Fall/Winter Wash n go challenge

Wondering if I should deep condition tonight but I dont have any yogurt for my cherry lola. Tomorrow is skate night so Id have to do my hair really early but I have running around to do.

Today's WNG. alls (yes alls lol) I'm using in my hair today is the SM 10-in-1 super fruit conditioner.

Why do my pics keep posting sideways?!!?

atlien11 said:

I have a question for the ladies on this challenge (I tried to read through all 33 pages of this thread but didn't see anything ):

Is anyone using a hooded dryer for their WnG now that its cold?? Are your results the same?

I just moved to Philly and I don't want to catch my death out here from wet hair. I just bought a professional salon dryer from LCL and hoping to use this to dry my hair. It takes FOR.EV.ER to dry .

TIA!!

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That's the method used by the stylists on Miss Jessie's website. I've tried it one time before. It resulted in a slightly looser, hanging curl, but a little more frizz.

atlien11

I usually sit under my hooded dryer to speed it up so its not soaking wet all day. The top usually gets dry quicker as I sit under it. I try to stay under for an hour but it never works out that way, LOL.

atlien11 said:

I have a question for the ladies on this challenge (I tried to read through all 33 pages of this thread but didn't see anything ):

Is anyone using a hooded dryer for their WnG now that its cold?? Are your results the same?

I just moved to Philly and I don't want to catch my death out here from wet hair. I just bought a professional salon dryer from LCL and hoping to use this to dry my hair. It takes FOR.EV.ER to dry .

TIA!!

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I don't. I usually don't have time to even difusse. The most I do is dry as much as I can with my turbi microfiber towel and then go. Sometimes I feel the cold but it's not that serious

Je Ne Sais Quoi said:

Why do my pics keep posting sideways?!!?

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All of mine are sideways through the phone app.

atlien11 said:

I have a question (I tried to read through all 33 pages of this thread but didn't see anything ). Is anyone using a hooded dryer for their WnG now that its cold?? Are your results the same? I just moved to Philly and I don't want to catch my death out here from wet hair. I just bought a professional salon dryer from LCL and hoping to use this to dry my hair. It takes FOR.EV.ER to dry . TIA!!

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I prefer to air dry. I live in Georgia and it not really that cold yet. I plan to airdry throughout the winter. I don't like the way my hair looks with diffusing or sitting under dryer. It causes me to have more shrinkage. Sorry I don't have any advice.

Thank you for all the responses. I think ill have to experiment because I despise sleeping in wet hair but I know that my hair takes forever to dry.

Someone suggested lights twists with my hair clipped to my shirt to help stretch it and combat shrinkage. Not really sure how thats gonna work out but i guess thats the fun in it.

Anyway, can't wait to join this challenge

Thanks again!!

I dry 80% then diffuse.

stephanie75miller said:

I'm thinking of buying Camille rose naturals curl maker and curl milk has anyone tried these?

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I love the curl maker for a nice light WNG. I use it in the summer when I am redoing my hair everyday and don't need a strong hold. The moisture milk just sits on my strands so I only use it when I'm bunning or after a rollerset.

I need a heavier conditioner to use as a styler for my wng's. Or maybe it's just my hair that is fluffy as hell.

Here is an example of the difference between drying out under hooded dryer and air dry. Left side dried at salon under dryer right side air dried. I prefer air dried results.

Je Ne Sais Quoi said:

I need a heavier conditioner to use as a styler for my wng's. Or maybe it's just my hair that is fluffy as hell.

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Is your hair texture spongy or cottony? I think some hair is just like that. My hair gets big and fluffy without gel.

pattyr5 said:

Is your hair texture spongy or cottony? I think some hair is just like that. My hair gets big and fluffy without gel.

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I think it's cottony but honestly I don't know the difference between the two lol. Is there a way to know?

Today's COWNG. Yes I am wearing the same shirt from yesterday. At least I showered today

Je Ne Sais Quoi said:

I think it's cottony but honestly I don't know the difference between the two lol. Is there a way to know?

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Does ur hair repel water when it's wet or does it need the help of conditioner to soak in.


If I want less cottony/poofy results I leave more water in my hair...sucks with the drying time but that's the only way that I can combat it. The product I use varies too but it all really comes down to how much water I decide to leave in my hair.

Hey ladies, I'm going to join this challenge.

