Curly Girl (CG) Challenge

[faithVA]

Wow Faith, you and I have that in common! My sides look strange to me, it's like my curls stick out (and hang down) right there-I end up tucking them behind my ears! erplexed
No bueno! :/ Maybe once my top grows longer it will look better.
From what I see of your pics though, yours looks quite nice!

Thanks! We do have similar hair shapes. Those pics will never see the light of day I usually wear a headband to pull all the hair back. That's the only way it looks normal.

 

[faithVA]

I think I figured out what I used to soften my hair. I used the AO Blue Chamomile as a DC. So DCing with it now and will see how it turns out tomorrow.

Hair cut tomorrow

 

[toyas08]

I want to join, I bc'd monday and I do the curly girl method. I use suave naturals mandarin mango and v05 strawberries and cream.

 

[vmerie]

Just checking in. About to cowash in a few.

 

[tamikachu =]]

is shea butter CG friendly?

 

[sweetdreams23]

I'm subbing and un-officially following.

I know in September I will be getting braids which will prevent me from following the method.

However I do want to attempt a modified version of it.

 

[faithVA]

'tamikachu[/USER] =];16548273']is shea butter CG friendly?

If you can wash it out with a sulfate free shampoo you should be fine. Some people say its not but I haven't read anywhere that says you can't use oils and butters.

 

[gvin89]

faithVA, can't wait to see that devacut

 

[faithVA]

gvin89[/USER];16555209]@faithVA, can't wait to see that devacut

I did get the devacut but it didn't remove all the damage. So I ended up having to hack it myself. So last night I chopped it down to 2". I'm still getting over the shock of it all. I am still working with it to see what if anything I can do It's not like I remembered it when I big chopped before.

So there really isn't anything to see but a 2" fro

Lesson learned: remove the damage, let it grow out and then get the cut.

 

[tamikachu =]]

Just checking in, its been about two weeks since I started and I can finally smooth my hair into a pony without and styling tools. I also started moisturizing using the LOC method. my liquid is water, my oil coconut/olive oil mixed with grapefruit EO and my cream is my own shea butter mix. I cowash with tresemme naturals conditioner. I really like this method and I feel like Im finally doing something right in regards to my hair!

 

[*closer*2*my*dreams*]

I'm going to start back today. I plan to do this until it gets cold outside (then I'm putting my hair in a sew-in for the winter) Here is what I plan on using:

Shampoo: Shea Moisture Curl & Shine
Co-Wash - Suave Tropical Coconut or Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition
Deep Conditioner - LeKair Cholesterol Plus
Leave-In - Darcy's Botanicals Leave-In
Moisture: Darcy's Botanicals Curl Styling Cream
Styling: Darcy's Botanicals Curling Jelly
Oil - Coconut Oil
Refresher - Uncle Funky's Thirsty Curls


I want to try the entire Uncle Funky's Line. If Darcy's Botanicals doesn't work out, then I will try that next.

 

[faithVA]

I'm going to start back today. I plan to do this until it gets cold outside (then I'm putting my hair in a sew-in for the winter) Here is what I plan on using:

Shampoo: Shea Moisture Curl & Shine
Co-Wash - Suave Tropical Coconut or Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition
Deep Conditioner - LeKair Cholesterol Plus
Leave-In - Darcy's Botanicals Leave-In
Moisture: Darcy's Botanicals Curl Styling Cream
Styling: Darcy's Botanicals Curling Jelly
Oil - Coconut Oil
Refresher - Uncle Funky's Thirsty Curls

Welcome. Your products sound good. Please let me know how you like Darcy's Botanicals. i want to give them a try.

 

[*closer*2*my*dreams*]

By the way, here are the photos of my hair currently. Hopefully a month from now I will see an increase in moisture, better curl definition, and less frizz.

 

[*closer*2*my*dreams*]

Welcome. Your products sound good. Please let me know how you like Darcy's Botanicals. i want to give them a try.

For the price of them, I couldn't pass up trying them before I moved on to more expensive products. If you could see my hair closet you would probably faint at all the products I have collected that are rarely used. Plus I figured if I didn't like it, I could give it to my best friend. Her niece uses that brand and it works well in her hair.

 

[faithVA]

I cut my hair to 2" this past weekend. So I need to adapt to doing curly girl on my short hair. I had techniques I was doing before that I can't do (raking , squeeze-quench ).

I prepooed with olive oil and aloe vera while I worked out.

I washed with the Deva Care No Poo 2x. I watched a ytber and she washed 2x for 9 weeks and her hair looked so much better. I was ready to throw it out. But that encouraged me to try it again. We will see. I will try to wash my hair every day for the next week.

