Thanks so much! Are there any other suggestions you would have? Because when I started MHM I did all the full steps every day and it was tiresome, where do you cut corners? How many times weekly are you currently doing MHM? And are wash n go your only style or do you incorporate other styles as well?
, so I just hope I don't cut away all my progress.
I wash my hair on average about once a week- every 10 days right now. I don't like to leave it too long because I don't like removing so many shed hairs. I tend to follow a general modified routine I've been doing for a couple of years, rather than the original MHM steps. So I hardly use ACV or BS, and if I do, it is in very small amounts. Sometimes I'll water rinse and that's it, followed by gel. Other times, I'll mix up an egg pre-poo and incorporate it in a whole long wash day (poo, DC- protein and/or moisture, clay, oil, gel). I also use henna. I just try to go by how my hair is responding/ feeling.
My fine strands can break easily so I try to avoid too much manipulation, although I have tried braid-outs, twist-outs, and curlformers. I think the payout is too small for the effort I put in- I can't even get a single lasting day, so to avoid me ripping all my strands out one by one, I run back to the comfort of my wng. I love these because I can style my hair on day 1, and leave it alone until I am ready to wash it again. My hair is more manageable for me in a wash and go. Thanks to the clumping, I have less tangles, than say when I blowout my hair. I recently did a blowout on the front and I soon became tired of restyling every night.
Single strand knots I take issue with lol. I don't get an excessive amount, for someone who wears their hair unstretched but I'm terrible at trying to ignore them and if I feel/ see one, I will cut it off in a heartbeat. If I wore my hair straight, I'd probably get fewer. If I wear my hair up, I can minimise them, but sometimes I don't want to wear my hair up
Yep enjoy your hair down or up...single strand knots be damned! Final question- how long did it take you to reach MH? Do you clump from root to tip? And is your Reggie right now maintenance to maintain MH?
But I'm trying to choose between regular DC & wash and go style, MHM or DC braid out/ twist outs to keep hair stretched & styled. I have to auto pilot my Reggie and focus on my length goals. I'm almost there
No problem...lol
You're right they're additional benefits to the layering of moisturizer under gel= soft curls, bouncy wash n go, touchable hair and no breakage to name a few. To test if your products play well with wetline or and other gel Or Any combination; mix it together in your palm first.
-Journey to Waistlength is a YouTube blogger who is a self proclaimed 4a/b and & I agree, compared to mine.
Ok the was more than 1 question
I'm ok with more than one lol. 
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Hi @SAPNK
Are you wondering why I would like to go natural? Or why I want to have curl definition?
For almost my whole life I have always had natural hair but I invariably wore it stretched (not straightened but combed out) so I never really knew that there was such a thing as curly hair or that I am most probably a curly or coily girl. I just knew that there is straight hair and kinky hair and that my hair is kinky and rough. I never encountered my curls, and that is most probably due to wrong hair care habits, for example I never really used conditioner on my hair neither rinse out nor leave-in. I then went and relaxed my hair and continued to wear it stretched/combed out. Then I think one day I decided to use conditioner, or I for some reason did not comb my hair out and when I came back to examine it, I could see a lot of curl formation. So it turns out that my hair was what I now know to call texlaxed and I fell in love with curly hair. But I never got to see my natural curls, just the texlaxed curls. When my natural roots came in, they would be very frizzy and would barely show any curl formation except very rarely like here:
So I would just go and relax them again.
But I love coils over the spirals that texlaxing gives me, that's why I want to go natural in the hope that I will have coily hair instead of spirally hair, except that I'm afraid that I will end up with frizz instead of coils *sigh*
Other reasons to want to go natural: natural hair is more uniform, no demarcation lines and differing textures, so the comb (or your fingers) glides through without snagging at the demarcation points. It's stronger and more resilient because the chemicals in the relaxer invariably weaken the strands a little bit, so it is less predisposed to breakage. Natural hair is also expected to have more root lift and volume than texlaxed hair. Uniformity in texture is also more aesthetically attractive in my opinion. Not needing to relax is also more economical and more time-saving.
Disadvantages might be: more frizz, rough to touch, more difficult to moisturize (lower porosity. We know that lo po hair also loses moisture less easily. In my case though, I feel that I can't get the moisture to penetrate in the first place.) more shrinkage and shorter appearance. Nonetheless, lack of definition is probably the only deal-breaker for me. I don't mind some frizz but there should be some curl formation there at least lol.
I just mix it with water. I use about 4oz when I wash. I let it sit for a minute or two then rinse. If I feel like I need a little cleansing boost, I mix with charcoal.
