Squish to condish method free#

When I squish in the water, I'm no longer rinsing from above. If you give this method a try, let me know how it goes! Happy holidays, curlies!Īhhh I'm so thrilled to know someone else understands my obsession with the Suave mousse! It's just the cheapest/best product that I've ever fallen in love with. I then squeeze out my hair with a flour sack towel, which I find are much gentler for squeezing water out of hair than a normal bath towel. I apply my mousse or jelly in the shower, because it's quick and easy. I have found I can easily skip the leave in conditioner with this and move right to a mousse (I still adore my Suave Captivating Curls mousse) or a gel (my current favorite gel product is the Curl Enhancing Jelly from Spiral Solutions). If your hair is extremely dehydrated, you might have to stop for fear of wasting water/product before the dripping really stops.Ĩ) Style your hair like you usually would. The first time I did this, it took like 6 tries to get the water to stop dripping. Think of it like this: you're trying to swell up the cuticle in the center of each hair strand, so you're trying to replace the conditioner with water.ĥ) Add more conditioner using a squishing motion.ħ) How much? How many times? You should keep doing this until your hair is very wet, but it stops dripping water out. Squish the water upward into your conditioned hair, forming curls. The focus of this step is getting the hair evenly coated and working out tangles, so if you need to use a wide toothed comb to help out, go for it.Ĥ) Now, instead of just running water over to rinse, take your hands and cup some water in them. You can finger comb it through for this step. Rinse out your preferred washing agent like normal.Ģ) Move your hair off of your head with your fingers so that it's not all stuck to your scalp.ģ) Grab a big pile of conditioner and start working it through your hair until it feels slippery like seaweed. Hair before using Squish to Condish methodĪs you can see, the squish to condish made a huge difference (I also got rid of my stringy ends with a haircut, but the overall curl pattern in the before photo is still representative of what my normal hair looks like without using this method).ġ) Wash your hair however you normally would, whether that's conditioner washing or shampoo washing.

Here's the before and after, and then I will explain what this method is all about and how you can do it with the products that you're already using. I thought my hair was pretty well hydrated overall and I was quite happy with it!īut, as you can probably guess, that all changed after I gave this method a whirl.

Squish to condish method free#

I don't follow the true Curly Girl method anymore (I use a sulfate free shampoo rather than conditioner washing), so I didn't think that the method would be super beneficial for me. I read about the Squish to Condish method on a hair forum, and I was skeptical. So if there's one thing that I love about having time off for the holiday season, it's the extra days to experiment with my hair knowing that if an experiment utterly fails, it's ok because I don't have to go to class!