Experimenting Again!

The last time I went out to the Indian store to buy my powders I also purchased a can of coconut milk for $.99. I figured it was cheaper to purchase here than at a regular grocery store and if I wanted to try it out as a pre-poo or DC at least I wouldn't feel bad about wasting it if it didn't turn out great. Today I finally decided to try it mixed with coconut oil and honey. I wanted to put in a lot of moisture in my hair since I plan to blow dry today (let me reiterate 'plan to') for my best friend's graduation ceremony. I'm still unsure of what styling I'm going to do with it for tonight but if everything turns out well at least I know how to bring in more moisture *cross your fingers*

I did no measuring with the coconut milk, oil and honey. I mixed the oil and milk together because it made for less of a mess, and just poured the honey into my palm and then glazed over my hair. Right now it's covered by a plastic cap and towel to keep heat in there. It's actually nice to say that my hair is so much longer now that I need double coverage. :) I'll come back to show my results from this second coconut experiment.

Coconut Oil and Conditioner Experimenting

Today I decided to try something new with refreshing my hair. I didn't keep my twists in as long as I wanted to. I kept them in for only 4 days maybe. I was having mixed feelings about them and really wanted to wear my hair out, since I hadn't in a while. Back to what I was saying though, instead of my usual conditioner and water that I'd crunch into my hair to moisturize and loosen the curls and frizzes; or my conditioner, water, oils spray I saw a few videos on coconut oil and how some people completely coat their hair with the oil before shampooing to make sure that their hair doesn't get to dry. Others coat there hair as a good oil rinse and apply heat for an even better hot oil treatment. I didn't have time for either, so instead I just dug out a gallop organic unrefined coconut oil that I got from Whole Foods and coated my hair with it. The idea was I would on a normal day wait until my hair was dry after a good co-wash or deep condition to make sure that I seal my ends. This time I figured, for some stranger reason, coating the hair with oil then scrunching it with water and coating it with conditioner would be a better idea. Just experimenting with my curiosity.

Well it's the end of the day and my hair is fluffy and soft. I didn't scrunch a ton of water in my hair which I believe was key to the whole experiment. I just rubbed my hands underneath the faucet and scrunched my hair, rubbed some Aussie Moisture Conditioner over my tresses and hopped right-on out; that simple. As I said my results were soft, mildly frizzy, fluffy, defined and curly hair. Also on to another thought, I found that after untwisting my two strand twists I found that crunching product or just plain ole water into my hair gives me very defined, and clumpy curls. They stay in a similar shape from the twists but shrink up more and are so bouncy with movement. I love it.

Will do whenever I don't feel like washing and going through the long drying process.

Peace.

Ebz