Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

i need to replace my showerhead soon. i wanna get rid of anything that could be causing dryness in my crown area. plus i have eczema and wanna continue to keep that under control.
 
By the by, I wonder how other ladies get their braids to dry straight when they go to bed? My braids always get a little crinkled under my cap while I sleep.
 
I'm dying to take these braids out and REALLY wash my hair. I know they can last until Saturday, but I'm like a crackhead....I NEED to wash my hair!! I'm craving it!!!
 
I feel bad that I dont really want to touch my hair until the weekend. It just seems like to too much effort to do anything during the week just to put it in a bun.
 
Myjourney2009 said:
I remember when she first started too and nothing she did made me want to follow her regimen.
A lot of people say she started them on their journey.

She said in one of her vids that Sisterslick is going to be helping her with her hair journey. She also said that she is going to start laying off the weaves, I dont remember when she said when she will start though. This is going to be very interesting.
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Myjourney2009, I knew when I first watched her that I wasn't going to be using all that heat. I can't really, my hair looks way too limp and straight with a flat iron. I liked how her hair looked with the body and movement though. She was very encouraging and made you feel like she was your sister-girl while watching her. She got me started on ApHogee and basically introduced me to protein. My hair didn't stop breaking right away but the breakage decreased a ton. From there I watched her videos for entertainment and to see how she was doing. To be honest, every YouTuber I'm subbed to, I can tell you I usually don't follow anything they're doing. If I try something it's on a whim and it's usually only 2 items out of everything they're using for the whole time I'm subbed to them. I'm not the type to go out and buy 28328692 products just because someone said it was amazing on YT. Anyway, back to Ateya, I love her but I cringe when she's ripping her hair out during stretches.

LadyRaider said:
Ateyaaa got me started. She changed my life. She was the first one I found. I was amazed at how much I didn't know about doing my hair. My mom had that silky 2 type hair and I didn't have any sisters. I grew up with predominantly white friends.

Anyway... I will always be grateful to Ateyaaa for turning me into the one with the hair everyone had their hands in at the family gathering this summer. I love Ateyaaa!

What's wrong with nugro? I was thinking of going back to using it next payday.
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LadyRaider, I totally agree with the bolded. My mum knew about hair but she's never had to do much with hers. She used to just shampoo and GO. :perplexed I've always known her to have BSL+ hair, even when she cut of her hair on a whim, it always grew back quickly. The only reason she's doing a little more now is because of me and by a little more I mean using conditioner. I love her dearly though and she NEVER made me feel like my hair wasn't good enough, relaxed or natural. Going relaxed was completely my decision. Anyway, my hair wasn't a MESS when I found Ateya because my mum give me a good foundation but Ateya took it to the next level, then Macherie helped, LHCF a little, and me altering a lot of things. So ultimately in order I thank my mum, Ateya, and myself, then Macherie and LHCF for the assist.

Nothing's wrong with Nu Gro! Buy it if you want to but I preferred the way her hair looked and moved with ApHogee. I feel like when she was using Nu Gro, her hair had a dull, lifeless look. Not saying Nu Gro caused that, it could be all the heat she used to use once a week that Nu Gro couldn't mask. ApHogee though, made the heat usage look like nothing. Regardless, I will say, Ateya has a strong head of hair. :look:
 
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Aireen,
My mom kept me in two pretty long braids for most of my life, and even when I was in high school, I had two braids. Heh. After that though when I went off to college and wanted to look cute is when my hair fell apart and broke off. It just slowly got worse with relaxers and color. My mom, like yours, made me feel like I had princess hair, and even when my hair was a mess, I thought I was looking good! :)

Now I'm really leaning on braidouts. When I wear my hair is up, I generally put it in one or two french braids. I have gone back to my roots. :yep:
 
Myjourney2009

"New" conditioners for me have been AO HSR & GPB as well as Giovanni SAS. I tried GPB when I first cut off my relaxed ends and my hair hated it. Years later, it's much better. My hair is in better condition now, so I'll stick to it. I've been avoiding protein for years when I should have been using it from the start.

And grapeseed oil is great! I just added this last month. LOL Try it out.
 
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I've forgotten how much I needed to divorce myself from that idea that my hair always needed to be straight when I first started my HHJ.


My friend has started stretching relaxers and she is getting frustrated because at 3 months post, she will flat iron her hair (mind you it's summertime in Alabama), and her hair will revert.

I've been stretching so long that I don't flat iron my hair during the summer. I'll bun it or wear some sort of curly style and and call it a day. It really doesn't phase me.

