Detangling AND stretching your hair in the shower - How to cut your detangling time by half!

I've always been one to detangle/comb my hair only when wet or damp - either in the shower while rinsing out my deep conditioner or after rinsing and while applying leave in products. Normally this would mean that when I'm done I'd be left with a few shrunken braided sections of hair plus I'd spend a bit of time first detangling in the shower then applying products afterwards. I decided to try a a different route the last time I was detangling in the shower and I was very pleased with the results.

So in essence what I did was use the weight of the water from the shower as a detangling aid - each section I worked with, I would first finger detangle then use my wide toothed comb to comb through making sure that section was free of tangles. Now what I would usually do in the past is just braid the section loosely with my head away from the water but this time around I kept my head under the shower making sure the water was running down the section of hair. Since the weight of the water makes the hair 'hang' down  and loosens up the strands, I was able to very easily braid the hair in its hanging state.