BSL 2013 Challenge

shortdub78 said:
thanks ladies. those knots are still in there and now i gotta go up to my son's school. i was told not to cut it. if i do cut it, ya'll won't see me for a lonnngggg time. there is one knot that i know i can get out and it is at the top close to the crown. the other one is up under it that is as tangled and hard as bricks. that is the one that i don't think i can undo it. please pray for me!
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:( I'm so sorry.. I'm praying.. I have experienced matting and from reading posts in the past about other ladies who have dealt with knots the best advice I can give is to stay patient. If u work on the knots and get frustrated just take a break, it may take longer to get rid of but hopefully you can save as much hair as possible.
 
shortdub78 use peanut butter? I know you said it's not gum, but I read that peanut butter gets gum out of hair before.

Hope you get it out!

And here's my Hair Of The Day: my puff looks splendid if I must say so myself. It's big and fluffy.
 

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So...I cut like 2 to 3 inches of hair today. After the light flat ironing, I could see exactly how bad my ends were and how many SSKs I had. Shockingly enough I wasn't all that sad about it.

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After the cut and humidity taking over. Its still within reach of BSL. I know it'll grow back.

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ladies, my SO said it looks like something is in there, and my son said it's gum! so i am going to try some oil first, then some peanut butter. i wish i had some Skin So Soft. thanks for helping me. ya'll know how hard i have worked to get to this length. if i do have to cut it, i am going to get one of those old school mullet cuts. i will just have to bring that back! don't laugh, i'm serious, i'm not about to lose all of my length just to keep up with the trends! :lol:
 
shortdub78 The kids have already brought the mullet back; it is called scene hair, quite edgy and cute now. Hope you can get the knot out. I think it usually takes a couple of days to loosen up a knot.

NikkiQ Your hair is still nice and thick. It will grow back in no time.
 
shortdub78 said:
i got three major knots in my hair and i don't know how i am going to get them out. i have been working on them since yesterday. i tried to give MN a try and it created these horrible knots. i pray i get them out. they are not in spots i can hide. if i cut them out, they will leave me two visible 2 inch spots. i will have to cut all of my hair off.

let this be a lesson to everyone to just stick with what works.
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Porosity Control has great slip, you might try that.
 
shortdub78 said:
ladies, my SO said it looks like something is in there, and my son said it's gum! so i am going to try some oil first, then some peanut butter. i wish i had some Skin So Soft. thanks for helping me. ya'll know how hard i have worked to get to this length. if i do have to cut it, i am going to get one of those old school mullet cuts. i will just have to bring that back! don't laugh, i'm serious, i'm not about to lose all of my length just to keep up with the trends! :lol:
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Noooooo...not the mullet!
 
ok here is a pic of the damage. i just couldn't take it anymore and my scalp is on fire right now. i do have some hair to cover the spots, but i won't be wearing my hair down for awhile. now that i have removed the mess, it doesn't look like gum. i think the MN did it.
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shortdub78 said:
ok here is a pic of the damage. i just couldn't take it anymore and my scalp is on fire right now. i do have some hair to cover the spots, but i won't be wearing my hair down for awhile. now that i have removed the mess, it doesn't look like gum. i think the MN did it.
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Oh my...what the heck is MN?
 
my hair is still not right. i washed it last night and it matted up on me so tough, i had to do a little more cutting and trimming. i used so much Argan oil serum that could have lasted me for another year or two. i see i can't use any detangling sprays or conditioners. i had to remove a lot of shed hairs too. i have my hair in two buns right now. the next time i will wash will be this weekend, but i'll only be doing a cowash. my new growth feels a bit on the wild side too. i cut off about an inch from my ends.

my SO asked if i wanted to get my hair done. a stylist wouldn't have tried to save my hair. i was so tempted to cut it to SL myself!

i will just be bunning it throughout this summer. i'll just hurt my feelings trying to wear it down.
 
shortdub78, I am soooo sorry that happened to you! From the looks of the hair in the pics, it was def a big clump & would be darn near impossible to get out w/o cutting them out. Just baby those spots & it will grow back in no time.

