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I feel like I go through this cycle with my hair where I get excited about a new product, I wear my hair out for 2 days and then I go back to my lazy ways of putting my hair in celie plats for 2 months. It's not being neglected because I still moisturize and seal but man do I look like who did it and why. I'll be at waist length one day still looking like celie
 
I usually style my hair while I'm in the shower so I got a mirror so that I can see what I'm doing. The other day I noticed something interesting. After applying leave in my hair looks really defined but the moment I put the oil in, my hair starts getting frizzy. I usually wear my hair stretched and put up in some way so definition isn't very important to me, but I think this is something to come back to the next time I wear my hair out.
 
pikkonoloidlee said:
I usually style my hair while I'm in the shower so I got a mirror so that I can see what I'm doing. The other day I noticed something interesting. After applying leave in my hair looks really defined but the moment I put the oil in, my hair starts getting frizzy. I usually wear my hair stretched and put up in some way so definition isn't very important to me, but I think this is something to come back to the next time I wear my hair out.
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This is exactly the way my hair behaves. It frizzes up immediately upon contact with oil or grease. Not only oil, actually even leave-in conditioners frizz it up a little (I think because they contain oil in them) so I have to then apply a curl enhancer/gel to bring the definition back. But if I apply straight oil, no gel can make the frizz vanish, so when doing wash and goes, I cannot seal moisture in with oil or grease. And I think it was the same story with shea butter as well.
 
Alma Petra said:
This is exactly the way my hair behaves. It frizzes up immediately upon contact with oil or grease. Not only oil, actually even leave-in conditioners frizz it up a little (I think because they contain oil in them) so I have to then apply a curl enhancer/gel to bring the definition back. But if I apply straight oil, no gel can make the frizz vanish, so when doing wash and goes, I cannot seal moisture in with oil or grease. And I think it was the same story with shea butter as well.
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That's interesting. This is actually the reason I stopped using grease in the past when I first went natural. I had literally no curl pattern, even right after washing. I had to clarify for two weeks before my curl pattern came through due to all the build up of grease locking moisture out of my hair. I haven't noticed this with oil, but with leave-ins containing glycerin I do have that exact behavior.

I remember getting the best definition by just leaving in some conditioner and calling it a day lol. But its been agessss since I've worn my hair curly or unstretched so idk.
 
sunflora said:
That's interesting. This is actually the reason I stopped using grease in the past when I first went natural. I had literally no curl pattern, even right after washing. I had to clarify for two weeks before my curl pattern came through due to all the build up of grease locking moisture out of my hair. I haven't noticed this with oil, but with leave-ins containing glycerin I do have that exact behavior.

I remember getting the best definition by just leaving in some conditioner and calling it a day lol. But its been agessss since I've worn my hair curly or unstretched so idk.
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I think different heads of hair behave differently. Not only that but also the same head of hair can behave differently depending on what stage of its journey it's at. For me you don't even need to block water out of my hair. Even if my hair is soaking wet and beautifully defined, or even after having used my styler, if I touch my hair with oil or grease it frizzes up. This used not to be the case when my hair was texlaxed. I was able to apply my leave-ins and stylers then seal up with oil and grease without any problems. My natural hair is much more frizzy than my texlaxed hair. Sometimes I just want to go back to texlaxing :(
 
Alma Petra said:
This is exactly the way my hair behaves. It frizzes up immediately upon contact with oil or grease. Not only oil, actually even leave-in conditioners frizz it up a little (I think because they contain oil in them) so I have to then apply a curl enhancer/gel to bring the definition back. But if I apply straight oil, no gel can make the frizz vanish, so when doing wash and goes, I cannot seal moisture in with oil or grease. And I think it was the same story with shea butter as well.
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That's so interesting. Do you find that the gels are enough to seal in moisture or do you just refresh more often to compensate?
 
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