Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

[MilkChocolateOne]

Give them the feedback and see how its received @MilkChocolateOne

I will reach out to them. I feel like they should know better at this point. They’ve been in business since 2016/2017. This isn’t a new industry. There is too much competition for this kind of mishap.

 

[MzSwift]

Took down an expensive sew-in at midnight last night, 2 days after getting it done. It didn't feel tight while she was braiding, but the thread was pulled a bit tight in some spots. It wasn't until a day or so later that the tension in certain spots was bothering me. Got paranoid about my hair being pulled out and took it down. Scalp is still a bit sore in some areas.

I retained so much length years ago with sew in's and thought I'd try again, but guess I should give it up for good.

Still trying to figure out what to do with my hair. Hesitant to wear it out in it's natural texture because my ends just end up a mess and I have to constantly trim. Thinking about blowdrying and lightly flat ironing on a low heat weekly. Wish I could push it to every 2 weeks, but everytime I've experimented with that my scalp doesn't like it. I need to wash weekly.

Good for you! You may have prevented yourself having a major setback. Can you do your own weaves? That way you can control how tight your braids are and the thread.

If you can't cornrow, maybe you can try "Lazy Girl" crochet techniques. There are a ton on YT. I've done this lady's technique a few times.

 

[oneastrocurlie]

I will reach out to them. I feel like they should know better at this point. They’ve been in business since 2016/2017. This isn’t a new industry. There is too much competition for this kind of mishap.

I too would let them know but probably still not reorder.

 

[rileypak]

If anyone finds some of the original Wetline Extreme Gel, please PM me

 

[mochalocks]

@Brit031586 @metro_qt @mochalocks

Thank you!

 

[syrk]

Good for you! You may have prevented yourself having a major setback. Can you do your own weaves? That way you can control how tight your braids are and the thread.

If you can't cornrow, maybe you can try "Lazy Girl" crochet techniques. There are a ton on YT. I've done this lady's technique a few times.

Thank you, that crochet technique is interesting. I used to do my own sew ins all the time, I just hate the process . It was always so difficult to get the right angles to braid my own hair in a circle, I'd be so frustrated every time.

Figured I would just pay someone do it and thought they would do a better job than I could do on my own. You have me wanting to go back to that though. Another reminder that if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.

 

[I Am So Blessed]

I lost 4 pounds . Umm....yay.

Replying to my own post to say that I lost 2 more.

I'm closer to my shirt term goal of fitting a smaller bra. I need to lose before JCPenney closes in my area (where the good bras are).

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Ok on Monday I will walk to work (two miles), the weather is nice so I better get these buns moving on down the yellow brick road.....
So I can see that rainbow haha. Somebody gave me an apple pie at work and I was about to lose control and eat it all. I walked down the isle (switching hips) and gave it to the receptionist.

 

[ckisland]

Verdict is
Carol's Daughter condish is trash and the leave-in spray may have made my hair drier when using it. The low poo is nice, but I don't usually have a shampoo problem.
I don't know how I feel about the Okay Hair Sorbet. The ingredients are great. I want to love it, but it flaked when I used it over the leave-in spray . I used it for my twist n'curl and the results are good. It's not as moisturized as I would hope, but I did use the low poo twice and the second time was without using a conditioner.

Does anyone shampoo/low poo (whatever) and skip the conditioner step to go straight to the leave-in?
I only ask because of my low porosity hair being so prone to product build up and really bad flaking. I'm thinking that my hair will better able to absorb whatever leave-in/styler I use because it's kinda prepped for it.

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Verdict is
Carol's Daughter condish is trash and the leave-in spray may have made my hair drier when using it. The low poo is nice, but I don't usually have a shampoo problem.
I don't know how I feel about the Okay Hair Sorbet. The ingredients are great. I want to love it, but it flaked when I used it over the leave-in spray . I used it for my twist n'curl and the results are good. It's not as moisturized as I would hope, but I did use the low poo twice and the second time was without using a conditioner.

Does anyone shampoo/low poo (whatever) and skip the conditioner step to go straight to the leave-in?
I only ask because of my low porosity hair being so prone to product build up and really bad flaking. I'm thinking that my hair will better able to absorb whatever leave-in/styler I use because it's kinda prepped for it.

Girl......get you some Hollywood Beauty Cholesterol $2.99. Add some melted Shea butter and deep condition with it. Add a drop of protein if you like (which is what I do). Best Deep Condition if I ever heard of any. (Whatever that means).

Look...all I'm saying is that I went from two inches of hair to almost HL from doing that.

Me: But everybody's hair is not like yours Adora

Me: Oh yea *scratches ching* that's right.

 

[ckisland]

Girl......get you some Hollywood Beauty Cholesterol $2.99. Add some melted Shea butter and deep condition with it. Add a drop of protein if you like (which is what I do). Best Deep Condition if I ever heard of any. (Whatever that means).

Look...all I'm saying is that I went from two inches of hair to almost HL from doing that.

Me: But everybody's hair is not like yours Adora

Me: Oh yea *scratches ching* that's right.

Ma'am, I have tried to live that life!!!!!! I wanna live that life My hair told me to get out of here with that mess . But I managed to have a setback, so I don't know what I'm doing right now

 

[water_n_oil]

Girl......get you some Hollywood Beauty Cholesterol $2.99. Add some melted Shea butter and deep condition with it. Add a drop of protein if you like (which is what I do). Best Deep Condition if I ever heard of any. (Whatever that means).

Look...all I'm saying is that I went from two inches of hair to almost HL from doing that.

Me: But everybody's hair is not like yours Adora

Me: Oh yea *scratches ching* that's right.

That olive cholesterol was legit the only conditioner my mom used on my head when I was a kid. I was WL lol. Still love it even though I haven't used it in a while.

