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Embyra, I've confirmed WHY the "rake fingers through hair" finger combing would NEVER work on my hair. I knew I know my hair darn well to know what is possible with it and what isn't. So I'm not surprised that I was right on the money.
My strands are so fine with normal porosity that when my hair is loose, water/product exerts no weight on the strands...so they do not stretch. This means having water run through my hair even with oodles of product does not open up the strands for my fingers to be able to pass through. Instead this is what I have:
The hair you see there is SOAKING wet and not only are those strands fine but they are so many of them and very contracted. There's no way my thick fingers can get inside that nest and no way they can be pulled right through. I'd end up breaking my hair.
To get a comb through, I have to use one hand to pull my strands open and then I can insert the comb through that thick mass and pull through under running water or with water and conditioner applied.
Here's a close up of just a few strands when drenched with water. Notice they aren't stretched or weighed down by water...nor are you looking at them closely packed coz I deliberately separated them, yet you can see how fine the strands are and how they are curled around each other. The ONLY think that can separate these strands is a comb:
Below are the same few strands with me trying to get them to stretch somehow with product. One conditioner would not do a thing.
This is what my hair looks like with conditioner on it. To try to force the opening of strands that coarse hair may get from conditioner and water, I used Aussie Deeeeep, Giovanni Magnetic, Emergencée throwing in that last one coz it's more like glue and if I keep stretching my hair with fingers as it dries a bit it will kinda lock it in a wavy state, but even then, you can see the coils are not open in a way fingers could fit and separate strands
And if the conditioner has to be somewhat allowed to dry some while I'm holding strands stretched, then I'd lose slippage so that again would not work:
I think this method works for you because you have coarse strands...and coarse strands actually hang from the weight of water and conditioner. My strands are not affected by anything. The only time water weight has any effect on my hair is when my hair is made to mimic coarse strands by being in twists. The tight compacting of strands within twists gives them weight but even then, once my hair is dry, the twists are almost too light to move. They move only when very wet which is why I drip dry after I wash so the twists can dry in a downward state. Otherwise my hair is way too fine and light. If I had porous hair, it might weighed down some by water, but I don't. Heck my hair doesn't even act like gravity exists even when flat ironed!
So yeah, I tried. I really did. I undid about 20 twists and made sure they were fully detangled before I even wet my hair. Then I tried your method and it was a no-go.
I could not even get my fingers through
after combing through with a FINE TOOTH comb!!! My strands are so compactly packed and so fine and shrinkage is about 90% that there's no way fat fingers can fit inside and open the strands out.
The only way fingercombing works for me is when I do it by stretching the strands out and then using fingers to pull strand by strand apart from the rest as shown in
this clip, but that'd take me a year to get through my whole head.
So yeah, more power to you guys who can do this. I am not even interested in having it tried on me coz I feel I'll end up hurting someone for the knots this will create in my hair. As I always say, if it ain't broke(n), don't fix it . So for those that raking fingers works as a thorough fingercombing method, stick with it. I will stick to my combing with a comb coz it's never let me down.
lol I have a childhood spirit still raging on the inside sometimes. 
And, I completely understand the preference to it. You know what's funny though? I can NEVER finger comb my hair when it's straight because to me it seems like straight hair tangles like a beast. My styled kinky hair just stays in place. It's so weird (or maybe I'm just doing something wrong), but that's the only time I will probably use a comb and that's when it's straight. 
I was so mad last week... I thought I would have some use for my comb but NOPE. I can't come my straightened hair and it tangles more than my kinky hair does. I don't get it, but I'm sure it's because I have no idea what to do with straight hair anymore.
I'll keep this in mind. 
I also look forward to seeing the video of you doing this if you do make it. Please 
tag a Nonie if you do, won't you? 
Hey, maybe you can join us for the slumber party and together we can be daring? 
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I'ma get my drink on :alcoholic...and I'ma be nice and get yours on too. :alcoholic
after that when I use my condish for detangling, it's just an ease
