HIts:
* Daily ACV spritz under conditoner!: Ok, I've been doing ACV rinses once a week since Dec or Jan. But I had no idea the marvels of using it under a conditioner until I read about it in the archives this week. And I hadn't thought about doing a lite ACV treatment with a spray bottle. It's so light, you can do it daily.
So this week, I'm doing an ACV spritz on my hair in the shower before my daily condition wash. I leave it in and slather on conditioner for 3 minutes while I'm showering. When I rinse it out -- I really don't even need a comb to detangle. My hair is soft and untangled. I'm amazed!!
* Colorfix: Last month Colourshines black orchid colored my highlights turquoise. While Colorfix could not lift all the turquoise out, it did remove the deep, blue black color that was too Morticia like for me with no peroxide or ammonia. It's made by Jherri Redding. I bought it at Robertcraig.com. This allowed me to do a somewhat softer dark shade.
* Chocolate Brown powder color by Robert Craig: Much like Bigen this uses no peroxide or ammonia, or alchohol. It's very gentle and gives good coverage. My hair is not as hard afterwards as it is with Bigen and this color, to me, fades less than Bigen.
* Airdrying for Aphogee Treatment. At first I didn't like doing this with heat and was going to throw my Aphogee away. But someone suggest airdrying. And that worked FABULOUSLY!
* Humectress- I used to use it years ago and stopped because I was using too much and my hair was getting too soft. Now, I know how to use it in small dabs and it's the best leave in for me.
Misses:
* All Ways Oil Moisturizer -- I used to love this stuff and couldn't live without it about 7 years ago when I had below shoulder length hair. But for some reason it's too heavy for me now.
Weird.
* 911 leave in-- too thick of a liquid for me.
* Aphogee spray in/leave in keratin and green tea restructizer: Too drying, even though my hair loves protein and I probably use more protein than the average person.
* HOney in conditioner-- OK, so mixed olive oil and coconut oil in my conditioners for a deep moisturizing treatment has been great. This week I tried to add honey. Well I must have added to much ...or perhaps I shouldn't have heated the concoction
...but I had to shampoo after the deep condition because some strands were sticking together. I'm so glad I didn't get under a heat cap. I fear I would have glued some strands together!...I'm scared to try honey again.
