Last night's wash & set was a mega hit! My hair was so freakin shiny, soft & moisturized and it was all a beautiful accident. With caring for the baby, I have to do things step by step (hours apart from each other) but I'm finding as long as I start the process early in the day I will be done by bedtime. I think these things are what made the biggest impact though:
*Pre-poo'd 2 hours, washed, DC'd 3 hours then applied Giovanni Direct as a leave in & sectioned hair. Spritzed with a tiny amount of aloe vera juice and put shower cap back on until I had a chance to roll my hair. (Which was almost a hour and a half later) My hair experienced the ultimate conditioning, even down to the leave in!
*air dried my set for dang near 8 hours and took the rollers out before bed. I had no intention on doing this, but just couldn't get time to myself to sit under the dryer more than 30 mins. Speaking of dryers: The temperature is set to the max on my hair dryer which is around 176 and I think this was drying my hair out (literally). After seeing the results with air drying under the cool air of my fan, I turned the temperature on my dryer down by 100 and it's now set to 76 or 78 I think. I'll test it out more in the months to come.
Blairx0 and anyone who has the LCL dryer, what temp do you set your dryer on?
Sorry no pics...it was dang near midnight when I took the rollers down so all I could think about was how good my bed was gonna feel.