I applied extra oil directly to scalp with my bottle's nozzle and somewhat shingled my hair with The Mane Choice gel, heavily, from root to tip.
The things I learned from this:
1. I don't care whar anyone says, raking product through hair in small sections and/or shingling is not "wash and go." More like, "rake and define."
2. Finger-detangling in the shower and finger-styling dry differ in one big area: pain. Warm water sluicing over me seems to prevent my back and arms from seizing up. Yeah, I'm old.
3. I still don't care about curl definition.
4. This crap takes too long.
5. That brief moment when you think, "Oh, look, I'm styling my hair like the girls on YouTube," grimacing at the amount of white gunk gel produces with water just like they do, and reminding yourself it will vanish once the hair is dry, just like them.
6. Scalp is not happy and is determined to stay sore at me.
7. The Mane Choice gel is not for hold. To me, it is a gel that acts like a funny leave-in.
8. No matter what, my hair will be shrunken the next day, defined or not. Well, scratch that, that is a given all the time.
9. I had to somewhat shingle the sides between the temple and ear, or it would be sticking out like a mad scientist, since that is where the pensprings live.
10. It will be a long time before I do this again.
I guess I better get pics of this today.