Hip–Tailbone Length (HL–TBL) 2014 Challenge!

ckisland said:
I absolutely love 1ballerina! Her 3 braid method for maintaining her hair at night changed my life!! She inspired my little PSing spurt early last year, and her routine helped me get back to MBL. Thank you for posting this. This is going to be my regimen when school starts :yep: .
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ckisland, please post the video. TIA
 
I realized I missed the check-in date but I'm sure its b/c length stopped being a goal for a moment. I decided to cut about 2.5 inches of scraggly, straight ends. However, my hair seems to be curling much more now and am ready to continue this length journey. I'll try to post a length picture soon.
 
MileHighDiva said:
ckisland, please post the video. TIA
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http://youtu.be/RxLTz0jiOWw

I kept searching for this video because I didn't realize that her hair was that short when I first found her :spinning:. Her hair has grown so much in the past 2 years. What have I been doing with my life :cry: ?! What she does is literally put her hair in 3 braids, but it was the factor in my hair ending up overly stretched, not stretched enough, or getting tangled when I wear twist/braidouts. I was also handling my hair super gently like she does, and I saved so much hair.
 
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ckisland, is Blensblend Natual, or does she just make the silk sleep caps for them.

Are you saying the three braids over stretched your hair? You need to use a heavy oil or butter on your ends every couple of days to prevent SSKs with braid outs. I can't speak for twist outs. I did a flat twist out a few months ago and it was SSK city. I can only imagine a WNG being an absolute SSK and tangle nightmare. I keep my hair stretched via braid outs and curlformer sets. In fact, when I use curlformers my hair looks like it's relaxed.
 
MileHighDiva said:
ckisland, is Blensblend Natual, or does she just make the silk sleep caps for them.

Are you saying the three braids over stretched your hair? You need to use a heavy oil or butter on your ends every couple of days to prevent SSKs with braid outs. I can't speak for twist outs. I did a flat twist out a few months ago and it was SSK city. I can only imagine a WNG being an absolute SSK and tangle nightmare. I keep my hair stretched via braid outs and curlformer sets. In fact, when I use curlformers my hair looks like it's relaxed.
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Oh I don't know anything about her silk caps or product lines. I only pay attention to her straight up hair videos :lol:.
I was saying that the 3 braids prevent my hair from getting overly stretched :yep:. For me braidouts and twistouts cause more knots than wash n'gos, so doing the 3 braids lets me maintain those styles (I absolutely cannot retwist my hair without getting crazy knots). Doing 3 braids on a wash n'go also gave me the length I wanted while keeping the definition, as long as I had used gel. I stay away from butters because my hair seems to hate them straight up, and shea butter is the absoulte worse! 1ballerina is the only routine I can do almost exactly as long as I don't use shea butter.
 
^^Can I recommend Oyin Handmade Whipped Pudding or, SD Creme de la Silk. You can also buy Oyin products on Curlmart. You want something that will keep your ends from gettin' all intimate and lovin' on each other to the point of SSK's and tangles. If they're weighed down a lil' they can't and stuck together via oil or heavy cream based LI, pudding or pomade, they can't start getting all affectionate with each other, :lol:

I'm trying to think of things on the ground and I'm drawing a blank right now.
 
^ I loved Oyin's burnt sugar pomade :lick:, but hated the Whipped Pudding and I had mixed feelings about the Hair Dew. Also I'm not about that expensive natural hair product life anymore :lol:. The only buttery product my hair seems to like is Cantu Shea Butter :yep:, and Crisco gives me the best twist/braidouts :yep:. I'm know what products my hair likes, so that's fine. The particular thing about my hair is that my ends need to either be curly or nearly completely straight. Braidouts and Twistouts (especially) leave my hair in a not curly enough, no straight enough situation and that's why they can be a problem. But the doing the 3 braids keeps my hair just curly enough at the ends that I'm good :yep:.

I wore my braids down today, and I really like it. They're still cute!
 
Hi ladies, due to a breakage setback I had to do a lot of cutting in 2013 :( I'm cutting gradually until the breakage evens out with my hair
I'm gonna stay in this thread though, I like it. I'm learning from you ladies.
 
After my long DC session, it looks as if i have a lil retention after almost 8 months. I do expect to see more by the time i do my relaxer though. I expect a full 4 inches!! *insert angry face* lol
 
AS posted in MBL and BSL threads:

Okay ladies I got my TU done on Saturday as planned, the good news was My hair had grown, the bad news was I still had to take an inch off despite dusting in between. My stylist did say she felt I was doing all the right things and that it was paying off :grin:

I think I had a mini setback caused by using the Bee Mine luscious on my ends, it really dried them out although it was great for my NG, I will NEVER use it on my ends again but will continue to use it on my NG when I'm deep into a stretch.

I'm so sick of having to cut my progress off :perplexed, I'm hoping for better results next time round.

As promised here's my LC pics, these pics were taken a couple of hours ago (2.5 days after my TU) I've had my hair in a ponytail for the last 2 days so it is not sitting flat but I have no intentions of using straighteners for the LC. I expect to be BSL when I get my next TU in December.
 

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What are you ladies using to keep your hair moisturized while in celie plait? The gym dries my hair out quickly & i dont want to redo a thousand mini celies to moisturize my roots. Thinking of doing a homemade spritz but need some suggestions. :)
 
pre_medicalrulz said:
What are you ladies using to keep your hair moisturized while in celie plait? The gym dries my hair out quickly & i dont want to redo a thousand mini celies to moisturize my roots. Thinking of doing a homemade spritz but need some suggestions. :)
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For my braids I've been spritzing the ends (the last inch is loose) with Aphogee Pro-Vitamin leave in until their saturated, then I smooth on a tiny bit of conditioner (Garnier or Giovanni) and seal with oil. I don't think that I would really use the Aphogee on my loose hair, but my braids seem to really like it. But my hair loves protein so that works.

I think I'll be taking my braids down today. It's been 8 days (yay!!) but I miss my hair :rolleyes:.
 
ckisland said:
For my braids I've been spritzing the ends (the last inch is loose) with Aphogee Pro-Vitamin leave in until their saturated, then I smooth on a tiny bit of conditioner (Garnier or Giovanni) and seal with oil. I don't think that I would really use the Aphogee on my loose hair, but my braids seem to really like it. But my hair loves protein so that works.

I think I'll be taking my braids down today. It's been 8 days (yay!!) but I miss my hair :rolleyes:.
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I was just eyeing my aphogee leave in. Maybe i will give that a shot.
 
random paragraphs I just feel like typing out.
my hair has been in weave for like two weeks now and I miss it.
I always say this but i am just sooo anxious to reach a really long length. I'm totally over this "kinda long" state. My white friend who has always had longer hair than me is currently competing with me with hair length though which makes me feel good cause I know mine will be longer soon :look:

It was my bf's sister's birthday and her and her friends all stopped by before going out. Her friends were all in perfect weaves and all perfectly dressed up. Of course, I was getting ready to sleep and my hair looked like sh!t lol. I was like man my hair looks better than that weave when it's not in this weave.:look: I'm not even gonna lie, I was hatin'. I wish it weren't hard/such a process to grow out hair.
 
Can't wait for the end of the year. Crunch time. Hope to see tons of progress. These months went by fast.
 
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