mane and tail is like the worst product ever
 

okay so this is going to be something of a novel so i apologize, but i just want to warn anyone i can about this because mane n tail will make your hair sad.

so last december, i had very very long hair that i straightened every day or every other day. it wasn't THAT unhealthy, i mean obviously it was dry but it was still pretty shiny and all that. anyway, i decided i really wanted blue hair, so when i came home for winter break i bleached my hair to near-white and used manic panic dye.
well, it didn't work. for some reason the dye just didn't take at all. and i didn't want blonde hair, so i just dyed black over it.
you can probably guess by now that my hair was disgustingly mushy and stretchy and all-around weak, so i had it chopped from near waist-length to chin-length. i was still straightening, though.
my hair from that point on was gross. i didn't dye it again until august when i dyed the bottom layer and a chunk of my bangs blonde. that was damaging. i'm an idiot, i know. but then i decided to get serious and stop dyeing my hair once and for all, so for the last time in early september i dyed it black again and bought mane n tail.
for a while my hair loved it. it got stronger and seemed to grow a little faster.
unfortunately, i didn't know it was absolutely loaded with proteins. my hair got what it needed and then once it was through, it was protein overload. then my hair was too dry and i didn't know why. i had stopped straightening and dyeing. i had been using moroccan oil hair treatments. i had stopped washing every day, even. and my hair was somehow frizzier and dryer and terrible-er than ever. it seemed to be getting worse daily and i didn't get it!
it wasn't until i got to this site that i realized what i was doing to myself.... ugh. i can't imagine ever doing to my hair what i did to it ever again. i'm very sorry, hair.

I used MnT last week for the first time. My hair didn't like the protein in it either. Figured it would be good for my monthly protein treatment though. It should last a while too.

To offset the dry results of it, I used Bio Infusion Olive Oil deep conditioning treatment from walgreens (check reviews and ingredients online). It restored the moisture balance and softness in my hair for the first time since my BC last week.

Mane and Tail conditioner contains a wax. Maybe that is what you don't like.

It didn't feel waxy, it just felt dry and crackly, though.

I don't think the Mane N Tail conditioner is bad. At the moment, it may seem like it because you are suffering from protein overload. Just keep doing moisture treatments and try to get your protein and moisture balance together. It's not exactly the conditioner's fault, you could've used any other conditioner with protein that much as the main way to condition hair, and you probably have the same effect. So, try to use it when needed and switch from moisturizing to protein conditioners depending on what your hair needs.

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Agreed. I have has protein overload many times and I don't use M and T. The worse ever from from a coconut milk treatment. No need for blame. Just living, learning and trying to do better.