BSL 2013 Challenge

jprayze said:
Trying to decide if I will flat iron this weekend for length check...I may just skip this one. But I have to do something to my hair for this weekend...so Idk. When I pulled my hair, I'm still maybe a half inch shy of APL. I have a long way to go.
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You can do it for sûre ! Keep doing what works. Babying those ends.
 
Hair has been washed and currently under a plastic cap with DC on. Gonna leave it on for a few hours, detangle, and braid. Going back to NOLA next week so I gotta decide if I wanna wash it again before I go and let my friend blow dry/flat iron it again like she did for Christmas, go to Sally's and pick up the SE smoothing kit and do it before I go, or say screw it and rock wigs the whole time.
 
I tried sock bun curls again, this time on damp hair, and once again they were a failure. :-(

I think I am totally over straight hair. I like smooth and shiny just not straight. Now I've messed up my hair for my length check, but at least I got a ponytail with some body.
 

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Currently pre-pooing with III Sisters nourishing treatment and apricot oil. I plan to wash, DC (moisture), air dry, and flat iron. My ends have been very frizzy since my BKT:'( but I'm going to fix this problem with some serious moisture. I will do my final rinse with ACV and green tea to see if it will help close the cuticle on my ends.

NikkiQ, honey I hear you. Decisions, decisions, decisions. .. sorry, I'm no help lol
 
Hola chicas!!!! I have finally made it back to the US of A. I had fun in the carribean sun now its back to business lol. So for the seven days i spent on 3 different islands, i took very good care of my naps. I mostly wore wash n go's and wet buns. I made sure to wash/cowash when needed and i moisturized and sealed daily. I also tried Wen for the first time and fell in love!!! So now im gonna start ordering it from now on with my other staples as well. I have also still been loyal to my Hairfinity while on vacay too...Yay me!!!

OAN: I took a pic of one of my good friends hair while on vacay since i knew you ladies love hair porn. Her ponytail is HL.


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SincerelyBeautiful said:
Hola chicas!!!! I have finally made it back to the US of A. I had fun in the carribean sun now its back to business lol. So for the seven days i spent on 3 different islands, i took very good care of my naps. I mostly wore wash n go's and wet buns. I made sure to wash/cowash when needed and i moisturized and sealed daily. I also tried Wen for the first time and fell in love!!! So now im gonna start ordering it from now on with my other staples as well. I have also still been loyal to my Hairfinity while on vacay too...Yay me!!!

OAN: I took a pic of one of my good friends hair while on vacay since i knew you ladies love hair porn. Her ponytail is HL.
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Welcome back! That pony is drool worthy!
 
pelohello said:
Here are pics of my length check. I dont know how I feel about them. But to be positive, I'm really happy with my pony tail:yep: I dont see an ounce of difference. I'm really hoping I see SOMETHING by Sept. I think my expectations arent realistic. I keep comparing my length to everyone else's. I'm so afraid that I wont make BSL this yr & have to be in the repeat:sad: & not know anyone:lol:

One of the comparisons is from April and the other one is from last month.
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I agree girl you got some great growth before it was above the green line now it's pass it in a V ! :-)
 
GettingKinky said:
I tried sock bun curls again, this time on damp hair, and once again they were a failure. :-(

I think I am totally over straight hair. I like smooth and shiny just not straight. Now I've messed up my hair for my length check, but at least I got a ponytail with some body.
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:drool: I WISH I could get my ponytail to look that big! shrinkage is a BEAST with my head, smh I think your hair looks nice and full!

So what are sock bun curls? I've never heard of them
 
ImanAdero & Killahkurlz :congrats: :club: It has been awhile since someone made it. Thanks for posting it keeps me encouraged.

NikkiQ I think you should let your friend do the smoothing treatment in nola. She is really good with hair, and it will come out better. Also you might be able to get more products for your hair there.

In other news, I found one piece of hair that makes bsb under running water. No picture because as soon as I got out the shower it isn't that long. Hopefully my longest layer will make BSL for our September length check. Oh summer growth spurt - where are you?
 
Finally did my own cornrows!! :yay:This is only my 2nd attempt, so don't laught at me. I swear it took me forever. I paused after every 2 braids. :laugh: Now I don't have to pay a ridiculous $40 just for cornrows under my wigs.

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HEY LADIES!!! I missed you guys!!! I'm back =)... Hopefully... my life went into over drive basically overnight and I didn't have time to get on here =\ I'm going to try to set aside a few mins every few days to check out this thread...
Basically im still at APL... I'm actually a little past but I keep trimming my ends every month so I have very little progress. I am almost 11 months Into my transition to natural!!! I'm so proud of myself! I hope everyone is still making progress toward our BSL goal, I hope to get there by dec, since I had my son I've been back using my sulfer8/Monistat mix, not every day more like once a week if I remember... Anyway hopefully I can get a chance to catch up with what's been going on and every bodies progress in the next few Days...
Happy Hair Growing Ladie
 
Morning Ladies!!

I did a braidout on my flat iron hair. It seems like every time I straighten my hair it either rains or its super humid; & it did both this week. 2morrow, I plan on cowashing and doing a braidout. I'm trying to prep my hair for its hibernation:) I decided that if I do a good enough sengelese twist, then I will wear that for the remainder of the year, as my PS.

For those of you that use braids, twist etc... with extentions, do you still DC and MS while in the braids, twists etc...?

HHJ:drunk:
 
Last night was wash day for me so I prepooed with Grapeseed oil for over an hour and washed my scalp with Aphogee Deep Moisture Shampoo, rinsed out and used my Roux Porosity on my scalp and hair and wore a shower cap for like 5 minutes. Rinsed out and used Hair Mayonnaise mixed with Hair trigger and placed all through my braids. Wore my shower cap again and wrapped it in a thick scarf that I use for placing my shower cap and fell asleep whilst reading a Jeffrey archer novel. So I deep conditioned for 2 hours. Woke up and rinsed out the conditioner and then tied and old tshirt over my braids, used a hair band to secure it and went to bed.
woke up this morning to almost dry braids and sprayed some infusium leave in on it. Air-dried it. I lost a few braids - about 4 but good thing I know how to braid. Once my hair is completely dry will re-braid. My hair feels nice and soft and properly conditioned. At the moment I'm at work so applied my MN on my scalp and massaging my scalp while working.....yes, I like to multi task.
I'm really rocking my braids though! Trying to think of my next Protective style. Washing braids is too much hard work. Though I recently bought magnetic rollers so might go back to washing and setting each week. Its much easier to take care of my real hair than in braids
 
pelohello said:
Morning Ladies!!

I did a braidout on my flat iron hair. It seems like every time I straighten my hair it either rains or its super humid; & it did both this week. 2morrow, I plan on cowashing and doing a braidout. I'm trying to prep my hair for its hibernation:) I decided that if I do a good enough sengelese twist, then I will wear that for the remainder of the year, as my PS.

For those of you that use braids, twist etc... with extentions, do you still DC and MS while in the braids, twists etc...?

HHJ:drunk:
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Yes I did and even prepooed.....my hair thanked me for it. But I think washing your braids once a week especially in my case where the whole extension wasn't braided would cause your braids to be weak. However I would rather have weak braids than hair that's not well conditioned and nourished.
 
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