MBL 2010

Spring said:
Hopefully you'll hit a really good growth spurt to make up for the 2 inches you've trimmed.
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I'm still not sure if i'm going to do the corrective cut, so I may only still have just 1 inch to make up....but thanks! I hope I hit a growth spurt too. I HOPE WE ALL DO!!!

ckisland said:
This is exactly how I feel. BCing to half an inch of hair and being MBL three years later would be amazing :bdance:
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AMEN SISTER!!!! I love that smiley btw hahah she's dancing for joy, hair joy.
 
Hi everyone! It has been a while since I updated. I started a swim class 3 times a week and I'm not sure about the effects it will have on my hair. I wet my hair before I get into the pool and immediately rinse after. I am using an intense moisturing shampoo and deep condition my hair for 30 minutes.
Then I use a leave in conditioner I would say its a light protein. I also moisture my hair with nuetrogena triple moisture silk leave in. I have not had a touch up since the second week of December. I am still trying to get use to wearing protective styles and absolutely no heat. I am streching but surprisingly my newgrowth isn't out of control.
Fingers crossed***

Thanks.
 
So my shingled wash n'go is a no go since I decided I wanted to wear a ponytail last night and this morning :lachen:. My hair's big and fluffy now that it's loss, but doesn't like a darn bit shingled. I think I'm playing around with my hair because she's going on lock down starting on the first. I'll be doing a mini protective style challenge until May when I'll do my length check.

My poor hair. I've been going so back and forth with her. If Xena could talk, she'd tell me to leave her the hell alone :nono:
 
took a pic with a bras so i could see. i am maybe 4-5 inches from where i wanna be. not bad. i can do that before december =)

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Im feeling kinda down and I need some cheering up from you ladies... My last relaxer was october 20,2009 As you can see from my pic(Below) I was BSL well I havent relaxed yet but I looseded my hair last night to wash it and when I stretched it out-It looks like it's still BSL.
The thing is I guess about a month or so ago I trimmed it. I think I trimmed it too much.I have 2.2-3 inches newgrowth but when I streched my hair it still semms to be the same BSL. I feel so discouraged-I have definately retired my scissors!
 
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I am 11 weeks post. I air dried last week and bunned. Tonite I'm roller setting. I'll take a pic tomorrow. My poufy roots make my set look nice and full. :grin:
 
I forgot I was in this challenge, LOL! I'm not even APL but I'm going to keep pushing and see where I'll end up by December.

I'm about to do a nexxus emergencee treatment and then I'll deep condition and put my hair into 2 braids.
 
Just finished shampooing (again, but I wanted a clean slate), conditioning, detangling, and bunning my hair. My personal challenge starts tomorrow and I'm kind of excited. I'll be bunning from March 1 until May 14 (6 months after nappiversary) and will hopefully be BSL. My routine for my challenge is to cowash and bun, taking down my wash n'go bun every 3 days. I'll do twist buns too, and keep them in for a week or so.

Wish me luck ladies :grin:
 
Checking in today was wash day. I did a prepoo with coconut oil under the dryer and then I applied avocado, honey and coconut milk as my conditioner, rinsed with BS and did a final rinse with tea, I am loving how my hair feels, I'm pretty sure I will stay on the natural reggie. except for the curl activator Adora got me using for daily moisture,lol.
 
casey3035 said:
Im feeling kinda down and I need some cheering up from you ladies... My last relaxer was october 20,2009 As you can see from my pic(Below) I was BSL well I havent relaxed yet but I looseded my hair last night to wash it and when I stretched it out-It looks like it's still BSL.
The thing is I guess about a month or so ago I trimmed it. I think I trimmed it too much.I have 2.2-3 inches newgrowth but when I streched my hair it still semms to be the same BSL. I feel so discouraged-I have definately retired my scissors!
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awww ((hugs))
hey, BSL aint a bad place to be. as long as your ends are healthy keep those scissors retired. you'll bounce back and grow grow grow Summer's coming, maybe a growth spurt is headed your way?

ckisland said:
Just finished shampooing (again, but I wanted a clean slate), conditioning, detangling, and bunning my hair. My personal challenge starts tomorrow and I'm kind of excited. I'll be bunning from March 1 until May 14 (6 months after nappiversary) and will hopefully be BSL. My routine for my challenge is to cowash and bun, taking down my wash n'go bun every 3 days. I'll do twist buns too, and keep them in for a week or so.

Wish me luck ladies :grin:
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good luck but u dont need it, bunning is the troof!! :yep:
 
casey3035 said:
Im feeling kinda down and I need some cheering up from you ladies... My last relaxer was october 20,2009 As you can see from my pic(Below) I was BSL well I havent relaxed yet but I looseded my hair last night to wash it and when I stretched it out-It looks like it's still BSL.
The thing is I guess about a month or so ago I trimmed it. I think I trimmed it too much.I have 2.2-3 inches newgrowth but when I streched my hair it still semms to be the same BSL. I feel so discouraged-I have definately retired my scissors!
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Awwww :bighug:remember "watch pot don't boil" so if you don't think about you'll be MBL before you realize it............I know, I know, easier said than done. I'm sure your hair is thanking you for the trim :yep:, mine always does.
 
Well, last night I washed my hair with my L'Occitane Repairing Shampoo and DC'd with the Repairing Mask. I applied my Rusk Smoother Leave-In and a little Frizz Ease Serum. Air dried in a single plait ponytail over night and applied JBCO to my roots this morning. A little NTM Silk Touch and EVCO and out the door I went with my bun.

