Squish to condish!

you almost start styling the curls whilst it's wet by 'scrunching' (remember that method, with gel or mousse?).

That's my theory.

I wish I'd had the thought 15 years ago of giving what I did a fancy name and marketing it online 😉 I could have been a curly girl hero by now lol

I really don't get it. I might be missing something.
Why squish water into your hair? It would be easier to wash as normal, brush your hair (with wide tooth comb or tangle teezer) and scrunch your hair as it'll be soaking wet out of the shower.

I think the idea is to squish the water into your hair and seal it with the conditioner.
I don't really understand fully what it does, I just know it works for me and instead of wondering how it works why don't you just try it and see how it goes for you?

I know that the added conditioner adds firmness and definition to my curls in the shower.

I think the idea is to get the water further into the hair to fully re-hydrate it. Apparently it takes quite a long time for hair to fully absorb water, so the squishing must help.

I'll try it soon and see if it feels any different to what I used to do. My hair is suddenly deciding to curl on its own again, but it's too short to do it the way I used to, so this might be a bit more useful to force the curl back in.

I think the idea is to get the water further into the hair to fully re-hydrate it. Apparently it takes quite a long time for hair to fully absorb water, so the squishing must help.

Yeah this is it! Then the remaining conditioner seals in the water that you just put into the hair. You want your hair at the end of squishing to be very visibly wet but not dripping water. It can take a while if your hair is very dry, so the first few times you do it it will still drip a bit but the more I do it the less my hair drips so my hair's getting more moisturised.

It took a good 8 hours for my hair to dry today after doing this and it doesn't feel very nice now.  I can't wait to get the conditioner all rinsed out tomorrow.  Maybe my hair is a different texture but the conditioner  weighted my hair down and it's not as curly as it usually is.  Maybe I didn't do something right.    I used Happy Hair conditioner w/o silicones.

Just tried this with slightly odd results. Attached a crude time line below, going left to right: before bleaching, average state of un-pin-curled bleached hair, and after trying the squish to condish method and letting my hair try over night (using the curly girl tshirt plopping method... thing). T

he curls it's given me look more like how my pin curls look than the waves I used to have before bleaching, they're sort of... thinner? Less curly at the top too. Still, a very nice result, though my hair does feel less dry and clean than it usually does straight after washing. I reckon I'll have to wash again after 4-5 days rather than my usual 6-8. I used a fair bit of mousse to achieve this style too. I wonder if it would have gone as curly just blowdryed it.

Gawd I miss just blowdrying my hair straight out of the shower and getting perfect waves :'(

you almost start styling the curls whilst it's wet by 'scrunching' (remember that method, with gel or mousse?).

That's my theory.

I wish I'd had the thought 15 years ago of giving what I did a fancy name and marketing it online 😉 I could have been a curly girl hero by now lol

😀

I think the idea is to get the water further into the hair to fully re-hydrate it. Apparently it takes quite a long time for hair to fully absorb water, so the squishing must help.

Ah, that's a good explanation!

Tonight's my hair-washing night, so I'll try this, or some version (what I understand anyway). 🙂  Perhaps not to curl per se, but to really get a good conditioning.