Bowl method for wavy/curly hair

[desisparkles]

I searched and couldn't find this mentioned so I thought it deserved it's own thread.

I found out about it recently and I've done it every wash day since and my hair has been loving it! I'm going to put the link to the insta account I learned it from and I do pretty much exactly what she does.

I wash and condition as usual. Rinse everything out - my hair is dripping wet.
I grab a huge bowl and let my wet hair drip into it. It usually has a cup or two of water in it from drippage and I squirt some leave in or some curl cream directly in the water, swirl it around and dunk my head in. Then I scrunch over the bowl, re-dunk - repeat, several times.
I used some gellee this time too just like powerdomi does and yeah, in love.
I also wet plopped in a shower cap for a good 15 min after before plopping in a muslin baby blanket then taking it down to finish air drying.

I have mad shrinkage from it and although I want the length - I'd rather have the juicy, juicy curls so I'm not mad about it.

I think this method so evenly distributes the product because its already diluted perfectly in the water and keeps getting put back in by squishing.

eta: I air dry only 95% of the time so I could probably get more volume - vavaoom if diffusing but I'll leave that for another time to try. This is air dried results on me.

Leaving the link to her instructions on insta below.

Anybody else doing this or want to give it a go?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SXo31JUOW/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

https://i.imgur.com/W0M6CC0.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FkUCyhg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TXR6vW6.jpg

[Hasse]

Interesting, I'll definitely try it out :). Now I only have to find a bowl that large that I don't use for dishwashing xD

[SleepyTangles]

Looks awesome! I'll try it, maybe even next washday :D

[Simpscone]

I've heard of the method and follow powerdomi but I seemed to have missed these videos! They're very good! I always assumed with the bowl method that people used a lot more water in the bowl for some reason... I might try this method out, I've been trying to make my styling as simple as possible but those results might be worth a little extra effort :inlove:

[lapushka]

For me (disability) it has to be easy. And this sounds... more than "easy"? LOL!

I do love the results, but desi, your hair always looks great to me!

[-Fern]

It sounds like a variation of squish to condish, but your results are phenomenal! Thanks for sharing!

[ExpectoPatronum]

Your hair looks amazing with that method!

My question is this - Is that the only way to apply your products? Or do you use the leave-in in th bowl method, and then scrunch in your gelee? I'm a bit unclear of that on your post. I'm someone who *HAS* to use gel/gelee/custard or my curls don't last.

[desisparkles]

Your hair looks amazing with that method!

My question is this - Is that the only way to apply your products? Or do you use the leave-in in th bowl method, and then scrunch in your gelee? I'm a bit unclear of that on your post. I'm someone who *HAS* to use gel/gelee/custard or my curls don't last.

Thanks for all the love, guys :heartbeat

Expecto, I have to use gel if I want hold too. You are correct I don’t squirt the gellee in the bowl. I smooth it on my hair but then I redunked and squished to condish action a couple times. Then I added a little more gellee to my hands then scrunched over the ends before wet plopping.

It sounds like more work as a read, it’s actually simple and pretty much the same as I’ve always done except it’s over a bowl that I re-dip my head in.

[desisparkles]

So y'all - I found another reason to try this method.

I find a lot of things to be too heavy for my fine waves - especially anything with shea butter. But... I love shea moisture products so I kept them hoping to find a way to get them to work for me.

This is my hair with using the shea moisture smoothie bowl method style. I put a tablespoon of it in about 2 cups of water and really dissolved it in the water with my hands. This took a couple minutes as it is THICK!!! Then I dunked my head in and squished and repeated.

After that I squirted some aussie gel right in the water that I had squished out of my hair and was still in the bowl - so gel in the smoothie water mix - and dunked and scrunched a few times.

I love the results. I am going to try it with my shea moisture curl milk next.

https://i.imgur.com/zdZkyNA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jBhu7Wl.jpg

[Bellalla]

Unreal, that is stunning

[desisparkles]

Thank you Bellalla :smooch:

[lapushka]

Very pretty, desi. Obviously this method works. :D

[MusicalSpoons]

So y'all - I found another reason to try this method.

I find a lot of things to be too heavy for my fine waves - especially anything with shea butter. But... I love shea moisture products so I kept them hoping to find a way to get them to work for me.

This is my hair with using the shea moisture smoothie bowl method style. I put a tablespoon of it in about 2 cups of water and really dissolved it in the water with my hands. This took a couple minutes as it is THICK!!! Then I dunked my head in and squished and repeated.

After that I squirted some aussie gel right in the water that I had squished out of my hair and was still in the bowl - so gel in the smoothie water mix - and dunked and scrunched a few times.

I love the results. I am going to try it with my shea moisture curl milk next.

https://i.imgur.com/zdZkyNA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jBhu7Wl.jpg


:thudpile:

[desisparkles]

:thudpile:

:smooch:

:heartbeat lapushka, I’m def a fan :o

[SleepyTangles]

My hair is very frizzy these days. So, yesterday I tried the bowl method before braiding my hair and going to sleep and ta-da! :D
So much definition
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41217&d=1588493746

[Stray_mind]

My hair is very frizzy these days. So, yesterday I tried the bowl method before braiding my hair and going to sleep and ta-da! :D
So much definition
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41217&d=1588493746
Looks very pretty!