I conditioned 2x with the Deva Care One. With the first application I baggied for a few minutes. With the second application I tried to work it through my strands.

I rinsed with warm water then I rinsed with cool water.

I am using Burt Bees Shiny Hair Conditioner as my leave-in. I was using Deva Curl One but it leaves my hair hard and crunchy. I will try it again later as I get my regimen down.

And I am trying a new technique I saw on yt of setting my curls using a circular motion. Not sure if it will work but its worth a try. If I can get it to work, it will really reduce the time I have to spend on my hair.

Going to do the next 12 weeks curly girl, like I did before and see where that leaves me.

 

[*Frisky*]

I cut my hair to 2" this past weekend. So I need to adapt to doing curly girl on my short hair. I had techniques I was doing before that I can't do (raking , squeeze-quench ).

I prepooed with olive oil and aloe vera while I worked out.

I washed with the Deva Care No Poo 2x. I watched a ytber and she washed 2x for 9 weeks and her hair looked so much better. I was ready to throw it out. But that encouraged me to try it again. We will see. I will try to wash my hair every day for the next week.

I conditioned 2x with the Deva Care One. With the first application I baggied for a few minutes. With the second application I tried to work it through my strands.

I rinsed with warm water then I rinsed with cool water.

I am using Burt Bees Shiny Hair Conditioner as my leave-in. I was using Deva Curl One but it leaves my hair hard and crunchy. I will try it again later as I get my regimen down.

And I am trying a new technique I saw on yt of setting my curls using a circular motion. Not sure if it will work but its worth a try. If I can get it to work, it will really reduce the time I have to spend on my hair.

Going to do the next 12 weeks curly girl, like I did before and see where that leaves me.

I thought you were getting a Deva Cut?

The circular motion thing can work but I think it can cause alot of SSK but you might not care.

 

[faithVA]

I thought you were getting a Deva Cut?

The circular motion thing can work but I think it can cause alot of SSK but you might not care.

I did but with the deva cut he wasn't able to cut out all of the damage. Bad call on my part. I should have cut off all the damage, let it grow out a bit and then got the cut. Lesson learned.

So I ended up chopping it to 2" on Saturday to get rid of all the damage.

I do care about SSKs but I don't know of any style that I can wear where I don't get them. And at 2" everything is still a fro. I get SSKs in twists. My hair has major shrinkage no matter what I do. I will monitor it to see.

But at 2" I'm not sure what else I can do that doesn't take an hour.

 

[*Frisky*]

I did but with the deva cut he wasn't able to cut out all of the damage. Bad call on my part. I should have cut off all the damage, let it grow out a bit and then got the cut. Lesson learned.

So I ended up chopping it to 2" on Saturday to get rid of all the damage.

I do care about SSKs but I don't know of any style that I can wear where I don't get them. And at 2" everything is still a fro. I get SSKs in twists. My hair has major shrinkage no matter what I do. I will monitor it to see.

But at 2" I'm not sure what else I can do that doesn't take an hour.

Oh ok..nothing wrong with starting fresh. I don't care about SSK. I feel there is really nothing to do to prevent them and get rid of all of them at least in my hair. I don't have that type of time. They don't affect the way my hair looks overall.

 

[AJellyCake]

Hi, everyone! Can I join you?

I've been doing some research on the CG method, and I'm hoping it will work for me. I saw a thread (on another site ) where people posted before and after pics to show how their hair improved with the method. However most of them didn't have the fractal curls.

I had been doing the CG method this past week after I chopped but was still experiencing a lot of dryness. So today I did my final clarifying wash to get started. My hair hated it. My curls totally separated, frizzed up, and shrunk. They were rough and dry. That experience alone is enough to affirm that I want to try this method. So now I'm DCing and trying to get everything moisturized and clumped again.

Do you all feel that your curls have really "rehydrated" and improved over time? That's all i want: less frizz, moist hair, and hopefully some hang time.

Thanks!

 

[AJellyCake]

Do you use brushes and combs? Do your products have parabens?

 

[faithVA]

Welcome naturalnewb. This is an unoffical challenge at this point so you can definitely join.

I've been CG for 12 weeks but I recently had to big chop due to some previous damage. Before I chopped I definitely noticed a difference in my hair with CG. Now that I have chopped, I'm not really sure My hair right now is so foreign to me. So going to spend another few weeks trying CG again on my twa.

Before my chop I didn't use combs or brushes. Now at 2" of hair I will use not for detangling but for styling to try to stretch my hair out.

