Hip–Tailbone Length (HL–TBL) 2015-2016 Challenge!

[KurleeK5]

Hey I'm super late but I want to join!!!!

Current length: bsl/ Mbl-- they are about the same for me

• Regimen: I haven't been good at keeping one, but wash weekly with creme of nature or suave Moroccan infusion using color applicator bottle, oil rinse with castor oil, condition with suave Moroccan or creme of nature, leave in with Giovanni direct and spray mane n tail leave in - deal with castor, braid and roll ends then dry under hooded dryer (in winter)

Co wash 2x per week using same conditioners- alternating and following same leave in

PS with a low or high bun with ends baggies and tucked under, blow dried in a braid, or braid out

• Exact goal length: HL
• Exact goal date: 12/16
• Tools + plans to help reach final goal:
Hooded dryer, perm rollers, wide tooth comb, denman brush
• Maintenance + plans once goal is achieved:
Same routine minus PS as much, hair blow dried and styled

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

Trifling!
I hope your son turned her down
Really smooth move insulting a guy's mother and then expecting him to go out with you anyways she's rude and not too bright either.

Lol! He said he hit her with a "nah I'm good".

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

Ladies, I have really been enjoying my hair straight. I mean, I've been brushing it with my TEK brush at least 2 times a day. It feels so good to be able to run a comb/brush through my hair without snagging. Now that I've reached and surpassed my goal length, I really plan on enjoying this ride. I'm going to flat iron once a month from December to May. Wear it straight for 2 weeks, then let it rest for 2 weeks....so 6 times a year total on low heat with my FHI platform flat iron (330 degrees) Still will be roller setting every wash though...my hair can't take a blow fryer. A girl's gotta know her limits . I honestly no longer feel I'm on a hair journey... just taking care of my hair. No more length checking, taking billions of pictures...I just feel free. Of course, I'll still be in here chatting it up with everyone and rooting you all along!

 

[Lucia]

@lulu97

 

[KurleeK5]

Ladies, I have really been enjoying my hair straight. I mean, I've been brushing it with my TEK brush at least 2 times a day. It feels so good to be able to run a comb/brush through my hair without snagging. Now that I've reached and surpassed my goal length, I really plan on enjoying this ride. I'm going to flat iron once a month from December to May. Wear it straight for 2 weeks, then let it rest for 2 weeks....so 6 times a year total on low heat with my FHI platform flat iron (330 degrees) Still will be roller setting every wash though...my hair can't take a blow fryer. A girl's gotta know her limits . I honestly no longer feel I'm on a hair journey... just taking care of my hair. No more length checking, taking billions of pictures...I just feel free. Of course, I'll still be in here chatting it up with everyone and rooting you all along!

I'm sure you posted already, but what did you do to reach your goal?

 

[Lucia]

Ladies, I have really been enjoying my hair straight. I mean, I've been brushing it with my TEK brush at least 2 times a day. It feels so good to be able to run a comb/brush through my hair without snagging. Now that I've reached and surpassed my goal length, I really plan on enjoying this ride. I'm going to flat iron once a month from December to May. Wear it straight for 2 weeks, then let it rest for 2 weeks....so 6 times a year total on low heat with my FHI platform flat iron (330 degrees) Still will be roller setting every wash though...my hair can't take a blow fryer. A girl's gotta know her limits . I honestly no longer feel I'm on a hair journey... just taking care of my hair. No more length checking, taking billions of pictures...I just feel free. Of course, I'll still be in here chatting it up with everyone and rooting you all along!

Congrats

@lulu97
Enjoy that gorgeous hair hopefully I'll be joining you soon in maintenance land.
You're HL ???

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

I'm sure you posted already, but what did you do to reach your goal?

@KurleeK5 Hi pretty Lady and welcome to the challenge. I credit my progress to deep conditioning and roller setting. If I don't have time to do both on wash day then I won't even get started. lol

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

Congrats

@lulu97
Enjoy that gorgeous hair hopefully I'll be joining you soon in maintenance land.
You're HL ???

@Lucia I was a little past TBL before cutting back to hip about a month ago. I wont go past TBL again...just didn't feel right to feel my hair in my crack a lackin area and to be able to sit on my hair. I'll just keep maintaining between hip and tailbone. It seems to be my sweet spot. Plus maintaining a certain length keep those ends thick and lush.