It's amazing the things you forget when you've been on your hair journey for a long time...
 
LadyRaider said:
Aireen,
My mom kept me in two pretty long braids for most of my life, and even when I was in high school, I had two braids. Heh. After that though when I went off to college and wanted to look cute is when my hair fell apart and broke off. It just slowly got worse with relaxers and color. My mom, like yours, made me feel like I had princess hair, and even when my hair was a mess, I thought I was looking good! :)

Now I'm really leaning on braidouts. When I wear my hair is up, I generally put it in one or two french braids. I have gone back to my roots. :yep:
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:lol: LadyRaider, mums always know how to make you feel special when most needed. My hair was always full NL-SL. My care was alright, my hair looked alright and good sometimes even though I treat it badly. I had a scissor happy stylist for a WHILE and when one of the stylists at the salon (Azan's :look: for you Torontonians) cut off my hair, my mum made a big scene and we were OUT. :lachen: Right now my stylist is great... She's not good at cutting all dramatic and fancy but she can trim and dust the tiniest bit off, she's good at listening too!

Glad you're going back to your roots and hey if you like Nu Gro, do what works for you and let me know how it goes! SN: I wish I could french braid... :sad:
 
tomorrow i will be mixing shea butter cream, clay wash, anti-stretch mark cream.

I can't find cantu shea butter on this island and im about to run out, already stretching it with my giovanni leave in.

This has happened before, I'm over it, going to play mixtress for a bit.
 
I just trimmed off a bunch of ends. I'm trying to avert a setback when in honesty I don't even know what to do. I've been having a lot of breakage, lately, when it doesn't even make sense because I'm in box braids.

So I tried to cut off every part that looked too thin.
 
Today I'm a bit annoyed. I run my fingers through my barely 1 week post hair and it feels so dense that I think to myself, didn't I just get my hair touched up a week ago. Am I yet again underprocessed? In thinking back and trying to understand the culprit, I have a lightbulb moment. Could it be that my hair was always dense and I just never knew it because before LHCF, I was salon dependent and got my hair flat ironed almost always???
 
Waiting for this wash and go to dry can't lay down...Huh!!! Just bought some AO honeysuckle conditioner.... We'll see how it goes... Ish isn't cheap, however I need to get this mess SOFT so i'm desperate!!!
 
Uuuuggghh I feel so lazy I forgot to wear my satin/silk scarf last night thank goodness my pillowcase is satin. Then today I didnt even bother to freshen up the outside of my bun with any moisturizer. Maybe tomorrow I will feel like it:)
 
My favorite blog now has a chat page and I was the first member to sign up:giggle: (and my girlfriend newly recruited to 'hair' the second)
n_vizion of relaxedhairhealth.blogspot.com
 
I want my hair to straighten easily and stay that way (and not frizz up as soon as I step outside), but I also want my hair to have looser curls/waves for WNGs. I need something in between a texturizer and a texlax..........a texturlax?????? LOL ;)
 
SUPER SWEET said:
pookaloo83[USER][/USER]
They come out diffrent on each twist. They don't have a style. The ends are going everywhich way but down. The roots are puffy like a pastry and they are stiff....:sad:
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SUPER SWEET For style start by parting your hair where you would like the hair to fall ie middle or side part.

On you ends you must roll them on either perm rods or what i do is once my whole head has been twistsed or braided i grab,
say a few twists, and roll onto a satin pillow roller. No matter which roller you use make sure you roll under. If you don't set ur twists on some sort of roller then your ends will stick out straight and your twist out style won't look finished.
 
newnyer said:
I want my hair to straighten easily and stay that way (and not frizz up as soon as I step outside), but I also want my hair to have looser curls/waves for WNGs. I need something in between a texturizer and a texlax..........a texturlax?????? LOL ;)
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Girl dont go starting a new term. My brain cant handle it.

Remember everyones hair does not have the same degree of wavy/curliness.

You can take it as far as you want.

A texturizer is not what you need because IMO, this will leave you closer to your original texture minus alot of th bulk.
 
Time stand still when I'm sitting under the hooded dryer in a roller set. First roller set in MONTHS; let's see if the torture is worth it.
 
divachyk said:
Time stand still when I'm sitting under the hooded dryer in a roller set. First roller set in MONTHS; let's see if the torture is worth it.
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oohh I wish I could master them.

I know I said that I wasnt going to do them anymore but I am going to keep trying til I get it right.

When I see all those ladies flying through them I feel I can do it.
 
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