Moisture has allowed me to retain tremendous length

tsturnbu

tsturnbu

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Hey ladies

I am on my quest for waist length hair. For the lsat 4 months, I have been moisturizing my hair with Cantu Shea Butter leave in conditioner creme, and wearing a bun. i must say, i have really been able to retain length. my hair grows about .5 inch per month, and i think i have retained all of my lenghth. even with trims to correct unevenness, my hair has been growin nicely. So, my secret for hair retention....buns and moisture...i.e. no manipulation and damp hair 24/7.
 
You HAVE gotten a lot of growth! You hair looks way fuller now that it's even. So pretty! It looks great!
 
tsturnbu said:
Hey ladies

I am on my quest for waist length hair. For the lsat 4 months, I have been moisturizing my hair with Cantu Shea Butter leave in conditioner creme, and wearing a bun. i must say, i have really been able to retain length. my hair grows about .5 inch per month, and i think i have retained all of my lenghth. even with trims to correct unevenness, my hair has been growin nicely. So, my secret for hair retention....buns and moisture...i.e. no manipulation and damp hair 24/7.
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@ bolded...I must say that I totally agree, esp about the damp part. I know most people would think that it would be detrimental to one's health to be walking around with damp hair but I know that it works. I personally am going to go back to what has always worked for me. thanks for posting this, b/c now I know that I am not crazy!!!
 
bbdgirl said:
@ bolded...I must say that I totally agree, esp about the damp part. I know most people would think that it would be detrimental to one's health to be walking around with damp hair but I know that it works. I personally am going to go back to what has always worked for me. thanks for posting this, b/c now I know that I am not crazy!!!
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ITA. I got my best growth wearing damp twists 24/7.
 
I totally agree! I see so much growth and retention when I do this. I don't know why I ever strayed from this. I realized it and I just went back to it this month. I am sticking to it this time!
 
Yep. Ever since I began my hair journey, I have been noticing the hair of other races of women, and what I'm noticing now is how their hair always looks hydrated, particularly the ones who have hair down their back. I have also always noticed that many of them have wet hair in the morning, you see tem on the bus or train, in the summertime,running their fingers through their hair to dry it and I used to think it was so strange and now I understand. So this is what separates many Black women from other races of women when it comes to length retention, moisture and our need to infuse it RELIGIOUSLY in our hair.
 
Beautiful! Congrats on your progress! Cantu Shea Butter Leave-In is really good. You'll be waist length before you know it!
 
beautiful hair and growth!

i definitely notice when i'm washing and conditioning more often
my moisture levels stay up higher and i retain more length

which is why i'm going back to it.
 
ITA. and you have some pretty hair! I have noticed that the ladies who wear them like 98% of the time have a lot of growth and thickness. That style def helps with retention.
 
My mom was telling me about how people's hair used to "grow like crazy" when they had a jerry curl back in the day ... I guess it was because they kept it drippin'!
 
This is a great post. Since I have been on a moisture(w/little protein) kick, my hair has done well, too. Congrats on retaining your progress, and thanks for sharing how you did it! :yep:

ETA: You have beautiful hair, btw.
 
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tsturnbu said:
Hey ladies

I am on my quest for waist length hair. For the lsat 4 months, I have been moisturizing my hair with Cantu Shea Butter leave in conditioner creme, and wearing a bun. i must say, i have really been able to retain length. my hair grows about .5 inch per month, and i think i have retained all of my lenghth. even with trims to correct unevenness, my hair has been growin nicely. So, my secret for hair retention....buns and moisture...i.e. no manipulation and damp hair 24/7.
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Do you stretch relaxers?
 
charmtreese said:
Im gonna have to try this!
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Yeah. You can get this at Walmart. It has an orange lid and is in the "african american hair products" aisle. I love it because it fully coats my hair. I would never put this in my hair if i was to wear it out (too heavy and it would make my hair look greasy). However, in a bun, its perfect. I actually am sure to saturate the hair with it on the ends and in the area where i put my scrunchie. I do this because i know since my hair is in a bun every bun, there is a lot of stress to teh area, so i make sure the area has globs of moisturizer to fully coat the strands so my hair wont be bothered too much.

girls, if i can do it, u can do it. honestly, before this board, i thought i had jacked up hair....and so did my friends. i was one of those who in hight school had teh super dry ponytail and thought i looked cute though i had split ends and damaged hair....ewww gross i know. anyway, i started pampering my hair in 03 and i have been doing so well. its funny really, because ppl who met me after 03 think i have "good hair" and they do not believe i ever had short hair. sometimes they even dismiss all my hard work, and say but yo buur mother is light skin so ims ure u have her genes. What??????????????????

