2017 Shoulder Length Challenge

I took out those braids, based my scalp really well, and gave myself a corrective relaxer. Love my results. I used some Nairobi wrap foam to mold my hair down a bit/cut drying time, and now I'm sitting under the dryer. I'm going to lightly blow dry it, then flat iron. I won't let this tragic setback get me down. I trimmed the broken section of my hair and the rest of my hair is fine, so I know better now.
 
Flat ironed my hair, enjoyed it for a minute, now I have pincurled my hair for the night. I put some silicon bambu leave-in on the ends with my WGO to seal. Usually when I roll my hair at night, the ends are dry the next day..so I hope this keeps my ends nice.
 
jennifer30 said:
Hey, I am one year post natural... but I only grew 4 inches which sucks because it probably means I only grow 4 inches a year. It would take 2 more years to reach sl...oh well
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Hey lady. Long time no see.

Maybe this year you will gain a little more. You can try different things: supplements, more water, healthier eating, exercise, etc
 
I haven't been getting notifications for this thread. Wonder why not. @shortdub78 what kind of setback did you have? What happened?

@faithVA I love your hair. It came out really pretty and looks so soft.

I'm getting tired of blow drying and wearing these 2 braids. At first I felt cute and now I feel matronly. I'm going back to bantu knots for a while. I guess the trick is to keep it switched up so I don't get bored and start to feel ugly. But my nape won't let me be great. Once it grows back in I'm really going to pay careful attention this time. I cannot deal with this setback every year. By December nape grows in and then by February it's gone again. I need to do better.
 
KammyGirl said:
I haven't been getting notifications for this thread. Wonder why not. @shortdub78 what kind of setback did you have? What happened?

@faithVA I love your hair. It came out really pretty and looks so soft.

I'm getting tired of blow drying and wearing these 2 braids. At first I felt cute and now I feel matronly. I'm going back to bantu knots for a while. I guess the trick is to keep it switched up so I don't get bored and start to feel ugly. But my nape won't let me be great. Once it grows back in I'm really going to pay careful attention this time. I cannot deal with this setback every year. By December nape grows in and then by February it's gone again. I need to do better.
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Thank you. It was nice and soft. It was fun while it lasted.

Do you know why your nape is struggling? Mine is struggling as well.
 
faithVA said:
Do you know why your nape is struggling? Mine is struggling as well.
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Because it hates me!! lol I'm not 100% sure. I knew what the problem was last year - my headbands. This year I haven't worn them at all and the hair is back to looking like taco meat. But in the milestone challenge last year it was a main goal to get it to grow back and I was moisturizing and sealing that area heavily every single day twice a day to get it to act right. As soon as it grew in I stopped babying it. Still moisturizing and sealing but I put it on the same regimen as the rest of my hair and I guess it didn't like that. It may just be a section that I have to baby 24/7 365 no slacking off which sounds annoying to me.
 
@KammyGirl

I got some braids (cornrows). My crown was fragile, due to my roots extremely underprocessed with relaxed ends. (Like 2-3 inches worth) the braider combed that section bone dry with a rat tail comb. She was extra rough.. she ripped my hair out from the demarcation line. So yeah.. my crown is 4-5 inches shorter than the rest of my hair... oh and the braids were way too tight! She braided my skin! My scalp was on fire! I had to save my nape and hairline!

I changed relaxers too. I went back to no lye. Lye was leaving me with too much texture. Oh and I use resistant/course instead of regular. I picked that one up on accident, but it got my hair right! No breakage and even texture all around.
 
KammyGirl said:
Because it hates me!! lol I'm not 100% sure. I knew what the problem was last year - my headbands. This year I haven't worn them at all and the hair is back to looking like taco meat. But in the milestone challenge last year it was a main goal to get it to grow back and I was moisturizing and sealing that area heavily every single day twice a day to get it to act right. As soon as it grew in I stopped babying it. Still moisturizing and sealing but I put it on the same regimen as the rest of my hair and I guess it didn't like that. It may just be a section that I have to baby 24/7 365 no slacking off which sounds annoying to me.
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it will grow more. The spring weather will help! Are you taking vitamins?
 
