Being the science major I am, I tried to keep everything constant. I used the same products and the same amounts of them. The routine was cowash with Vo5 Strawberries and Cream, condition with Aubrey Organics Glycogen Protein Balancing Conditioner (I feel like I need a good shot of protein, so two days of this is fine and hasn't dried me out whatsoever), rake through a nickle size blob of Kinky Curling Knot Today leave in, scrunch in two finger scoops of Kinky Curly Curling Custard into sections ala the mysterflavored method (video linked in right hand side; called "How to Scrunch"), scrunch with the curl towel, and finally scrunch in about a dime size blob of LA Looks Sport gel (again, using the mysteryflavored method of scrunching). Just a note: my normal dry time with KCCC and a gel on top of it is about 4 hours from product application to totally dry (I would generally scrunch out the crunch at 3 hours)
I will first talk about the CurlEase experience.
The towel is big. And it's pink! It makes me feel very girly! I had heard from some other curlies over on CurlTalk that they would not recommend this towel for scrunching and would rather use it for plopping, which of course I'm not doing because my hair is so short now!
Well, it just goes to show that you can't follow everything everyone else says. I've had wonderful results using this towel to scrunch. I use it doubled or tripled over to increase the thickness. I bend over so my hair is hanging, and I scrunch upwards. It takes a pretty good amount of water out. It decreased my drying time by a full hour. After I scrunched upside down, I would stand up straight, and lean to one side so my hair was hanging again and scrunch some more. This may be something I'll need to record a video of myself doing, because it's hard to explain in words how much I scrunched. I scrunched several times all over my hair. My hair felt significantly dryer after using the towel. There were some little frizzies that popped up, so I added the LA Looks gel on top, which took care of them.
Admittedly, the result is a little frizzier than it probably would be if I had just used the products and done no scrunching. But it decreased my dry time dramatically, and to me, that's worth a couple extra frizzies. I also had no problem with second day hair after using the CurlEase towel. Here are the pictures from a go with CurlEase:
I encourage you to click on these to enlarge them to see the curls in more detail. These tiny pics don't do it justice sometimes haha
Ok now on to the Curls Like Us towel. These are super cute. I don't know what it is about the cute piping around the edges but these are just adorable. They feel like a very thick t-shirt. They are designed like a muff; an open cylinder. You put your hands in both ends and rotate it when you need a new, dry area (there's a video on your website if you're confused and curious).
I think this one is easier to use than the CurlEase. Not that the CurlEase is hard to use, but it is a big towel and could conceivably be a little cumbersome. I did the same amount of scrunching, but something strange happened. I had definitively more crunch after using the Curls Like Us towel when my hair was dry, but it took much less time to dry. This literally knocked 2 hours off my drying time. But it didn't seem to take away as much product. Very strange, but I'm ok with it!
On to the pictures. Again, click to enlarge
I'd say the results of the towels are pretty darn comparable. I think there's a little less frizz from the Curls Like Us, and Curls Like Us did a tremendous job cutting down on dry time. But the CurlEase towel did a great job as well. I'd say they're both winners, and I'll use both.
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