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offthechainliz said:
wow
your hair is absolutely beautiful!!!
you've been such progress form your first pic to now that it truly gives me hope
cause I also feel my hair grows slowly.
how often do you wash a week and what is your exact regime?
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Hey Liz! Okay I can't find the 365 thread...so here it is:
1. I wash my hair twice a week - depending on my schedule and my mood I either rollerset once at home and once at the salon or I airdry the time I wash at home. I usually see the salon once a week tho - on the $10 day usually to cut down on cost. At the salon they wash and set and blow my roots only (unless I have a function or something and I w ant ultra straight hair). I home I just rollerset and wrap.
2. Most of the time I use a protein, moisture, moisture, moisture routine on a 2 week schedule - so if I wash twice a week the first wash in the two week time frame is a protein conditioner and the other three are moisture.
3. Productwise - my staples right now are Lanza Protein Plus shampoo, Kenra Mois. Cond., my recent new love Redken Butter Treat, and if I'm using protein - Elasta QP Breakage Control Serum. I have other favs - but these are my most recent staples. I'm a bit of a product whore though - so when you read that I'm using something different - don't be suprised...
I always use Salerm 21 Leave In for the past 3 months - ever since I discovered it.
4. I wear my hair in protective styles about 75% of the time now - which means I just throw it up in a claw clip - nothing fancy, contrived, or tight. I feel like my head is in a vice when I do a bona fide bun.
5. I moisturize my ends daily with an old fav - Dudley's PCA Moisture Retainer and a serum - usually Smooth and Shine Light Serum.
I recently tried Salerm Ends Restructurizing Treatment - and have been enjoying that as well - not sure if it's a staple yet though.
Besides that I relax every 8 weeks with whatever relaxer I've decided on for that touch up - I still have yet to find a relaxer that works well on me. They love me, then they leave me...and so it goes...
I also color - though I haven't recently - the last permie color jobs were in October.....I've taken a break so I can get highlights in the Spring.
The color you guys see are all gone - much to my chagrin.
What else....
I only take Biotin,, B5 and Fish Oil as far as vits. Lots of vits don't work for me and they don't produce the results they are meant to - so I stick with the ones that work. My chemistry is screwy enough as it is.
HTH
offthechainliz said:
wow
you've been such progress form your first pic to now that it truly gives me hope
how often do you wash a week and what is your exact regime?
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Hey Liz! Okay I can't find the 365 thread...so here it is:
1. I wash my hair twice a week - depending on my schedule and my mood I either rollerset once at home and once at the salon or I airdry the time I wash at home. I usually see the salon once a week tho - on the $10 day usually to cut down on cost. At the salon they wash and set and blow my roots only (unless I have a function or something and I w ant ultra straight hair). I home I just rollerset and wrap.
2. Most of the time I use a protein, moisture, moisture, moisture routine on a 2 week schedule - so if I wash twice a week the first wash in the two week time frame is a protein conditioner and the other three are moisture.
3. Productwise - my staples right now are Lanza Protein Plus shampoo, Kenra Mois. Cond., my recent new love Redken Butter Treat, and if I'm using protein - Elasta QP Breakage Control Serum. I have other favs - but these are my most recent staples. I'm a bit of a product whore though - so when you read that I'm using something different - don't be suprised...
4. I wear my hair in protective styles about 75% of the time now - which means I just throw it up in a claw clip - nothing fancy, contrived, or tight. I feel like my head is in a vice when I do a bona fide bun.
5. I moisturize my ends daily with an old fav - Dudley's PCA Moisture Retainer and a serum - usually Smooth and Shine Light Serum.
I recently tried Salerm Ends Restructurizing Treatment - and have been enjoying that as well - not sure if it's a staple yet though.
Besides that I relax every 8 weeks with whatever relaxer I've decided on for that touch up - I still have yet to find a relaxer that works well on me. They love me, then they leave me...and so it goes...
I also color - though I haven't recently - the last permie color jobs were in October.....I've taken a break so I can get highlights in the Spring.
The color you guys see are all gone - much to my chagrin.
What else....
I only take Biotin,, B5 and Fish Oil as far as vits. Lots of vits don't work for me and they don't produce the results they are meant to - so I stick with the ones that work. My chemistry is screwy enough as it is.
HTH
