Hip Tbl & Beyond Challenge 2018

[beauti]

Please excuse my draws! I got so excited I didnt think to stop and put some pants on! So I JUST barely made it but I made it! Hopefully I'll be full wsl in March.

 

[flyygirlll2]

@beauti

 

[beauti]

@flyygirlll2 thank you sis!

 

[keranikki]

Please excuse my draws! I got so excited I didnt think to stop and put some pants on! So I JUST barely made it but I made it! Hopefully I'll be full wsl in March.

Congratulations!

 

[snoop]

@beauti I love the build up with the gifs!!!

Congratulations!!!

 

[beauti]

@keranikki thank you sis!

@snoop I had to make sure y'all understand how I FEEL!

 

[Taleah2009]

@beauti congrats! beautiful strands

 

[tapioca_pudding]

Please excuse my draws! I got so excited I didnt think to stop and put some pants on! So I JUST barely made it but I made it! Hopefully I'll be full wsl in March.

Get it girl!!

 

[faithVA]

Please excuse my draws! I got so excited I didnt think to stop and put some pants on! So I JUST barely made it but I made it! Hopefully I'll be full wsl in March.

Congratulations :yay

 

[Daina]

@beauti, yessss sis congrats! These gifs y'all giving are wearing me out...Fantasia was all the way caught up!

 

[Daina]

Hey ladies, I'm here but it has been crazy with work so I barely have had time to read let alone post. I've been cleansing and bunning every 10-14 days. I M&S every 2/3 days and change the position of bun. I am going to color my hair jet black tonight to cover these gray hairs. Hopefully using my aryuvedic regimen will keep them at bay longer. They are right in the front all around my hairline and in the back at my hairline. I put some pure Amla oil that I made on my edges every night and back hairline. Going to do a twist out this week to give my hair a break from buns. Hopefully I can get 4 days out of the twist out before I bun again for the next 10 days.

 

[shanelallyn30]

@beauti, yessss sis congrats! These gifs y'all giving ate wearing me out...Fantasia was all the way caught up!

@beauti that fantasia gif is gonna be me after i hit tbl, but i will need to be carried away... lmao

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

@beauti Ooooooh snap Sis!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!! That dude in the church made me spit out this hot coffee.

 

[YvetteWithJoy]

Man, I learned SO MUCH from this lady's wash day demo and commentary!!! Sooooooooooo much!

 

[beauti]

Thanks for the love ladies. I knew y'all would get it! We gotta break out these gifs every time we reach a milestone

 

[beauti]

@beauti that fantasia gif is gonna be me after i hit tbl, but i will need to be carried away... lmao

Lol I will def post that gif when you reach that goal sis!

 

[beauti]

@beauti Ooooooh snap Sis!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!! That dude in the church made me spit out this hot coffee.

He cracks me up every time I'm sure I did that crazy dance in my excitement

 

[Saludable84]

@beauti congrats looking real good over there.

 

[beauti]

Thanks sis

@Saludable84

 

[snoop]

Man, I learned SO MUCH from this lady's wash day demo and commentary!!! Sooooooooooo much!

I haven't watched it yet... just skipped to different parts. Her shrinkage is my hair stretched.

Does anyone know if there is a length in which 4c hair just stays semi stretched because of weight? She's not the first I've seen like this.

 

[faithVA]

Man, I learned SO MUCH from this lady's wash day demo and commentary!!! Sooooooooooo much!

What did you learn. I won't have a chance to watch it until tomorrow night.

 

[YvetteWithJoy]

What did you learn. I won't have a chance to watch it until tomorrow night.

