Hey, I haven't read all the pages but this thread is SO funny! You girls are going crazy. I am too. I'm Haitian by the way. I can tell you there is no secret. Everything we did was just our way of taking care of our hair, everything was 100% NATURAL! the food, water all the time, cuz there's no access to all these other types of drinks, pasteurized cow milk, lots of protein and veggies.
The products were l'huile maquisti and at my house, we didnt really use Minoval, not on the kids, although my aunts did use them once in a while. One of my aunts used it for a while now since she cut her hair up to her ear a bit before the new year, and now it's shoulder length, so maybe it does work. They even advertise it in Haitian movies, showing a girl with long hair putting it in her hair every night, it's so funny. Maybe it DOES work. At my house in Haiti, my mother and aunts used to use aloe on their hair, and avocadoes, and we ate a lot of those too. They would also mix up a whole bunch of products that I guess worked.
See, I was kinda dumb when it came to hair. My sister and I had long hair, when natural, then relaxed, but since we moved to the US about 4.5 years ago, it all went downhill from there. My sister's hair when from almost brastrap to just hitting her shoulders, and while my hair is between shoulderblades, it's gone off some pretty bad roads at time. Anyway, when I was younger, I thought that once u put a perm in, ur hair would never grow again, that when it got NAPPY, it didnt mean that it was new growth, but just that the relaxed roots got NAPPY. I found out the truth not long ago, lol, i'm only 16 by the way and I need to go to bed to go to school tomorrow, but anyway
we have this oil at home that my mom made and I used to use it as a pre-poo treatment and she would tell me to stop using it because it made my hair nappy too fast. I stopped using it although we still have it, but i'm GUESSING that it made it GROW! Then there's the Hair Success thing, she told me to stop using, again i guess it was GROWING! not getting nappy. When I came to this website, I decided 'oh i guess i shouldnt do a THING to my hair to let it grow" but i have so many things at home that MAYBE used to help. I have like four or five jars of the Minoval hair grease but no one uses them, we have the Minoval oil, no one uses it, we have the L'huile Maquisti, we use it for massages or soreness and stuff like that, but not on the hair, we have DOO GRO, we dont use...
Honestly, the hair regimen is good and all, but maybe i need to take a trip back to my old hair things and start using all the greasy/smelling stuff again and see how it works for a month. This April, i'm trying to do so many things to my hair to see if it would grow faster that it's RIDICULOUS
So right now, i'm going to bed and i'll check back again tomorrow when i get home from school. Goodnight! I wanna add more tomorrow about this hair thing.
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