Like I posted last week, I'm a new natural so my regimen is definitely still a work in progress. I work out 4x a week and I plan to wash on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, unless I determine that I can go longer. I'm going to start with the conditioners and styling products that I already have on hand (V05, Giovanni, TJ's, MopTop, As I Am) before I start venturing out to try other stuff. I also plan to visit the salon approx. once a month. It costs about the same amount that I was spending on my crochets, and that hair was getting thrown in the trash every 4-6 weeks! It won't be a problem to take that same money and devote it to the hair that's actually growing out of my head.

I already posted a starting shot last week, so I'll share my 2014 protective styles. My crochets are similar enough to my wash and go that everyone thought I was just wearing darker, shorter extensions when I came to work today.


Here's today's hair.

I did this WNG last night before I went to bed. Still just using V05 clarifying conditioner, V05 moisture milk and MopTop medium hold anti frizz gel, and sitting under the dryer. I put it up in a satin bonnet last night with a little bit of jojoba oil. I'm not sure if I should shower without a cap in the morning for the moisture, or if I should spritz it with something, so I did both. Just some watered down conditioner and jojoba oil.

SN: Funny how people's perspective of your hair can be so different than your own. I was worried this morning that I had crazy old disco lady hair and that the style didn't look very youthful. Before I told them that I wasn't wearing extensions, I had one person ask me why I went back to my more conservative look (I just recently changed from 1B/30 extensions to 4/30) and another person mentioned that the darker color and shorter style made me look younger. Who knew?!

Very nice. Sometimes we are our worst critics.

I bc'd last week so all I can do right now are wash n go's lol, I have between 1 and 3 inches of hair. Will be watching this thread closely...

tapioca_pudding said:

I bc'd last week so all I can do right now are wash n go's lol, I have between 1 and 3 inches of hair. Will be watching this thread closely...

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Congrats on your BC!

For those of you that use gel or stylers for wash n gos and want to stretch the number of days between washes, try baggying after day one. If your hair is dry, spritz with water to make it slightly damp and then place plastic cap and bonnet on. If your hair is longer, try pulling it back in a pony before putting on plastic cap. I do this, and in the morning my hair is slightly damp, curls are clumped. I just shake n go. Hair is dry within an hour or so. Sent from my iPhone 6 using LHCF

Je Ne Sais Quoi said:

I think it's cottony but honestly I don't know the difference between the two lol. Is there a way to know?

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I'm still confused by it too. I just say MY hair is spongy because it has no shine whatsoever and it drinks up everything I put on it. My WNG end up looking like I never used any gel because it just get absorbed into my hair.

Happy New Year ladies! I'm kinda late lol

I used Ampro Pro Styl Argan Oil gel (protein free) and smoothed only, no raking. The definition that I got with this gel is pretty crazy.



my results




The gel smells very good, like a nice, light perfume. I love the consistency--the gel is very thick and it super clumped my curls. The hold is very flexible and my hair doesn't feel crispy/dry at all. The real test is how it rinses out b/c that can make or break a product for me (I hate when I rinse out a product and my hair feels stripped, extra dry, etc.)

I finally broke down and tried ecostyler gel. I've had the green one which I think is the olive oil one (I'm not 100% sure). I've had it for a while but been avoiding it for some unknown reason. I saw a YouTube video where smartistabeauty paired it beautiful textures curl pudding and butter she got what I thought were good results no flakes and it dried clear. I've used thinner gels with no problems but ecostyler is thicker than any thing I've tried so far and I just haven't used it. I decided to tried this pairing however I could not find the beautiful textures butter at the walmart I went to last night they only had the curl pudding. I used both this morning and so far so good. It seems to be drying clear and its drying pretty fast. Usually it takes until at least lunchtime for my hair to dry completely and at this point my hair is almost completely dry at 9am.

It looks really nice, great definition. I like Eco styler because you can get more than one day hair using it.

Karmi said:

It looks really nice, great definition. I like Eco styler because you can get more than one day hair using it.

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I haven't mastered 2nd day hair yet. I think I may be able to get it with ecostyler. If it doesn't look right tomorrow I will retry with more ecostyler I thought I was using a lot but it is fully dry and I did not have a gel cast. I was prepared to have one and I was going to scrunch it out but I think I may not have used enough gel.

I went to ulta today and got shea moisture superfruit complex conditioner and hair masque. They have Shea moisture buy one get one half off. I don't know when I will try them. I plan to experiment with ecostyler this weekend.