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Shampoo bars tend to make my hair feel tacky and sticky. The honey manuka DC is great but not for my relaxed hair. It makes my hair feel heavy and sticky. Maybe do a clarifying wash@NaturalShe94 @snoop @Mapleoats @everyone
Ladies, I need your help! Please let me know if you have any advice! Any advice would be good right now!
So after the protein overload debacle last week, I used the dollowing products :
Shampoo: usual shampoo bar
Conditioner: Suave coconut conditioner (first time using)
DC: Shea moisture manuka honey
Leave in: Beautiful textures tangle taming leave in conditioner (first time using), shea butter, olive oil
So as soon as I began applying the DC, I knew that something was wrong. My hair just felt sticky and odd. It even felt like weird when I was detangling with my conditioner in the shower.
Fast-forward to styling and I am applying the products and my hair just feels wet and SUPER DRY and my curl pattern had basically disappeared. I powered through and braided up my hair as usual. Ladies, this was Monday... ITS THURSDAY NIGHT... and my hair is still not dry.... It feels soggy, like wire and super tangled.
I guess my question is... Is this protein overload? Or is this something else? If it is protein overload, what do I do?
I don't think my shampoo bar is gonna cut it this time, so I guess I need a clarifying shampoo?
Anything I need to do afterwards? How do I know when my hair is better?
Please help
This is what I get for experimenting... You were right @NaturalShe94
Hey ladies! Long post ahead
It’s been roughly a month of experimenting with styling/stretching methods and how that affects the tangling of my hair. Boy I’ve learned a lot!
The general gist of what I’ve learned is to achieve the least amount of tangles I need a combination of both stretch and smoothness.
For instance. When I stretch my hair in 8 or less braids, WITHOUT following up with a blow dryer. My results were not very smooth, because I wasn’t able to get enough tension due to the size of the braids vs the length of my hair. I ended up getting some matting/tangles because of this.
On the other hand, when I was doing twists/twist outs my results were very smooth because I was doing many (15-20) twists, but not very stretched, so I still got some tangles.
Best way I’ve found to get stretch AND smoothness : roller sets, or flexi rod sets. But those are time consuming since I’m not very good at them (yet
9-10 braids followed up with light blow drying gives a smooth enough stretch and is pretty quick to do (35 mins to braid, 10ish mins to take down and blow dry the next day) but I find it requires too much maintenance during the week, and then I still have to restyle on Thursday if I want to wear my hair out on the weekend.
Next week I’m getting knotless braids (definitely need a hair break after all this experimenting) and I’ll keep those in until the end of April. Once the braids are out I’ll be alternating between roller sets, and my 5 day twists/2 day twist out routine. I’ll be experimenting with the twisting routine to see how I can stretch my ends better to reduce tangling.
On days when I’m tired/don’t want to spend too much time doing my hair it’ll be a quick 9 braid braidnblow out
Feels good to finally have a routine that works with my lifestyle, is safe for my hair, and allows for predictable styling results . I’m now working on finding holy grail products to go with this routine!
I’m going to give this a try on my next wash day, thanks for sharing
! 
. I saw a lady at the store with the prettiest WL hair, and in my head I was like gooooooooaaaaalllssssss!! 
Do you mean "store-bought" as in from like a beauty supply store or something? A lot of people (myself included) now order their shea from 3CayG which comes straight from Ghana and Benin.My mum just returned from Nigeria and sent me a jar of fleshly-made shea butter
The difference is ASTOUNDING!
(Compared to the store-bought version)
The one that my mum brought has:
*Richer and nuttier smell (so I have to use less)
*Less is more
*Non-grainy texture-more smooth
*Doesn't take as long to melt in my hands
*Feels less dry after it melts
*Applies to hair much more smoothly
*Slightly less - consistent texture (chunks and smoothness alike)
*Colour is the same
Has anyone noticed a difference between store-bought shea butters?
If so, please let me know if you have found a butter with the properties above as I know I'll run out of this jar within the next few months
I might do this! Just blow it out myself and ask for a 1" trim. But not until mid-year, so as to not lose all my progress. I hope I can get away with a 1 inch trim twice a year
Aussie, Tresseme, Cantu, and Shea Moisture products are all I have been using for the past few months.
This is my goal. I just want my hair to look like this. I LOVE Joyjah
I am sticking to products that I am familiar with and that work for me, which is mainly drugstore products. After a suspected bad run-in with DevaCurl, losing my hip length hair, (my curls used to hang to BSL at one point!) I can't gamble on spending so much money on products just for my hair to fall out again
And taking my vitamins, drinking more water, and using more oils like I used to. Simple stuff.
I didn't use DevaCurl often, it was mainly a brand that I would treat myself to every once in a while and I LOVED their conditioners! So, the last time I used them was around the Fall/Winter time of 2018 during my very last semester of college. I had also taken up veganism 4 months prior...and before I knew it, my hair was gone! My hair went from near Hip Length alllll the way up to APL/BSL and it happened over a quick period of time before I realized that my ponytails and pineapples were no longer full-looking. You could see through my hair when it was down when my hair was so full and long and lush looking.
I didn't use DevaCurl often, it was mainly a brand that I would treat myself to every once in a while and I LOVED their conditioners! So, the last time I used them was around the Fall/Winter time of 2018 during my very last semester of college. I had also taken up veganism 4 months prior...and before I knew it, my hair was gone! My hair went from near Hip Length alllll the way up to APL/BSL and it happened over a quick period of time before I realized that my ponytails and pineapples were no longer full-looking. You could see through my hair when it was down when my hair was so full and long and lush looking.
It happened very quickly...within weeks.
I didn't use DevaCurl often, it was mainly a brand that I would treat myself to every once in a while and I LOVED their conditioners! So, the last time I used them was around the Fall/Winter time of 2018 during my very last semester of college. I had also taken up veganism 4 months prior...and before I knew it, my hair was gone! My hair went from near Hip Length alllll the way up to APL/BSL and it happened over a quick period of time before I realized that my ponytails and pineapples were no longer full-looking. You could see through my hair when it was down when my hair was so full and long and lush looking.
It happened very quickly...within weeks.
