The miserly portions recommended by nearly every hair-care product I've ever used have often misled me. The suggested portions seem to be meant for people with doll-size heads. The truth for us curly girls is that those tiny sizes aren't meant for our hair, but for limp hair that collapses with the slightest amount of weight. Our hair is different, so an entirely different set of rules applies. The suggested portions would be but a helpless drop in the sea of our hair. When reading the suggested amount of conditioner on the bottle, I usually think, There, there, isn't that adorable? What a precious amount! Look how cute. They think my hair would even notice a dime-size portion like that.
Then I squeeze out a copious, healthy amount of hair conditioner into my palm - the size of which has nothing whatsoever to do with their recommended portion. Remember, those directions were not written for your curls. They were written for wimpy, lifeless hair that's easily deflated, not for your vigorous, spirited coils that laugh in the face of a little hair conditioner. You have to use enough for your hair to notice.
This is very important: If you think you put in too much hair conditioner, then that should be just about the right amount. It's best to use roughly a palmful of hair conditioner for each half of your hair, especially if it's longer than shoulder-length as well as thick. This might sound like a huge amount at first, but your thick curls need lots of hair conditioner. They also absorb much more conditioner than flat or wavy hair does. It's better to err on the side of too much hair conditioner, because it self-regulates. Try to use too much, and see what happens. If you put on too much, it'll be combed out while you're combing your hair. When I put in hair conditioner, it glops all over everything. By the time I'm done combing, the conditioner has disappeared; it's been combed into my hair.
Be bold and experiment. Know that if you put too little in, your curls won't have the weight and control they need. And you probably won't discover this until your hair is dry, and you're noticing that it looks a bit fuzzy and your curls are beginning to puff apart. It can be fixed at that point, but not easily.
The main point is, you won't know all the wonders that hair conditioner can do for your hair unless you have enough of it in there. True, until you get used to using the healthy portions that are meant for thick curls, it might seem like too much. Remember, though, most of the conditioner is water, so the bulk of it will evaporate. That's why you need to apply plenty of it. This way, once your hair has dried, ample portions of the other ingredients are left behind to do their magic. You'll find that you can use much more conditioner than you realized. The trick is to use a lot. Too little, and it won't make much of a difference in your thick curls.
In addition to weighing down longer curls and giving them touchable control, the conditioner also moisturizes your hair. You'll no longer need hairdressing if you used it before. Suddenly, with the proper use of conditioner, your hair will be touchable and moisturized but not greasy. I found that using conditioner in this way truly revolutionized how my hair behaved.
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