Wash And Go, To Grow And To Dazzle 2020 Challenge

[Bette Davis Eyes]

Ors Curl show.

 

[DVAntDany]

Do I like the Doux Chief Rocka?
The good:

• It dries decently with a diffuser. Still much longer than regular mousse by itself.
• Its much softer than regular styling foam that uses Polyquaternium 55. Feels similar to putting leave-in lotion/cream under mousse.
• It washes out easily.
• Hair has lots of flexibility

The Bad:

• It doesn't clump as well as other harder holding Polyquaternium 55 styling foams.
• It dried flat at the roots while the rest of the hair expands when sitting under a hooded drier.
• The air dried parts don't seem to have as much shine. Must try a third time to verify this one.
• Its still too light of a product for my hair underneath in the back of my head.
• I barely have enough for 3 whole head applications.

This is what it looks like drying 90% at night while sleeping with nothing covering it and a baby pulling it and putting it in her mouth. It’s a very lightweight product when dry. Because it is so light, it leaves my hair looking brown. When I use heavier products, my hair looks black.

 

[CurlyWhoCrux]

I haven’t been in this thread in a long while, so I’ll just give a quick rundown of my hair characteristics:

Coarse strands, high density, low porosity
Detangles easily, frizzes a lot

And now the novel lol:

The last time I was really in the forums, I was frustrated with the lack of elasticity and curl definition in my hair. So I became very focused on gaining elasticity and definition via strengthening products and protein, and less focused on wash n gos. This past fall, I discovered bond building products, which has propelled me into everything going on with my hair today. I currently am using the Not Your Mother’s Curl Talk Bond Building products: the shampoo, the mask, the conditioner. I checked the ingredients, and the mask and conditioner have what appears to be the same ingredients but just in different formulations. I use these two products to co-wash/condition.

Since maybe mid-November/early December I’ve been attempting wash n gos will greater motivation.

Here is where it started:
A thought struck me one day about how I don’t get my hair wet enough before I start conditioning or washing it in the shower. So, I decided that from then on, I would wet my hair for ten minutes in the shower (I timed it). Then I would apply conditioner and let it sit during the rest of my shower and then rinse it out. After my shower, I’d apply either leave in or conditioner and detangle, and then apply gel.

Right away I could tell a difference in my hair just from the increased rinsing at the start of my shower because my hair would feel genuinely soft when I would rinse conditioner out afterwards. So motivated by that, I just kept that routine up, and I did this about 4-5 days a week.

Very recently (maybe two weeks ago), I switched up this in-shower routine, and instead of rinsing for 10 minutes, I only rinse for maybe 5-6 minutes, and I cowash for the remaining time. But the key change here is that I stay under the water for as much of that time as I can before the conditioner is rinsed out of my hair. So I’m still adding water but I’m massaging in the conditioner too. In the past, I would make sure that once I added conditioner I wouldn’t add more water while I cowashed, because I was trying to hold onto as much conditioner as possible.

I have also started monitoring how curly or frizzy my hair is right out of the shower. There’s still A TON of frizz, but there’s actually slightly more definition than there was when I started this all in November. My ultimate goal is to have hair that retains curls when wet from the shower.

Around this time I also started using the combo of KCKT and the olive oil (?) Eco Style gel. I still go in with the KCKT first, and detangle with a knockoff version of the Unbrush. This is the only time I detangle. (In the shower I might smooth some but there is no real detangling done here). And then after I go in with the gel, I smooth and rake, no brushing. Lately when I do this my hair has come out soft and curly (as curly as it can be in its current state). I noticed that the Eco Style goes on very smooth and my hair feels soft right away. I tried one of the gels from The Doux and I wasn’t happy with the application or results, so while I used it all up, I don’t feel like I need to re-purchase any time soon.

This morning when I refreshed (I typically do my hair at night and then clip it up or lightly bun it or just cover it with a bonnet) (I refresh only with water, and sometimes with the Eco Style gel, but never with another product) I noticed that my hair was very spirally in areas but also it was hanging longer. My hair also just feels soft and bouncy a lot more now than it has in the past. This is great motivation to keep going because I know I can actually get presentable hair with the routine I’m doing. I can’t wait to see how my hair is in another two months, since it’s improved so much in that same time already.

Yes this was long, I’m sorry.

 

[GettingKinky]

@CurlyWhoCrux - I’m glad your hair is getting better. I listen to music while I wash my hair and I always spend at least one song just wetting my hair before I shampoo. And squishing water into my hair during the conditioner step was another breakthrough for me.

 

[Bette Davis Eyes]

@CurlyWhoCrux every try rhassoul clay and bentonite clay?

 

[CurlyWhoCrux]

@CurlyWhoCrux every try rhassoul clay and bentonite clay?

I've used bentonite clay before but not in a long while. I've never used rhassoul clay though.

 

[CurlyWhoCrux]

Ohmygosh I was thinking I was going to rinse and do my hair tonight, and I've just remembered that I have no gel. But I was going to work out from home, and I don't know if I feel like running to the store. Hmmm.

 

[Bette Davis Eyes]

I’ve find bentonite clay to be the best at resetting hair the more you use it. Weekly. Followed by deep conditioning with rhassoul.


Simple bentonite with acv and water to clean. And rhassoul with coconut milk to condition.

The more you do it, the less frizz. The more your hair accepts product better and stays in its curls shape. @CurlyWhoCrux

 

[CurlyWhoCrux]

I’ve find bentonite clay to be the best at resetting hair the more you use it. Weekly. Followed by deep conditioning with rhassoul.


Simple bentonite with acv and water to clean. And rhassoul with coconut milk to condition.

The more you do it, the less frizz. The more your hair accepts product better and stays in its curls shape. @CurlyWhoCrux

This is really good to know, and thank you for your insight!