Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

Washing my hair outside of the shower has made the process so much faster. Plus, using distilled water to rinse my hair out has contributed to softer hair since I'm not using the hard city water. I already buy jugs of distilled for my steamer and this way I use one whole jug per wash day rather than part of one that sticks around for weeks in my bathroom.
 
Sharpened said:
Have you had a problem using gel for ponytails, or was it the glycerin? I cannot use any styling product for puff making, makes my hair sticky and yukky on the take-down.
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That's a good point. I didn't think about the ponytail causing most of the tangling. Now that I think about it, I haven't really been doing gel-ponytails for that long. Most of the time if I did wash-n-goes, I would either leave my hair down after using the gel to define my curls, or I would put it in a bun and only use gel on the perimeter of my hair/edges and only enough gel to smooth down the flyaway strands in my bun. I kind of started putting my gel-covered hair in a ponytail just to try something different. At first, I thought it was fine and then I started noticing the SSKs. So I tried switching from EcoStyler to Xtreme WetLine Gel thinking maybe it would give me better results. But no, the wetline gel gave me a lot more tangles (even though it's great for smoothing my edges for a bun).

It's probably because when my hair is in a ponytail, my strands are "clumped" together instead of being more "spread out" like they would be if I were wearing my hair down. But at the same time, my strands are still moving around while my hair is in the ponytail which probably gave plenty of opportunity for the gel-covered strands to kind of fuse together, tangle and cause single-strand knots.

So like you, I probably just can't use gel on the lengths of my hair when putting it into a ponytail.
 
Yes! My hair is at the right length for me to do my twist outs again using flat twists with a bantu knot at the end. My twist outs are trash when I do two strand twists. I don't know why that this though.

Tried Kandy Kurls deep conditioner today and my hair really liked it! Curls were popping and my hair was really soft. The stuff is super expensive though......
 
I recently decided to try the Kinky Curly shampoo and I do not like it at all. I cannot wait to run out so I can go back to my staple from Shea Moisture.
 
YvetteWithJoy said:
Really? TFS. So, is it just a packaging thing, or are they introducing new products or new formulas or both, do you know? TIA!
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Nah. Just new packaging as far as I know. Usually, what happens is they stop selling the product to retailers and have them lower the price (if overstocked) or just let them sell out. They then bring out the new packaging.

My ulta seems to carry just enough so when the repackaging began they offered no sales. I saw no difference in formulations. I never really get why they do that, but when the price is lowered I usually don't care either.
 
So these cornrows have been in almost 1.5 weeks. I keep them under my mens satin skull cap and rinse/cowash them every day or every other day and then rub in a little of my amla/brahmi oil. I think I'm going to try for 2 weeks and redo them on Friday.

This pregnancy has me so lazy. Most of the time I walk my son to/from the bus stop, I don't cover these things at all. I just rock them in a bun. Crooked parts, don't care. :giggle:
 
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