![]() Except one wash day, I scrunched a lot, and the other I scrunched minimally. To attempt to control other variables, I did my best to do the same routine, including the same products and the same techniques, on two different wash days. Also, so I could share with you guys!Ĭomparing results from minimal scrunching vs scrunching a lot However, for the sake of this blog post, I wanted to try out minimal scrunching, and then scrunching for a long time, so I could directly compare. I just tried it once, and felt it was giving me better results so I continued. I have been scrunching longer (a couple of minutes, vs maybe 10 squishes total in the past) for a few weeks. Scrunching more after you’ve added products will do less ‘damage’ to your curl clumps. Scrunching at the right part of your routine can make a big difference! Scrunching at the end of the shower without products in your hair may cause your clumps to break up badly and introduce a lot of frizz. Meaning, if curl clumps are the most important aspect to you, scrunching less may be the better option for you. However, it does produce skinnier curl clumps. I have found that scrunching for a few minutes after adding my products gives me a better cast, and more consistent waves. Make sure your hair is wet and/or conditioned as you scrunch to avoid creating frizz. If you want more consistent waves, better definition, or to better distribute your hair products, scrunch for a couple of minutes. If you want the biggest clumps possible, minimal scrunching is best. It explains (And shows) how squish to condish helps get water and conditioner over ALL of your hair, for a more successful conditioning. In a nutshell though, it explains how traditional washing/conditioning methods don’t get hair strands evenly saturated, and don’t get hair strands evenly coated in conditioner, either. It helped me to understand how/why squish to condish is a more effective way of conditioning hair. I read this article from “the science-y hair blog” titled: Conditioning technique: Squish To Condish, how it works. The purpose of squish to condish while in the shower is to spread out your conditioner, and to get water and conditioner into your hair strands. Then I step back under the showerhead for a second or two to soak it again, squish some more, etc. Then I step out of the showerhead and squish while my hair is soaking wet, until it starts to lose some water. ![]() My lower-effort version of squish to condish while in the shower is to pop my head under the showerhead for a second or two, to get it soaking wet. More tedious than what I am willing to do, frankly. I find it extremely tedious to continuously cup water into my hair. I personally also consider it ‘squish to condish’ if I scrunch my hair while it’s absolutely soaking wet. If you look up squish to condish tutorials on YouTube, you’ll see people in the shower, cupping their hand to collect water, and then taking that cupped hand to grasp a section of hair and scrunch it. Squish to condish is squeezing your hair in your hand while you have cupped water in your hand. Meaning it could be done on wet, damp or dry hair. Scrunching is any time that you grasp your hair in your hand and squeeze. Scrunching and squish to condish are not exactly the same thing. ![]() ![]() Let me get a bit more into the details first though!Īre scrunching and squish to condish the same thing? I did one wash day where I did a little scrunching, and one wash day where I did a lot of scrunching, so I could compare for you all. I’ve learned a few things, and realized a couple things about my own hair, in the last couple of months that have changed my technique. I still don’t think that was a bad technique. I would just scrunch a couple of times at the very end of my shower, scrunch each section of my hair once after applying my mousse, and then if my roots were really falling flat before I was done diffusing, I’d sometimes scrunch with a shirt (aka microplop – click for my microplopping tutorial) an additional time to avoid those flat/straight roots. I also recognized that if I walked around after my shower for quite a while, my roots would start to fall flat, and that scrunching again could help revive some waves to the top of my strands.įor about 2.5 years, my goal was to scrunch enough to form clumps but not so much as to cause my clumps to break up or get frizz. ![]() Early on when attempting the curly girl method, I felt like scrunching my hair much at all would make my hair more frizzy, and would break up my curl clumps quite a bit.Īt the same time, I did recognize that scrunching my hair right at the end of my shower helped my hair to separate from one big blob into clumps. ![]()
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