(((HUGS)))
 
shortdub78 said:
my hair is still not right. i washed it last night and it matted up on me so tough, i had to do a little more cutting and trimming. i used so much Argan oil serum that could have lasted me for another year or two. i see i can't use any detangling sprays or conditioners. i had to remove a lot of shed hairs too. i have my hair in two buns right now. the next time i will wash will be this weekend, but i'll only be doing a cowash. my new growth feels a bit on the wild side too. i cut off about an inch from my ends.

my SO asked if i wanted to get my hair done. a stylist wouldn't have tried to save my hair. i was so tempted to cut it to SL myself!

i will just be bunning it throughout this summer. i'll just hurt my feelings trying to wear it down.
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Besides the MN, had you done anything differently that would have caused your hair to behave this way? Your hair had been on a roll lately.

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shortdub78 sorry that you had a mishap. I hope you can get back on track over the summer!


Yesterday I wore my hair in a bun. I moisturized my hair today with cantu curl activator cream and sealed with sweet simplicity hair styler and put it back in a bun. That was a good combo. I don't care for how the cantu coats my hair though. But I will use it for bunning and see how it goes.
 
Once my post partum shedding started, my hair would tangle up just like that as soon as water touches it. That was pre lhfc, so was going to the dominican salon, and they will just rip the tangle off with a comb. I was getting bald by the week. The shampoo girl, one week, just could not take it anymore, and called out the owner to explain how my hair has been matting lately. They tried everything, and they just had to cut that day. After that incident, i went online searching for detangling products, then found out about post partum shedding, then later on in my search i found lhcf. I would say wash your hair in small sections from now, and be very careful to remove all shed hair before you wet your hair. Your regimen has been great, as evidenced by your progressing beautiful hair, so you will get over this setback soon.
 
ronie
NikkiQ

ronie is right! i agree the shed hairs played a major role. i had applied the MN to my scalp with an applicator bottle and massaged it in. next thing i know i had these crazy hard knots in my hair.

i guess i will have to use oil to detangle before my wash and clip my hair in small sections. my hair doesn't stay in twists. i hate washing my hair in sections. it seems like such a hassle.

oh i did start taking garlic pills. we will see in a month if it will help some. and it seems like as soon as my baby turned 2 months, the shedding started. using it happens around 3 or 4 months.

thank you ladies as usually for being so supportive. i am sorry i missed all of the wonderful progress posts everyone is making.

if i didn't have ya'll i would have been at the barber shop.
 
shortdub78 said:
ronie
NikkiQ

ronie is right! i agree the shed hairs played a major role. i had applied the MN to my scalp with an applicator bottle and massaged it in. next thing i know i had these crazy hard knots in my hair.

i guess i will have to use oil to detangle before my wash and clip my hair in small sections. my hair doesn't stay in twists. i hate washing my hair in sections. it seems like such a hassle.

oh i did start taking garlic pills. we will see in a month if it will help some. and it seems like as soon as my baby turned 2 months, the shedding started. using it happens around 3 or 4 months.

thank you ladies as usually for being so supportive. i am sorry i missed all of the wonderful progress posts everyone is making.

if i didn't have ya'll i would have been at the barber shop.
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Hair twin I had horrible pop shedding and hair loss after all three of my boys and Motions CPR was a LIFESAVER for my hair!
 
My ends were looking awful after I air dried on Sunday. They were all tangly and rough and bushy. I was tempted to snip them off, but I just dusted last week. So I LOC'd them, combed them with a fine tooth comb and put my hair up in 2 bantu knots. This morning I have nice smooth, well behaved ends! I think I need to change my air dry process. Drying in 2 loose ponytails isn't getting me the results I want.

shortdub78 ronie I'm so glad you guys figured out the issue with shortdub's hair. This board is awesome! :-)
 
shortdub78 I knew the ladies on here would find an answer! You have thick beautiful hair and will recover from this - if that happened to me with my thin stuff I would definitely have had to do major cutting!!! So glad you are on the road to recovery now that you found the cause!:yep:
 
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