Luscious Healthy Ends Challenge 2025

[Chicoro]

Welcome to the Luscious Healthy Ends Challenge 2025!

Ends are considered the points or the bottom tips of the hair strand. The ends are the oldest and most fragile part of the hair. The ends are KEY to retaining length and it is the ends of the hair that make us sigh and exhale and say, "Wow, that's some beautiful hair!" Hair that is thick and full from root to tip often has Luscious Healthy Ends.

Interested? Well, come on over, sit down right here, and join this challenge for 2025.

 

[newgrowth15]

@Chicoro, Happy New Year.

 

[Chicoro]

@Chicoro, Happy New Year.

Thank you, and the same to you!

 

[pikkonoloidlee]

Ready for this New Year and New challenge. Happy New Year everyone!

 

[faithVA]

Happy New Year everyone. Wishing you a fabulous 2025.

 

[MzSwift]

Whohoo, Happy New Year, ladies! Let's do this!!

 

[snoop]

Happy New Year everyone! I'm wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2025.

 

[GGsKin]

Happy New Year to everyone here. I’m all in on maintaining healthy ends. I’m continuing to even out my hair with consistent trims, with the aim of achieving a blunt hemline and more weight to my hair.

 

[GettingKinky]

Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to hanging out with you all in 2025 and taking good care of my ends.

 

[snoop]

Looking at my calendar, I think that my first trim of the year will be some time next weekend.

 

[Napp]

I’m in for 2025, will be starting the year off with a fresh trim tonight!

 

[HealthyHair2020]

Giving myself a break this year with protective styles but will be joining to make sure my hair still thrives! Gave myself a cut in early December but ready to enjoy my protective styles and natural hair at this length.

 

[VarieYvette]

Hello, I am in this year. I gave myself a trim on 28/12 of about an inch in the front which had the most splits, and I am ready for some serious business this year

 

[MzSwift]

Found that I still had 1/3 jar of sprouted Fenugreek seeds from last March still chilling in the fridge. I had dried 1/3 and used the other 1/3 for sprouted water rinses. I forgot all about the remaining sprouts. They smelled normal. Looked a little mushy but otherwise fine. So I dropped them into another jar and added dried Hibiscus flowers and then 3 tsp of my Henna, Amla, Hibiscus power mix. Then filled with hot water and let it seep into a nice tea.

I filled my spray bottle about 1/3 with the tea and added a squirt of hair oil. Then added a squirt of cheapie condish and filled with plain water. Notable mentions: dropper full of red raspberry seed oil, dropper of carrot seed oil, 2 droppers of lavender EO for scent. ETA: I might add more lavender and/or some sweet orange oil bc I can't take the nutty and syrupy smell of Fenugreek.

Gonna use this twice a day for M&Sing. So happy to be back to using my teas. Also added extra oil to my ends and bun baggied overnight.

 

[faithVA]

I had enough of the straight hair so was time to reset. So starting 2025 fresh and did the following
1. Used Kitsch hair oil as a pretreatment
2. Used bondbar bondbar booster for 10 minutes
3. Rinsed and used bondbar recovery for 5 minutes
4. Shampooed with Elucence Clarifying shampoo
5. Second shampoo with Madison Reed Moisturizing shampoo
6. Conditioned with BioSilk
7. Used Mielle Leave-in Conditioner and then added a bit of water to work it in
8. Sectioned hair in 5 sections and applied a large amount of KCCC to each section
7. Installed a set of mini twists for the week.

I did keep my hair stretched in 4 sections but since my hair was already straight it is too early to know if it works. My hair is always different after I color it and straighten it. So will see if it is worthwhile when I take these twist out.

I did resist the temptation to go through my hair with a lot of tools. I used a shampoo brush to detangle before I put the shampoo in and while rinsing out the conditioner. Then I combed each section as I twisted it. This made wash day so much faster.

I'm going to try doing my hair every Friday or Saturday night to be consistent and stick with 2 strands until my hair grows out a bit. Going to try!

 

[spacetygrss]

Sitting.
Now that I’m growing my hair back out it’s time to be more intentional about my ends again.
I have 6 lbs of shea butter, so I’m ready.

 

[Chicoro]

Ready for this New Year and New challenge. Happy New Year everyone!

Welcome back and let's do this!

 

[Chicoro]

Happy New Year to everyone here. I’m all in on maintaining healthy ends. I’m continuing to even out my hair with consistent trims, with the aim of achieving a blunt hemline and more weight to my hair.

I want to see some pictures of that pretty hair, Girl. I know it will make me sigh and bat my eyelashes from falling in love with it.

 

[Chicoro]

Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to hanging out with you all in 2025 and taking good care of my ends.

Are you going to share your bunning results and the pretty hair ends you cultivated because of your successful bunning routine? I want to see!!!!

 

[Chicoro]

Looking at my calendar, I think that my first trim of the year will be some time next weekend.

How many trims do you anticipate doing in 2025 and what is the strategy behind this, please?

 

[Chicoro]

I’m in for 2025, will be starting the year off with a fresh trim tonight!

Glad to see you. You have the slickest buns around and yet, they are never too tight and no broken hairs in the part that is slicked and silky. I am still trying to learn how to do this with my own hair. Now that you are here, I can observe you more closely like the hawk that am I. And plus, I'm just plain nosey, too.

 

[Chicoro]

Giving myself a break this year with protective styles but will be joining to make sure my hair still thrives! Gave myself a cut in early December but ready to enjoy my protective styles and natural hair at this length.

Looking forward to reading updates about the results of your protective styles on your hair, in 2025!

