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03-09-2007, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 487
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Your favorite drugstore gel
My he be has been pooping out on me lately, and Ive been have frizzy 2a hair by the end of the day. So, I was wondering, what is your favorite drugstore gel?
thanks 
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2c/3a
Growing out hair to a little above bsl
pw: ringlets
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03-09-2007, 02:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 361
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Activate Soft Curls (I think?)
Love the stuff.
My hair is only less curly than yours is but I love it.
That, and good ol' blue Dep sport gel #10.
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2cFii-ish with 3a moments. Always subject to change.
I'm voting for Bunny.
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03-09-2007, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 10,262
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For light hold: L'Oreal Studio Line Tighly Wound spray gel, which I pour b/c I hate the spray cap
For strong hold: HE Body Envy
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*Poster formerly known as Bailey422*
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. ~ George Carlin
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03-09-2007, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 440
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I'm really digging the Tightly Wound for the moment.
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3B with some 3a. Fell off but am now back on the CG bandwagon and looking for my HG products.
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03-09-2007, 04:28 PM
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#5
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,772
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HE Body Envy
Curl Fx Curl Fixative Booster Gel
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Frizz Happens!
my Fotki hair journey/experiment diary PW is brio (and I really need to update it!)
3A hair; coloring with henna/indigo since July 2009; normally follow the CG method. Still searching for my HG products!
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03-09-2007, 04:30 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 847
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Re: Your favorite drugstore gel
i'M HAVING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. This gel was working excellently, then all of a sudden, it....wasn't. 
I really love FX curl booster gel- it has a lot of hold.
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"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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03-09-2007, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,080
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I love the BE but it has been warming up here & getting humid, so I'm getting the same results by the afternoon
This week, I've been experimenting with the entire B2B Jasmine Curl Refresh line - shampoo, conditioner, & curl activating gel. I've been LOVING these 3 products together this past week, but today, the hold of that gel faded with the rising heat & humidity, too (temp was low 80's, humidity around 50%).
It'll be back to my Curl Keeper & Biosilk Rock Hard gel really soon, I guess, because NOTHING I've found holds in the heat & humidity like BRHG!!
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 Discovered nc.com in 09/2003
2b~~fine texture~~normal porosity (except for highlights, which are high, but growing out)~~normal elasticity~~medium density
Low poo: Elucence Moisture Balance poo or Deva Low Poo (scalp only)
Rinse out: Elucence Moisture Balance cond, Renpure (red bottle), Yes to Carrots, Deva One C
Leave in: Aveda Shampure or any of my RO's
Stylers: Summer - CK or KCCC under BRHG; Winter - SS CJE or B&A gel under BRHG
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03-09-2007, 05:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 6,375
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Best drugstore gel I've found is the HE SMU. BE left me too frizzy, but SMU gives good body and hold. Having said that, I do prefer B&A, although it might not be the best for the frizzies.
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3a/2c f/mii. pics added 2/3/07
 
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03-09-2007, 06:48 PM
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#9
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 13,292
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Third vote for Fx Special Effects Curl Booster Fixative Gel!!!
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03-10-2007, 03:46 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 931
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Ok, now I can't just list one... so I have a couple!
LA Looks Sport Gel
ORS Lock and Twist Gel
Fantasia IC gel w/ sparklelites
La Bella Gel (pink one and blue one)
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03-10-2007, 12:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,325
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None of the HE gels hold in humidity for me. I've had decent results with LA Looks -- yellow spray gel only though. I pour it out like regular gel.Got2B is also good, but a very strong hold; I only apply it to very wet hair.
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3B, bra-strap length
laidback, very-modified CGer
HG: GF Sleek 'n Shine Leave-in; Alagio
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03-10-2007, 12:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,280
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I really like Loreal Tightly Wound as well.
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03-10-2007, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,243
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could some one post a pic of the FX gel they use cause the one I have tried has zero hold. thanks
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03-10-2007, 01:25 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 13,292
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Fx Special Effects Curl Booster Fixative Gel
You can click on the picture in the link for a close up.
And you can click on the ingredients link or just scroll down to compare your bottle's ingredients.
However, ignore the following ingredients: Polyacrylamide , C13-14 Isoparaffin , Laureth-7 , Purified Water Aqua , Chamomile Extract , Fragrance Parfum, which come after FD&C Blue #1 because the one I've been buying for over a year does NOT contain any of these on the label!
I refuse to buy anything containing mineral oil, beeswax or paraffin wax!
The UPC for mine is 0 2279681604 7, so check yours to be sure of the one you're using.
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03-10-2007, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,243
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Thank you so much! That has a totally different name then the one I tried so I'll look for next time I go out.
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03-11-2007, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 904
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BTW, Delma--
Your hair is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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3B, with oodles and oodles of curly hair! 
Summer Faves: Devacare NoPoo & OneC, CF High Humidity Gel.
2nd day hair: Deva Set Me Up pomade & Mr. Right
DT: Devacurl Heaven in Hair
Been CG since 2005 and never looked back!
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03-11-2007, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 4,449
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My hair is going soft and undefined by the end of the day too. I"m toying with the idea that it's time to leave out my leave in. It's a bit heavy for warmer humid weather here.
It's just about time to whip out the hard hold stuff
ETA: for summer I like (drugstore type gel) Dep Sports gel, Hehdg (I have a few left)
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03-11-2007, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 816
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Medusa...my hair had been feeling kind of limp so I've been skipping the leave in for the last week or so and it's really perked up.
I'm not really a big gel person but my favorite drugstore gel right now is the Aussie Volume stuff...I like the texture and the scent and it seems to give me good clumping with kind of moderately strong hold.
Michelle
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03-11-2007, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,243
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03-12-2007, 11:09 AM
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I've never found anything better than HE Set Me Up in summer humidity. Body Envy is a very close second. For winter, I have been crazy about a cheap but hard-to-find gel -- Hask Pure Shine Love-It-Straight. In spite of the stupid name, this is an excellent gel for curly hair with CG-safe ingredients. It's not as good in humidity as the HE gels, but has better clumping.
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