Here are my take-aways:

• She pre-detangles (separates, finger detangles, etc. so that when it's time to detangle with her wide tooth comb, it's much, much less damaging and much less time consuming).
• She washes in twists.
• She said that in detangling, her goal is NOT tangle-free hair. That would be fighting her hair's nature. She accepts that her hair will always have tangles. Wow. Super helpful.
• She said that she moisturizes every other day DESPITE THE FACT THAT HER HAIR IS NOT YET DRY-FEELING. This because she doesn't want to wait until her hair feels dry to moisturize! Wow! Makes so much sense to me when I hear it aloud, but I had been moisturizing ONCE my hair felt dry. My reasoning: "Oh, my hair still feels moisturized? No need for more moisture, then." But her logic of simply moisturizing every other day -- regardless -- so as to never have to chase after moisture, makes so. much. sense.
• She bands to dry the hair, THEN twists. Interesting.
• She untwists to apply her protein treatment and then retwists, but she does NOT later untwist to apply her moisturizing DC but instead simply applies that DC on TOP of her twists. INTERESTING! Less manipulation, I guess??? My strategy will be slightly different but have the same aim: I will add Green Beauty Protein to my moisturizing DC so that I deep treat JUST ONCE. Thus, I'll go ahead and untwist and retwist for that (one) deep treatment.

ETA: I just found a YouTube video showing a lady who twists her hair and bands the twists! The next day she installs sleek(er) twists for a twist out. Interesting!!! I wonder if it would make that much difference to skip the SECOND twisting and just wear the twist out from the initial banded twists?

 

[Soaring Eagle]

[QUOTE="YvetteWithJoy, post: 24432795, member: 451303"

• She said that in detangling, her goal is NOT tangle-free hair. That would be fighting her hair's nature. She accepts that her hair will always have tangles. Wow. Super helpful.

[/QUOTE]

• I heard this from another YouTuber a while back and it was one of the most helpful tips I have ever received on my hair journey.

 

[faithVA]

Here are my take-aways:

• She pre-detangles (separates, finger detangles, etc. so that when it's time to detangle with her wide tooth comb, it's much, much less damaging and much less time consuming).
• She washes in twists.
• She said that in detangling, her goal is NOT tangle-free hair. That would be fighting her hair's nature. She accepts that her hair will always have tangles. Wow. Super helpful.
• She said that she moisturizes every other day DESPITE THE FACT THAT HER HAIR IS NOT YET DRY-FEELING. This because she doesn't want to wait until her hair feels dry to moisturize! Wow! Makes so much sense to me when I hear it aloud, but I had been moisturizing ONCE my hair felt dry. My reasoning: "Oh, my hair still feels moisturized? No need for more moisture, then." But her logic of simply moisturizing every other day -- regardless -- so as to never have to chase after moisture, makes so. much. sense.
• She bands to dry the hair, THEN twists. Interesting.
• She untwists to apply her protein treatment and then retwists, but she does NOT later untwist to apply her moisturizing DC but instead simply applies that DC on TOP of her twists. INTERESTING! Less manipulation, I guess??? My strategy will be slightly different but have the same aim: I will add Green Beauty Protein to my moisturizing DC so that I deep treat JUST ONCE. Thus, I'll go ahead and untwist and retwist for that (one) deep treatment.

ETA: I just found a YouTube video showing a lady who twists her hair and bands the twists! The next day she installs sleek(er) twists for a twist out. Interesting!!! I wonder if it would make that much difference to skip the SECOND twisting and just wear the twist out from the initial banded twists?

Sorry I made you repost that. I had forgotten I read it in the regimen thread.

 

[YvetteWithJoy]

Sorry I made you repost that. I had forgotten I read it in the regimen thread.

No worries! Some people would only see it here. It's all good.

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

I'm sitting here scrolling on and playing with my new tablet. It's one of my Christmas gifts but Chile I'm too grown to be waiting on Christmas to open gifts! I can see signatures now that I'm not looking from my phone. Cool.

Random thoughts:

Made a new batch of shampoo bars today. I'm becoming quite addicted to soapmakimg.

@YvetteWithJoy Is there something wrong with you posting everyday? Why do you have to wait till Friday?

