DevaCurl Extremely Defining Gel Sturdy Maintain No-Crunch Styler | Non-Flaking Components | Non-Sticky

Super buy
Just as described. Perfect size. Arrived promptly, and securely. Great price too

good hold, a bit crisphy texture
I have recently switched my hair routing to devacurl everything and this gel was last in line to try.I got to fight the humid summer and I consider it to be great – the curls would hold for full day in 90% humidity, no freeze, no issues. And all I had to do next day is to wet my fingers a bit and adjust the style. Although I have to do it every day with any product 🙂

Something has changed
I’ve been using DevaCurl products for about a decade and my trio are the No-Poo and One Condition Decadence line, plus the Ultra Defining gel. Every time I take a break (I find that periodically switching things up keeps things working—maybe just imagining things, but…) when I return to my loves (this trio), the results are unmistakable: hair immediately more moisturized, fuller, bouncier and more defined curls and hair just looking and feeling healthier in a NOT at ALL subtle way. I was devastated when everyone started saying that they were experiencing hair loss with the DevaCurl line (and others) and had a real crisis over what product to switch to because I’ve spent entirely too much on trying too many brands that did NOT A THING for my hair, over the years. When I tried DevaCurl, in 2013, my search was over. I immediately began getting compliments from others with curly hair, asking me what I use, because it’s hard and everyone with curly hair knows this problem. When the news about hair loss potentially stemming from this product (and others for curly hair) came out, I was devastated, but, not having had that as my experienced, I continued using it. They were the only products I had gotten amazing results from, consistently, and they nourished and healed my hair from the grievous mess it always was before I found DevaCurl. Now that they’ve changed their formulation the results are entirely different. Now this gel feels so watered down and I can scrunch until my fingers are blue with no curl effect happening, whatsoever. My curls are in no way what they used to be. The hold is completely non-existent anymore. This was my first bottle of the new formula and I’ve got to use an additional gel after scrunching (with the DevaCurl hair cloth) and plopping it in a microfiber turban until just damp. The same altered and thoroughly diminished effects are true of the other two products in my trio. So watery and thin, now, and that powerful, juicy, luscious moisturizing effect is totally gone. I’m in mourning because I’ve not found another product that beats DevaCurl’s original formulation results.

Changes are not good
I’ve used this product for many years and just ran out of my last old bottle (the tall skinny clear one) of the same product. It seems with this new clunky bottle the scent has changed significantly. The scent used to be one of my favorite things about this product and now it is chemically smelling and intolerable. The short and wide bottle is also really annoying to use. Going to return it if I can. So disappointed and so expensive. I remember paying $20/bottle. Not sure what warrants such an increase.

This is a great product to give your curls more bounce and help them stay in place. I like that you cant take as much as you want to give you what ever look you are going after. I like a more medium hold, it took a couple of tries and I figured out how much I needed. If you used a lot you could probably get quite a stiff hold it that is what you were after.

Quite strong hold. Best to let my hair air dry a bit with the product & then gently dry with diffuser before gently breaking the crunch.