Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

naija24 Is there any part of your regimen you can eliminate to reduce the effort, but still get results? I have lazy hair periods and I have a minimal regimen that gets me the results I need until I am in the 'play with my hair all the time' phase again.

I honestly, truly don't believe you need to jump through hoops to get results.

I found this a few months ago and I totally agreed with he. She is natural, but the same principle applies to all hair care: http://thinkandgrowchick.com/2013/0...hair-regimen-and-why-you-may-want-to-too.html
 
I am introducing cones into my regimen next year. I want to expand my hair care product options to things I can get on the ground. I will limit it to rinse out and deep conditioners.

I would exclude them from shampoos and leave-in conditioners or products I will be reapplying multiple times before wash day.
 
sooooo...

took the rest of my twists down last night (most of them had unraveled themselves) and now i'm detangling. decided to do a dry detangle. the take down was quite easy and i'm finding that this detangling session has been quite easy, too (so far, anyway)...i'm surprised, seeing as though the twists were in for almost 4 weeks and i washed them multiple times a week. not losing much hair. not getting too many super hard tangles. i dig it.
 
oh wow...i think ive grown/retained about 2 to 3 inches in these past 4 months since cutting. before chopping, my hair was 10-11 inches. after chopping (late august 2013) it was 2.5-3 inches. now it's 5-6 inches. im so happy with the progress. can only hope i can keep these results as long as possible. gonna try to NOT measure until march 2014....cant make any promises, though.
 
Reading the Minimalist Beauty blog is making me want to throw away everything but my clays, herbs, oils and butters. I think I've clipped her entire blog to Evernote.

I'm going to try to transition to 100% natural products towards the end of 2014. By then, my hair should be long enough to put in a bun during the transition phase. If I'm trying to do better with food I should be doing the same for hair. My Black Friday 2014 money just got a new purpose.
 
I was going to texturize Jan. 1 but I think I'm going to give my natural hair a chance. It wasn't that bad the 1st time I was natural but I miss the 2 min detangling sessions from when I was relaxed.
 
RavenSR - I'm also thinking about Texlaxing around March. I'm completely natural right now and it's just starting to get irritating. I miss running a comb through my hair with ease and I miss 15 minute blow drying and 15 minute flat ironing. If I straighten now, it takes about 3 hours total or more!

On a bright note - pincurling my hair last week when I straightened, really worked and kept my hair looked beautiful each day. I'm back to a weak twist out that didn't turn out well (took it down too soon and it frizzed). So it's in a bun and I don't feel beautiful - I might retwist. In fact, I will. I deserve to feel beautiful with all of this hair.
 
RavenSR said:
Reading the Minimalist Beauty blog is making me want to throw away everything but my clays, herbs, oils and butters. I think I've clipped her entire blog to Evernote. I'm going to try to transition to 100% natural products towards the end of 2014. By then, my hair should be long enough to put in a bun during the transition phase. If I'm trying to do better with food I should be doing the same for hair. My Black Friday 2014 money just got a new purpose.
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I think you have just led me to another way for me to procrastinate when I don't want to do what I have to do. :lol:
 
I relaxed yesterday at 8 weeks because my crown area was underprocessed and I could see the telltale signs of breakage. I decided that I am over texlaxed hair so I smooth my relaxer down over all the textured spots of my hair for the last five minutes. I have never been so happy to have a consistent texture through out my entire head. I still have fullness and body but the multiple texture through the length of the strands are gone.
 
RavenSR said:
Reading the Minimalist Beauty blog is making me want to throw away everything but my clays, herbs, oils and butters. I think I've clipped her entire blog to Evernote.

I'm going to try to transition to 100% natural products towards the end of 2014. By then, my hair should be long enough to put in a bun during the transition phase. If I'm trying to do better with food I should be doing the same for hair. My Black Friday 2014 money just got a new purpose.
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RavenSR

Thx! I just added this to my Feedly Reader to follow, nice blog.
 
Just a thought - I went ahead and flat twisted my hair again and I think the results will be better. I made two mistakes with my first flat twist this week - I used a glycerin infused twisting gel - not good for my 4a/b hair.

This time I twisted with Shea butter and a regular medium hold gel. I also bobby pinned the twists down and cleaned up my flat twist method. (I always feel like I pull hair out when I'm grabbing new sections.) This time after detangling - I separated the strands with a finger first and then added the hair and smoothed as I twisted. So I feel like it's a healthier way to twist. We'll see how it turns out.
 
lana

I already have multiple textures on my head and I'm worried that texturizing would make it look odd esp since I have some strands that grow out almost straight.

I'm gonna henna biweekly and see if that helps me. When my hair is long enough I'm gonna keep it stretched with rollersetting, curlformers and buns.
 
Ogoma MileHighDiva

I was up until 3am reading. I couldn't stop following links to other articles!

I first saw her blog a year ago but didn't read much. This time I found it due to the link Ogoma posted for naija24. I read the interview the blog owner did with Minimalist Beauty and now I'm hooked again.
 
JuJu hair is really nice but I don't want to wait 7-10 business days for it to arrive. I'd really like to have my hair put away before the 20th.

I hope M K M hair is as nice . Its a bonus that's she local but I have to wait until Monday/Tuesday to see if the hair is back in stock.
 
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