Day 14

I did the exact same as yesterday.
temp 48 degrees
humidity 94%
dew point 47

Day 13

today im sick as hell so that explains the pics

46 degrees
humitidy of 62%
dew point 34 Degrees

co wash with suave naturals ocean breeze
condition with garnier fructis tripple nutriton cream conditioner
while hair was soaking wet raked into middle and ends cream brule
raked in recoil and arc angel trying to go light on roots
scrunched dry  with sham wow and ploped for about 10 min then pixi curl defuse and go there wasnt much crunch to scrunch out. Left side curled nicer than right side. Right side is like one big wave with no defined clumps.

Day 12

31 degrees
humidity 82%
dew point 27 degrees

lo poo
one condtion
creme brule
recoil
arc angel

advoided the roots and pixi defused. messed around abit getting ready so it frizzed some but soft touchable , not the most defined curls though.  no real crunch at all. Almost completly out of one condition already.
Hair is shiny, full of body, and soft, but limp curls.parted down the middle again.

Day 11

I did a deep condition on friday night, and slept in my plop(recoil and arcangell). it actually stated in all night long and I had some kinda cool curls in the morning. It would have required a bit of playing with in the morning to make perfect, but it might be worth a shot again some time soon.

Today I showered and when i rinsed out my condtioner i did it with my head upside down (icequeens method for better clumps and root curl), I then squeezed the water out with my shamwows. I put a smaller amount of creme bule in the parts of my hair that needed some moisture advoiding my roots and then put ag recoil on the hair as well. My hair still seemd to be dripping so i difused just still it stoped dripping. My curls seemed to start to fall though about 15 minutes later so i went back and difused again till almost dry and they perked up. I parted my hair down the middle and it seemed to get better curls than the previous to the side method. My layers arent too noticably uneven when parted down the middle which is good. I used the pixi curl method. I left my camera at work so i coudlnt get really good pics. Here are the ones i got with my cell. my hair frizzed a little after dinner and i seemed to have lost some curl definition when i SOTC but it looks ok.
temp 30 degrees
humidtity 67%
dew point 22 degrees

Day 9

I followed the exact same routine as yesterday except i advoided getting as much arcangell at the roots. Next time I will advoid any at the roots at all. it dosent seem the help the curl pattern there as it falls flat and then its just crunchy and hard to SOTC. Today it was 50 degreese humidity of 81% dew point of 45. I feel a bit producty so i will try to lower the amount of product used tomorrow but i think the combo seems to be working.

the back looks awesome and has good volume i even see some sprials forming back there, bigger looser ones but still some actual 3A curls.

Day 8 Mild Improvment. Almost a Good Hair Day

Some success today. I used a bit too much product, especially at the roots. But all in all my curls are soft touchable. It still looks a little wet in the places where I used too much prouduct and wasnt able to SOTC (scrunch out the crunch). I will try the same combo tomorrow with less product at the roots.

Low Poo
One Condition and finger comb rinse fully out
Scrunched with shamwow
Raked/scrunched in Curls Creme Bule then AG ReCoil then Deva ArcAngell even roots. Used a bit more creme Bule than usual on spots of hair that seemed to need moisture. Used maybe a bit too much DAA

Plopped for 10 min
Cliped roots- still havent mastered this
Pixi curl defused till almost dry
Took clips out 10 minutes later

At work SOTC and wet my hands slightly to get the little bit of frizz/ unruley strands to lay back down. Even after being in the wind it still looks ok. I would like some more curl defintion especially at the roots, and it would be great if it could be a little tighter too.

43 degrees 35% humidity dew point 17 degrees

Day 7 CG

I co washed and conditioned my hair in the evening on day 6 after the gym. I then squeezed out the water with my shamwow and attempted to let my hair air dry without any product to see if it would do anything diffrent since starting CG. It felt fairly healthy, not any softer than since I started. It too forever to dry and did its usual frizzy big thing. I pulled it up to sleep in it.

The next morning I wet my hair with the shower head and tryed my best to finger comb out the knots from the night before. I then put the Creme Bule in my hair raking and scrunching it in. I did the same with the Ion mousse. I then ploped for about 10 minutes. After that I attempted to put in some clips

Im getting bettter at it but I still need work. I think difused using the pixi curl method till mostly dry. I left the clips in till I had to leave for work, maybe anohter 10 minutes after drying.

 I had some decent lift at the roots from the clips.

 It is very peicey, not many nice clumps.

 the underside of it with all of my little s waves that want to be curls but the hair is so fried

 

It looked ok. Went off to work with decent volume. An hour later I schruned out the chrunch.The last three are after that. Still looking wet and still a bit crunchy. Definatly not the soft natural look I was going for. Off to ulta to find a product that will activate and define my curls without looking wet or being crunchy! Argh!

Day 6 CG

Ok today didnt go so well at first, but it seems to be a bit better now. This morning I low poo'ed and one conditioned rinsing all the conditioner out. The i blotted dry squeezing out the water with my sham wow. Then i raked/finger combed some Curls Creme Bule and Deva Arc Angelll into my hair. I then ploped for about 10 minutes. I then diffused till 100% dry (i DID NOT pixi curl difuse). I was a fly away crappy mess. Partially through the difuse I remmebered to clip but i dont think it did any good. I need to remember to put them in before I start to dry the hair.

I re wet my hair added in some Ion mousse I have (i will have to look up the exact name when I get home) I did a quick internet search and it seems to be CG friendly. I screnched the curls back into my hair with the mousse and went to work. later in the day i Scrunched out the crunch. It feels mostly touchable now. Here are pictures.

It is so hard to get good pictures of black hair. Turns out my camera shows the curls better than my cell does. I am going to try the mousse again tomorrow. It seems to bring out my curl the best without weighing it down.

First Post

I have been following curly girl for a week tomorrow. I have been doing a lot of trial and error so I wanted a central location where I could write what worked and what didnt. I can write on this and post pics at home or work.

these are some pictures from the first few days going CG.The bottom one is pre CG. I used Ion curl enhancing shampoo and conditioner as well as their curl enhancing creme and their mousse. The picture at the top is the old routine but ploped. The third pic is my first day using Deva Low Poo and Deval One condition with Deva ArcAngell, ploping and attempting to use my difuser. The second pic is day two of the same.



I am going to try and post my routine semi regularly as well as with pictures so I can reference back to what worked and what did not so I can hopefully figure out this CG thing and have some awesome hair.