Edited to add: My husband is the one that claimed I was past tailbone length....but to me it was only the tail...you know the hair that grows in that V shape. I personally don't like claiming a length unless the bulk of my hair is there and to me I was at exactly TBL.

 

[SmilingElephant]

@lulu97 Ma'am I'm trying to catch up to you!

That's the hair life I'm trying to live!

I now have one strand touching hip length! Not claiming anything yet! But I'm excited!!

I've been keeping up with my regimen and vitamins.

 

[pre_medicalrulz]

@lulu97 CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[caliscurls]

@LuLu congrats! I like how you're planning to really enjoy your hair now and how you know your length limits.

 

[caliscurls]

Colored, did a protein treatment and deep conditioned my hair last night then put it in two big braids to dry overnight. It's still damp for the most part so I only added a little moisturizer and sealed the very ends and edges (i.e. dry parts).

2 thing I noticed today:
Using cold water as my final rinse on wash day always leaves my hair with an exception shine. Shocks the crap out me when that cold water hits my scalp, lol, but it's worth it.

I've gotten in to the habit of applying product only after my hair is dry. I started doing it so that it wouldn't take 2- 3 days for it to dry and now that I've been doing it a while I've noticed my hair just feels better if I let it dry first before adding anything.

Will be in a French braid until the twists can be redone...probably Wednesday. Will do a search and destroy as well...so its going to be a long session

 

[Lucia]

@caliscurls

It's cold where I am and I don't like sleeping with a wet head.

I squeeze most of the water out of my hair with a soft t shirt I leave it damp most.
After air drying in braids for 30m I've started using my diffuser only on my scalp to help dry my hair faster by morning my hairs almost dry.
I'm still working on getting my hair completely dry by next day I might have to use less product just oil maybe to speed that up. And then add cream later when it's dry. But the point of LOC is trap that moisture in and it's been working that way except my braids are still very damp in the morning
???

 

[caliscurls]

@Lucia Thanks for the tip! I might have to try diffusing to speed it up next time I have to wash at night. I dry until damp in pillow cases twisted up turban style for about 30 min (a fresh one is used every 15 min ) Most of the time I try to do my hair in the morning or early afternoon so it's completely dry the next day.

I think the protein treatments I've been doing have allowed me to air dry completely without product and have soft hair. Well it's not completely without product.... a little bit of the moisture conditioner is left in during the final rinse, I'm sure that probably helps.

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

Thanks Ladies for all the love and support.


I could have went much longer with my straight hair but I wanted a fresh roller set for Christmas so I'm giving my hair the works today.

Last night I did a hot oil scalp treatment with grapeseed, Argan & rosehip seed oil. Massaged my scalp really well. Winter and spring is my dry scalp season so I tend to show it extra love. I had leftover warm oil after the massage so I added conditioner, silk amino acids and slathered my hair in it for a deep condition overnight pre-poo. Woke up this morning to my curlies pushing through and waving at me like woah. lol



I'll be clarifying, protein treating, moisture DC and roller setting today. Pulling out all the stops since I just came out of a heat pass plus I'll be coloring on my next wash day. I wont use heat again until the end of next month to give me extra time to pamper and love on my hair. Next heat pass, I'll turn the heat down to 320 and do 1 pass instead of 2. My goal is to get it down to 300 so I'll reduce it by 10 degrees every month until I reach that. I'm not taking any chances with heat damage.

I'll be traveling tomorrow and out of town for the holidays so just in case I don't get the chance to come back in the thread....Merry Christmas and for all those traveling like me, I'll send a special prayer up for travel mercy.

 

[caliscurls]

Beautiful curls @LuLu

 

[caliscurls]

Realized yesterday that I haven't been very accurate in the past with length checks. Normally I eyeball it while looking at my back and always in the same shirt.

Yesterday I put a band around what I found to be my "real" waist and determined that I'm almost exactly an inch away.

Going to try not to check again until late Feb/early March.

In other news, redid my hair yesterday for the holiday. Let's get this party started

 

[Aireen]

Merry Christmas, ladies! I hope you eat a lot of good food today, enjoy some quality time with family and friends, maybe open some lovely pressiesssss, and have a very happy holiday season!

