00:04Hi, I'm Laura, and today at the Beauty Test Lab, we're going to be trying out Marc Anthony's Strictly Curls
00:09Stretch Cream Lotion.
00:12I guess we'll get to that when we open the bottle.
00:15So what this is supposed to do is loosen and lengthen your curls, defrizz a little bit,
00:21and just kind of get rid of all this kinky action I got going on, which I would love,
00:26because underneath here, it gets really hot, and it gets to be such a mane in the summertime.
00:32This is going to be a blast to try out.
00:34So this product says to start with your hair wet, and luckily for me, I have a handy-dandy spray
00:39bottle.
00:40So I'm just going to quickly dampen my hair a little bit.
00:44Now that my hair is nice and wet, I'm going to take a quarter-sized amount into my hand,
00:51rub them together, and just really get all through my hair.
00:55The underneath, where it's most curly, the tops, the roots.
01:00It says to distribute the lotion evenly from roots to ends,
01:04so I'm going to try and do that and pull at my curls a little bit to try and lengthen
01:08them out.
01:09It's kind of feeling like a gel-lotion hybrid, I want to say, but I don't mind that.
01:18Okay, so I've waited about 20 minutes for my hair to dry,
01:21and it's definitely looking a little less frizzy,
01:24but I think it's getting a little weighed down by the gel
01:27and feeling kind of crunchy and a little bit hard, especially in places where I put more.
01:32I think that my curls are definitely longer, definitely loosen up,
01:36and I would sport this maybe on a colder day when it doesn't feel so sticky and hot out,
01:42because it's kind of drying on my face a little bit, which isn't very pleasant.
01:46On the flip side, I think if you don't mind that crunchy kind of gel texture,
01:50then this is definitely a great product for you.
