GROW YOUR HAIR LONG WITH DEEP CONDITIONING CHALLENGE 2008 - PART 2

[naturalsigma]

ok I am dc'ng again. I was so excited to have my new products that I had to try them out. I purchased mane and tail, lekair cholesterol and fantasia gel. i am dc'ng with mand t and peppermint oil, almond oil and castor oil. My hair is tingling as i type. i wrapped my hair with saran wrap but i am not going to sit under the dryer. i am going to cowash afterwards.

 

[Healthb4Length]

naturlasigma, I'm loving the fro hawk!! That's one of my favorite summer style!

 

[Rapunzel2B]

I am under the dryer right now doing DC with Keracare Humecto for 1 hour. I will cw and do an oil rinse and pin up and airdry in a satin scarf. That's all simple and easy.

 

[naturalsigma]

Thank you Alli77.

 

[Mandy4610]

Prepoo with Affirm 5 n 1 and then Dced overnight with Mizani moisturefuse.

 

[Anashja]

DC'ed last night w/ Avocado conditioner and Amla Oil under heat for 30 minutes. And then I rollerset and sat under the dryer for another 25 minutes w/ Chi Silk ...

Ok ladies until the next DC

 

[miami74]

Hi ladies. Last night I DC'd with Silicon Mix mixed with 1 tsp of Keracare Humecto, honey and JBCO. Sat under the dryer for 45 minutes. I then did an oil rinse with coconut oil and a quick CW with Tresemme Moisture Rich.

 

[morehairplease]

Hi ladies,

Just finished dc with steam for 20 mintues. I have vowed to myself to dc 2 times a week.

 

[tt8]

What condish without protein are the tex-lax ladies using and having success with?

 

[LivingDoll]

I missed my Thursday night DC due to DD's practice for her recital....I'm also tryna wait for my Humecto to arrive that I ordered from e-DiscountBeauty.com (they suck). Hopefully, it will arrive today and I can Dc with it tonight...if not, I'll just use my Elucence MB Condish.

 

[Aggie]

What condish without protein are the tex-lax ladies using and having success with?

Of the few that I have, Mizani moisturefuse, Pantene R/N hair conditioning mask, and Kenra moisture conditioner all work really well for me.

ETA: Are you joining the challenge tt8? Let me know so I can add you in.

 

[Aggie]

Hi ladies,

Just finished dc with steam for 20 mintues. I have vowed to myself to dc 2 times a week.

Hi tishee, are you joining the dc challenge? If you are, please let me know so I can officially add you in, okay?

 

[chebaby]

Hi tishee, are you joining the dc challenge? If you are, please let me know so I can officially add you in, okay?

hi
i want to join the challenge. at first i was only deep conditioning once a week but i found that after i co wash my hair loves to be deep conditioned with redken all soft heavy cream.
so please add me to the list i started last week and its great.

 

[Aggie]

hi
i want to join the challenge. at first i was only deep conditioning once a week but i found that after i co wash my hair loves to be deep conditioned with redken all soft heavy cream.
so please add me to the list i started last week and its great.

Welcome chebaby, I'll add you in now and have fun.

 

[myronnie]

I want to join this..so we have to deep condition more than once a week right? I'm up for it! I love washing my hair anyway and deep conditioning is good for it

At least I'll get to use up those thousands of conditioners from my PJ sprees

 

[25Nona]

Hello Ladies,

I did my DC last night using my Olive Oil Condish concoction. Last night I switched things up a bit. I didn't do it on dry hair and I didn't use heat with it like I usually do. I needed to chelate so I started off with that first, my hair seemed lto need a little pick me up!, so that is why I couldn't DC on dry hair. After I sat with the Olive Oil condish on my hair for about 2 hrs, I rinsed and detangled. Then I put on my KeraCare Humecto that I mixed with a little bit of olive oil and glycerin and I let that sit for about 1 hour. Well when I detangled the final time the comb just glided through my hair.

My next wash is going to be this Sunday, and I may do a light protein treatment. I'm 9 weeks post and I'm really trying to hold out until 5/31 before I get a relaxer (this is my 1st official attempt at stretching, I normally go 8 weeks then I relax)......I have to say that this DC challenge is helping me out with that tremendously, because every time I wash and roller set, my roots seem to soften and straighten out quite a bit which stops me from stressing about how rough my new growth is.

 

[Aggie]

Hello Ladies,

I did my DC last night using my Olive Oil Condish concoction. Last night I switched things up a bit. I didn't do it on dry hair and I didn't use heat with it like I usually do. I needed to chelate so I started off with that first, my hair seemed lto need a little pick me up!, so that is why I couldn't DC on dry hair. After I sat with the Olive Oil condish on my hair for about 2 hrs, I rinsed and detangled. Then I put on my KeraCare Humecto that I mixed with a little bit of olive oil and glycerin and I let that sit for about 1 hour. Well when I detangled the final time the comb just glided through my hair.

My next wash is going to be this Sunday, and I may do a light protein treatment. I'm 9 weeks post and I'm really trying to hold out until 5/31 before I get a relaxer (this is my 1st official attempt at stretching, I normally go 8 weeks then I relax)......I have to say that this DC challenge is helping me out with that tremendously, because every time I wash and roller set, my roots seem to soften and straighten out quite a bit which stops me from stressing about how rough my new growth is.

Congratulations on your dc successes so far and good luck with the relaxer stretching. If your hair starts to show signs of demarcation line breakage before the end of the month, go ahead and relax. Don't wait it out. Try adding a week at a time to your stretches until you get to your ideal stretch.

