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We've been using dry shampoo wrong this whole time

If you're like us, dry shampoo is a life-saver when you just want an extra ten minutes in bed.

The spray allows us to get up late, coif our tresses with the glorious product and voila - suddenly it looks like we've just spent one-hour sitting at our dressing table with our styling tools.

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However startlingly you could actually cut that prep time out completely in the morning with this awesome dry shampoo hack.

We've been using dry shampoo wrong this whole time. Photo: Getty.
We've been using dry shampoo wrong this whole time. Photo: Getty.

Apparently, dry shampoo works better if you apply it before you head to bed at night as it allows the product to work it's magic while you sleep, absorbing all the excess oil.

If you just know that your hair will need to be shampooed, conditioned and blow-dried the next morning (and let's face it, we all leave it as long as we can), then spray your roots with dry shampoo the night before and your mane will look brand new in the morning.

"Use a dry shampoo preventively. Spray roots until hair feels chalky. The powder will suck up oils as they're produced," New-York based hairstylist Ryan Trygstad told InStyle.

"Come morning, you won't have to degrease or worry about seeing powdery residues.

"Then you can style and go!"

While it may be tempting to constantly use dry shampoo instead of hopping in the shower and scrubbing your hair, people have come out recently claiming the product has left them with bald patches.

Nicole Baxter from Belfast, Northern Ireland, had a severe reaction to a dry shampoo, the details of which she shared in a scary Facebook post detailing how she noticed a bald patch on her head that kept getting bigger, along with some sores and blisters.

“Anyone who uses dry shampoo, please continue to read,” she wrote.

“It’s a long one but work with me! So I went to my GP at the end of last year due to having a bald patch on my head which kept getting bigger.

"Anyone who knows me knows I don’t stress and my diet’s alright so there didn’t seem any reason for this to happen? My scalp was also very itchy and flaky.

"I had wee red sores and blisters all over my scalp and a terrible burning sensation all over my head — to the point where I would wake up several times a night due to the discomfort/pain.

"She referred me to the dermatology unit in Belfast City Hospital where I had my first appointment in February.”

Batiste Heavenly Volume Dry Shampoo - $12.95.
Batiste Heavenly Volume Dry Shampoo - $12.95.

Yikes!

“At this initial appointment I was immediately diagnosed with TRIANGULAR ALOPECIA (hair loss in one area of the head, usually in a triangle, duh).

"And was told I’d have to come back to have a scalp biopsy (injection straight into my scalp to numb the area, then a hole punch tool used to remove a part of it, then closed up with stitches) done to see what was causing these blisters and sores I had.

"The doctor asked had I anything on my hair at the minute, I said just dry shampoo.

"So she advised when I come back for the scalp biopsy to come with nothing in my hair and to make sure it was clean. I thought it was weird she said that, it’s only dry shampoo what’s that got to do with it? So I actually stopped using it all together [sic] from that day to see what would happen.”

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