I needed to dye my hair for an event. Also, I've decided to stop double styling (waiting for my hair to dry, then reapplying all of my gel. I did this about 4 times total.) because it leaves me with extremely dry crunchy hair, and I get the same results from using the Eden Bodyworks serum before using the gel.
I shampooed with Pantene Pro-V Micellar Water shampoo, the one shampoo I found with several sulfates but no silicones or polyquats (sticky ingredients.)
It left my hair feeling stripped but weirdly soft; however, it had less definition when rinsed out than the Shea Moisture Low Porosity Shampoo. I shampooed twice in 4 sections, then applied the 10 in 1 Superfruit masque from Shea Moisture. It looked as though it was still beading up on my hair, so I was worried about my porosity or potential buildup. I then applied an ample amount of Aussie Moist onto my hair for slip (the DC has none,) detangled my overstuffed hair, then deep conditioned with my HotHead cap for about 45 minutes. After this, I rinsed my hair thoroughly and applied Sally Beauty's black semi-permanent hair dye. I also left that for about 45 minutes with the cap, and rinsed. It seems like most of the dye came out (my hair isn't as black as I'm used to,) so I will probably return to demi-permanent
Lastly, I applied water, then the Eden Bodyworks Almond and Marshmallow serum, then followed it with Uncle Funky’s Daughter hair gel because I hadn’t made any flaxseed gel.
I wrapped my hair with a scarf for about an hour, which didn’t actually do much. My hair never fully dried because it turned out that I left a lot of dye on my scalp, and I had to wash it again the next day.
I am terrible at taking pictures, and my hair looked kind of the same every day, so here is a picture from last week:
May 29 2018
I had to wash the dye out of my hair. Every time I touched my scalp, black came off. It was a little gross.
I used Shea Moisture’s Low Porosity shampoo once each on four sections of my hair (I tried doing the left section twice because it seems to be more low porosity, but it didn’t change anything.) I have to say, my hair does feel more full of water when rinsing out shampoo. My hair felt stripped, not as soft as the Pantene [somehow], but still not terrible. It did have a large amount of definition, and I was able to separate my hair with it (not detangle, but a bit of light separation.) I then followed up with the TGIN Honey Miracle Mask with a HotHeads cap. I tried to work it in by detangling, and that worked a little. When I removed the caps, it did appear to have sunken in, and I had slightly more definition than when I had finished the very thorough shampoo rinse (my hair gained loads of definition from the shampoo, but it was gone when rinsed too thoroughly.) but it felt extremely coated with silicone and a little webbed (my hair hates cones, but I thought I would try.)
I applied 1 pump of Aussie Moist to dripping wet hair, then squeezed out all excess. Without applying water, I used the Eden Bodyworks serum, then some homemade strong-hold flaxseed gel which had a tiny amount of: aussie moist, olive oil, honey, and hydrolysed protein. Considering that my hair wasn’t dripping wet, I was surprised to have the same amount of definition as the previous wash. This serum is great!
I sprayed some of the Design Essentials shine spray then blowdried until about 30% dry and left the rest to airdry.
No comments:
Post a Comment