TLDR: Tried the wash and go. I plan to incorporate it into my style rotation
I was tempted to stretch this press unit week five it looked more like week 2, but I wanted to try the wash and go on my baby so I did it with her.
Process
- Parted my hair in 7 bantu knots.
- Washed: Rusk Sensories Clarify and Quillaja Detoxifying Shampoo. Second was with Rusk Moisturizing conditioner. (Both of these are discontinued...I just have a stash of this clarifier)
- Deep Condition: Hairveda Methi Sativa Tea Step 1 & 2 set (this is my last Hairveda conditioner set. THE ONLY reason I still have this is because it got separated from the conditioning milk it went with within my hair cabinet then I found them both last year cleaning out my cabinet and started washing with it on natural day. It is almost gone.
- Base Gel: Uncle Funky’s Daughter Curly Magic
- Topper Gel: Ouidad Advanced Climate Control stronger Hold Gel
- LCL hooded dryer.
Adding this style will fill a void in my regimen (natural so I hope it works out. In the past I was never successful with this style
because I wasn’t willing to try firm hold products throughout my hair without them being extremely diluted to a softer hold. Once I realized the the function of the cast
and that it softened for a supple set for the majority of the set, I was ready to give it a
“go”.*
I used the A combination of the Anthony Dickey method and the tips that @gettingkiny
@Nightingale recommended. So my combo was:
- Clarified hair(which I always do after a press)
- Hair treatment(I always do this after a press...the Sativa system was just a protein treatment 15 minutes then deep moisturizing conditioner 10 minutes without needing heat)
- Detangle just before rinse out( used Revair wide tooth comb. Right out of a press my hair wasn't tangled enough to need the Felicia Leatherwood )
- Saturate with water(recommended across methods and tips)
- Slather base gel on drenched hair
- So I didn't do the leave in like Anthony dickey suggest since the curly magic is a leave in to me
- I did emulsify first like I read on the @Iamblackgirl curls
- I was as heavy handed with styling product as I would be with conditioner
- I did rake through from roots to ends.
- When I saturated all my hair with the curly magic I did take my baby's rinse jug and pour water over my hair before applying one more layer curly magic to make sure my hair was squishy lol.
- I put a shower cap on to get dressed and apply my toper without getting water all over the place (basically the hair that didnt have th topper on it yet was in the shower cap the hair with the topper or getting topper applied was poulled out of the shower cap from nap to crown)
- I just went from the nap up raking and smoothing the Ouidad topper gel through my hair
- ***I forgot to shake for final clumping*** (didn't realize this until I was already under the dryer but will try that next time)
- I applied a hair net
- Sat under my LCL
- I disturbed it to make sure it was dry all over within 1 hour which is a no-no but I will work on that next time.
A million thanks to
@GettingKinky,
@Nightingale and
@GGsKin for explaining your process. I should have been did this this way but didn't want to apply firm hold until I understood its use and that it wouldn't stay firm. Hopefully this holds up all week. I look forward to seeing how it grows once the cast breaks a bit more..next time I will also shake before drying for better definition. I see that definition in the back I can get that all over with shaking and
Disclaimer:all those photos are dry hair pictures. My hair did, indeed, shrink to my neck while drying under the dryer. I just flipped the crown to the right and to the left while drying to get it all dry which made it more frizzy than it was before I started being hard headed.
ETA: this post won't let me post the front so I will make sure I post it once I land at the end of the week. Every time I attach it, the picture of the front disappears once I press save, but the front is more frizzy in the front because I disturbed it.
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