IT'S ROOT CURL!!!
Ladies and Gents, I've found the elusive root curl we 3a's seek. The genius curlies at naturallycurly.com have done it again and come up with a method that has given me more root curl and volume than I have seen in my life. And it's winter! With low dewpoints! And I have root curl! Wow! My part is really funky. I'll explain later.
So I was reading on CurlTalk and I found this thread. I'd seen it before, but since the title is about clumping, which hasn't ever really been a problem, I hadn't bothered to read it thoroughly.
I finally read it all the way through today, and I saw that one poster had mentioned what incredible root volume and root curl she had been getting.
Ding ding ding! The magic words for this 3a. My curls, if left alone, would start about 3-4 inches (depending on how long my hair is at the time) away from my scalp. Clipping doesn't work for me and I really don't have the patience for it. Plopping helps pretty well, and will get me curl 2-3 inches away from the scalp. Humidity helps, and so do curl enhancers like re:coil. But still, the true root curl eluded me.
Until today. Thanks to that brilliant method in that thread, I got true root curling and va-va-voom volume!
Here's the jist of it. Cowash as normal. Rake through your normal amount of your rinse out (I used Giovanni 50:50 which I have been playing with lately because it's glycerine free) normally. Don't rinse yet. Flip your head upside down (close your eyes and blow out or plug your nose!), take some more conditioner, and scrunch it in. You can then either let it sit for a while while you do the rest of your shower routine, or you can rinse it out, Just make sure you rinse it out upside down. Then, turn off the water, and scrunch out the excess water with your hands. It'll still be pretty darn wet (which is really good for those who like to apply products to soaking wet hair).
I then used products which I exclusively scrunch in. It was a veritable scrunch fest in my bathroom (I'm home for spring break now so I can actually do my styling in the bathroom rather than the dorm room)! Because of the scrunching in of additional conditioner in the shower, I skipped the leave in. I scrunched in a little bit of Pink Boots Curling Creme, and then applied Kinky Curly Curling Custard via scrunching as well. I topped it off my scrunching a tiny bit of Herbal Essences Totally Twisted Gel.
Here's where I think I made my mistake. I decided to try plopping because I'm dependent on it normally. This made my part very funky and I had curls going every which way. It took a lot of fixing, which meant hands in hair, which meant frizz. I think that if I fix my part before applying products and then don't plop, the funky part syndrome won't happen.
This method, although I need a bit more experimenting, seems like a real winner. Here are some more pictures from tonight:'
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