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Confused pourous or not?
 
zebedie
Posted: 28 January 2011 08:29 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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I am a type 2c, with dry, frizzy unmanagable hair.  The top layer being the most frizzy.

The strands themselves are course; if I run my fingers along the length of a strand of hair it seems quite thick and varies in thickness - it feels quite bumpy.

The thing i’m not sure about is whether my hair is pourous or not.

It takes an age to wet my hair in the shower and the water seems initially to just run off it, however once it is wet it then takes an age to dry as it seems to hold on to the water.  I did read that if you put a strand of hair into a bowl of water and it floats it is not pourous.  I did this and it floated - but I did have product on my hair at the time which could prevented the water being absorbed into the strand. 

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type 2c course hair, low porosity
very dry and frizzy on the outer layers
just started CG routine this week - still finding my way with it

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oddityofwings
Posted: 28 January 2011 09:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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The getting wet/dry thing is the most fool-proof porosity test - and taking forever to get wet/dry suggests low porosity.

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3a/b/c.  F/M/ii Normal porosity. Corkicelli/Botticelli type curls.  CG (more or less) for three years and counting!

cowash: Suave; CJ DF as needed
rinse-outs/leave-ins: CJ Smoothing/CR, Yes to Carrots, DBPSC, MT daily, Tigi Oatmeal and Honey, DBPKM
styling: CJ CQ/CIAB/CCCC, Boots Pink (especially with CIAB!), BRHG, DB Cream Gel

Constantly battling the hard water monster.

Product review/ random hair rant blog: http://hairapparently.blogspot.com/ (updated 4 June!)

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zebedie
Posted: 28 January 2011 09:24 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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So you can have frizzy hair but with low porosity??? I always assumed that as my hair was very frizzy it was very pourous!

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type 2c course hair, low porosity
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just started CG routine this week - still finding my way with it

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oddityofwings
Posted: 28 January 2011 09:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Frizziness has nothing to do with porosity.  Frizziness is more down to whether your hair is moisturised or not.

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3a/b/c.  F/M/ii Normal porosity. Corkicelli/Botticelli type curls.  CG (more or less) for three years and counting!

cowash: Suave; CJ DF as needed
rinse-outs/leave-ins: CJ Smoothing/CR, Yes to Carrots, DBPSC, MT daily, Tigi Oatmeal and Honey, DBPKM
styling: CJ CQ/CIAB/CCCC, Boots Pink (especially with CIAB!), BRHG, DB Cream Gel

Constantly battling the hard water monster.

Product review/ random hair rant blog: http://hairapparently.blogspot.com/ (updated 4 June!)

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zebedie
Posted: 28 January 2011 09:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Low porosity it is then!!!

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type 2c course hair, low porosity
very dry and frizzy on the outer layers
just started CG routine this week - still finding my way with it

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