Does anybody else baggy braids?

[scarcity21]

that might be it, u wash every 3 days...I wish I can baggy dry but I know my hair is so prone to dryness

 

[scarcity21]

Oh and Nonie, ur braids look cute

 

[Nonie]

that might be it, u wash every 3 days...I wish I can baggy dry but I know my hair is so prone to dryness

OK, you don't have to do it on dry if you're not comfy. But after I DC, my hair feels so soft that I don't want anything to ruin the feeling. When I baggy, my hair feels so moist in the AM.

I seriously think that if you applied something to the braids in the day, you really don't need to apply anything else before baggying. Try that. You will be so surprised at how well the moisture you applied soaks into your hair and leaves it feeling good.

When I am wearing my hair out, I use S Curl as my moisturizer. I only need apply it the day I wash my hair. After that, baggy nightly keeps my hair looking soft and fluffy. I braid it in the night w/o applying anymore and baggy. In the AM it feels so soft and moisturized as if I applied some more. I just comb and wear it out for the day and then plait it at night again before baggying. Seriously when you're baggying, there's no need to moisturize all the time. So baggying w/o applying anything should not be so scary. Especially if you had something on in the day. What's more, you just may find that you don't have build up by using less product. Undoing braids will also be a breeze.

 

[my1goodnerve]

I'm so confused. I thought that baggying meant keeping some kind of moisturizer in your hair with the help of the baggy. I thought that the purpose of baggying was to keep the hair saturated with whatever has been added to the baggy. So if you are dry baggying, are you really just wrapping your hair at night with a plastic cap instead of a satin bonnet? Wouldn't the results be very different for those looking for the traditional method?

 

[Nonie]

I'm so confused. I thought that baggying meant keeping some kind of moisturizer in your hair with the help of the baggy. I thought that the purpose of baggying was to keep the hair saturated with whatever has been added to the baggy. So if you are dry baggying, are you really just wrapping your hair at night with a plastic cap instead of a satin bonnet? Wouldn't the results be very different for those looking for the traditional method?

I'm a weirdo. This is a bit of a ramble but the short response is in blue. The rest explains how I came to this weird regimen.

OK, this is the thing. A few years (two or so) before I found LHCF, I discovered a website called "www.blackwomenrejoice.com" by Brenda. She went through the whole trial and error ride I did of trying to find the magic thing that grew hair long. Perms, jheri curls, you name it. Then after some research she came up with a simple regimen which she shares in a report you had to pay to download. Having seen how her hair grew from shoulder length to APL or BSL (I forget which--either way it was longer than I thought anyone who'd always had shoulder length hair could get), I had no problem paying for the report. I had no knowledge anyone else had such useful info anywhere. Anyway, I learned that my hair would not fall off if I didn't use grease. But I misunderstood the report and thought she said I wasn't to use anything at all but just shampoo and condition...like white people do. Of course I ran off with that coz I see white people with long hair and everyone doing the grease thing never got to shoulder length. Brenda also squashed the fear that washing my hair too often would lead to breakage and dryness. She taught me that water was my friend.

Anyway, I was in braids and for two years I followed the regimen as I understood it. It also involved trimming ends regularly with the sharpest scissors in the world. I was transitioning so the trimming helped me slowly rid myself of relaxed hair. To cut a long story short my hair grew in two years from about an inch of new growth to about 9-11 inches. I had NEVER in my life had hair that long. I discovered LHCF at the time my hair was at this longest length and was bombarded with the advice to use moisture. I jumped on every supplement bandwagon, bought every product that was praised. Stopped trimming and my hair revolted. In 4 months, my ends thinned so much that I had to trim up to 2 inches just to be happy with my hair. All that progress gone. Also, my hair didn't seem to budge. Maybe I'd reached my terminal length, but I couldn't be sure. So I decided that since I had had no problem with what I was doing, why fix what isn't broken.

In the 2 years I'd followed my version of Brenda's regimen, I'd wash my hair whenever it felt dry. Baggying is something I started jheri curl days so continued with it. Around the time I found LHCF I also discovered DCing, thanks to Cathy's book so while I returned to Brenda's regimen, I also added DCing to my regimen. Let's just say that in the time I was doing my version of Brenda and DCing, my hair journey was turning into such a pleasurable experience. It's like I was seeing my hair anew. I had never noticed that my hair formed spirals or could feel so soft. I never even knew that I couldn't just rake a comb through it. I realized that I'd have to stretch my hair so that a comb could glide through easily, because it just made sense judging from the texture. Let's just say, KISS worked better for me. It's as if all the products I was using on my hair were hiding its true characteristics from me and making me think it was this difficult bush that could not be tamed.

Also my face cleared. I always had acne but not using products on my hair seemed to nip that problem in the bud.

I remember that way before I found Brenda, I had stopped greasing my scalp. But I still used grease and oils on the hair. I stopped using them due to the misunderstanding I explained. And over the years I've come to believe that I don't need to put oils or the like on my scalp because my sebum is sufficient to moisturize my scalp. Not applying oil to my scalp when I was first dared in the elementary school didn't leave it dry as I feared but seemed to free my skin to do it's thang. It's as if years of greasing my scalp had suppressed my own skin's moisturizing mechanism. Once I stopped interfering with nature, it seems my scalp is never dry. I do try to make sure I'm getting oils in my food (salmon, supplements) but otherwise my scalp seems happy.

