Yes! Bun challenge!I always love the bun and hide your ends challenges.
- Hair Care Consistency Challenge
- Nutrition, Water, and Exercise for Hair Growth Challenge
Use up the stash (I'm always in this one)
APL length
Protective style/hide your hair
Even though I'm wearing a wig now, I don't think the wig challenge is good for me.
I'd do these. I would also be interested in:
- Healthy Ends 2018
- continuing Hip/Tailbone Length Challenge
- Ayurveda/Curly Proverbs Challenge. I hope we combine these two because they are essentially the same thing.
- Twist/Braid/Bun 2018
The usual length challenges always give folks a goal to strive for! I'll be joining the DC challenge to keep me on track with my weekly 1hr long sessions...those ladies always give good reviews and they're up on the latest products too!
Thanks for starting this thread, @faithVA.
I'm just thinking aloud and brainstorming. These may already exist in some form.
- Hair Care Consistency Challenge
Description:
What (all) do you want to be consistent about in 2018? List it, and report back every week, two weeks, or month, as appropriate.
Example: A poster lists the following consistency goals.
-- Quarterly trim
-- Monthly henna treatment
-- Weekly DC
So this poster would return and post to the thread every week, every month, and every quarter to update on all 3 consistency goals.
- Hair Photo Documentation Challenge
Description:
Photograph your hair every month, two months, or three months (you choose). Beneath each photo, list the hair-related challenges you are involved in (as this may evolve/change, and also to remind yourself of what you have committed to). Discuss what you see in your photos and what your evolving goals/changes are as a result of what you are seeing.
- Nutrition, Water, and Exercise for Hair Growth Challenge
Description:
Initial post: In an initial post, list what you think you need to eat (food and vitamins), drink, and do (exercise) for optimal hair growth. Include a length shot photo if you desire.
Once-a-week: Each Sunday by 12 noon EST, download this simple check-off form. All week on paper, check off whether you've had the water, nutrition, and exercise you deem required for optimal hair growth. Each Saturday by 12 midnight EST, upload a photo of your check-off form for accountability. If desired, beneath the photo type a reflection note about what went right and what's working, how you plan to improve or maintain, what you plan to eat, what you're drinking, how you can get more water in, etc.
Thanks for starting this thread, @faithVA.
I'm just thinking aloud and brainstorming. These may already exist in some form.
- Hair Care Consistency Challenge
Description:
What (all) do you want to be consistent about in 2018? List it, and report back every week, two weeks, or month, as appropriate.
Example: A poster lists the following consistency goals.
-- Quarterly trim
-- Monthly henna treatment
-- Weekly DC
So this poster would return and post to the thread every week, every month, and every quarter to update on all 3 consistency goals.
- Hair Photo Documentation Challenge
Description:
Photograph your hair every month, two months, or three months (you choose). Beneath each photo, list the hair-related challenges you are involved in (as this may evolve/change, and also to remind yourself of what you have committed to). Discuss what you see in your photos and what your evolving goals/changes are as a result of what you are seeing.
- Nutrition, Water, and Exercise for Hair Growth Challenge
Description:
Initial post: In an initial post, list what you think you need to eat (food and vitamins), drink, and do (exercise) for optimal hair growth. Include a length shot photo if you desire.
Once-a-week: Each Sunday by 12 noon EST, download this simple check-off form. All week on paper, check off whether you've had the water, nutrition, and exercise you deem required for optimal hair growth. Each Saturday by 12 midnight EST, upload a photo of your check-off form for accountability. If desired, beneath the photo type a reflection note about what went right and what's working, how you plan to improve or maintain, what you plan to eat, what you're drinking, how you can get more water in, etc.
I wish the Protective Style/Hide your hair include the wig challenge. Sew ins, wigs, crochet, etc are all the same...Protective Styles.
Would it work if the Use Up Your Stash challenge was simply the Use Your Stash challenge?
I've dropped out because my stash will not be used up.
But it would be great to simply be endeavoring to use my stash whenever I do my hair.
Are you using the wig combs? Have you tried the elastic band method? It really helps the wig to stay put, that way it isn't rubbing on your hairline. And by not using the combs you prevent breakage. Also, you can purchase a Wigrip, which further protects your edges.Oh I know, it's just I was supposed to be doing the wig challenge this year and rotating my wig styles. But I always end up in the same wig. And I'm not sure it's helping my nape and front hairline.
Are you using the wig combs? Have you tried the elastic band method? It really helps the wig to stay put, that way it isn't rubbing on your hairline. And by not using the combs you prevent breakage. Also, you can purchase a Wigrip, which further protects your edges.
Edited: As for the nape area, a satin wig cap did the trick for me. I purchased mine from swigcap.com. They have been out of stock for a while. When I was without my satin cap I would use a thin satin scarf and tie it strategically so it would allow my hair to lay flat. But really, taking combs out of the wig is the best thing you can do (if you haven't already).
Don't take it literally. You don't have to use up your stash. Just list what you want to use up. If you don't want to use up anything just post randomly. I've been in that thread forever and after the first year I haven't had a stash. Besides my staples, I probably have 5 products in my stash.Would it work if the Use Up Your Stash challenge was simply the Use Your Stash challenge?
I've dropped out because my stash will not be used up.
But it would be great to simply be endeavoring to use my stash whenever I do my hair.
Keep on thinking out loud. You have some great ideas.Again, just thinking aloud.
Stay Within a Hair Budget Challenge
Description:
Initial post: Think through how often you need to purchase whatever you use for your hair. Include ingredients (oils, powders, etc.), disposable processing caps, vitamins, shipping fees, etc. Based on these purchasing needs, ballpark a monthly budget. Have a monthly reward for staying under budget (massage from spouse, favorite meal, "coupon" from real-life accountability partner to purchase "dream" product, etc.). Determine what your emergency pass is (1 product, an amount such as $15, etc). You get one pass per month.
Monthly end-of-the-month-posts: Post how you did and where you're at.
Example format for the monthly post
- Did you stay within your budget these month? (yes or no):
- Did you use your monthly pass? (passes don't factor into the calculation of amount spent):
- By how much are you over or under budget YEAR-TO-DATE?: -$5.27 means you accounting for the year so far, you have spent $5.27 less than your monthly budget permits and can use it in the future . . . But +$3.21 would mean you spent $3.21 more than you budgeted, and you need to try to amend it the next month (i.e. spend at least $3.21 under budget).
There is a healthy scalp challenge but I haven't done well in keeping it active. I will see what I can do for 2018.I would be here for all of these. I’ll be joining the BSB and MBL challenges, twist/braid/bun, use up your stash, vitamin challenge, and use 1/ buy 1.
I would love to have some kind of healthy scalp challenge as well.
I actually enjoyed that challenge. I think towards the end I was one of the few still posting.I want a Can't Bun to Can Bun Challenge.
I would also like to do another Milestone Challenge but I need to figure out how to explain it. Had too many in the last challenge that didn't understand what a milestone was.