 

[Chicoro]

Hello, I am in this year. I gave myself a trim on 28/12 of about an inch in the front which had the most splits, and I am ready for some serious business this year

Ma'am,

We are about NOTHING but serious business up in here when it comes to protecting and retaining some healthy hair ends. You are in the right place!

 

[Chicoro]

Found that I still had 1/3 jar of sprouted Fenugreek seeds from last March still chilling in the fridge. I had dried 1/3 and used the other 1/3 for sprouted water rinses. I forgot all about the remaining sprouts. They smelled normal. Looked a little mushy but otherwise fine. So I dropped them into another jar and added dried Hibiscus flowers and then 3 tsp of my Henna, Amla, Hibiscus power mix. Then filled with hot water and let it seep into a nice tea.

I filled my spray bottle about 1/3 with the tea and added a squirt of hair oil. Then added a squirt of cheapie condish and filled with plain water. Notable mentions: dropper full of red raspberry seed oil, dropper of carrot seed oil, 2 droppers of lavender EO for scent. ETA: I might add more lavender and/or some sweet orange oil bc I can't take the nutty and syrupy smell of Fenugreek.

Gonna use this twice a day for M&Sing. So happy to be back to using my teas. Also added extra oil to my ends and bun baggied overnight.

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That purple and burgundy concoction looks luscious and delicious. And from the description of the ingredients it is teeming with great things for the hair. No wonder you have so much gorgeous hair from 2023 to now after cutting out locks. Gimme that hair!

 

[Chicoro]

I had enough of the straight hair so was time to reset. So starting 2025 fresh and did the following
1. Used Kitsch hair oil as a pretreatment
2. Used bondbar bondbar booster for 10 minutes
3. Rinsed and used bondbar recovery for 5 minutes
4. Shampooed with Elucence Clarifying shampoo
5. Second shampoo with Madison Reed Moisturizing shampoo
6. Conditioned with BioSilk
7. Used Mielle Leave-in Conditioner and then added a bit of water to work it in
8. Sectioned hair in 5 sections and applied a large amount of KCCC to each section
7. Installed a set of mini twists for the week.

I did keep my hair stretched in 4 sections but since my hair was already straight it is too early to know if it works. My hair is always different after I color it and straighten it. So will see if it is worthwhile when I take these twist out.

I did resist the temptation to go through my hair with a lot of tools. I used a shampoo brush to detangle before I put the shampoo in and while rinsing out the conditioner. Then I combed each section as I twisted it. This made wash day so much faster.

I'm going to try doing my hair every Friday or Saturday night to be consistent and stick with 2 strands until my hair grows out a bit. Going to try!

Your hair gets so silky and soft and pretty. Some of our hair, mine included, is very particular about what it likes to thrive. If one thing is off, our hair lets us know it. It took me 12 years to figure out my situation. You keep refining and analyzing and dissecting your process. I am sure you are going to find your way so that your hair not only stays silky, and pretty, but begins to attain that length that you want and that I KNOW you can have. We are here to support!

 

[Chicoro]

Sitting.
Now that I’m growing my hair back out it’s time to be more intentional about my ends again.
I have 6 lbs of shea butter, so I’m ready.

Shea butter can definitely work its magic and help maintain well curated and healthy ends.

 

[GettingKinky]

Are you going to share your bunning results and the pretty hair ends you cultivated because of your successful bunning routine? I want to see!!!!

I have an appointment on the 15th and I will get my hair blown out and trimmed (dusting only) I will share pictures afterwards. At that point I will have been bunning for 15 weeks.

 

[GettingKinky]

I have a dilemma. Normally I take down my bun before bed and sleep my my hair loose while wearing a silk lined buff

Last week I was on vacation and got lazy and slept with my hair still in a bun. When I went to wash my hair it was easier to detangle than normal. I’m not sure if it was the hotel conditoner or the fact that sleeping in a bun keeps my hair from tangling as much. But I’m worried that sleeping in a bun will cause breakage at the base of the bun due to moving my head while I’m sleeping. I feel like the weight of my head and the fact that my hair is constrained at the base of the bun could be problematic.

Maybe I could sleep in a very loose bun and have the best of both worlds….

 

[Chicoro]

I have a dilemma. Normally I take down my bun before bed and sleep my my hair loose while wearing a silk lined buff

Last week I was on vacation and got lazy and slept with my hair still in a bun. When I went to wash my hair it was easier to detangle than normal. I’m not sure if it was the hotel conditoner or the fact that sleeping in a bun keeps my hair from tangling as much. But I’m worried that sleeping in a bun will cause breakage at the base of the bun due to moving my head while I’m sleeping. I feel like the weight of my head and the fact that my hair is constrained at the base of the bun could be problematic.

Maybe I could sleep in a very loose bun and have the best of both worlds….

Try it! I would thing having the hair constrained in the bun is much better for afro-textured hair. But, all hair and situations are not the same.
I sleep in my braids but I remove my bobby pins the pin one of the braids behind my ear.

So, you are going deeper now. You know bunning works for you. Now you are modifying and tweaking the process to be able to optimize bunning, at the highest level, for you and make it work ideally for you.

I suggest just changing one thing. Just do your bun looser at night and don't change anything else. Just focus on that change and the result of that one change.

Looking forward to hearing what happened!

 

[Chicoro]

I have an appointment on the 15th and I will get my hair blown out and trimmed (dusting only) I will share pictures afterwards. At that point I will have been bunning for 15 weeks.

Congratulations on being consistent! Bravo!