 

[Aggie]

I want to join this..so we have to deep condition more than once a week right? I'm up for it! I love washing my hair anyway and deep conditioning is good for it

At least I'll get to use up those thousands of conditioners from my PJ sprees

That's a apositive way of looking at it. Welcome to the challenge myronnie.

 

[Aggie]

When I say that I don't mean from overnight or since starting this challenge. I noticed a change in texture when I switched from Pantene products to Kera Care in 2001... that was my first step to using better products. My hair was softer, not as tangled, and had body beyond belief... really. Fast forwarding on to now... tomorrow makes 24 weeks post relaxer for me. My hair is very manageable.... there was a time that if I hit 8 weeks I didn't want to comb through my hair... but my staple products were ultra sheen hair grease, Luster's pink oil moist., and some kind of Curling Wax... (it was red); I also washed and conditioned my hair every 2 weeks, but curled, crimped, and flat ironed damn near daily. Again I'm 24 weeks post, I've been co-washing and/or rinsing 3/5 x a week. My hair loves me for it, I rarely use heat; though now... I can let my hair air dry with a leave in and it's soft, I have 3 maybe 3 1/2 inches of NG but with a little Jason's Aloe Vera gel it loosens up to the point where I actually like my natural hair... it's soft and wavy not kinky and "nappy" as how I viewed it before. So with all that written it's no longer dry and too kinky to comb through, my coils are looser and soft.

Okay, that's good to know.

 

[miss Congeniality]

I need to join this. My hair is so thirsty and my ends need some TLC.

 

[Aggie]

I need to join this. My hair is so thirsty and my ends need some TLC.

Welcome to the challenge Miss C.

 

[Natural_Woman]

Thanks for adding me Aggie! I NEED this challenge!

 

[25Nona]

Congratulations on your dc successes so far and good luck with the relaxer stretching. If your hair starts to show signs of demarcation line breakage before the end of the month, go ahead and relax. Don't wait it out. Try adding a week at a time to your stretches until you get to your ideal stretch.

Thanks for the advice Aggie, I've been a little nervous about stretching because I see that it works for some and not for others so I'm going to keep a close watch on it

 

[Healthb4Length]

I had an extreme protein treatment at the salon today. They used some sort of Dominican product and had me under a dryer for 20minutes. I don't know the name of it and when I asked them what they used they were very vagueerplexed. My hair did feel really soft and nice though and after the rollerset my hair was very soft, shiny and bouncy!

 

[sevetlana]

I dc'ed today I chelated using the ORS creamy aloe. My hair was feeling crunchy, ( i used some mineral oil based thing). I decided to uses some aloe ( I have a plant in the yard) so I blended it up with condish and coconut oil, It has been in my hair since 10am. Gonna wash it own soon. Will let you know how it turns out.
Later ladies

 

[myronnie]

I just washed with my Chagrin valley soaps and dc'ed with Proclaim Aloe&Shea Conditioner mixed with honey, coconut oil, and castor oil for about 5 hours (I fell asleep)
My hair feels just like butter!!!! I love it! Deep conditioning for extended amounts of time (more than hour) is so lovely!

 

[Aggie]

I just washed with my Chagrin valley soaps and dc'ed with Proclaim Aloe&Shea Conditioner mixed with honey, coconut oil, and castor oil for about 5 hours (I fell asleep)
My hair feels just like butter!!!! I love it! Deep conditioning for extended amounts of time (more than hour) is so lovely!

Hi myronnie, I totally agree with the bolded. I still want 26.5 inches of hair like yours.

 

[Aggie]

I dc'ed today I chelated using the ORS creamy aloe. My hair was feeling crunchy, ( i used some mineral oil based thing). I decided to uses some aloe ( I have a plant in the yard) so I blended it up with condish and coconut oil, It has been in my hair since 10am. Gonna wash it own soon. Will let you know how it turns out.
Later ladies

sevetlana, why is your hair feeling crunchy? Which conditioner are you dc-ing with?

 

[Aggie]

Well as for my update, I co-washed using my special ayurveda mix in my fotki and here is the link to it: http://public.fotki.com/LadyAggie/my-product-lists/agathas-recipe-corn/agathasayurvedacowa.html This is the softest my hair has ever been after a co-wash - seriously.

Now because I'm in the OCT/Mega Tek Challenge as well, after washing it out, I shampooed with my MT premier shampoo first and added MT creme rinse together and rinse out. Then followed by some diluted Nutrine garlic poo and conditioner.

I deep conditioned with Alter Ego garlic treatment mixed with some MT avocado mist and honeyquat - I never detangleded until washing out the AE garlic treatment and I only had about 4 hairs in the comb. My hair was soft the whole time.

I want to encourage those who haven't gotten one yet, to go out and get a Sprite HOC shower filter, seriously, this filter is awesome. My water is sooooo soft now and my hair is loving me for purchasing it.

ETA: See reviews on the different types of filters and also you'll see that the Sprite is the best model thus far: http://home.roadrunner.com/~reviewguy/shower_filter_test_results.html

Also I bought mine from this site: http://www.showerx.com/sphioudemahe.html, but I think you can get them from home depot.

 

[sevetlana]

sevetlana, why is your hair feeling crunchy? Which conditioner are you dc-ing with?

Hi Aggie,
I used Minzani H20 intense night-time treatment. It has Mineral oil in it, guess my hair does not like it. My hair normally feels great after a DC but when it dries and i wrap myhair with the minzani it goes crunchy after a day.

Today I used pantene relaxed and natrual mask and a some tresseme moisture rich along with aloe vera and coconut oil. I just rollerset, my hair feels very strong. I used a little castor oil on the ends.