Also people with straight hair don't have dry hair like those of us with curly hair coz their sebum slides down their hair's length while ours sorta gets trapped. I figure baggying encourages sebum production or distribution (<--This is just my two cents, not sure how accurate this is but I do know that my hair feels so soft all the time if I'm baggying nightly. If I don't, my hair starts to feel rough and dry.)

So while baggying does help keep products you apply on your hair for those that do, I believe when I DC, I add moisture to the insides of my hair and baggying at night helps hold onto that moisture as well as encourage sebum so that my hair is happy both inside and out.

All the pics you've seen of my hair (except where I've got combed-out an afro puff) show my hair w/o products. And it really does feel as soft as it looks in the unmanipulated pics where a few strands are held away from the rest of the hair. When I used products, my hair would sometimes feel rough like a brush. I can't remember it feeling like that since starting this no product regimen, except one time when I just CW'd daily and didn't DC at all or ACV coz I got lazy. It seemed to get dryer and dryer.

I do sometimes worry about my hair not having some form of protection/coating/seal like a sebum...and maybe down the road I will have to tweak the regi to add that. But I love not having products rubbing onto my face, neck and ears. I love not worrying about leaving product marks on furniture or walls should I accidentally lean my head on it. When wearing my hair out, I'm so self-conscious about leaving product prints wherever I lean my head on anything that it's just terribly stressful to me . And it is this aversion to feeling "grease" on my neck that makes me LOVE shrinkage and my 4B hair because when I wear a puff with S Curl, my hair is lifted away form my skin and isn't dangling turning me into an oily creature. I don't think I could stand having product on extensions coz those are all over my skin. I also find that with my HIH disease I can't stop touching my hair so I'm glad I don't have oily fingers when I do that'd leave everything I touch thereafter greasy.

 

[Platinum]

That's what I am using on my braids now and I love it. I want to baggy but I am currently using MTG and don't want to offend people with the smell.

Your hair is so pretty!

I do this all the time whenever I have twist in my hair. I currently moisturize with the African Pride braid spray and seal with castor oil and put a plastic cap over it. Moisturized hair in the morn.

I your twists!:

The odor occurs after a few days baggying...say around night 4 or 5...this was a while back and i dont remember what i baggyed with...anyway im thinking about starting up again...using little braid spray and the hair softner (moisturizer) + lil bit of shea butter mix.

Nonie, so u bag without products?
I have synthetic extensions that werent braided all the way to the end ( a little smaller than pencil sized but not micros) and i have 2 apply products or else my hair dries out.


For those that baggy with products, is ur hair wet/damp in the AM bcos my hair is always damp in the morning.
how long does it take for ur hair to dry?
another issue i have with baggying braids is that my hair gets frizzier sooner, almost like im washing everyday...but I might have to do like Nonie and redo the frizzier ones without taking out the whole braids (which is kinda hard with FT work and school)

My hair is slightly damp in the morning. I don't saturate my hair with the sprays, I put a good mist on them. I agree, I'll probably just redo any frizzy ones instead of the whole head because of my crazy work schedule.

This is a really interesting thread.
I am in braids right now.

So you baggy overnight and then do you necessariy co-wash in the AM or you just sytle and go?

I'm wearing Senegalese Twists so I usually just remove the baggy and go unless I plan to cowash in the morning.

 

[Platinum]

Thank you for the wonderful advice, Nonie.

 

[my1goodnerve]

Nonie, thanks for taking the time to explain. I definitely understand your method now. I think you are my KISS hero!

 

[angenoir]

Nonie, thanks! You always come through. I am in braids again since Friday and I will try a very very simple routine this time round and will incorporate baggying!!

 

[scarcity21]

OK, you don't have to do it on dry if you're not comfy. But after I DC, my hair feels so soft that I don't want anything to ruin the feeling. When I baggy, my hair feels so moist in the AM.

I seriously think that if you applied something to the braids in the day, you really don't need to apply anything else before baggying. Try that. You will be so surprised at how well the moisture you applied soaks into your hair and leaves it feeling good.

When I am wearing my hair out, I use S Curl as my moisturizer. I only need apply it the day I wash my hair. After that, baggy nightly keeps my hair looking soft and fluffy. I braid it in the night w/o applying anymore and baggy. In the AM it feels so soft and moisturized as if I applied some more. I just comb and wear it out for the day and then plait it at night again before baggying. Seriously when you're baggying, there's no need to moisturize all the time. So baggying w/o applying anything should not be so scary. Especially if you had something on in the day. What's more, you just may find that you don't have build up by using less product. Undoing braids will also be a breeze.

ok Ill try it...thanx Nonie

 

[beans4reezy]

I baggied my kinky twists last night. They were a lil moist, but I think I'd like a bit more moisture. Tonight, I will spritz with my amla/conditioner mix, will seal with Black Castor oil and will baggy again. Thank you OP for starting this thread. Baggying my twists wil be a great way to retain moisture my hair so desperately needs when it is in extensions.

 

[scarcity21]

I oiled my scalp with a mix of EVOO, CO, JBCO, emu oil, vit e oil and jojoba oil and baggyed last night....it was a little damp this morning. So I reapplied the oil, sprayed a little bit of my moisturising mix this AM....I plan on baggying with nothing else added tonight...we'll see how this goes.

trying to post a pic of my braids from facebook (my album on there)....anybody know how to do that?

 

[scarcity21]

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