Luscious Healthy Ends Challenge 2025

[keranikki]

I finally finished my twists, OMG! I’m tired. They should not have taken this long, but my cycle started and just slowed me down. I still need to dip them. I promise to take pictures tomorrow.

 

[Chicoro]

Length = 43 inches (I think it is about 45 but she didn't stretch it out)

 

[MzSwift]

I finally finished my twists, OMG! I’m tired. They should not have taken this long, but my cycle started and just slowed me down. I still need to dip them. I promise to take pictures tomorrow.

"Tomorrow" has come and gone...

 

[Chicoro]

"Tomorrow" has come and gone...

That's right, @MzSwift !

We may be generous with our compliments, but we are equally hard when it comes to fulfilling promises. We ALL waiting.

 

[Chicoro]

I didn't know about the two different braid pattens.

 

[Chicoro]

For the braid and cornrow challenged among us:

 

[Chicoro]

For those of us planning to be going beachside or pool side this summer and you want to swim in your natural hair and have a sleek style for a formal evening, all the while protecting those ends:

 

[Chicoro]

If you have thick hair and want to wear your wig for a change up without risking the health of those luscious ends in progress:

 

[Chicoro]

If you like twisting, you can do this style under your wig, to go from the pool to a palatial dinner.
This woman is so stunning. I love this wig on her. This would look so gorgeous seaside, under candle light with your significant other. Imagine a warm Caribbean breeze gently lifts a light curl off your face and floats the hair in the air only to have it land again on your sun-kissed melaninated (sp?) skin.

 

[Chicoro]

Those luscious healthy Ends still just a 'bun in the proverbial oven' and aren't just ready for summer, yet? Wigs, weaves and braids will work, too.

After all, you are Goddesses. And WHAT, pray tell, does NOT look good on a Goddess?

Absolutely, nothing!

 

[keranikki]

"Tomorrow" has come and gone...

My bad! I just kept singing the song “tomorrow”.

 

[Chicoro]

My bad! I just kept singing the song “tomorrow”.
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Your braids always look so professionally done! They are really cute. How do you get the color variation to start in the same place for every braid? Amazing!
Thank you for sharing.

I can go and shut down and turn off that 'No pictures provided as promised' warning alert.

We good now.

 

[MzSwift]

Looking good, @keranikki !!

Did you ever figure out what gave you those little SSKs from the last set?
I can see you getting great retention rocking these sets of twists!

Don't be holding out no mo'!

j/k

 

[keranikki]

Your braids always look so professionally done! They are really cute. How do you get the color variation to start in the same place for every braid? Amazing!
Thank you for sharing.

I can go and shut down and turn off that 'No pictures provided as promised' warning alert.

We good now.

The extension hair I use is pre-mixed for convenience. The color is called T1B27, which is 1B hair mixed with 27. The 1B colored hair is shorter than the 27 colored hair, so that the tips of the hair are just #27.
I hope this makes sense.

Also, thank you

 

[keranikki]

Looking good, @keranikki !!

Did you ever figure out what gave you those little SSKs from the last set?
I can see you getting great retention rocking these sets of twists!

Don't be holding out no mo'!

j/k

I won’t hold out anymore, scouts honor, lol.

I believe the SSKs came from incorrect trimming. I trimmed my ends doing a point cut versus a blunt cut. It was a trend that I was seeing on Instagram, but I don’t recall why I thought I should do it. I corrected my ends while completing this latest install, basically an S&D. I will never make that mistake again. Point cutting seems to be strictly for straight hair. I had no business trimming my ends in this fashion.

I didn’t loose too much length. I’m hovering around CBL (longest layer). Before the trim, I was roughly 1/4-1/2” past CBL.

On another note, I also realized that my detangling brush was chewing my hair up. I’m talking short hairs half the length of the longer hairs, which made sense based on how I brush my hair. I’m no longer using a detangling brush on wet hair. I only use it on dry stretched hair. My current goal is to just finger detangle on dry, stretched hair.

 

[Angel of the North]

I didn't know about the two different braid pattens.

I always have the straight back, there's been a couple of instances when it's been plaited in a spiral, I hated that, so always requested the straight back. I stopped leaving out some hair and used closures so that all of my hair was completely tucked away.

 

[Angel of the North]

If you have thick hair and want to wear your wig for a change up without risking the health of those luscious ends in progress:

That technique is similar to a protective style I'm planning to wear between WAGs and other protective styles, a ponytail with the length twisted

I think I used to cornrow my hair back and lay the length back in between the partings and hold down with pins, I always achieved a flat look. I have a feeling if I tried this method for wigs, that bun would be bigger and protruding through the wig. I kind of like the concept as a protective style though, especially with the ends tucked away.

 

[Angel of the North]

@keranikki Your braids look gorgeous, I love the colour blend. The hair I used for my braids I've found very heavy and the curls were completely gone by day 2. The hair I would normally use has been discontinued, there are a few packets of 27 floating around, I usually use 613 and 27 together, and was wondering how 27 would look with my 2 hair, I think it would definitely work

 

[ScorpioLove]

I invested in a sharpener to sharpen my hair scissors.

If you s&d, how often are you sharpening your scissors?

It’s been almost 2 months since my hair cut and overall it looks it same but I’m more worried about individual splits / ssks that start up.