How I Plop and My GDLI + Boots Experiment

I saw a question on the boards the other day about plopping with a t-shirt. I know lots of curlies use special towels and stuff, but as a broke college student, I've found that using just an old crummy cotton long sleeve t-shirt works just wonderfully for me.

So someone asked a question about how to plop with a t-shirt, and I suggested trying a long sleeve t-shirt for ease of tying, and I found in my written explanation I was confusing myself and I do it every time I wash!! So I thought, well since I've got a webcam and I had a plop going at the very moment I was responding to this question, I'll just make a quick video.

Just for ease of future access, I thought I'd post in on here in addition so that when the thread on nc.com inevitably gets buried, it will be here if anyone needs it :)



Now, on to more exciting matters than my crude attempt at a quick video :P

I had very nearly given up on Giovanni Direct Leave In (GDLI; available at Target, Rite Aid, Kroger, and Whole Foods) after my very first go with it. It really really seemed to elongate my curls and pushed them into uniformly 2c waves rather than the 3a spirals I aspire to achieve. That was when I tried it with KCCC.

I had a thought while I have been trying this slightly drying curl enhancers like Boots and re:coil that perhaps the GDLI, which had seemed so overly moisturizing and heavy when I first used it (despite the bottle's insistence that it's weightless), would work to balance out the dryness that's inherent in products like re:coil with magnesium sulfate (epsom salt).

So I figured I'd try it with boots first since I'm completely in love with this product and will use it any chance I get. Unfortuneately, I had to do my styling last night (as opposed to the afternoon when I normally do) because my Thursday class schedule makes me want to hurl messy things off a roof, so I had to sleep on slightly wet curls. This is normally cause for sadness because I am not one of those curlies who likes their second day hair more than the first day hair.

I used Suave Naturals to cowash, then Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose to condition, then about a nickle size amount of GDLI raked in then given a few scrunches, then two dime sized blobs of Boots Curl Creme scrunched in. I then scrunched in some LA Looks Gel for hold.

I plopped for around 45 minutes, then without scrunching out the crunch, I pineappled and went to bed.

When I woke up this morning, to my dismay the crunch was gone so my curls looks rather lifeless. I have been experimenting lately with a concotion of half aloe and half water in a spray bottle to wake up 2nd day curls. So I sprayed my hair very liberally and the curls really sproinged back to life.

I'm very happy to say I would use this combo again. After the aloe spray dried (after my forms of reasoning class) I scrunched out the tiny bit of crunch and there were well defined, frizzless curls. As expected, Pink Boots saves GDLI from an uncertain fate! Pink Boots is one fierce product. Too bad there is only one really lousy photo of the actual product on the internet. I think I'll take some artistic liberty and use this picture to refer to the product instead