June 4th 2018 - Midweek wash

So this is a midweek wash due to the frizz I encountered in Indianapolis this weekend.

Cleansing and detangling:

In four sections, I wet my hair, squeezing it to get the water in. The top of my hair felt a bit matted and tangled and I was worried about having stopped using the Aussie Moist because I simply haven’t found anything with enough slip to replace it. However, my hair felt soft and firm, as well as strong and full. I think these experiments have been going well! I used the Shea Moisture Low Porosity shampoo and separated the pieces of my hair as it was not slippery enough to fully detangle. Then I rinsed thoroughly. After finishing each section, I applied four total (two bottom, then two top) pumps of the Shea Moisture Superfruit conditioner until dripping stopped, and detangled the section a little. After finishing all four sections, I finished detangling and rinsed, which went extremely well. I think the fact that the Superfruit conditioner is such a good conditioner for my hair is why it had no problem loosening the tangles, even though it wasn’t quite as slippery. My hair felt a little better after rinsing out the conditioner.

Deep Conditioning:

I then deep conditioned with the Adwoa Baomint deep conditioner and a HotHead while making flaxseed gel, eating breakfast, and finishing up this episode of Leverage (The Carnival Job.) I detangled a bit more as I rinse, both before and during the actual rinsing process. My hair felt absolutely amazing: soft, buttery, firm, full, and coily. This is certainly the best deep conditioner I have ever used. If only it weren't so expensive.

Styling:

After rinsing each section, I applied the Adwoa Baomint leave in styler in the same way as the conditioner.  The last step was the same as usual, applying the Eden Bodyworks and then my flaxseed gel in lots of small sections, detangling and clumping the curls as I went along. I blow dried it with my regular diffuser until about 80% dry and wondered why I had stopped using that diffuser for the DevaCurl hand diffuser, because this one is better in every way.



Remarks:

Whoa.
Alrighty, the Adwoa Beauty Baomint deep conditioner is by far the best one I've ever used.
It actually made its own leave-in conditioner kinda pointless.
I'm in awe. From now on, I'm only going to use this leave in when I've used a less powerful DC, and I'm going to not use any regular conditioner when using the DC. That should stretch them both out because they are more expensive than most of my other products.
Still wet hair:

I will hopefully post more pictures in the coming days.