My friends from high school, however, they think i take some magic pills because they remember how jacked up my hair was and they cannot believe the change. it istruly a metamorphosis to them. they are in complete shock.

so, ladies, i am "bumming it" now, and wearing a bun, but come August, I will have waist lenght hair and swinging it all over the place.
 
tsturnbu said:
Hey ladies

I am on my quest for waist length hair. For the lsat 4 months, I have been moisturizing my hair with Cantu Shea Butter leave in conditioner creme, and wearing a bun. i must say, i have really been able to retain length. my hair grows about .5 inch per month, and i think i have retained all of my lenghth. even with trims to correct unevenness, my hair has been growin nicely. So, my secret for hair retention....buns and moisture...i.e. no manipulation and damp hair 24/7.
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That's pretty much my plan of action as well. I have a retention rate of 95% going now with the protective styling and moisture moisture moisture - protein and then more moistue :yep:
 
Kytten said:
My mom was telling me about how people's hair used to "grow like crazy" when they had a jerry curl back in the day ... I guess it was because they kept it drippin'!
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This is so true! Mine grew like CRAZY! until I got it straightened...and didn't know what I doing. I was BSL in 18 months of wearing a curl back in 1979 - 1980 ! LOL
 
I believe this to be true. When I first went natural and I was cowashing everyday my hair grew like weeds. Its when I stopped and started trying to get fancy with straightening and hair coloring is when I ran into trouble. Im back to cowashing.

OP your hair is beautiful.
 
tsturnbu said:
Hey ladies

I am on my quest for waist length hair. For the lsat 4 months, I have been moisturizing my hair with Cantu Shea Butter leave in conditioner creme, and wearing a bun. i must say, i have really been able to retain length. my hair grows about .5 inch per month, and i think i have retained all of my lenghth. even with trims to correct unevenness, my hair has been growin nicely. So, my secret for hair retention....buns and moisture...i.e. no manipulation and damp hair 24/7.
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Very inspirational!:grin: Now do you think spraying it throughout the day with water and glycerin, or some type of moisture spray will also help, primarily if you are wearing PS?
 
AtlantaJJ said:
This is so true! Mine grew like CRAZY! until I got it straightened...and didn't know what I doing. I was BSL in 18 months of wearing a curl back in 1979 - 1980 ! LOL
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That's true as far as what my beautician said. I thought hair wouldn't grow in a curl but she was telling me that in actuality the hair should grow steadily in a curl BECAUSE of all the moisture.

I'm just not a bun person but if I were I'd try this. In any case I could imagine that this works--I cowash everyday and my breakage has stopped. :yep:
 
You and your hair are beautiful! Do you have any pics from the beginning of your WL hair journey (2003)?
 
PeggyFair said:
Yep. Ever since I began my hair journey, I have been noticing the hair of other races of women, and what I'm noticing now is how their hair always looks hydrated, particularly the ones who have hair down their back. I have also always noticed that many of them have wet hair in the morning, you see tem on the bus or train, in the summertime,running their fingers through their hair to dry it and I used to think it was so strange and now I understand. So this is what separates many Black women from other races of women when it comes to length retention, moisture and our need to infuse it RELIGIOUSLY in our hair.
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Exactly, I T A!!
 
I have to concur with the moisture and low manipulation.

I too have been making sure some type of moisture either from water, spritzing or product is in my hair most of the day.

I keep my hair moist and I have noticed a real change in my hair the past month.

I did this when I first began my hair journey and had really good progress, well I am back to this and I really see a difference in my hair and it is now starting to grow at a much quicker pace than the last year and a half.

The only different was I was not cowashing as much and had even went down to cowashing once a week or sometimes every other week.

When I was sick and could not get my hair wet the growth was even slower because it would be weeks before I could wet my hair and do anything with it.

You know how they say in the real estate world, LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION?

Well in the hair growth world for me it is MOISTURE, MOISTURE, MOISTURE!

I also have been doing the low manipulation. Just keeping it in box braids and protective styles.

These are the keys for me so I am going to stay with this until....well I feel like changing it up or have reached my ultimate growth goal.

ITA with the OP. :grin: It really works!!!!!
 
Lovely progress...last year Cantu Shea Butter was one of my staples and I did notice that my hair improved quite a bit. I was pretty much doing the same thing you were doing with the wet bunning. I am doing something similar now but I am using V05 conditioners as leave ins and they are working well too.
 
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Hrrm. I might have to up my moisture game this summer.......I'm already on the biweekly DC tip, and I do my morning and night mistings..... hrrm.

:look: I really want one of those steam bonnet type thingys.
 
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