So yesterday I did my first DC for the week.
I forgot to include this in my initial post but once a week I do a Moisturizing DC and once a week I do a Protein DC. The method I used is one I saw on Youtube (I can't remember by who) that made a lot of sense to me because it focuses on maintaining a protein moisture balance. It's been working so far for me so I will continue to do it
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It's called the 3-tier method (which I have modified to become the two tier method). It requires that you start with dry hair which you lightly mist with water. Then you add a layer of a Moist DC to your hair,you follow that with a Protein DC from the middle of your hair length to your ends, and then you seal it all in with an oil of your kind (this is the step I skip, my hair does NOT like to be DC'd with oil).
Then I hop under my steamer for 30 min and ta-dah, I'm done.
Like I stated before I'm currently in cornrows (with only my hair, no extensions) to decrease my manipulation and one problem I've had is making sure that my DC is thoroughly rinsed out of my hair. I came across a solution yesterday which hopefully might help someone else DCing in braids.
What I did was mix my DC in a bottle (1 part DC to two parts water) which diluted it significantly and allowed it to be much easier to rinse out of my braids.
HHG!