Beauty

[bebe777]

HIlary, I'm so glad you started this thread because lately I've been experimenting with how much CC to add as a leave in. 

I love Chaz's on air presentations, but the one area where I feel he's been somewhat vague is in regard to how much CC to use for the leave in. Maybe it has to do with which model he's doing each demonstration with, but I felt as though I kept getting conflicting information. Sometimes he'd say a dime size, other times he'd say a quarter size... and other times he'd say one pump, but was that from the 16oz CC or the 32oz CC bottle??? -- Of course, at the end of the day, it's going to vary from person to person, so a bit of experimenting is necessary

I have (not a lot of) thin/fine, shoulder length hair. Recently I decided to try increasing the amount of both CC and SC that I used as a leave in and see what happened. 

When I first started using Wen, at the end of 2009 (Dec TSV), my hair was a damaged, dry, tragic mess. From my very first cleanse, Wen improved the quality of my hair. Very exciting! But since my hair is naturally very porous, initially I couldn't put very much leave in product in my hair because it would leak out leaving me with greasy hair (FIG and SAM are still too heavy for my hair). I probably started with about a dime size of CC (16oz bottle) and 1/4 pump of SC (more SC just weighed my hair down). 

Somewhere in between the first and second year, I decided to brave using more Wen leave in product. I found that I could use 1/2 pump of CC (16oz bottle) and 1/2 pump of SC. And I just kept it like that until recently. 

Eariler this month I started increasing what I used for my Wen leave in. I'm still experimenting but right now I'm using 3/4 pump of CC (16oz bottle) and 1.5 pumps of SC. -- SInce my hair is so porous, I thought that using more SC might help to seal my hair cuticle and keep more moisture in. I've been surprised to see that because Wen has improved the overall health of my hair that now the additional SC hasn't weighed my hair down. -- My thin hair also gets very frizzy and the additional SC has helped tame it.

I also add the CC followed by the SC to dripping/soaking wet hair while I'm still in the shower. Then I blot dry my hair with an old 100% cotton T-shirt and then add the 613 mousse to my hair. Chaz says to add the mousse to soaking wet hair for better distribution, but this works better for me (maybe because I don't have a lot of hair). 

-- bebe