Mixed Chicks

 Leave-In Conditioner For Curl Definition And Frizz Control

Most Helpful Positive Review

I am not directly mixed,

I am not directly mixed, but as we all do I have mixed lineage a few generations back and in general as well (none of us is pure anything). I am a natural (Last relaxer April 2012, BC Oct 2012) African American woman with thick and dense extremely defined 3C hair all over. Except the very bottom bac...k & sides of my head is tighter 4a sized curls but extremely defined as well. My hair is naturally soft (I get it from my mom and grandmothers on both sides) so I hadn't been able to find anything that I could use for a wash an go that would be light enough to define my hair without either shrinking & crunching them a lot once dry or causing them to separate and frizz up while styling on wet hair. I have to use styling butters and creams to do twist-outs. They come out lovely but they do tend to make my curls appear smaller than they really are. Mixed Chicks is the first product I have found that I am able to simply apply in medium sections at a time, diffuse a little and let air dry (not touching my hair AT ALL). There is a little shrinking but not too much, my hair is a tiny bit crunchy but not enough to annoy me. How I prepared for MC's leave in: Overnight I prepooed with coconut oil, sectioned and saturated my entire head, two-strand twisted my hair, covered with a plastic cap then my satin scarf. I washed out the coconut oil with Carol's Daughter Hair Milk Cowashing Conditioner and conditioned with their Smoothing Conditioner. After rinsing out the conditioner I then applied a home mixed mixture of oils to soaking wet hair to seal in moisture (Olive, Jojoba, Grape Seed, Avocado, Sweet Almond, and Castor) and then followed up by applying Mixed Chicks in medium sections and somewhat all over. I am at work now and getting complements from coworkers who are use to seeing me with my twist outs (which they love as well) but they seem to prefer my natural curls on display. I can't wait to see what my hair will look like with this product as it gets longer. Would I recommend to others? I would say yes, BUT this product is certainly not for every hair texture/curl type. It may work fine for ladies with much tighter curls if they use it to do their twist outs, but as an all over leave in conditioner to define your curls it is not really formulated for that type of curl pattern, regardless of how it may be marketed. Before I began to wear my curls out I tried this product with the MC's shampoo on a friend's hair. She has curls in all 3 subcategories of the type 4 category and it did nothing for her hair. So yes it will help alleviate a lot of your frizz (if it is not due to damage) but it will only define the curls you have, not give you curls. If you have big curls it will define them, medium it will define them and if you have tiny curls so tiny your hair looks like a cloud, it will still look like a cloud after this product. I would say the looser your curls the better this product is suited for your hair.