Oh! I like this. I like how systematic and structured it sounds. Thank you for sharing. I'll take a look at the link and give this some serious thought.
Hello, everyone! So, there is a type of hair care that is becoming quite popular in South America. It involves building a personalized capillary schedule (cronograma capilar) based on your hair needs, be it moisture, nutrition, or repair. I think it will be intriguing for people, like me, that love scheduling.
First, you need to do a porosity test: get a strand of your hair (from a brush or such) and place it on a water surface. If the strand sinks to the bottom, you need to base your schedule on repair. If the strand stays neither on the bottom nor on the surface of the water, you need nutrition. If the strand floats on the surface, you need moisture ( https://i.postimg.cc/d1XvBz5m/kit-cr...elle-dicas.jpg ).
Now that this test is done, you can build you own capillary schedule. A capillary schedule usually involves washing hair 3 times a week, each time focusing on a specific need.
For example, my hair strand floated on the surface so I need moisture. My capillary schedule involves 10 monthly hydrating treatments, 1 monthly nutrition treatment, and 1 monthly repair treatment.
My hydration-based capillary schedule:
1st week
1st day-hydration
2nd day-hydration
3rd day-hydration
2nd week
1st day-hydration
2nd day-hydration
3rd day-nutrition
3rd week
1st day-hydration
2nd day-hydration
3rd day-hydration
4th week
1st day-hydration
2nd day-hydration
3rd day-repair
If you hair needs nutrition, you'd alternate between nutrition, hydration, and repair.
Such as:
1st week
1st day-hydration
2nd day-nutrition
3rd day-hydration
2nd week
1st day-nutrition
2nd day-hydration
3rd day-repair
3rd week
1st day-hydration
2nd day-nutrition
3rd day-hydration
4th week
1st day-nutrition
2nd day-hydration
3rd day-repair
The concept would be similar with a schedule based on repair. That is, fitting in hydration treatments between repair and nutrition.
As you can see, the treatments alternate every week and the schedule is repeated every month.
(Very important, always do a hydration day before/after and between nutrition and repair treatments since too much protein can make your hair crunchy.)
Now, what constitutes a hydrating treatment?
-hydrating masks (obviously)
-shea butter
-shea oil
-liquid d-panthenol (vitamin B5, usually mixed with a hydrating conditioner and/or mask)
-SMT
Nutrition treatments would, basically, be oils like:
-coconut oil
-castor oil
-olive oil
-amla oil, and other Indian oils
-argan oil
Repair treatments include:
-your regular keratin masks
-collagen treatments
-and other protein-heavy masks/conditioners
And that's all! I hope you find this as interesting and fun to plan out as I do!
Here is a site that explains it all very clearly. It's in Portuguese, but nothing google translate can't fix! There aren't many sites that offer info in English as it's quite centralized in Brazil. https://www.todecacho.com.br/cronogr...ar-como-fazer/
Please comment if you have more info as I'm only getting started with this.
Last edited by Gisela; January 10th, 2019 at 04:18 PM.
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Oh! I like this. I like how systematic and structured it sounds. Thank you for sharing. I'll take a look at the link and give this some serious thought.
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That water test, just so you know, is seriously flawed.
I do the Cronograma Capilar Method and I love it! It really gave me very good results, I am still using it with every wash.
I first found out about it a few years back on instagram, this Brazilian Girls who came out with this method have amazing beautiful hair! I follow them on instagram and it serve as my hair inspiration and motivation to continue with my hair journey.
Last edited by browntatis; January 10th, 2019 at 04:31 PM.
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The water test for hair strands is worse than flawed, it's a complete lie and fake...
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Last edited by blackgothicdoll; January 10th, 2019 at 04:18 PM.
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Yes, it's about determining hair porosity...but if someone could elaborate?
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In truth, doing the hair strand test doesn't matter, knowing your hair type and condition is enough to choose which Cronograma is the right one to go for.
The whole point of the Cronograma Capilar is the schedule and the order of the products which gives really good results, the hair strand is not really that important
Last edited by browntatis; January 10th, 2019 at 04:37 PM.
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I'm glad it works for you! I've recently started and my hair does feel softer and easier to brush through.
As for the porosity test, they always mention it as a step before making the schedule. I didn't know it was wrong? Couldn't find anything on here either. I wish someone would elaborate. Regardless, as you said, with knowing your hair type and hair condition, you can start planning your schedule.
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