anitacs9101
July 29th, 2012, 12:07 PM
(I won't be offended if you skip straight to the pics :p)
I read the Curly Girl handbook mainly to learn more about CO and as a light read...however I found a neat section about wavy hair, describing how some wavies have troubles getting the top half of their hair to wave and also how the waves just brush right out. I was very intrigued because I've always wanted curly/wavy hair ever since I was little and the wave I have is very hard to bring out. I was planning on switching to no-cone CO anyway, so on my shopping trip I picked up some Suave naturals conditioner as well as some hair gel.
I then followed the washing instructions, which involved lots and lots of scrunching and cupping of your hair when rinsing to avoid having it stretched out or straightened from the water pressure and conditioner. I first washed my scalp, then rinsed, then I generously applied conditioner to the bottom half of my hair. I alternated finger-combing and scrunching to again avoid straightening the hair while combing. Once out of the shower I scrunched my hair with a t-shirt to dry, then applied generous amounts of hair gel, again scrunching it in. I was planning on doing this earlier in the day so it could just air dry, however by the time I did all this it was about bedtime so I plopped my hair for bed. In the morning my hair was still damp so I scrunched in a bit more gel...lol. I looked in the mirror in the bathroom and I flipped out, since when has my hair ever been this wavy?! I was hoping that it would dry this way too, haha! I let it air dry on the way to church and I was SOOO pleased with my hair, the waves traveled higher up my length as opposed to stopping halfway up like my hair usually does. However the biggest change I noticed was the front parts of my hair were wayy more wavier whereas normally they are the straightest part of my hair. The pictures don't show this, though.
Ok sorry lol, /endrant on to pics!
The first pic is the way my hair used to look all the time with my routine of BBBrushing every day. In fact it usually looked straighter than this, this photo shows a quick brushing session! The second pic is my hair CO washed, gelled a plop-dried. My hair might have some silicones in it because I forgot to clarify before I went no-cone:
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/OMGPwnies101/phot33ocrop.jpghttp://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/OMGPwnies101/photo3.jpg
!!! I thought I was seeing things the next morning. Dare I call this a solid 2a? Or does it not count since my hair is gelled :laugh:
I'll update later when I wash again with pics of my hair genuinely no-cone and air dried. :)
I read the Curly Girl handbook mainly to learn more about CO and as a light read...however I found a neat section about wavy hair, describing how some wavies have troubles getting the top half of their hair to wave and also how the waves just brush right out. I was very intrigued because I've always wanted curly/wavy hair ever since I was little and the wave I have is very hard to bring out. I was planning on switching to no-cone CO anyway, so on my shopping trip I picked up some Suave naturals conditioner as well as some hair gel.
I then followed the washing instructions, which involved lots and lots of scrunching and cupping of your hair when rinsing to avoid having it stretched out or straightened from the water pressure and conditioner. I first washed my scalp, then rinsed, then I generously applied conditioner to the bottom half of my hair. I alternated finger-combing and scrunching to again avoid straightening the hair while combing. Once out of the shower I scrunched my hair with a t-shirt to dry, then applied generous amounts of hair gel, again scrunching it in. I was planning on doing this earlier in the day so it could just air dry, however by the time I did all this it was about bedtime so I plopped my hair for bed. In the morning my hair was still damp so I scrunched in a bit more gel...lol. I looked in the mirror in the bathroom and I flipped out, since when has my hair ever been this wavy?! I was hoping that it would dry this way too, haha! I let it air dry on the way to church and I was SOOO pleased with my hair, the waves traveled higher up my length as opposed to stopping halfway up like my hair usually does. However the biggest change I noticed was the front parts of my hair were wayy more wavier whereas normally they are the straightest part of my hair. The pictures don't show this, though.
Ok sorry lol, /endrant on to pics!
The first pic is the way my hair used to look all the time with my routine of BBBrushing every day. In fact it usually looked straighter than this, this photo shows a quick brushing session! The second pic is my hair CO washed, gelled a plop-dried. My hair might have some silicones in it because I forgot to clarify before I went no-cone:
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/OMGPwnies101/phot33ocrop.jpghttp://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/OMGPwnies101/photo3.jpg
!!! I thought I was seeing things the next morning. Dare I call this a solid 2a? Or does it not count since my hair is gelled :laugh:
I'll update later when I wash again with pics of my hair genuinely no-cone and air dried. :)