Moving onto what didn’t work: as I probably should’ve expected, the lack of moisturizer definitely impacted the results. As mentioned before, I would normally work a moisturizer into the drier sections of my hair to help the curls clump, but I wasn’t able to do that here. As a result, the dry spot in the back was definitely not as well defined as the rest of my hair. This doesn’t bother me that much though because I tend to care more about the curls that frame my face anyway. Out of sight, out of mind, as the saying goes.
Even on the first day though, I could tell that my hair was not well moisturized. It had a very dry, stiff sound – the classic dry hay sound that you’re told to watch out for. (I tried to capture this on video, but failed. ☹️ ) For this reason, I don’t think I’d use this one product method again. My hair needs some added moisture to it to get the soft definition I’m used to in a wash n’ go. In a pinch, it’s good to know that I can use just flaxseed gel to define my curls, but long term I think my hair needs more moisture. I also learned that I should be using more flaxseed gel than I had been before.