Heather Kennett explains scrunch out the crunch, a technique to soften the stiff gel cast that forms after heavy styling gel dries. She walks through what creates the cast and shows two product options for gently scrunching it away while keeping curls defined, though she notes it works best for some hair types.
Let's talk about scrunching out the crunch. So you might see this band, this term banded around. It's so T C. All that means is in your wash day, when using the combination of styling products like hair gel in your wash day, when your hair dries, some people aim to get what's called a gel cast. So they will apply a heavy amount of gel, they won't use the leave in conditioner afterwards and it forms some great curl clumps, which they absolutely love. I go in and out of phases. It's not a technique I'm using at the moment, but it is a technique that works for some people. So if you are working on scrunching out the crunch and getting that gel cast, you are co washing leave in style. It a lot of style it you're plopping or diffusing and you're not touching your hair, so it becomes quite stiff and it's got that cast on it. So when your hair is completely dry, you have these fabulous curl clumps that are dry in a cast. So when you have that, or if that's what you're aiming for, you need to scrunch out the crunch. If you're scrunching out the crunch, you have a couple of options. So you can either use our tonic, which I use daily as a refresh, or you can use your seal it. So they're your two options. What you would do if you're aiming for a gel cast and you get one, is you leave it until it's entirely dry, bone dry. Then you put either tonic or seal it on your palms of your hands. And it's probably the only time where I would advise scrunching. So scrunching out the crunch, put that on the palm of your hands and then you're scrunching out cast, but you're doing it gently and you're leaving that definition, so you're leaving the definition and hold behind, but you're just scrunching out the outside crunch, the cast that you've created. So those are another use for these two.
