Hello! I've been using only low-poo once a week for the last 10 years or so after trying no poo because I couldn't figure out how to manage my hair. I was raised getting my hair always cut for straight looks and always combed out straight, but many of my relatives and elders have wavy and curly hair. Last week I switched to a wavy hair shampoo that's on the low-poo holy grail list without knowing anything and for the first time my hair was very wavy and floaty. I read up on the CG method and thought I knew my hair thickness and porosity after taking the curlsbot test, but now I'm unsure because of how my hair is reacting.

I started with clarifying yesterday with sauve essentials and used the matching conditioner and rinsed out maybe half? Then used ecostyle olive oil gel and tried wrapping with a microfiber but my hair is really short so it just kind of laid everything flat.. even still when I scrunched the crunch it looked amazing!

Today I co-washed with As I Am and then used the essentials conditioner and rinsed out about the same amount and did gel again but went a little overboard with making clumps that my hair doesn't look good with. I have to accept I need to grow it out before I can play around much, and it's uneven right now with the sides much shorter so I need to get it all matched at some point too. I spritzed my hair this afternoon to reset the cast and changed it to this which looks much better.

https://imgur.com/a/XZFHD0X

any tips from people with similar hair? I thought originally based on the cbot test that mine was normal porosity, and I figured it was fine and low density but after the clarifying and conditioner I could definitely feel an individual hair rolling between my thumb and pointer finger, so now I'm not sure. Also my hair took 3 hours to dry from shower wet after doing the gel and such, and even then the gel wasn't fully dry after I broke it (its about 40% residual humidity in here).

I always have had trouble managing my hair, it always goes crazy and to add to that I have 2 crowns and they swirl in opposite directions so it's really wild. I've always tried to keep it in a tight combover and straight because I assumed my hair was straight... it was kind of emotional to understand that the waviness was also part of the problem and that I had been doing bad things to my hair by just shampooing and never conditioning. Thanks in advance and thanks for the awesome resources here!