What Cleanse-(Treat)-and-Style Combination Are You Considering Trying?

[Yvette 2.0]

Hi, all!

I hope this post finds you and yours more than well!

What cleansing, treating, and styling combination are you thinking about trying soon?

I'm thinking that posting it AHEAD OF TIME has the potential to help with:

• motivation and follow-through once you've typed it out,
• clarity/inspiration as or after you type, and/or
• avoiding pitfalls . . . or enhancing your combination idea/plan . . . if people reply about your combination.

I know I've learned a lot from reading about or watching other people's wash day choices, especially when they share the rationale behind their choices.

May we all continue to enjoy our hair and know the blessing it is to have the means to care for it.

Happy washing (and treating) and styling!

 

[Yvette 2.0]

It's 4:59 AM, and I can't make my current humidity-attacked style (a twist out on blow-dried natural hair) WORK another day! LOL.

This video of Whitney's has me inspired to try a flexirod set. (I need to report to work at 10 AM at the latest, so I think I can make it!)




My plan

1. [cleanse] clarify (to remove this tacky butter from my last style)
2. [treat] treat with my personal GOAT DC (rationale = I won't be applying leave-in because for a flexirod set I want to keep product-application as LIGHT as possible, so I'd better DC to make up for the lack of leave-in)
3. [hydrate] squish to condition
4. [style] apply a watery humidity-blocking product
5. [treat] apply a watery product that strengthens/repairs (I'm ever on a retention journey, and my ends can always use care)
6. [style] apply foam and install flexirods
7. [style] dry under a standing hair dryer

My chosen products are pictured below. "Father, please bless this plan and inspire me . . . moment-to-moment . . . toward efficiency and a gorgeous result. Help me to all-the-while enjoy my hair. Lastly, if this combo fails, help me to ever know that it is a blessing to have hair to (learn to) style and that my ponytails are CU-YUTE. Amen!"

 

[Lylddlebit]

I have been super simple

Cowash with Briogeo avocado + Kiwi mask
Rinse out, then apply a little more as a leave-in(I use deep conditioners as leave-ins all the time)
Layer with Hairveda Jardin oil(discontinued)
Put some castor oil pomade on my ends
Add a few large braids or flat twists
Air dry

I have two wigs on standby to pop on; I can let the braids/twists down for a braid/twist out or cover with a silk-lined beanie. I repeat a co-wash and install it weekly. It is simple for now but neat and protected until I get the space to do a bit more.

Here are some photos of my braids/flat twists. These photos are old but it is the same style of wig/braids/flat twists I am using in current styles. I am not much of a wig girl, but I do keep a short synthetic one on standby for the times when I want an option with low effort.

 

[Ivonnovi]

I got a few days in the house so I'm going to try this Afro method.
(freshly washed) Trial #1 has been pulled into a puff. I'm hoping tomorrow, my natural curls would have relaxed some.


From my stash I used a Seacret shampoo & conditioner, some nexus oil massaged through. I brushed a bit of palm oil through as I put it in 6 twists.

 

[IDareT'sHair]

I always do the "same" thing although the Products change:

Cleanse - Some Type of Clay Wash
Treat - Protein Treatment and Moisturizing DC'er
Apply Leave-In: *usually LOC or LOCB
Wrap with an Lightweight Oil, Foam or Creme when Dry