I took down my twist last night and moisturized my hair. It felt pretty good but I want to make sure I stay on top of it. I moisturized with TGIN leave in, followed by AIA so much moisture. I used tgin daily moisturizer over that and CD honey mimosa on my ends.

I will probably moisturize on Monday keeping it at every 4 days.
 
Spring time is here, so I can use glycerin products now. Oh for my natural ladies, I washed and conditioned my daughter's hair yesterday. Her hair was a bone dry mess! I used Silicon mix to condition her hair, since the Nature stuff wasn't cutting it.

Ok, so afterwards I sprayed Hawaiian Silky 14n1, then applied the gel activator. Oh my word! Her hair was so moisturized! Her curls were springy again!

It is still moisturized! I haven't applied any products. I will later this evening. I used to use this on her 4 years ago. Being a product junkie will have you forgetting what works!

I will spray some on my hair on my roots and hairline.
 
shortdub78 said:
Spring time is here, so I can use glycerin products now. Oh for my natural ladies, I washed and conditioned my daughter's hair yesterday. Her hair was a bone dry mess! I used Silicon mix to condition her hair, since the Nature stuff wasn't cutting it.

Ok, so afterwards I sprayed Hawaiian Silky 14n1, then applied the gel activator. Oh my word! Her hair was so moisturized! Her curls were springy again!

It is still moisturized! I haven't applied any products. I will later this evening. I used to use this on her 4 years ago. Being a product junkie will have you forgetting what works!

I will spray some on my hair on my roots and hairline.
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I have a small bottle of that but I have so much stuff right now I haven't truly tried it.
 
I hadn't planned on washing but after being out in the sun for 2 days my hair felt a bit dry. When I took it down most of it felt fine but better safe than sorry. I cowashed with the Mane Choice Cowash. I like it. I have no idea if it got my hair clean or not. :lol: But it didn't strip it. I put in the tgin leave-in. I'm under the dryer now trying to stretch it. I will use the As I Am So Much Moisture and the TGIN Twist Cream and twist it back up.

If my hair does well under the dryer I may dry my hair every week. So far I've been under here for 30 minutes and my hair is still quite wet.
 
@faithVA do you use shampoo at all anymore? No, right? Mud washes and Co cleansers right?

I was thinking of ditching shampoo again but after a couple months my hair didn't like it. Then I switched to once a month and I was good for another few months until it wasn't. Every 2 weeks seemed to work the longest. The only problem is by the end of the 2 weeks I have so much build up. Just kicking around ideas since I'm a bit bored with my hair at the moment.
 
KammyGirl said:
@faithVA do you use shampoo at all anymore? No, right? Mud washes and Co cleansers right?

I was thinking of ditching shampoo again but after a couple months my hair didn't like it. Then I switched to once a month and I was good for another few months until it wasn't. Every 2 weeks seemed to work the longest. The only problem is by the end of the 2 weeks I have so much build up. Just kicking around ideas since I'm a bit bored with my hair at the moment.
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Yes I use shampoo. I don't have any real schedule. Sometimes every 2 weeks or every 3 weeks. I do the mudwash before I color my hair. I'm trying to do cowashes now to see if it extends my color.

I don't have any suggestions about build up. I've not noticed that I need shampoo for build up but since I use it and mudwashes so often I probably would not have noticed. Maybe you can cowash and water rinse when needed and shampoo every 3 weeks or every 4. Maybe you need something gentle every week and leave the shampoo for once a month.
 
I didn't do anything different. I'm still in flat twist. I usually flat twist my twist to the right side when I do larger flat twist. Today I decided to try doing them to the left side. It took me a bit longer but it is good practice.

Drying my hair with the dryer was a fail. After about an hour and 20 minutes my roots were dry and my ends were dry but the middle section was still damp. So I still had a lot of shrinkage. I probably could have blow dried it quickly to straighten it out. But I don't want to have to do all that. I hate that the CWK plate business was a fail. I really could have used those.

I may try it again. I will have to think about it to see how I can modify it for better results.
 
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