BSL/MBL 2014 Challenge

Long time no post! Im in the process of taking my braids down right now. Have any of you ever lost a chunk of hair from wearing braids??? The entire segment of hair just came out with my extensions :nono:
 
isawstars, ur post had me laughing:lachen:. I do notice that now that my hair is growing & healthier, lots of the ladies have been taking notice. They just stare; which is sooo annoying. Especially when I wear my hair straight. My favorite is when they purposely ignore me when I enter the room & then as I leave the room, they break their necks to really look at my hair. Because I know that's what they do, I make sure I whip my head around to face their glaring eyes & they hurry up & act like they are doing something else but looking at my hair:lol:

The fellas seem to like when I wear my hair straight & when I use my Curlformers.
 
AyannaDivine said:
Long time no post! Im in the process of taking my braids down right now. Have any of you ever lost a chunk of hair from wearing braids??? The entire segment of hair just came out with my extensions :nono:
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That used to happen when I used to go to the braiding salon. That's normally an indicator that the braid was too tight.
 
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I think this no heat thing is really helping with my retention. I notice alittle bit of growth. I also think its because I've been protective styling 24/7. I haven't wore my hair down in a month. If I don't use heat, I usually wear PS, I.E. braidouts, Curlformers & twist outs.

I think Im about 3-4inches (maybe less) away from MBL:thumbsup:. The front of my hair, now can reach the middle of my boobies:blondboob

My Curlformers set from Sunday r holding up great. I think I'm going to wear a ponytail next week with the old curls.
 
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AyannaDivine said:
Long time no post! Im in the process of taking my braids down right now. Have any of you ever lost a chunk of hair from wearing braids??? The entire segment of hair just came out with my extensions :nono:
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AyannaDivine...Hi there! Uh, I lost a triangle segment when taking down some sengelese twists. I KNEW they were too tight. This was the summer of 2012. My hair has not fully recovered yet. The twists did not work for me. I went out and bought 13 wigs. It was a triangle right on the right front hair line. shiver. I am going to bump up my deep conditioning this year. I will recover( sung to I will survive!).:yep:
 
pelohello

Your boobie smilie had me rolling! :lol::drunk:

OH, I just realized you're texturized! After looking at your siggie, I noticed my last texlax was close to the same time as yours!

I've been debating if I should return to natural because it's been a long stretch... kinda like "why not?" haha but I'm thinking about just sticking to being texlaxed and finding a new stylist instead. How long are you going to stretch for? I'm considering next month which will be 6 months post... or maybe I will start doing it once a year. I don't know.

How do you typically schedule yours?
 
I did a twist out last night with some of the Indulgently Luxe' Exotique Butter-Creme Hydrator and the Entwine Creme Jelle Styler…woke up this morning and eagerly took down my twists only to find a steaming hot mess. My hair was so sticky -- that I had to yet again wash my hair. Plus I had to go to work with jacked up hair because my hair cannot tolerate a wash-in go! Back to my $8 KCKT Leave in and some good old fashioned coconut oil for my twist outs.. **sigh**
 
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isawstars said:
pelohello

Your boobie smilie had me rolling! :lol::drunk:

OH, I just realized you're texturized! After looking at your siggie, I noticed my last texlax was close to the same time as yours!

I've been debating if I should return to natural because it's been a long stretch... kinda like "why not?" haha but I'm thinking about just sticking to being texlaxed and finding a new stylist instead. How long are you going to stretch for? I'm considering next month which will be 6 months post... or maybe I will start doing it once a year. I don't know.

How do you typically schedule yours?
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I usually texlax every 4mths, but with this stretch, I havent had any problems, so I'm going to see how far I can go. I havent made up my mind yet if I'm transitioning, so far now I'm just in a really long stretch.
 
felic1 said:
AyannaDivine...Hi there! Uh, I lost a triangle segment when taking down some sengelese twists. I KNEW they were too tight. This was the summer of 2012. My hair has not fully recovered yet. The twists did not work for me. I went out and bought 13 wigs. It was a triangle right on the right front hair line. shiver. I am going to bump up my deep conditioning this year. I will recover( sung to I will survive!).:yep:
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Smh, mine is also at the hairline. You just gave me an idea... Im going to use this breakage incident as an excuse to buy a cute short wig for spring time!
 
Today's been exciting. I untwisted my twists and I'm wearing it in a curly puff with side bangs... I'm so pleased with how moisturized it is! Tomorrow is wash day for me, and I'm actually looking forward to it... that doesn't happen often lol. :spinning: Maybe it's because I really liked what I did last time, so I'll just duplicate that.

Folica is having an awesome sale and I bought a Sedu (my long lost love) flat iron for $70, originally $180. Today's definitely a good day :)
 
I will go back to wearing twisted buns. I feel like I've been manipulating my hair too much. I also need to dust about 1/4 off.
 
Haven't checked in for a while. Sorry for the MIA. Life's been sooo busy lately, but in great ways! :) I hope everyone is well!

As for my update: I've come out the the braids as of last month (Mid-January). It was such a tedious process I will not be braiding again any time soon (as least not with added hair :nono: ). I wore them for a bit more than 2 months and re-braided certain sections two times in between.

...I've been wearing high buns ever since with my own hair. They can last up to two weeks. Depends on moisture level. Experimenting with hot oil treatments under hooded dryer (bought it last month) and experimenting with protein treatments under hooded dryer. I've been bad about sleeping with my scarf for the past few days...ugh. I've been so busy by the time I get home, I'm done. Gotta make that last stretch to just wrap my hair up. lol

I haven't measured yet this year. It's seldom, but I get a bit nervous it's not growing, even though I've had minimal shedding, etc. I think it's just me fretting though... I haven't even taken a good look at it in months. I just wash and detangle, then put away in a PS... I am going to wait until my 2nd year anniversary to LC.

