Cardi B has revealed she had smelly hair for months after a DIY hair treatment went wrong.
Cardi B’s hair smelled like “chicken Caesar salad” for “six months straight” after infusing “too raw” garlic into her routine.
The Be Careful rapper revealed the consequence of her DIY hair treatment during an appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday (24.03.26).
Cardi, 33, told the 51-year-old host: “I put garlic [in it], but I put it too raw in my hair and for six months straight. Every single time I [would] sweat, I smelled like a pasta bowl. It was gross.”
Jimmy was in stitches by the revelation and pointed out that “vampires won’t bother you”, to which the Grammy award winner quipped: “Well, I am the vampire.”
While using rice water and onion water as a remedy proved successful, Cardi – who creates her own treatments for haircare research – will “never” attempt it using garlic again because of the blunder.
The Outside hitmaker said: “I’ve been doing, like, rice water, I’ve been doing onion water, but this time I decided to go raw garlic. I’m like ‘I don’t got time to boil it,’ and I was smelling like a chicken Caesar salad for six months straight.”
Earlier this month, Cardi – whose Grow-Good Beauty hair care brand launches in April – admitted she “hated” her hair when she was younger.
She told WWD: “I’m not even gonna lie, when I was younger, I really used to hate my hair.
“My cousins, they had really long hair – like the Disney princesses, they had really long hair.
“Not only was my hair really coarse, but it was really short. I used to really hate my hair texture, because when I put gel on my hair, instead of being flat, it just kind of crinkles.”
The I Like It hitmaker recalled how she convinced her mother to let her chemically straighten it and getting her first perm at the age of seven.
Cardi said: “I begged my mom.
“I was so happy, even though it was still not long. I felt like, finally I got straight hair that I could manage.”
However, the rapper’s joy was short-lived as the damage forced her mom to cut off her locks within a year.
The Bodak Yellow artist said: “No lie, I lost all my hair again. She had to do a big mushroom chop on me.”
By the time she was a teenager, Cardi was regularly bleaching her hair as she tried to replicate the looks of other girls growing up in the Bronx, New York.
She recalled: “All the girls in the Bronx used to rock red hair. I wanted that really fiery red hair.
“I freaked out. My roots were yellow, and my ends were orange… so many hairs came out of my head. I didn’t even dye it red. I just had the ugly bleach colour, for like, three, four months.”
Cardi B’s hair smelt like ‘chicken Caesar salad’ for ‘six months straight’
