2019 Coffee Clay Chebe Onion Rice Tea Ayurv Acv Avj Challenge

I did a henna mix using red Raj and Indigo, I'm almost at the right proportions for the color I want. Turns out using Jamila henna was the source of my orange hair.

I'm excited to try katam instead of Indigo which supposedly has a warmer violet color instead of cooler blue tones of Indigo.
 
mzteaze said:
I did a henna mix using red Raj and Indigo, I'm almost at the right proportions for the color I want. Turns out using Jamila henna was the source of my orange hair.

I'm excited to try katam instead of Indigo which supposedly has a warmer violet color instead of cooler blue tones of Indigo.
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Where are you getting the katam from @mzteaze? Is it used the same way as indigo?
 
Alright, so I tried mixing fenugreek powder with boiling water as described in that video above.
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I started with a teaspoon of fenugreek powder and added the boiling water little by little while continuously stirring it. It took several minutes, but the results are a lot creamier than I typically get minutes after mixing the two. I still have lumps in mine, but it's more homogenous than I normally get. And you can already see the mucilage/sliminess.
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I like it! I'm not sure if I will notice a difference in how it is with my hair because I love Fenugreek so much already, but I'll report back. I'm leaving it to sit overnight before using it in my deep conditioner.
 
Most of my Amazon order is arriving tomorrow *happy dance*. For whatever reason the fenugreek will take a whole week. Friday or Saturday will be wash day. Amla prepoo followed by a clay wash. Found my old clay wash recipe I had been looking for forever. I used my ayurvedic hair oil and ayurvedic Shea mix when moisturizing my hair today.
 
IDareT'sHair said:
@WaistLengthDreams
:goodpost:
That looks Great!

Please let us know how it works
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Thanks! I think slowly adding the hot water and mixing constantly increases the amount of mucilage (and hopefully the benefits) that's extracted from the fenugreek powder. I only added a teaspoon this week (as opposed to a heaping tablespoon), which normally doesn't give off much mucilage. But by the next day the water was considerably thicker. I only needed to add 1 (eating) teaspoons of conditioner to it and got this consistency -- THICK! (I also added a measuring teaspoon of amla powder the next morning)
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Overall I'm impressed. My hair feels great and I didn't get any residue left over in my hair from the powders. I'm going to keep this up because if nothing else, I think I'll be able to get away with using less powder per session with better yield from the powders.
 
IDareT'sHair said:
@curly caress
Come On In!:welcome:......:grouphug:

What will you be Using?
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I have an array of ayurvedic powders, ayurvedic deep conditions, herbs that I will be using to make teas, several oils infused with herbs, rice water, ayurvedic leave-ins, and a couple of garlic conditioners. I plan to use them on my hair in some form at least 3 times a week. Oh I almost 4got ayurvedic shea butter:drunk:
 
imaginary said:
I'm going to use up as much of my fenugreek seeds as I can in the next couple weeks and then try to get the powders. Clearly that's where the party's at.
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I'm itching to get the powder too lol. I'm going to try grinding up my seeds first. Don't know if I should try this with twists in, or take them down. I feel like I'm going to redoing them one by one before I completely take them down. Surpisingly, I'm actually liking them on me.
 
GGsKin said:
I'm itching to get the powder too lol. I'm going to try grinding up my seeds first. Don't know if I should try this with twists in, or take them down. I feel like I'm going to redoing them one by one before I completely take them down. Surpisingly, I'm actually liking them on me.
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I feel like grinding should work fine. But I also have Fungreek PTSD so I don't even wanna chance it.
 
Kitchen mixing this evening. I'll be making an amla oil, the amla prepoo, a tamanu body butter for my youngest daughter, mud wash for tonight's wash, and maybe another butter or two. Both the amla prepoo and mudwash will have acv. Unsure if I want to do a rinse or not. Really eager to get the fenugreek. I'll be putting a tbsp or two of it in my current ayurvedic oil and making a spritz.
 
GGsKin said:
I'm itching to get the powder too lol. I'm going to try grinding up my seeds first. Don't know if I should try this with twists in, or take them down. I feel like I'm going to redoing them one by one before I completely take them down. Surpisingly, I'm actually liking them on me.
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I have a lot of seeds and want the powder too @GGsKin. Maybe I should make a powder by using my Nutri Bullet to grind them up just to see if that works first though. I have more than 5 lbs of seeds in my stash right now. Let me try that before I order the powder. :yep:.
 
WaistLengthDreams said:
Thanks! I think slowly adding the hot water and mixing constantly increases the amount of mucilage (and hopefully the benefits) that's extracted from the fenugreek powder. I only added a teaspoon this week (as opposed to a heaping tablespoon), which normally doesn't give off much mucilage. But by the next day the water was considerably thicker. I only needed to add 1 (eating) teaspoons of conditioner to it and got this consistency -- THICK! (I also added a measuring teaspoon of amla powder the next morning)
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Overall I'm impressed. My hair feels great and I didn't get any residue left over in my hair from the powders. I'm going to keep this up because if nothing else, I think I'll be able to get away with using less powder per session with better yield from the powders.
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Loving your posts @WaistLengthDreams. Keep them coming with your updates.
 
after I shampooed my hair used rice/onion water for 45min with heat cap/Aussi Moist to rinse out/Curls Dynasty Pumpkin Mint Dc/Natures Ego Bringjhi & Emu growth cream..Curls Dynasty Kalahari smoothie
Sealed with EVOO..BRB-Stimulating Sprtiz on my edges..Hair In 4 braids.

Happy Hair Growing!
 
WaistLengthDreams said:
Thanks! I think slowly adding the hot water and mixing constantly increases the amount of mucilage (and hopefully the benefits) that's extracted from the fenugreek powder. I only added a teaspoon this week (as opposed to a heaping tablespoon), which normally doesn't give off much mucilage. But by the next day the water was considerably thicker. I only needed to add 1 (eating) teaspoons of conditioner to it and got this consistency -- THICK! (I also added a measuring teaspoon of amla powder the next morning)
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Overall I'm impressed. My hair feels great and I didn't get any residue left over in my hair from the powders. I'm going to keep this up because if nothing else, I think I'll be able to get away with using less powder per session with better yield from the powders.
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Thank you for trying the process out first. Goes to show that being heavy handed can work against you. I obviously used way too much when I tried to use fenugreek.
 
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