list of my personal cg dos and donts

yay list time!

good/do

1. alberto vo5 moisture milks passion fruit smoothie
2. gvp conditioning balm
3. bioterra curling creme

bad/dont

1. using my suave naturals conditioner with water as a leave in to put in my hair to fix second day hair. makes my hair abit greasy.
2. scrubbing in crazy rough motions to co wash(it will get just as clean if you are gentle) it gets to tangled which make my hair more prone to fall out when i detangle with my wide tooth comb.
3. when using gvp conditioning balm as rinse out/detangle let it sit for 2 min ish in damp hair then detangle. do not detangle on wet hair as soon as product is applied.

just an update. 5 days cg 8/15/09

so i checked my ticker and its been 5 days since starting cg. i have to say there is definite improvement. also, even though its only been such a short time i have learned alot about my hair and what and what not to do. in another post i will make a dos and dont list which i will continue to update as the time goes on. but anyways i think i will try water washing on some of the days that i dont co wash. i want to keep the washing to a min of 3 times a week or so. also when i washed my hair today it was so tangled i also think part of it had to do on how much movement and stuff from the cowash i lost alot of hairs but i know its my fault so i have learned my lesson also i tried using my suave ocean breeze mixed with water for second day hair as a leave in and it was the worst thing i couldve done. i will never do that again! later on in the day i will do another wash just because i used to much of my gvp cb as a leave in so that i could detangle my knotted ass hair and my hair is feeling slightly oily. and ughh i want to cut some of my damaged hair off but my mom insists on me waiting a couple of weeks to do this and think it over. but im convinced theres nothing to think about i want to cut it its not like i want it chen length either, but i just think the damaged hair is just a lost cause that needs to go and also it might be weighing my hair down for no good reason and its making it more difficult for me to really manage. ughhhh! anyways goodbye cause i have to start getting on everybodys case to get ready so that we can go to church:)

my cg products/routine

my hair responds well to biolage and tigi catwalk oatmeal and honey but those are pretty expensive plus we are in an economy crisis yall! so im beggining cg method with inexpensive products. although they are cheap in price they are great and of good quality(imo)


1st week



products i am using now/ routine



co wash: vo5 moisturising milks passion fruit smoothie

rinseout: gvp conditioning balm

style: biotera curl creme

thats it! im going cg!

so its time that i stop torturing my hair desperately want my mya-like curls that i used to have im sick of this limp frizzy waves/slightly curled parts. im going to get my hairback. oh yeah im that determined! i must admit that i am a little scared. on the 24th of august i will be starting junior year of highschool. it will be the first time in about four years that i will not have straightened my hair for the first week of school or the entire school year for that matter.
i have recently discovered naturallycurly.com it is an amazing website. it is through this website that i learned about the cg method. anyways i tried around february/ march to try and go natural as i was feeling curly inspired( if that makes sense lol) but was not armed with the cg method information. but i must say that many products that have always loved prior to my discovery of cg are actually cg friendly. like vo5 i used to use them cause of the great smell and because they were cheap back in like 2004ish i recall them being $0.99 now they are up to like 1.25 or something like that, i also have always loved biolage and last summer 08 i tried out tigi catwalk oatmeal and honey. they did wonders for my hair so i fell in love.



here is my goal ( which is the same curl pattern/ texture i had before the horrible damage)