12 month retention buddies needed for comparisons

[hair4romheaven]

hair4romheaven MyAngelEyez~C~U and SimJam, I took my weave out and posted lots of pics in a thread I created. I wore my hair out as well. SO EXCITED! I posted styles in sticky thread(every day hair) I plan on reweaving still on the 27th, but till then I will be playing in my hair.

 

[keepithealthy]

Hey ladies nadaa16 and carameldelight87

How are you doing now that summer has ended?

Its already getting cold up here in the North East. So I'm going to be going to twists and roller sets soon. I'm considering braiding my natural hair in box braids or getting a sew in. I'm going to be straitening my hair at the end of this month to see if I've made any progress. I will post pics when I do so. Oh and I bleached the front portion of my hair. I was going for a blond look but it turned out like a fiery orange read, but I like it.

 

[carameldelight87]

Hey ladies nadaa16

keepithealthy, I LOVE that color! You're a brave one, girl! I'm still scared to do anything permanent or semi-permanent to my hair. Your hair looks like it's growing very nicely by the way!

Just to update you, I found that my hair is low porosity and it has changed my WORLD!! I bought a Huetiful Steamer and when I tell you that it did wonders for my ends, I'm not exaggerating at all! My ends have always felt a bit crispy. You know that feeling when you slide your hand down a section of hair and you can feel when you've made it to the "ends" of your hair? That is completely gone now. My ends are just as smooth as the hair at my root.

I also discovered the wonders of glycerin and water. This humidity in Houston is working quite well with the glycerin and as of last week (my first use with the steamer and glycerin mix) my hair has NEVER been this moisturized.

I must say that I'm excited to finally understand my hair's needs.

Right now I'm just wearing twists throughout the week. I must admit, it's rather boring but I'm noticing that it's helping me retain my ends so I can't complain. I've grown 1.5 inches in the last two months in my nape area (it could be different in other sections) so something I'm doing is working.

I've done the occasional wash n go but the shrinkage causes SO many SSKs I just can't keep doin it. I keep saying I'm gonna put my yarn twists back in but haven't found time to, we'll see.

I plan to straighten some time this winter. My mom wants to me to wait until Christmas when I go home so she can see how long it is. She's a length freak.

Anyway, that's about it for me. I'll let you know when I get my fall/winter regimen on lock.


Oh, yeah another thing I've been experimenting with is accessorizing! Here's my attempt at accessorizing a rather boring updo with a bow made from a scarf.

 

[keepithealthy]

carameldelight87 nadaa16

caramel I love the hair candy! kute! I just remembered about this thread. What are you ladies up to? I had my hair braided up for 6 weeks, took them down and now I've been rocking straight hair for a few days. I'm not sure what I'm going to do till the end of the year...twists, more braids, weave...choices choices. I'm inching closer towards my goal of wl and looking forward to next year.....I'm hoping the best for your hair as well.

 

[CurlsBazillion]

Hey my hair buddies! @hair4romheaven @MyAngelEyez~C~U @SimJam
I've been gone for awhile but I wanted to get up to date with you ladies. How have yall been?

Here's my Nov length check

 

[nlamr2013]

Hey retention buddies carameldelight87 and keepithealthy how are you ladies doing with retention? How many inches are you all currently? Are you all planning to change regimen in the new year?

 

[MyAngelEyez~C~U]

DayDreamist,
@hair4romheaven @SimJam

Here's my December length check vvvvvvv

 

[CurlsBazillion]

MyAngelEyez~C~U I didn't get notified about this..well it'll say I have 3 mentions and then only show one so yeah, I'm sure we all know of these issues.... ANy who, Girl you made APL, congrats congrats! I think I saw u and SimJam in the 2012 BSL challenge, we can do this, I'll see u around!

 

[HauteHippie]

NewHairWOWeave

I don't think I posted a pic!

Starting pic (June)
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Texlax/trim (June 23rd or something)

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I retained... nothing. I felt like I needed to cut a few inches and it hasn't caught up to my June hair. Takeaway lesson: give away my blow dryer.

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[SimJam]

MyAngelEyez~C~U @DayDreamist,
@hair4romheaven

I did terrebly this year with retention, decided to cut off about 3 - 4 inches of colour, so Im basically exactly where I started out.

this year I shooting for APL ..... AGAIN

 

[MyAngelEyez~C~U]

@MyAngelEyez~C~U @DayDreamist,
@hair4romheaven

I did terrebly this year with retention, decided to cut off about 3 - 4 inches of colour, so Im basically exactly where I started out.

this year I shooting for APL ..... AGAIN

Awe, dayum!

 

[keepithealthy]

nadaa16 I haven't been on for a while I will check and update in a few days.