 

[AJellyCake]

Welcome naturalnewb. This is an unoffical challenge at this point so you can definitely join.

I've been CG for 12 weeks but I recently had to big chop due to some previous damage. Before I chopped I definitely noticed a difference in my hair with CG. Now that I have chopped, I'm not really sure My hair right now is so foreign to me. So going to spend another few weeks trying CG again on my twa.

Before my chop I didn't use combs or brushes. Now at 2" of hair I will use not for detangling but for styling to try to stretch my hair out.

Thanks, faithVA! I'm just trying to hold out hope. My hair is like perpetually dry.

 

[faithVA]

I DCd with Deva Curl Heaven In Hair for 30 minutes under my hothead cap. Rinsed. Then cowashed with a diluted mixture of Giovanni SAS and AO Blue Chamomile. Didn't want to waste any left in the bottle. Both of those lather up when diluted.

Applied As I Am Leave-in conditioner and sat under my heat cap for 15 minutes to help it soak in. My hair was nice and soft when I took it off. Combed the As I am Curly Jelly through my hair. I have no clue how much to use. Then I used a scalp massager with the circular method to stretch my hair a bit and get it to clump.

It will probably take forever to dry. And since I'm sleeping on it, it will probably shrink to my head. But it looked pretty good tonight.

 

[vmerie]

Just looked up the ingredients for got2b Oil-licious Calm & Shine Styling Oil I used to seal after moisturizing and main ingredient is Dimethicone. It was on sale at Walgreens buy 1 get one free. I didn't look at the ingredients until now. I have been using it for a month. I've had no ill effects but I want to stay away from cones as much as possible. I've been doing just co-cleansing/washing.

Question...should I use shampoo to kind of bring my hair back to a virgin state to get rid of the cone or just continue on but discontinue use? And can anyone recommend a pure argan oil brand?

 

[*Frisky*]

Just looked up the ingredients for got2b Oil-licious Calm & Shine Styling Oil I used to seal after moisturizing and main ingredient is Dimethicone. It was on sale at Walgreens buy 1 get one free. I didn't look at the ingredients until now. I have been using it for a month. I've had no ill effects but I want to stay away from cones as much as possible. I've been doing just co-cleansing/washing.

Question...should I use shampoo to kind of bring my hair back to a virgin state to get rid of the cone or just continue on but discontinue use? And can anyone recommend a pure argan oil brand?

For the most part it is suggested to use a clarifying shampoo when you first start the Curly Girl Method to totally strip your hair so it can get the max benefits of the products you are going to start using. I am unsure of a pure Argan Oil shampoo.

 

[vmerie]

For the most part it is suggested to use a clarifying shampoo when you first start the Curly Girl Method to totally strip your hair so it can get the max benefits of the products you are going to start using. I am unsure of a pure Argan Oil shampoo.

Yes when I first started this method that is what I did but I've since been using the oil with the cone unknowingly. Should I just start over by shampooing to create a clean slate? Also I meant pure argan oil not shampoo with argan oil.

 

[faithVA]

Yes when I first started this method that is what I did but I've since been using the oil with the cone unknowingly. Should I just start over by shampooing to create a clean slate? Also I meant pure argan oil not shampoo with argan oil.

If you are finished using the oil, it wouldn't hurt to clarify again and start over.

Can't help with the argan oil though.

 

[vmerie]

If you are finished using the oil, it wouldn't hurt to clarify again and start over.

Can't help with the argan oil though.

Thanks. I agree it wouldn't hurt. I'll do that after I take down my PS. I'll have to do some research on where I can find pure argan oil.

 

[faithVA]

Thanks. I agree it wouldn't hurt. I'll do that after I take down my PS. I'll have to do some research on where I can find pure argan oil.

Let's ask the oil Diva @IDareT'sHair

 

[PinkPeony]

Not sure I qualify since I still use heat on my hair occassionally but I've been following the CG for about a month now.

What:
No more combing, no denman... Just fingers
No cones, currently using tresemme naturals

How:
Wash hair w/o poo , don't wash conditioner out,
use minimal amount of eco styler gel to smooth over entire length of hair, pin up in banana clip

This is 3 day hair on my first try


My curls are finally clumping together and unlike with the denman I don't need handfuls of eco styler to define my curls
My curls don't seperate and not hard
strangely in the front my curls always needed 20+ min with the denman and esg to fight the frizz, now I have ramen noodle shaped curls/waves.
With each wash my curls get more defined
My curl size has not changed but FINALLY my curls don't seperate and frizz into a poofball