Anyway, I washed my hair today. I cowashed with V05 Strawberries and Cream Moisture Milks. My hair felt just as bad as has it has these few weeks, not fun. Then, I applied Hair One Olive Oil, because it has been known to DC even when some of my other things couldn't. If this doesn't work, I'll bust out my Keracare for serious DC action. I did this at 9:00, then went to classes and everything with the DC on my head, like a crazy person [after my first class, I t-shirt dried some of the excess water out, then reapplied my Hair One, with a little bit of aloe vera gel], and then went to a club meeting [Anime club] and when I got back at 17:30ish, I washed out the conditioner, and t-shirt dried for 30 minutes before applying Coconut oil, Grape seed oil, and sealing with the Frizz Ease I've mentioned. I'd forgotten how great it was at sealing, so I figured I'd try.
I was able to keep my hair detangled for the whole thing in most sections. The lower right was the most difficult [it's the least texlaxed section.] and I didn't get it detangled until I was applying leave - ins. I think my hair just didn't have enough moisture, somehow. In the end, the piece of hair I accidentally left out feels GREAT and is dry, so hopefully using the Hair One worked as expected.
On a side note: my hair has been breaking more [one of my good friends, Kevin, who has natural hair, says it probably is the shampooing, so I'm really going to try not doing it for a while. Maybe I'll wait another week after this one...]; however, in terms of staying detangled and being easy to style, having movement and shine, and overall behaving like hair that has been well maintained, it's great. It's just so dry that I don't understand how everything else is working.
Basically, if my hair is dryish and I have already done the LOC method, I'll simply apply some coconut oil to keep it mosturized, instead of waiting. I've heard the secret to healthy hair is making sure it never actually gets dry, so I'm going to try to keep infusing it with moisture. Plus, my best hair days came from doing DCs even when my hair still felt great.
Lastly: I have an Aloe plant! It's fun. I'm probably not going to use it for hair stuff, but who knows :D
Have healthy hair everyone.
Update: Alrighty, my hair dried last night and felt amazing! It was great, and every time I wash my hair [while I still have it left] I'm going to use Frizz Ease to seal in the moisture. This morning I moisturized and sealed (LOC with raw shea butter as the C, L and O are my normal mix and coconut oil), [I decided to start doing this in the morning since my curls are gone by the next morning if I do it at night]. My hair feels nice: thick and very full with moisture! I do think I used a bit too much shea butter. I just really wanted to seal, but in the future I'm going to use less than that, because my hands have a slight shine when I touch my hair.
UPUPDATE:
I might actually keep buying Hair One. I said the grape seed oil would work, but HO works even when I can't get anything else to, as evident in this past two weeks. Right now, my hair has the most movement it has ever had, and feels so full of delicious moisture that I don't think anything else can come close to it. It's literally my healthiest hair day ever, and it's wonderful even if it doesn't look perfect [the curls are mostly gone from this morning, otherwise it would literally be my best hair day ever in my life. O_o] Sigh. I tried to get off the product wagon, but a backup HO Olive/Avocado might be in order. At least I can use this as shampoo instead of buying a real one: combined with clay / ACV, it should be strong enough that I don't need a real shampoo. Otherwise, I would need to buy shampoo [I don't think ACV quite works on its own for me... and I haven't actually tried my clay yet, though it does work wonders on my face.]
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