Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

Bublin said:
@divachyk I stated in a diffferent thread that my current protective style was wearing beanie hats. Yes, i too have a few colours but they are the woollen ones and i'm getting too hot now.
You say you're using the bss beanies - you mean the stretchy hairnet type ones? I have a black one and i wear a black durag underneath pulled away from my hairline. I guessing if you wear different colours, you're not covering your hair with anything?
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@Bublin - I wear a black satin bonnet underneath pulled away from my hairline. I place the beanie on top of the bonnet and have a little bit of hair showing and the beanie covers the rest of my head. They are stretchy hairnet looking but of thicker weight. They may be wool. Checked my tag and it doesn't indicate the fabric but when I think of wool, I think of my other hat that looks like this. I love hats/beanies and have a variety of colors and styles.
 
Aireen said:
You'll definitely be there by Christmas 2012, aren't you APL now? :grin: Make sure to post pictures though!
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This was me in May? June? Maybe..
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Look how close I am to BSB :spinning:
The blue strap on me is MBL :grin:

And I blew out my hair a little while ago. Still on the fence about flat ironing my hair. I think I will stick to my plan of the giant bun on my head with a cute little bang :yep:

I forgot i'm in the hide your hair challenge :rolleyes:
 
<3

UPDATES!!
-i finished up my NTM (for better of for worse...it was my go-to leave in)...but....
I picked up some Kinky curly knot today leave-in/ detangler! Just used it tonight, it seemed just fine! I look forward to it in the future! So while my stash hasn't changed (still the same number), i'm happy i get to use a new product.

-It's looking like my conditioners (Kenra, Organix) are here to stay for a while, and everything I have will be enough for at least the rest of the summer/ into the fall. So right now, I'm not buying anything new. I'm using what works, co-washing 2-3 times a week (more like 2), keeping the brush away!

-Contemplating a sew-in in late August until the end of September-ish (back to school protective style), and another for the winter (Thanksgiving to Christmas, then again from New Year's until V-day-ish?

Thoughts?

-i think i'll look into dusting, too. Right now, my hair is fine, really. just have to keep low manipuation.

-i spent an hour in teh bathroom today after washing and whatnot, sorting through my hairs and putting them into a 'shed' and 'broken' pile. definately saw a correlation--most of the shed pieces were natural (obvs), and the broken were previously permed ends, probably snapping/ breaking due to a lack of protien. i'll make up a treatment for next week, i think.

-i'll grab some garlic pills, too. just to keep the shedding (unhealthy amounts) at bay.

gosh i love this thread. <3
 
Random Hair thought..... thinking out loud..... hummmm... my hair is breaking because I have been sidetracked. I lost one years growth. I am not putting any more chemicals on my hair until I can get it healthy. My hair is changing color and no I do not use hair dyes etc. I think its old age. I've never been a natural sandy head until now. Don't get me wrong its not impossible my mom has sandy red hair and my sister. I just didn't until recently. It might have something to do with the chemical. I think I'm not going to do another chemical procedure until I think.
 
I'm not really sure if I'll bun my own hair, or cover it with some fake hair. It's so hot, I think I'll slather conditioner on my real bun and just wrap some fake hair around it. Knowing me, I'll be wearing a sunhat anyway.
 
Curlybeauty said:
This was me in May? June? Maybe..

Look how close I am to BSB :spinning:
The blue strap on me is MBL :grin:

And I blew out my hair a little while ago. Still on the fence about flat ironing my hair. I think I will stick to my plan of the giant bun on my head with a cute little bang :yep:

I forgot i'm in the hide your hair challenge :rolleyes:
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Curlybeauty, yeah you're like an inch off or less! I like how your hair is growing out really full! You know for a long time I thought you were natural because of your username and avatar, until you mentioned '#teamrelaxed' a few times.
 
Hehe. :giggle: Dyeing my hair right now, Lord help me because I'm relaxed. Don't worry though, it had no ammonia but I'm still a little jittery. Oh well no turning back. I'll post pictures tomorrow or the next day since I promised y'all, Myjourney2009 and divachyk. :grin: Pray for me. Seriously. :look:
 
Wow so I'm done — that was scary. :look: Parts of my hair already look more red than expected. :grin: I'm excited for when it dries although it looks like my roots didn't take and some parts didn't get coloured. Too bad it was a semi-permanent. :sad:
 
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^ Sigh, my hair didn't take the colour at all. The part that looked really red was where I part my bangs... :sad: Oh well...
 
Aireen said:
^ Sigh, my hair didn't take the colour at all. The part that looked really red was where I part my bangs... :sad: Oh well...
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Aireen since you used a semi permanent it will only show in bright lights and the sunlight.


*Taken from wikipedia*
Semi-permanent hair dye
Semi-permanent hair dye has smaller molecules than temporary dyes, and is therefore able to partially penetrate the hair shaft. For this reason, the color will survive repeated washing, typically 4–5 shampoos or a few weeks. Semi-permanents contain no, or very low levels of developer, peroxide or ammonia, and are therefore safer for damaged or fragile hair. However, semi-permanents may still contain the toxic compound p-phenylenediamine or other such ingredients. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported that in rats and mice chronically exposed to PPD in their diet, it simply depressed body weights, and no other clinical signs of toxicity were observed in several studies.[3]
The final color of each strand of hair will depend on its original color and porosity, so there will be subtle variations in shade across the whole head. This gives a more natural result than the solid, all over color of a permanent dye. However, it also means that gray or white hairs will not dye to the same shade as the rest of the hair. If there are only a few grey/white hairs, the effect will usually be enough for them to blend in, but as the gray spreads, there will come a point where it will not be disguised as well. In this case, the move to permanent color can sometimes be delayed by using the semi-permanent as a base and adding highlights.
Semi-permanent color cannot lighten the hair.
 
