 Hey Co-Friends, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today, and today I'm gonna be trying a new gel. Well, it's not really new, but of course it's new to me, because I'm a gel girl, but the name of this gel is a little risque. Okay, don't be mad at me, I'm just reading the title, but it's called Curl Defining Hair Jelly by Balmass Fro. Well, she just put that right on the bottom now, didn't she? I bet there was just one day where she was like, man, I just need a really bomb-ass gel, and then she just made it herself, or someone was like, hey, can I borrow your home concoction that you make? I need something to have a bomb-ass fro, and it just came to be. I'm totally making up that story, that's just how I'm envisioning that it all went down. But oh, look at this, okay, let's talk about the gel. Look at this round in here, bomb, look at the bomb, the peach, the booty, you know that stands for. And then a little afro, that's pretty cute. This is a Curl Defining Hair Jelly, I do like jellies as well as gels, 10.5 fluid ounces, this is a very new, small, woman-owned, black-owned brand, she's from New Orleans. Apply jelly between your palms and glide product onto freshly washed, detangled, and conditioned hair. It doesn't say to use after a leave-in conditioner, and when I went on her website, this is their only product. I'm not really mad at it, like if I were to ever create a product, I might just have a gel and call it a day. No flaking, no crunch, lasting results, and definition. Those are all good words, so I'm going to apply this on my hair. I think I have tried it before, as you can see, it's not completely full. I don't really remember my results, don't know if that's a good thing or not. But some of them I just do my hair to wash my hair, and then because I have children, I just put it up in a bun because mom life, and I forget to actually look at my hair, so let's see how this really does on a very, you know, me paying attention to my hair to have a day. I'm pretty excited to try this again because I did see some positive reviews from one of my friends, Alyssa Marie. She has a tighter curly hair texture than me, and I feel like if a product gives really good definition on tighter curls, then I feel like it has a really good chance of working on mine, and I love knowing that it works on different hair textures. Let me show you guys the founder. First of all, how beautiful and cute is she? So on the about me section, should I section for you guys? I guess, I guess I'll do what the bottle says. I'm doing four sections max. It says our founder and CEO, Sydney, is a curly hair enthusiast. That's what I call myself. New Orleans native and a lover of all things natural hair. After trying almost every mainstream product on the market, she couldn't seem to find a product to give her wash and goes consistent results. Sure, there were things that got the job done, but nothing that gave her the volume and definition on day one hair that didn't leave her coils flaky and dry. Thus, bombast fro was born. Okay, I do like that claim because I agree there's a million products in the market and they work well, but that day one hair, that's the game changer for me. And I think when I did try this, I might have used a leave-in first. So that could have messed things up. So let's just try it just all on its own today and see how it does. You guys know I don't mind a crunch, so when products brag about not having a crunch, it doesn't really do it for me, but we'll see. I want you to use my product and gain all the confidence you need to walk out the door with that bombast fro and stunt. You know, I like her personality just from this description on the website. Trust in ingredients, affordability, consistent results, and confidence is what you will gain from bombast fro. Try it out. Your hair is going to be bomb AF. She's a feisty one, ain't she? Affordability. Let's see about that. Let's go to shop. Now because this is a new, you know, small own brand, you do have to go to the website to purchase it. It's not in stores yet, but I'm sure she'll get there. It is $19.99. I don't know if I can say, like when I think of affordable products, I am thinking more of like the $10 range. $20. I mean, if it works, it works. You guys know a lot of my favorite products are around that price range, so you know, she's not crazy for that price, but I just don't know if that would be considered affordable to majority standards. But I mean, if it is going to be magic in a bottle and give me bombast results, then the price could be right. I mean, how much would you pay for perfect curls? Like if you could have one product that did everything you needed it to do, would you pay $20 for it? If you didn't need to use a leave-in and you could just use a gel, then you might be spending $10 on your leave-in and then $10 on your gel and then you're at 20 bucks a ways. Let's see how this does. Consistency, it is very jelly-like, so it kind of has more of a drip than a gel would. What's it smell like? It smells good. It kind of, what does it smell like? It doesn't have a strong scent, so it's not going to bug anybody. It's very lightweight. I do see the second ingredient is glycerin, so should be moisturizing even though it's just a gel. There's no sulfate parabens or silicones. Well, that's good. Smoothing this down, smoothing your hair is always going to reduce that frizz. What's that? Okay, so that shine is definitely shining. I kind of want to see how this does like air dry. I want to see what kind of cast it dries to before I diffuse. It still feels pretty light, so I could see that there would might not be any crunch, but let me let this air dry for a little bit. Then I'll come back and see how all this curl-defining hair jelly really works. And I'm back. It is looking very shiny. The curls are defined. There's not a lot of crunch, which always makes me nervous, especially if I'm going to diffuse. I mean, it looks really pretty. I'd be really curious to see how this does on type four hair or like a tighter curl or coil. But I mean, that's what she has. So if it works on hair hair, that's you always got to think about when the owner of the company has curly hair. It's a little bit more trustworthy than just like some random brand that's just trying to throw it out there. But when the people that have created the product have curly hair themselves, you got a little bit more to go off of. So I've seen it work on her hair and go to their Instagram and see it work on other hair textures. I'm going to diffuse now and see if I can get a nice big fro or as close as I possibly can, just bigger volume on day one. So I'm going to grab my pattern beauty blow dryer diffuser and let's see how big this fro can get. Okay, this is how we are. My hair is looking so nice and long lately. There is absolutely no crunch, super, very soft curls. Like not even soft, meaning no crunch, but my curls feel like moisturized soft. I will say I like this on its own more than when I used it with a cream that was just kind of like too much mushiness for my hair. So overall, I would put this in the same kind of category, maybe as like one of my favorite soft hold gels, which I don't honestly use a lot because I do like strong hold. I'm pretty surprised that she's from New Orleans and this is strong enough for the humidity there. I've never been there, but I'm pretty sure it's humid, right? So I don't see this having like a really strong cast to fight that humidity. Very interesting. But I mean, if she uses it on her curls where she lives, she obviously loves it. I would put this in the same category, maybe as like the TGIN gel or maybe the Races Curls gel. What's another soft hold gel that I actually like using? Maybe matrix, maybe twist. Those are all like the soft hold gels that I have and that I still like to use. I don't grab as often because I do like the crunch. But I know there's a lot of you that actually prefer the soft hold and a lot of you hate the crunch, even though you should be able to scrunch it out. But if you can't, this one, you don't have to scrunch it out. Like if you just want the beautiful, soft, flowy, bouncy, defined curls, you can get that with this curl defining hair jelly. So if $20 isn't a deal breaker for you, you want to support a new small owned black woman owned business. Your hair likes jelly and gel products. You want to be able to use a soft hold gel without having to use a moisturizer. You like a soft hold finish, then this could be the product for you. I will link her website in the description box below. I did just check and she's actually sold out. That's usually a good sign when a product is sold out. So that says something right there. So you might have to wait to order it. She might be opening up a pre-order list. I will also let you guys know on Instagram when she restocks. But go ahead, support her business, check it out. If you enjoy my curly hair videos, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe and let me know what products you want me to review next. Give me some ideas. What do you want to see from my channel in general? Is there something you want me to review? Is there like a trend you want me to try? Is there a DIY you want me to make? Let me know what you want my next video to be. 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