I tried out this method using garnier macadamia food cream and am now air drying. Will post results later. :)

[Stray_mind]

Here are my results. My hair is actually wurlier in reality, my phone camera just doesn't capture all the nuances of my texture. My hair also feels incredibly soft.

https://i.imgur.com/O4pzOST.jpg

[lithostoic]

I should try this next!

[SleepyTangles]

stray, thank you! My hair was also suuuper soft.
I did it with a thick styling cream that I find difficult to incorporate in my current routine (heavy but not moisturizing nor detangling), and it was the perfect solution!!
Your natural waves are gorgeous :inlove:

lithostoic, go for it! Super simple but so effective :D

[Stray_mind]

stray, thank you! My hair was also suuuper soft.
I did it with a thick styling cream that I find difficult to incorporate in my current routine (heavy but not moisturizing nor detangling), and it was the perfect solution!!
Your natural waves are gorgeous :inlove:

lithostoic, go for it! Super simple but so effective :D
Thank you!
Yeah it was very easy and also kinda fun and relaxing. :lol:

[desisparkles]

My hair is very frizzy these days. So, yesterday I tried the bowl method before braiding my hair and going to sleep and ta-da! :D
So much definition
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41217&d=1588493746

Wow!!! So beautiful Sleepy and How awesome that purple blouse looks with your hair!


Here are my results. My hair is actually wurlier in reality, my phone camera just doesn't capture all the nuances of my texture. My hair also feels incredibly soft.

https://i.imgur.com/O4pzOST.jpg


Stray, I could look at your wurls allll day long girly.

[Stray_mind]

Wow!!! So beautiful Sleepy and How awesome that purple blouse looks with your hair!




Stray, I could look at your wurls allll day long girly.

Aww thank you. :flower:

[SleepyTangles]

Aw, thank you desi :flowers:
That shirt it's my lifesaver... when the color is fresh, it leaves pink droplets everywhere :grnbiggri

[jane_marie]

I finally got around to doing trying this today. This is the waviest my hair has been since APL!

https://i.imgur.com/yC3y6I4.jpg

[BleachedBerry]

I defiantly want to try this. I like to apply my products on soaking wet hair. Sometimes in the shower after turning the water off before even sqeezeing any water.

[BleachedBerry]

Interesting, I'll definitely try it out :). Now I only have to find a bowl that large that I don't use for dishwashing xD


I use a smallish rectangle storage tub thats a little bigger than shoe box for simmilar things that require a bowl to not waist product or concoctions. I usually store my hair products in it. Its clear and has a lid.

[knobbly]

Went looking for a thread to add to and found one!

I was wondering if anyone who isn’t a curly has added this method as your length gets longer. I have been struggling to get conditioner evenly applied to my length so I’m going to try using a bowl as Gossamer describes in her vid: https://youtu.be/vPUnBy9Ntus

I need to find a good bowl first!

[Aunt Rapunzel]

Well, I decided to give the bowl method a try - though it was with a dollar store storage bin rather than a bowl. I was surprised at how much more wave there was! And no frizz. . . And it really wasn't a lot more work. It might be worth it. I'll see how I like it after a couple of days. This actually could be a typing photo, because there's no product or "manipulation" involved with my hair.


https://ibb.co/Xptvv4B


Hmm....I'm not seeing the photo. But it's late, and I need some sleep. I'll try again tomorrow. :-)

[MusicalSpoons]

Well, I decided to give the bowl method a try - though it was with a dollar store storage bin rather than a bowl. I was surprised at how much more wave there was! And no frizz. . . And it really wasn't a lot more work. It might be worth it. I'll see how I like it after a couple of days. This actually could be a typing photo, because there's no product or "manipulation" involved with my hair.

https://ibb.co/Xptvv4B

Hmm....I'm not seeing the photo. But it's late, and I need some sleep. I'll try again tomorrow. :-)

How exactly did you do it? If it was just drip-drying over the container after a wash, without any stylers, then yes. If you're following the instructions in the first post, dunking, and maybe scrunching to apply stylers, then no. (Tbh dunking itself counts as manipulation, a sort of bowl version of plopping.)

Edit: now I've seen your photo, wow! Pretty pretty pretty!

[Aunt Rapunzel]

How exactly did you do it? If it was just drip-drying over the container after a wash, without any stylers, then yes. If you're following the instructions in the first post, dunking, and maybe scrunching to apply stylers, then no. (Tbh dunking itself counts as manipulation, a sort of bowl version of plopping.)

Edit: now I've seen your photo, wow! Pretty pretty pretty!

Thank you! And yes, it was just drip-drying over a container. (Then I poured the contents onto the length of my hair. I was still in the shower, so it wasn't messy.) No stylers or scrunching - but next time I'm going to add that in because it turned out so nicely.