Evolution of a very Coily Wash and Go (Pt. 1)

I remember this time last spring, I had just freed my hair for the summer and was baffled by what to do with it. My hair, back then and still to this day, is terribly uneven with all my shortness in the front and my longness in the back. I had no time to deal with my hair and with this unevenness, the Twist out was out of the question.

Bring in the Wash and Go. Since the beginning of time, or me being natural, I have wanted to be one of those girls who can set their hair in a wash and go and be done. I am lazy and while I love playing in my hair, when I need to be out and about, I don’t have time for it to not be on point and acting right.

When I first went natural, I often grabbed random sections, defined the coils with whatever products in my stash, and that was it. Never the entire head until my first wash and go. While most of my coils popped, the shape of the hair fall and the products that I used were a horrible combination.
 
The Moptop circa 2011:

Fast forward to 2015, I was not going to make the same mistake and while I learned that I can wet and shake my coils into place, as soon as my head lay to pillow, those soft coils are out the window. So, on this day that I freed my hair, I grabbed my Eco styler gel, smoothed and raked it through my hair, and after pulling out my hair and beating my coils into place, I did have a nice wash and go. Nicely defined at the ends, puff ball at the roots. Lovely! Just what I wanted.

When all else fails, hit youtube. Introducing, The Fake Wash and Go.

I had discovered that sometimes when I would twist my hair in Two Strand twists, that when I unraveled, my hair didn’t take the shape of my normal twist outs. Instead, there were these tiny coils that were defined and stretched. Ah ha! Break through! This is what I would do all summer long. Fake Wash and Gos.

Bust! I didn’t know what the hell I did to get my hair to fake that WNG look. And after figuring it out, my break through idea fell short because my hair felt hard, dry, and crunchy even though I did use any gel. Needless to say, that summer was then filled with awkward length twists and twistouts with headbands.

More to come...