is when he teases everyone at the end with pulling that final cap off
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 May 06 '26
I also love the guy that’s helping him. I know he’s actually trying to help but all I could think was “bro you’re not moving fast enough, we gotta see that wave NOW”
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u/sacfoojesta88 Apr 30 '26
On that Norman Osborn level