Gonna do a little lurking now and see how everyone is progressing. :) Hope everyone's year so far is going great! :)
 
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I think I want to try a rod set tomorrow... But tonight I'll slather coconut oil on and tie it up in a target bag.

Or I'll wash tonight, I dunno...

And for some reason I feel the need to trim although I don't think I need it. I'll just search for splits and see what I find.

Also trying to figure out what I can use up today... Hopefully get rid of something in my stash.
 
pelohello , your posts are making me jelly!!!! I want people to stare annoyingly at my hair behind my back :sad:. And I want my hair to be boob length :sad::sad:
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Seriously though, I can't wait to be there again :grin:
 
I'm debating on washing my hair today. But I really want to get 2wks out of the curlformers. What I really want to do is dye my hair today. I think next week, I'll go ahead and purchase the shea moisture hair color and take the plunge & dye it myself. But if I get to bored this weekend, I might just go ahead and do it this weekend; especially since it's supposed to be this massive snow storm Monday.
 
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I'm debating on washing my hair today. But I really want to get 2wks out of the curlformers. What I really want to do is dye my hair today. I think next week, I'll go ahead and purchase the shea moisture hair color and take the plunge & dye it myself. But if I get to bored this weekend, I might just go ahead and do it this weekend; especially since it's supposed to be this massive snow storm Monday.
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pelohello What color do you have in mind? I love hearing about people's hair dying adventures... I'm a scaredy-cat-dye-virgin.

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I am so over trying new products for a while. I'm kicking myself right now for having 3569754268 deep conditioners
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LAMARia When I was natural I was such a PJ and I'm still burnt out.... and well, I got disappointed too many times to where I'm scared to try new products haha. I totally feel you. But at least you're stocked up for a while.
 
isawstars, I just dyed it now. The color is spicey red. I went 2 target to get the shea moisture red color & they didn't have it so I settled for dark & lovely spicey red; permanent. I dyed it in a horse shoe shape on the front of my hair.

I love the color but it didn't take on the bottom of my hair but the roots came out perfectly!
 
Prepoo'd today with my Amla/Brahmi/Vatika Oil mix.

I had plan to cowash but my scalp was itching so bad I shampooed with CON w/ Argan Oil shampoo (love that shampoo). Then did a tea rinse (fenugreek and peppermint) it was so soothing to my scalp! I put HH Pink Grapefruit Conditioner on top. 'Bought to go under the dryer for 15 mins then let it cool. I plan to try out SSI Moisture mist leave in spray and do a braid out using bask tapioca creme and seal with bask sevenfold butter.

So far i like CON foaming lotion for my braid outs but I would like to see if using cremes/butters will give me the same results.
 
I don't know what to do with my bonelaxed ends. I told myself that I would slowly trim them all off this year. The look so thin compared to the rest of my hair when I wear it down so they really need to go. On the other hand when I was. washing my hair today I realized that I am so close to MBL and if I cut it it will take me almost a year to get it back. So then I just bun it and try to forget the whole thing.
 
The pics don't do the color justice, cause its lighter in person. I tried 2 take as many pics as possible, to show the color but my phone SUCKS!!

I used dark & lovely spicey red.
 
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From what I can see, it looks good pelohello. I don't have the courage to dye. Most I'd do is a rinse.

Today was wash day: Prepooed with HV Vatika, Cleansed with As I AM Cleansing Pudding, DCed with SDot Beauty dc, used Annabelle's Pudding Leave In and sealed with HV Vatika with a little My Honey Child Buttery Soy on the ends.
 
I had planned to go back to twists this week but a networking event came up so I straightened again after washing/DC and my hair is noticeably longer even since my trim 2 weeks ago. I'm now in a bind.:ohwell: Every time I get twists they mess up my ends and I have to trim and I don't retain what I grow. My hair just seems to do better when straight.:perplexed I'm thinking of getting boxed braids instead since I don't have this problem with braids.
 
Hair is in roughly 35 braids.

I'll hopefully keep it like this for a week or 2. Plan to cowash at the one week mark. Moisturizing and sealing every other day.
 
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From what I can see, it looks good pelohello. I don't have the courage to dye. Most I'd do is a rinse.

Today was wash day: Prepooed with HV Vatika, Cleansed with As I AM Cleansing Pudding, DCed with SDot Beauty dc, used Annabelle's Pudding Leave In and sealed with HV Vatika with a little My Honey Child Buttery Soy on the ends.
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How often do you do a rinse? I want to try one tomorrow--but I'm sooo scared that it may damage my hair :sad:
 
I'm joining!!

Current hair length- 1 inch away from bsl
Natural
Goal month-December I hope to mbl
Current Regimen & Styling- Protective styles 24/7. I wash with box braids every month. Every 3 months I take down, protein treatment and re-style in box braids, Marley twists etc. I spray my scalp every night with water, peppermint oil and tea tree oil, then moisturize and seal my braids.
Changing-I just need to be more consistent with the peppermint oil and vitamins!

Pics are from January
 

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Wash day was unplanned, but it was all good. I tried out L'Oreal Power Moisture DC and I looooooove it!!!! Hair felt like butta butta butta rinsing it out. I also shampooed and used Total Repair 5 as a quick rinse out, and my love has been confirmed!! Yay for finding my holy grail DC's!! My hair was not happy with the heat I used last week. My hair won't be seeing heat for awhile :nono:. My hair's air dried, and I really need to style it. I'll get around to that later :look:
 
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