I'm going to bed tonight in pinned up Pippylongstockings pigtails.
 
casey3035 said:
Im feeling kinda down and I need some cheering up from you ladies... My last relaxer was october 20,2009 As you can see from my pic(Below) I was BSL well I havent relaxed yet but I looseded my hair last night to wash it and when I stretched it out-It looks like it's still BSL.
The thing is I guess about a month or so ago I trimmed it. I think I trimmed it too much.I have 2.2-3 inches newgrowth but when I streched my hair it still semms to be the same BSL. I feel so discouraged-I have definately retired my scissors!
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Aww thanks too all of you who sent me a motivational PM...I appreciate ya!:yep:
 
Okay after starting a vent thread, I think I feel a little better now. I'm going to stick with my original plan and just do wash n'go buns and do a length check in May. If my hair's not BSL by then, I'll go to plan b.

Sound good? Sounds good to me.
 
exubah said:
....bumping this up............I was just wondering at the rate you are going now when do you think you will probably first touch MBL (providing you have no setbacks and not necessarily full MBL) this year?

Personally I think I will probably touch MBL at my next relaxer which will be in May (God spare life and no setbacks).
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Me too, MBL twin! I am 11 weeks post and am stretching another 9 weeks until the first weekend in May (my bday month). :grin: I am really close and I will definitely make it, but the question is will I still be MBL after the trim? :( This is why I'm not claiming it yet.
 
So I didn't wash my hair this morning like I thought I might. Instead I'm wearing a blowout bun and I'm loving it :perplexed. My hair's so soft and smooth. Also I twirled my hair to make the bun and only needed on good day hair pin to hold it in place.

Off to watch more youtubes and read more threads because I still don't know what to do about my hair. :nono:
 
casey3035 said:
Aww thanks too all of you who sent me a motivational PM...I appreciate ya!:yep:
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I found my hair shrinks alot when I have a lot of NG and that I'll need to find a better way to stretch it as I transition. #Your hair is probably just shrunken at the roots.
Chin up, you're probably past BSL now. Keep up the good work and you will reach MBL in no time! :yep:
 
It took some digging, but me and my hair are back on the right track. I cowashed her and she coiled up all lovely again :weird:. I'm sticking with my cowashes and heat free routine. That's what got me to this length in the first place, and if it ain't broke, why go out of my way to jack it up :nono:. My hair length is where it should be, I'm just so bloody impatient.

Oh yeah, I also updated my fotki http://public.fotki.com/ckisland/third-year-nov-2009-2010/
 
I'm still a little past apl. No major progress to report.

I'm getting my hair braided (cornrows) Wednesday and if I like the way the lady braids my hair I'll keep going to her and keep my hair braided for the next 2-3 months just to give my self a break from doing my hair/ checking for any sign of progress.

I'm hoping that I like the results because her pricing is great!
 
Checking in... Been applying mega tek to my scalp every other night so Sunday I applied wheatgerm oil as prepoo for 1 hour, washed then DCed with Aussie deep moist 3 min miracle and NTM. Left. With no heat for like 6 hours while I just louged around the house. Rinsed and air dried.



I'm also in the newbie challege and my captains gave us a baggy challage for Feb. I really liked it and I've seen a difference in mt hair. I'll probably keep with it.
 
I've had a little progress. After my cut at the end of last year, I was just above my bra strap. Now I'm just below it. Looks like I have maybe an inch of growth, so that's good.

I'm not sure about my new regimen of blow drying more often. I feel like my hair is breaking more, but I think that might be in my mind since I have an inch of retention in 2 months, which is very good for me. I also think I might be seeing more splits. But my more splits, that means one every week instead of one every month or two like before. I'll have to be careful. I haven't been moisturizing as well, maybe that's it. Or actually, I think it might have to do with the fact that I'm brushing my hair more often now. I've never trusted a brush . . . .
 
mwedzi said:
I've had a little progress. After my cut at the end of last year, I was just above my bra strap. Now I'm just below it. Looks like I have maybe an inch of growth, so that's good.

I'm not sure about my new regimen of blow drying more often. I feel like my hair is breaking more, but I think that might be in my mind since I have an inch of retention in 2 months, which is very good for me. I also think I might be seeing more splits. But my more splits, that means one every week instead of one every month or two like before. I'll have to be careful. I haven't been moisturizing as well, maybe that's it. Or actually, I think it might have to do with the fact that I'm brushing my hair more often now. I've never trusted a brush . . . .
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Retaining an inch in 2 months is definitely a good sign :yep:. I'm just curious. How often do you blowdry and how do you style your hair afterwards?
 
Relaxing tomorrow after 12 weeks... So hoping I am finally mbl... At 9 weeks I straightened and was just past my bra strap...Cmon mbl!!!
 
Hey ladies just checking in, I think I lost the two inches of new growth I got from Dec-Feb with detangling and matting becauses I didnt come my hair out well using a new shampoo...I did find an bottle of the old CON so Im happy for that I had a weave install on the 19th I took it down because she didnt do it right, I went to the lady that does my braids, so I took the weave out but kept the braids in so thats how Ive been wearing my hair for the last two weeks.....

Next length check end of June I think...
 
ckisland said:
Retaining an inch in 2 months is definitely a good sign :yep:. I'm just curious. How often do you blowdry and how do you style your hair afterwards?
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I blow dry at least every other wash. Sometimes two washes in a row. I wash once a week. I blow dry in sections, then I oil each section and twist it up. This will give me a soft twist out set. I can style my hair any way then, either wearing it down, a ponytail, or in a bun.
 
Checking in. Did my first texlax today and feeling pretty good about it. In a bunning challenge so, threw it immediately in a baggied bun. I think retention is going to be key for me.
 
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