Deva Curl

So I am super late with this, but anywho here it is. So for the past year or so I have been running across the product line called Deva Curl. I've been wanting to try it as I have not really been happy with Kinky Curly. For whatever reason it gives my hair a really defined, wet look however to the touch it is hard and crispy like gel. Well Ulta had a Deva Curl kit on sale for $37.50 about a month so I decided to give it a try and much to my delight when I went to purchase it it was all full sized and not the travel size I saw a YouTuber purchased for the same price. Total fail for her. Moving along, I brought it home, immediately unpacked it and went to work.

First there were two different kits, because I have very tight corkscrew curls I chose the kit for my particular hair type. Second, there are 5 steps to this system. Step 1 is the DevaCurl No-Poo, a sulfate, paraben, silicone free cleanser. I loved the scent and it made my hair really soft and it tingled. Step 2 is the DevaCurl One Condition leave in conditioner, liked the scent but can't really say I liked this as much as Kinky Curly's Knot Today. Step 3 is the DevaCurl AnGel defining gel, I hate, hate, HATED it. It smells nice but it is super wet and goes everywhere being propelled by the spring of my curls and it does appear to mix well with the One Condition. Everything turned into little white globs and to be a defining gel it did not offer much definition. Step 4 is the DevaCurl Set It Free moisture lock. Yeah, not much moisture there and created even less definition than I had before, smells good though. Reminds me of 7UP. And lastly Step 5 is a next day step which is the DevaCurl Mist-er Right curl revitalizer. Let's start with the fact that my hair was already a frizzy dry mess to begin with after using these products, so there wasn't really much curl to revitalize. And the smell is AWFUL, it smells very vinegary and I about choked from the mist and smell every time I tried to use it. It is supposed to be the equivalent of Kinky Curly's Spiral Spritz, which by the way smells much better, is more of a gel and I also hate. Doesn't smell very good either.

Long story short, I am not pleased with this product at all. The only part I loved was the no poo and would gladly reinvest in it, the other products can go to hell. For now I have switched back to my remaining Kinky Curly products and will hold on to the DevaCurl until my hair is longer if I have not decided to lock by then. I am curious to see if it will work any different on longer hair as I have not been able to find any videos of T.W.A.s using it, only long hair. I have included pictures of the product and my hair after using them.

*all of Kinky Curly's products have been formulated to work with each other and ONLY each other. They DO NOT mix well with ANY other product, it will form the little white globs I mentioned earlier. DevaCurl's products on the other hand all seem to be working against each other which I find very odd. And in the beginning I loved the smell but after the passing of about 30 minutes it began to take on the smell of Dr. Miracle's which I absolutely hate. And for comparison I included pictures of my hair with the Kinky Curly (the blue shirt)