Coconut oil makes my hair dry, brittle and break. But very lovely on the skin.
BB oil moisturizer- awful, they just should have named it white oil moisturizer in dedication of pink oil.
I don't if i was using too much or what.
I second this one.. oh my...dry, tangled, me not likey..
Aussie products...I never met one I didn't hate as much as I tried not to. They were more waxy than drying for me. Neither waxy and dry are what I seek in a product.
That Mixed Chicks stuff I haven't tried (I ain't mixed, so...) I KEEP seeing bad stuff about. Their line seems fully boozy which is odd given many biracials have major issues w/ dryness. Something's I ain't smart enough to to figure out? SHRUG
Chile...Wave Nouveau is for Scary Curls. If you ain't got no curl, don't give this a whurl!Seriously, the stuff will dry out not jherri'd hair. If someone is saying "oh I love it, works for me" all they have to do is keep on using it. It will cease to work....w/ a vengence.
Some of y'all are too young to remember the curl era. People w/o curls thought it would "make their hair grow" and found out otherwise. It wasn't pretty
bahahahaha@shower caps , rotfl!Just a little FYI about jherri juice and why people started to use it for growth. It think it's important to give some info cuz many folks here are using this product.
Many folks who had curls grew their hair to lengths they'd never had before and people attributed it to the "activator" (read jherri juice
For people w/ relaxers, it would both "poof up" and dry out their hair at the same time. For natuals the poof was less obvious (of course
I NOW know why curls "grew hair". It wasn't the juice, but the almost no manipulation the style demanded. You didn't comb or brush it much if you wanted the curls to be distinct, heat was the exact opposite of what you wanted (read dried up curl ain't pretty, see Ronnie Deveoe of NE for proof circa 83-86), and people simply got styles by getting it cut. The curl was the style itself, so no need for "black gel", hairspray, 80-11 braids and pony tail holders.
Simply put, it was a very low maintanance/low manipulation style. I don't think people made the connection back then between heavyhandedness and baldness. Too bad it stank and ruined pillow cases. That it made people walk around w/ shower caps on was unforgivable! LOL
ohh no , yes to cucumbers , say it aint so
erplexed
My hair is so "particular"
. Went through many hair ignant years of trying products by word of mouth. The best thing I ever did was do the natural thing without salons years ago. I love the fact that my natural hair will tell me quick what works. I refrain from giving a lot of hair advice, because I have never even in my own family even known anyone's hair as funny as mine. I am some weird hybrid of my parents' sides.
I know my hair is crazy and will act a fool unless i stay true to it. As long as it's healthy it thrives on moisture and oil and very little protein, but my hair loves fenugreek tea.
)erplexed) and co-wash about 3X a week( Aussie Moist/ HE HH). I also mix my powders (Brahmi, Shikakai and Amla) once a week for a treatment before i DC. 
I totally agree. My natural hair speaks so much louder than my relaxed hair. I've been trying everything under the sun and really found that I ALWAYS go back to the simpliest products (anything involving moisture and light oils
TRANZ: My hair is pretty sensitive to protien( like you) but I know that I probably need some type of protien (maybe a mild one)....what products do you use that incorporate both moisture and protien?
I use: ORS Replenishing deep conditioner( I add oils so maybe thats why it works for me
So far I don't think I have anything that has protien in it....am I wrong?
BAHAHHA @ the Elasta QP , I was like 'are you serious' too, its a fine mist of water , thats how I used it up too, just misting my edges till it was gone, did not repurchaseWhen i first experimented with my protien treatment i used that motions CPR and GURLLLLLLL did it leave me with a HARD HEAD
I DC afterwards and that helped, but geesh, I don't know if that was too strong or what but my hair HATED it!
I normally mix my ORS with either Amla oil or Brahmi oil. I only use coconut oil on my scalp/ends (vatika oil to be exact)
My hair has done very well so far on moisture, so I dont' think i'm doing anything wrong, but just scared of things changing after a while and having to find something else that works, because LORD knows it took me long enough to find the staples i use now
What i know DOES NOT work for me is Elasta QP H2 leave in....r u kidding me? This was some NYC tap water in a bottle!
BAHAHHA @ the Elasta QP , I was like 'are you serious' too, its a fine mist of water , thats how I used it up too, just misting my edges till it was gone, did not repurchase
that stuff is pointless
but if you were using other products with protein at the time or the CPR line at the same time, it could happen
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Well since i found out from you that ORS is a protien Deep conditioner then I guess that's enoughf or me. I think other "stand alone" protein treatments just don't work on my hair
I'm going to stick with what i know so far because as someone mentioned... i don't want to end up starting a thread about "how i lost 3 inches due to experimenting" NO WAY NOT ME!
BTW Irre...your hair is soooooo long and healthy looking. what have you been doing?
thank you girl, yeah stick with whats working, its good that you know now its protein, dont leave it in or change up with it or do anything differentQUOTE]
Well since i found out from you that ORS is a protien Deep conditioner then I guess that's enoughf or me. I think other "stand alone" protein treatments just don't work on my hair
I'm going to stick with what i know so far because as someone mentioned... i don't want to end up starting a thread about "how i lost 3 inches due to experimenting" NO WAY NOT ME!
BTW Irre...your hair is soooooo long and healthy looking. what have you been doing?
and just touch it up or take it down and oil it in between
