So I actually ended up with somehow sticky hair last night. To combat that, I shampoo'd, but I didn't DC my scalp has not been happy with me. Instead, I cowashed with Hair One and ApHogee's 2 minute, which I did leave on for a bit, but no more than 10 minutes. My scalp was just really really angry that day, probably from whatever made it sticky. I basically just applied a TON of coconut oil [Nutiva, my new one] to my hair and put it in curlformers. It was really soft this morning, but not quite moisturized enough, so I LOC'd this evening. I couldn't just allow my hair to be shampooed with no real moisture, after all.
I did it differently this time: I think the crazy new things I put in my L were too much, so I decided to minimize everything, now I know that I can successfully keep my hair mostly moisturized with only coconut oil, but it doesn't stay that way long enough so I've been LOCing. In this case, I decided to keep up the LOC, but only use a max of three ingredients per step. That sounds like a lot if you think of them as being separate but remember, I make my own products so the normal like 15 ingredients per bottle is what I'm talking about. Now, I made my L out of only water, aloe vera gel, and grape seed oil. In that order, with 95% being water, two and a half pumps of aloe vera gel, and a quick squeeze of my grape seed oil bottle [mostly because I don't use this as much as I think I should. Ceramides are good, after all]. Then, my oil was only coconut oil. That's actually normal. Lastly, my C, which is usually [my homemade hair and skin lotion: raw shea butter, tea tree oil, grape seed oil, aloe vera gel, jojoba oil, and a little water] was only shea butter.
So today's LOC method: L:Water/Aloe vera gel/Grapeseed oil O:Coconut C:Shea butter
I sprayed it until slightly damp, then applied probably too much coconut oil [it was melting faster than expected, but my hair eats coconut oil like...well....water!], then applied definitely too much shea butter; I kept accidentally picking it up wrong because I couldn't use my normal disbursement method. Then, I put it in curlformers and let it dry for like an hour. When I took it down it felt great, and that was 4 hours ago. It feels even better now, almost like it did that day I was having my best hair day ever, actually, if a little too shea-y. I went outside, though, and my hair was solid [moisturized, but frozen]! Too much shea, definitely, but hey, the curls stayed well, and whenever I went back inside it quickly calmed down and was bouncy in a few minutes, so I should be okay by tomorrow.
In the end: less is definitely better, my hair doesn't need a whole bottle's ingredients to be moisturized. It only needs five total! But yeah, I need a better way to dole out shea butter. I think I'm going to make my sections twice as big for now, at least, and clean out my other shea thingy.
When I put the curlformers in, I twisted the roots because I care more about straight roots than curls, and not twisting the roots was not giving me straight roots. Right now, my hair is smooth all over like I just have very thick straight hair. Before, it was clear that I was forcing curly hair to go straight, and that wasn't as good.
What I learned today: Only need a few things in LOC. Twist roots to get straight hair all over. My hair doesn't need to be DC'd after shampooing, but it does need intense moisture LOCs to pop back from it.
Update: Hair is still moisturized more than 24 hours later! Simplistic LOC FTW!
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