Cardi B is spilling a surprising detail about her haircare routine, and it's all in the name of her fourth baby, her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs. During an Instagram Live stream on October 27th, the pregnant rapper revealed that she hasn't given her follicles a good lather in quite some time. "I haven't washed my s--t in two months, I'm not even gonna front," she said nonchalantly. "Matter of fact, I'm lying. Probably three months. I don't f--king know. I probably got all types of roach eggs, mosquito eggs, everything in this b---h right here."
Despite the lengthy break between washes, Cardi appeared to be going about her business as usual as she explained her hair washing process. "I gotta oil down my scalp," she said, "because tomorrow I'm gonna do my real hair. I'm gonna wash it, then around Wednesday I'm gonna braid it."
Cardi (born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) has shared her unique hair hacks before. In August 2022, she revealed a key ingredient to keeping her natural tresses in top form: onions. "My last two washes I been boiling onions and using the water to wash my hair," she explained in a post on Instagram at the time. "I used to do this six years ago when I started my healthy hair growth journey. I stopped 'cause I got really lazy."
The Grammy winner, who shares kids Kulture, 7, Wave, 4, and Blossom, 13 months, with ex Offset, was quick to clarify that the concoction was odorless, adding, "I notice that it's been giving a shine to my hair."
More recently, Cardi's hairstyles were the subject of a slew of viral memes online while she took the stand in a lawsuit alleging she assaulted a former security guard in 2018, which the rapper denied. After a jury cleared her of any legal liability, she admitted that pulling off her fashion-forward courtroom looks was no easy feat. "I'm telling you guys," she said to reporters, "when I say that my forehead is raw from changing all these wigs. Raw."