 

[water_n_oil]

Verdict is
Carol's Daughter condish is trash and the leave-in spray may have made my hair drier when using it. The low poo is nice, but I don't usually have a shampoo problem.
I don't know how I feel about the Okay Hair Sorbet. The ingredients are great. I want to love it, but it flaked when I used it over the leave-in spray . I used it for my twist n'curl and the results are good. It's not as moisturized as I would hope, but I did use the low poo twice and the second time was without using a conditioner.

Does anyone shampoo/low poo (whatever) and skip the conditioner step to go straight to the leave-in?
I only ask because of my low porosity hair being so prone to product build up and really bad flaking. I'm thinking that my hair will better able to absorb whatever leave-in/styler I use because it's kinda prepped for it.

I skip conditioner often as I have a love/hate relationship with it. Sometimes it's annoying to rinse and many of them will build up on my hair with one use smh. I try to use cleansers that aren't stripping if I'm going to skip a regular rinse out or deep conditioner.

 

[Bette Davis Eyes]

@NinaShamone @Virtuosa

 

[Virtuosa]

@NinaShamone @Virtuosa

Thank you so much! You are so sweet!

 

[Bette Davis Eyes]

@kelsey72

 

[I Am So Blessed]

I hope everyone is having a beatiful day!! I am.

Time to detangle my hair (for real this time lol).

I got my spray bottle, my scissors (for any hang nails), my clips and my thumb tack. And most importantly I got my coffee . What a gorgeous Sunday afternoon.

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Look at this matted hair . I haven't detangled in over two weeks!!!! This is going to be fun. I haven't even moisturized in over a week.

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Yes! First section detangled.

 

[nerdography]

For the time being I’ll consider relaxer day a success. My hair still has some texture, my scalp didn’t burn, my hair hair didn’t fall out in clumps when I rinsed, and my hair didn’t break off when I detangled.

 

[Napp]

So I decided to Botox the majority of my hair and tanninoplasty my edges. Very happy with my results.

 

[faithVA]

Verdict is
Carol's Daughter condish is trash and the leave-in spray may have made my hair drier when using it. The low poo is nice, but I don't usually have a shampoo problem.
I don't know how I feel about the Okay Hair Sorbet. The ingredients are great. I want to love it, but it flaked when I used it over the leave-in spray . I used it for my twist n'curl and the results are good. It's not as moisturized as I would hope, but I did use the low poo twice and the second time was wit

Does anyone shampoo/low poo (whatever) and skip the conditioner step to go straight to the leave-in?
I only ask because of my low porosity hair being so prone to product build up and really bad flaking. I'm thinking that my hair will better able to absorb whatever leave-in/styler I use because it's kinda prepped for it.

@ckisland, I don't skip the conditioner step but I don't see why not. If your hair stays moisturized with just a leave-in, go for it.

But if you do decide to use a conditioner, try diluting it. You can also dilute your leave-in. You may have to play around with the ratios. But you can dilute it enough to give your hair some softness but not leave the build up. Right now I'm using Giovanni So Chic, 1 oz of conditioner to 7 oz of water. I leave that in though. I dilute it less when I rinse it out.

 

[faithVA]

I'm looking forward to going to TJ Maxx to find a new conditioner to try. I think I will stop by there this week.

 

[faithVA]

Either when I reach APL or at the end of the year, I'm done with length checks, length challenges, length anything. My hair has been 1 big job with very little pay and I'm tired of dealing with it. I'm hosting a challenge now but at the end of the year I'm done. Just going to focus on trying to get my hair moisturized some how, some way this year.

 

[water_n_oil]

Either when I reach APL or at the end of the year, I'm done with length checks, length challenges, length anything. My hair has been 1 big job with very little pay and I'm tired of dealing with it. I'm hosting a challenge now but at the end of the year I'm done. Just going to focus on trying to get my hair moisturized some how, some way this year.

I've found my hair to be way less tiresome when I don't focus on a specific length goal much. If you put your focus on moisture the length will follow.

 

[faithVA]

I've found my hair to be way less tiresome when I don't focus on a specific length goal much. If you put your focus on moisture the length will follow.

I will give it a try and see what happens.

 

[GettingKinky]

Either when I reach APL or at the end of the year, I'm done with length checks, length challenges, length anything. My hair has been 1 big job with very little pay and I'm tired of dealing with it. I'm hosting a challenge now but at the end of the year I'm done. Just going to focus on trying to get my hair moisturized some how, some way this year.

I need to focus on moisture too. I want to wear my hair out and it just dries out way to quickly.

Some days I even think about going back to relaxers, but I don’t want to admit defeat quite yet.

 

[faithVA]

I need to focus on moisture too. I want to wear my hair out and it just dries out way to quickly.

Some days I even think about going back to relaxers, but I don’t want to admit defeat quite yet.

Yeah my hair dries out quickly as well. Even if I keep it up it dries out in 3 days and I haven't found a way to moisturize it that works. So now I'm rinsing my hair every other day to try to keep it from drying out. I need to just accept that is how it is going to be.

 

[GettingKinky]

Yeah my hair dries out quickly as well. Even if I keep it up it dries out in 3 days and I haven't found a way to moisturize it that works. So now I'm rinsing my hair every other day to try to keep it from drying out. I need to just accept that is how it is going to be.

I may come to that conclusion too, but rinsing every 3 days doesn’t fit with my goal of wearing my hair out. I don’t have lots of time in the morning for styling.

 

[faithVA]

I may come to that conclusion too, but rinsing every 3 days doesn’t fit with my goal of wearing my hair out. I don’t have lots of time in the morning for styling.

It doesn't fit with my goals either