BLACtresses: Merry Christmas to My Hair!

Merry Christmas Bloggers!

I decided to give my hair a Christmas present and try out my new Shea Moisture Deep Treatment Masque. I bought it on sale at the Bryant Street Market (click here for sale details).

I applied the masque to my dry hair. It also doubles as a leave-in moisturizer - shout outs to double duty! Also loving that it is packed full of natural, organic, and raw ingredients:

Contains de-ionized water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea butter) (denotes certified organic ingredients), Argan oil, vegetable glycerin, emulsifying wax, sea kelp extract, Panthenol (vitamin B-5), essential oil blend, avocado oil, Lonicera Caprifolium (honeysuckle) flower and Lonicera Japonica (Japanese honeysuckle) flower extract, Tocopherol (vitamin E), Hyssopus Officinalis Extract, Salvia Officinalis (sage) leaf and Equisetum Arvense Extract, soybean oil and Daucus Carota Sativa (carrot) seed oil.

Some people may think that the smell is off-putting, but I LOVE IT! I think it is like the quintessential "I'm wearing my natural hair" product smell! My cat won't stop sniffing my head - she loves it too! lol. The masque is a super buttery and creamy texture so applying it was simps!

I left it on for about an hour or two (watched a tv movie in the meantime). When my movie was over, I felt my hair and IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO SUPER SOFT. Couldn't take my hands out of it. Finally, I pulled away and washed my hair (with the masque still in it) with the Shea Moisture Yucca & Baobab Thickening Shampoo. Oooh yummy! Smells so good and left my hair feeling really soft with no nasty product residue. It's nice because with some shampoos you can feel the gross waxy yuck on your hair, but that was not the case with Shea Moisture. I rinsed everything out and towel dried. Here's the shampoo deets:

Baobab oil- contains Vitamins A,C,D,E and F to fortify and strengthen hair.
Yucca- thickens hair and helps to prevent hair loss.
Biotion- strengthens hair follicle.

Ingredients: deionized water, decyl glucoside (sugar beets), yucca soap, butyrospermum parkii (shea) oil, aloe vera leaf juice, adansonia digitata (baobab) extract, biotin, sodium lauroyl lactylate (coconut oil), vegetable protein, yucca filamentosa extract, rosemary extract, bamboo extract, lonicera caprifolium (honeysuckle) flower (and) lonicera japonica (japenese honeysuckle) flower extract.

Okay, so after all of that, I applied the Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie, combed through my hair with a wide-toothed comb to finish detangling, and followed it up with the Shea Moisture Curling Souffle to lock in the already defined curls. I took a blow dryer with a concentrator and stretched my curls by grabbing the ends in a big handful (so the curls wouldn't straighten) and applying the warm/cool air to the root and middle. Voilà!