First Impression - True Conditioning Styling Cream by Made Beautiful

This product was in a Curlkit (no idea what month) and I thought I would give it a go. At first glance, I didn’t know what to use it for as when I first received it I was in a protective style. As the name suggests, it is a styling cream. 

The directions are as follows:

Apply to damp or dry hair. Place a small amount into the palm of your hands, and then rub hands together. Gently work into your hair and scalp, showing extra love to the ends. Style as desired.

And the ingredients look promising:

Water (Aqua), Glycine soja (Soybean) Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Dilaurate, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglycerides, Fragrance (Parfum), Glycerin, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Oil, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Polyquaternium 11, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice, Tocopheryl Acetate, Aminomethyl Propanol, Carbomer, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Beta-Carotene

I still didn’t know what I would use it for until recently. Last week’s WNG was a miss. So I decided to redefine with this product. It has this heavenly sweet smell, just like honey and mango. A+ for the mango scent because I love mangoes. The texture is a light creamy consistency like a rinse out conditioner. It's thick but creamy.

When I first put this in my hair, it was on old hair that was frizzy, semi-defined and already had product in it (i.e. Gel, leave-in, etc.). So it was a little sticky/tacky which I lend to the honey and glycerin that’s in the product. However, my coils soaked this product right up and with a few squeezes of the section after applying, my coils clumped back together.

Added bonus, this product promotes stretch and elongation which it delivered on. My coils, which are usually tight, round O coils where loosened just a bit to S curls. When it dried, my hair was a bit soft but had a light hold to it.

The second application, I decided to redefine with this product was on hair freshly done hair (2 days old) that was LCO’d and defined originally with IC Fantasia gel. Same results, as the first application. First a bit tacky but then soft when it dried.
 

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The price is reasonable at $9.99 for 8 ounces (~$1.25/ounce). However, I currently can't get this on the ground so I would have to order from the site. The site offers a $5.00 flat rate shipping fee. Which means unless I'm ordering some of their other products I'm paying $14.99 for 8 ounces. I generally try not to pay over $1 per ounce for a product unless is it sent from the Gods.

The Verdict: 8/10. So far, so good. I like that is does what is says. It did elongate my coils (even if is was just a bit) and gave my WNG a new shape because of it. I will be trying this on under my WNG next week to see if the results are the same.