See I was trying to be strong... now you bout to make
me cry
I did this to myself though, tryin' to be cute. I totally fell off of my regimen. I stopped washing and conditioning on schedule, barely protective styled, hardly moisturized, and I was firing up my iron every single morning, too.
You know my hair is texlaxed and here, its so humid in the mornings, by the time I would walk from my car to my first class, my ponytail and bangs would be frizzy (and not in a cute way b/c there is a cute frizzy too
)--- unless... I used my FHI. I just started liking that silky look to my bun, when before I liked it big and fluffy.
So I started putting heat to that pony and my bangs each morning. I'd use it even when I'd bun--don't ask why . . .thinking my heat protectant would make up the difference. Well, it didn't. Silk proteins are great and all but errrr... I am paying the price now for thinking I was totally protected. Well, my bangs stayed strong and healthy I guess because its "newer" hair, but my ponytail took a hit. IMO anyway. My husband said it looked fine, but it looked a hot mess to me so I hacked it. Not all at once, but over the course of a few months starting in January. So back to the tried and true basics for me.
Hopefully I'll be swinging along with the rest of you BSL ladies by this time next year. *wishful thinking*