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Sweetyb said:
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2793154 said:
Quick question for other natural ladies who use gel- How do you apply it? Do you section your hair out as if u were applying a perm and apply it like that? Or do you just rub your hands over your hair all at once?
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Good question!
Divastate, I love that pic at the front of your webpate! That's how I want my hair to hold, but as curls laying down! I love your hair in your chop pics too! Thanks for the tip about Proclaim, I'll have to get some. So how do you rub it in your hair? (esp. w/out messin up the curls)
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Thanks SweetyB that pic is one of my alltime favs. Actually my hair in that picture took quite a bit of work. I would work gel into my hair plus I used a smoothing pomade (Salon Selectives Controld Substance Moulding Putty) and I believe maybe a Kemi Oyl leave in- then I'd brush it down into a ponytail and tie it with a silk scarf. It would take forever to dry and the back was still super frizzy no real definition. It got too hard to do the style and I couldn't always get smooth waves so I stopped even trying. I may try it with the proclaim gel to see if it will dry overnight in a ponytail more smoothly.
Funny enough the way I found that the proclaim gel works is my husband (he's a true sweetheart) washed and conditioned my hair for me one day and then he put in a leave in and gel afterwards. My hair had never dried and been so defined and shiny before so I kept questioning him and finally figured out he was VERY heavy handed with the gel (he's a big guy 6'5" so he had used quite a bit in his big hands
) and that's what made the difference!
Ok the gel application- I wind up using a lot and I usually do seperate my hair into 4 sections to get full coverage. I pretty much saturate my hair with the gel. I don't worry about trying to not seperate the curls/coils, etc. because the gel makes the curls pop more anyways. I have pics
here that show when I did this a few months ago. My hair is fully dried in the pictures- at that point I thought the Cantu Shea Soft conditioner was the culprit for the coils but now know any conditioner works fine its mainly leave in + proclaim that does it for me. Shrinkage is a lot in doing a wash and go so the ponytail drying method could help with that too.
HTH! let me know if you have any other questions- and definitely let me know if you try it out. Oh and a warning Proclaim gel does have some hydrolyzed wheat protein -if your hair dislikes protein this might not be the gel for you. My hair loves the gel and its been very conditioning withought drying it out at all like some of the previous gels I'd tried. Good luck!