 

[YvetteWithJoy]

I'm sitting here scrolling on and playing with my new tablet. It's one of my Christmas gifts but Chile I'm too grown to be waiting on Christmas to open gifts! I can see signatures now that I'm not looking from my phone. Cool.

Random thoughts:

Made a new batch of shampoo bars today. I'm becoming quite addicted to soapmakimg.

@YvetteWithJoy Is there something wrong with you posting everyday? Why do you have to wait till Friday?

Oooo, enjoy your new tablet.

LOL! That was my feeble attempt at inspiring myself to log in less. It's never going to work. Even if I weren't hosting two threads, I'd probably still fail at not logging in every day.

There are several really good reasons to have less screen time, but issokay: I'm just going to go with the flow and try to slowly restrict times of usage. Maybe that will help?!?? LOL.

 

[Taleah2009]

Washed and DC my hair this weekend.
I prepoo’d with @Chicoro conction. I used My CP oil instead of coconut oil because that’s what I had in arms reach. Note to self don’t let this dry on my hair. My hair got really tangly from being lazy and not washing it out for almost 24hours.

Washed with joico moisture recovery balance. That shampoo was very nice! I only purchased the sample. I will get the full bottle now.

I did a henna gloss using my herbs that were left over from tea. I mixed the herbs with hello hydration and sat under dryer for 30 min. I detangled with this mix still in. Still had more breakage than I would have like to seen.

Did a tea rinse using CP tea. I’m trying to reduce my shedding

DC with joice moisture recovery treatment. Loved it! Sat under the dryer for about 25min and went to bed.

I had intentions to wash it out the next morning and do a perm rod set before church but I didn’t feel like it. I ended up just twisting my hair back and going to church with the condition still in lol.

I finally washed the conditioner out this morning and installed twists. I sprayed my hair with the CP tea followed by as I am leave in. And each twist I used curls twist and shout to twist cream and sealed with jbco.

I will leave these twists in until my next wash day on Saturday. I’m hoping to retain a ton of moisture through using my tea, CP growth oil through the week.

Last thing the front of my hair definitely has a looser curl pattern than the back

 

[Chicoro]

Washed and DC my hair this weekend.
I prepoo’d with @Chicoro conction. I used My CP oil instead of coconut oil because that’s what I had in arms reach. Note to self don’t let this dry on my hair. My hair got really tangly from being lazy and not washing it out for almost 24hours.

Washed with joico moisture recovery balance. That shampoo was very nice! I only purchased the sample. I will get the full bottle now.

I did a henna gloss using my herbs that were left over from tea. I mixed the herbs with hello hydration and sat under dryer for 30 min. I detangled with this mix still in. Still had more breakage than I would have like to seen.

Did a tea rinse using CP tea. I’m trying to reduce my shedding

DC with joice moisture recovery treatment. Loved it! Sat under the dryer for about 25min and went to bed.

I had intentions to wash it out the next morning and do a perm rod set before church but I didn’t feel like it. I ended up just twisting my hair back and going to church with the condition still in lol.

I finally washed the conditioner out this morning and installed twists. I sprayed my hair with the CP tea followed by as I am leave in. And each twist I used curls twist and shout to twist cream and sealed with jbco.

I will leave these twists in until my next wash day on Saturday. I’m hoping to retain a ton of moisture through using my tea, CP growth oil through the week.

Last thing the front of my hair definitely has a looser curl pattern than the back

Those twists look jet black, shiny and soft!

 

[ElevatedEnergy]

Got another shipping notice from Hairveda. I have so many conditioners now (20). I don't think I have ever had that many in my stash before. That's not counting the rinse outs (13 I believe....Traders Joe's TTT & Live Clean). It will probably take me until the end of 2019 to use all those up since I only wash every 2 weeks. Plus I plan on formulating and perfecting my own conditioner next year. So I'm on a serious product no-buy. Ingredients yes....but I won't be purchasing anyone else's conditioners, treatments or shampoos as I will work on making those myself. All while using up what I have in my stash.