Exams are burning me...maybe I should try some aloe...

I love terrible puns in blog titles!

Anyhoo, it is that time that any college student, curly or not, dreads. Exam weeks *dun dun dun*
Thus I have not been able to update you lately on what's going on with my hair. Unfortunately, I do not have a ton of time today to do this either, but my exams will be over on the 15th and then I'll have a month to experiment with hair things (hooray!)

Today, however, I did pick up something new. I went to the grocery store with my boyfriend who was in town for a few days and while I was there I picked up some Lily of the Desert Aloe Vera Gel. I had heard good things on curltalk about aloe in all kinds of ways: mixed with leave-ins, under gels, in refreshed sprays, for second day hair scrunched in with water, etc etc. So I decided that out of all those ways I'd probably be able to find at least one way that works well for me.

I decided to try it as a scrunch in for 2nd day hair. I washed yesterday via my normal routine and had a great hair day. My second day hair when I woke up this morning was much worse than usual because for some reason a lot of my hair had fallen out of the pineapple overnight. I wet my hands and scrunched water all over like I normally do for 2nd day hair. Then once I was finished water scrunching, I scrunched in about 3 drop sized globs onto one side of my hair in the same way I apply KCCC (see mysteryflavored's video). I repeated for the other side, then again upside down. I wasn't really expecting a miracle because 1) I didn't use too much and 2) my 2nd day hair was off to a very bad start from the beginning anyway.

So the results? A miracle!!!

Here's before I did anything to it:




















Very frizzy and tangly and a mess!

And here's after...















Got quite a bit of the curl back and much much much less frizz!!!! I'm quite happy with this result, especially considering what I started with! So I'm quite looking forward to experimenting with aloe in lots of other ways. I think next time I wash I'll mix it in with my leave in. Maybe this will fix my elongation problem with giovanni :o We shall have to wait and see. Until next time, to my fellow college curlies: good luck with exams!!