 

[Aireen]

Trimmed my hair yesterday after having a lot of breakage from using a curling wand on my hair, I think I'm leaving those heat tools alone for a bit. I guess my no-trim is over... it lasted a good couple of months though. My ends feel so much better and I realize I just CANNOT stand straggly ends; I much rather dust my hair as it grows. For now, I guess I'm going to trim the ends for maintenance all throughout 2016 and progress a little slower – which is fine with me because I like the feeling of ends that are uniform, much less harder to work with overall.

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

How are my fellow hipsters and aspiring hipsters wearing your hair for New Years? I'm thinking of maybe doing some flexi rod curls on my previously roller set hair.

 

[SmilingElephant]

How are my fellow hipsters and aspiring hipsters wearing your hair for New Years? I'm thinking of maybe doing some flexi rod curls on my previously roller set hair.

A bun...I don't have any real plans. Going out on New Years gives me anxiety. :-O

 

[caliscurls]

How are my fellow hipsters and aspiring hipsters wearing your hair for New Years? I'm thinking of maybe doing some flexi rod curls on my previously roller set hair.

Either half up half down or a bun with a really nice clip. Wore it down quite a bit last week now I'm feeling it needs to go into hiding, lol

 

[Dee Raven]

I just ordered the barrel size curlformers, so I will be putting them in tonight and hopefully it will turn out nice. I need to go watch some youtube videos to prepare.

 

[Beachy]

I just ordered the barrel size curlformers, so I will be putting them in tonight and hopefully it will turn out nice. I need to go watch some youtube videos to prepare.

I ordered a couple of sets of those on Black Friday but I probably won't use them until the springtime. I would love to know what you will use to set them and please share a pic of the finished product....I already know it is going to be fabulous!!!

 

[Dee Raven]

I ordered a couple of sets of those on Black Friday but I probably won't use them until the springtime. I would love to know what you will use to set them and please share a pic of the finished product....I already know it is going to be fabulous!!!

Will do. Hopefully the results will be inspiring.

 

[SmilingElephant]

I'm loving the term "Hipster" tho

I'm SO excited! Like yall don't even know how excited I am about this!

My excitement is unhealthy right now!

I'm hoping that my hair will be Hip length for my birthday next month. I am THAT...CLOSE!

I think I want to try using an in styler after blowdrying it straight-ish. My hair does not get pin straight with a blowdryer, I wish it could lol

But I figure the in styler would be quicker than a regular flat iron with the comb chase method. And could give me some curlage with the barrel

But idk.

I've been working so hard on retaining length these few months, since September is when I really started focusing. It's so nice to see it working out for me.

 

[faithVA]

I just ordered the barrel size curlformers, so I will be putting them in tonight and hopefully it will turn out nice. I need to go watch some youtube videos to prepare.

Isn't your hair longer than the curlformers? How many do you use?

 

[Dee Raven]

Isn't your hair longer than the curlformers? How many do you use?

Funny you should mention that because it was a problem before. But now curlformers come in extra long (24") and super long (27", for the middle size only). I got the extra long and there is only one section of my hair that will be a little bit longer. So what I do is stretch out the curlformer once I've slipped my hair through so that the hair can shrink inside the tube until it all fits. The rest of my hair is right within the range.

What I've done before is used two curlformers on a section, a shorter one and a long one. It does look a little bit odd because there will be a part that's not uniform, but if you fluff it out afterwards it's not that noticeable.

 

[faithVA]

Funny you should mention that because it was a problem before. But now curlformers come in extra long (24") and super long (27", for the middle size only). I got the extra long and there is only one section of my hair that will be a little bit longer. So what I do is stretch out the curlformer once I've slipped my hair through so that the hair can shrink inside the tube until it all fits. The rest of my hair is right within the range.

What I've done before is used two curlformers on a section, a shorter one and a long one. It does look a little bit odd because there will be a part that's not uniform, but if you fluff it out afterwards it's not that noticeable.

Interesting. This is good to know. I have a long time to go before I outgrow my curlformers.

 

[Dee Raven]

Interesting. This is good to know. I have a long time to go before I outgrow my curlformers.

So while I was doing my youtube "research" for the curlformers, I found one by teaundra where she puts rollers on the left over hair. It comes out without the weird dent, so I think that is a better option.