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Aireen said:
Curlybeauty, yeah you're like an inch off or less! I like how your hair is growing out really full! You know for a long time I thought you were natural because of your username and avatar, until you mentioned '#teamrelaxed' a few times.
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I was natural when I joined this forum :yep:
I was a colored straight haired natural. The whole reason I stopped relaxing my hair was because I loved color. Welp, needless to say..I had a setback from a color application and began to wear my hair in more textured styles as I cut/grew out my color.

Textured styles look great on me, but not with my hair texture :look:
And after battling with SSK's and realizing that my hair was great relaxed, I decided to go back to relaxing my hair. The whole reason I stopped was to play with color more. And here I am in love with my naturally dark tresses.

I've only been relaxed for going on 2 years maybe..and my avatar is my hair when I first relaxed and came out way under processed. More like a texlax, and that worked for me for about a year...

Sometimes I miss my natural hair, and stare at my new growth during stretches, but I need reliable, stable, consistent, and predictable looks upon waking up in the morning :lol:

I will attribute all my skills with styling hair to when I was natural, because I learned how to do everything myself.

So I guess you can call this my hair story :grin:
 
winona said:
Yea my niece got her box and is reading through her stuff now:)
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Wooo-that's awesome! Sending good vibrations to her for her hair journey! :bouncy:

Today is wash day-this heat wave has me sweating hard. my scalp is overdue for some TLC.
 
Shame on my hubby for messing up my freshly curlformer head :/ O Well I guess I will CoWash today and stick this hair in a wet bun
 
i like Ms-gg's shampoo method i read on her blog. i will just concentrate on my scalp instead of trying to get my hair squeaky clean. anything to combat dryness.
 
Didn't do a frikkin thing to my hair this weekend. Still in my little Celie plaits and didn't want to do a wash day with them in so when I take them out this week,my hair is gonna LOVE bein pampered next Saturday. Lots of fun new products to try!!

Sent from my SPH-D700 using SPH-D700
 
I really wish I had decided to go natural back when I first joined the hair board. I also wish there was some magic potion that could turn this relaxed hair natural.
 
My hair is at a stand still; But atleast I am toning up this body :)

Going to bun until the winter; gonna wig it during that time until the spring :)

Off to exercise :)
 
Myjourney2009 said:
Aireen since you used a semi permanent it will only show in bright lights and the sunlight.


*Taken from wikipedia*
Semi-permanent hair dye
Semi-permanent hair dye has smaller molecules than temporary dyes, and is therefore able to partially penetrate the hair shaft. For this reason, the color will survive repeated washing, typically 4–5 shampoos or a few weeks. Semi-permanents contain no, or very low levels of developer, peroxide or ammonia, and are therefore safer for damaged or fragile hair. However, semi-permanents may still contain the toxic compound p-phenylenediamine or other such ingredients. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported that in rats and mice chronically exposed to PPD in their diet, it simply depressed body weights, and no other clinical signs of toxicity were observed in several studies.[3]
The final color of each strand of hair will depend on its original color and porosity, so there will be subtle variations in shade across the whole head. This gives a more natural result than the solid, all over color of a permanent dye. However, it also means that gray or white hairs will not dye to the same shade as the rest of the hair. If there are only a few grey/white hairs, the effect will usually be enough for them to blend in, but as the gray spreads, there will come a point where it will not be disguised as well. In this case, the move to permanent color can sometimes be delayed by using the semi-permanent as a base and adding highlights.
Semi-permanent color cannot lighten the hair.
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Myjourney2009, thanks for the information! I guess I was overexcited and expected more. :look: :sad: With this heat, I can take pics in direct sunlight so SOMETHING will show and all the work that I did to apply the colour wasn't done in vain.

Curlybeauty said:
I was natural when I joined this forum :yep:
I was a colored straight haired natural. The whole reason I stopped relaxing my hair was because I loved color. Welp, needless to say..I had a setback from a color application and began to wear my hair in more textured styles as I cut/grew out my color.

Textured styles look great on me, but not with my hair texture :look:
And after battling with SSK's and realizing that my hair was great relaxed, I decided to go back to relaxing my hair. The whole reason I stopped was to play with color more. And here I am in love with my naturally dark tresses.

I've only been relaxed for going on 2 years maybe..and my avatar is my hair when I first relaxed and came out way under processed. More like a texlax, and that worked for me for about a year...

Sometimes I miss my natural hair, and stare at my new growth during stretches, but I need reliable, stable, consistent, and predictable looks upon waking up in the morning :lol:

I will attribute all my skills with styling hair to when I was natural, because I learned how to do everything myself.

So I guess you can call this my hair story :grin:
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Aw! What a cute story! You're definitely good at styling your hair, no doubt about that. I stare at my new growth during stretches too, pull and tug at it, wondering what it would be like to just chop off everything and go natural... :sad:
 
I washed my hair today and I am go glad. It was feeling hella dry. I am going to do a caruso set.

I really liked wearing my hair out this week so I will be going for another week.

I wish caruso rollers came with a 1 3/4 sized rollers

*sitting in front of my fan drying my hair*
 
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