Calling KAMMIE! Great Progress!

[tweezer6]

Kammie,

The progress that you've made from 04 to now is just beautiful. You're an inspiration to me as a 4a. I'm sure it must be wonderful to look in the mirror and see a healthy growing head of hair!

Is your regime posted somewhere? If not, would you please share?

Congrats again on the progress!!!!

 

[rai]

you are so right. Great progress.

 

[Naijaqueen]

Yup yup wonderful progress!!

 

[kammie]

Wow! Oh thank you--I'm really flattered! I can't believe that I've gotten to the point where I could EVER be someone's inspiration. Especially since my starting pic is 6 months after I started this journey. And to think, since I' ve never had hair as long as it is now (and I have a LONG way to go), I used to think I had a defective hair gene or something.

My regimen is loosely based on Cathy Howse. I wash, either with shampoo or just co-wash, at least every 3 days. Although I do use shampoo (either Cream of Nature or generic Nexus Therppe) I will often go through bouts of daily co-washing with VO5 conditioners, especially if I'm getting a lot of shedding. I deep condition weekly with Lekair and used Aphrogee 2 min. Reconstructor every week until recently; now I use it once a month or so. I don't relax sooner than 8 weeks; I try to stretch to 12.

I use Profectiv Breakfree mostly and sometimes Pantene spray as my leave-in, and I use a mixture of S-curl or Sta-Sof-Fro, Surge, VO5 conditioner, EVOO, and water as a moisturiser, along with straight S-Curl, other Profectiv products, the serum of the month (I like NTM and Fantasia). I avoid using too much heat and was strictly wearing protective styles until my hair hit collarbone; now I'm rollersetting more and wearing it down more. I usually remember to take a multivitamin everyday.

The main thing is that I really focused my attention on hair retention, not growth. My hair grows 1/2 to 3/4 inch a month, so that would make at least 6 inches a year. I moisturize twice a day and really take care of my ends. Last year, I was trimming every two weeks to a month in order to let the broken part catch up (it was down to the new growth all across the crown, from one ear to the other). Now that it is mostly even, I'm really trying not to trim, although it is really hard to keep the scissors out of my head.

Sorry this is so long, but I hope this helps. You have really made my day.

 

[Naijaqueen]

Kammie can u change ur sig to past shoulder now
the length of your hair early 2005 is sort of where mine is now, and this is nice to see. Thanks 4 posting your regime, I'm probably going to add more reg use of a reconstructor. I've the Phyto milk reconstructor which came with my relaxer, and remember to deep condition once a week.

 

[Naijaqueen]

Girl wow just saw where u said u used to relax every 3-4 weeks WOW!!

 

[shoelover1972]

ITA you have made great progress. Keep up the good work.

 

[tweezer6]

Thanks Kammie for being so willing to post your regime. I kow what you mean about the scissors. I cant keep the scissors out of mine either. The crown area is the most challenging for me. But it's finally making progress.

I'm going to do what you did and focus on retention rather than growth.

Keep up the great progress!