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Shampooed with HE Hello Hydration Shampoo. It felt nice but my hair looks a bit frizzy now that I'm air drying.

I'm contemplating between the Neutrogena Triple Moisture Shampoo and an Elasta QP Shampoo (not sure which variation yet). I have a better history with Neutrogena though. I already love NTM's leave in so maybe I will love the shampoo too...
 
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I am finally having a good hair week. I think it was spring of last year, the last time I remember having one of those.
 
I washed my braids cause my hair was feelin dry. I put it in a low bun and MAN my neck hurts. Lord. It needs to dry but omg I might take this bun out and just have my braids drippin everywhere cause this is not feelin great.
 
faithVA...I'm having one of those weeks too!!! high-five to you girlie.

You know what, since last week I put my wigs and beanies away and took on my hair head-on, lol. That has been one of the best things I've ever done my entire natural hair journey. Good or bad, I dealt with my hair everyday, and to be honest, I LOVE IT. Even though twist-outs make me want to scream some days, lol, I love working with MY hair and really allowing myself to learn it and really pay attention to what works and what doesn't. I was supposed to be on a Hide your Hair and Wig challenge but I'm just loving my hair lately that I don't miss my protective styles quite yet. :)
 
Smiley79 said:
faithVA...I'm having one of those weeks too!!! high-five to you girlie.

You know what, since last week I put my wigs and beanies away and took on my hair head-on, lol. That has been one of the best things I've ever done my entire natural hair journey. Good or bad, I dealt with my hair everyday, and to be honest, I LOVE IT. Even though twist-outs make me want to scream some days, lol, I love working with MY hair and really allowing myself to learn it and really pay attention to what works and what doesn't. I was supposed to be on a Hide your Hair and Wig challenge but I'm just loving my hair lately that I don't miss my protective styles quite yet. :)
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:yay: us....
 
I have no idea how I'm going to style my hair for another week without washing and starting over. How do people do it?
 
My hair is straight. Its going to be 50 and raining tomorrow which means I better slap some water+conditioner+gel on this noggin or else I'm going to look a hot mess tomorrow.
 
Technically today is 9 weeks in this weave. Hmm, so if I can find someone to take it out for me after work, I can remove all the shed hair and prepoo over night.

I'm off tomorrow and will have plenty of time to steam and DC. I just have to see if a salon is open after work so they can remove it for me.

Last two times I've had a weave, I've cut several inches of my own hair trying to get it out myself. -_-
 
Received my komaza order

they added a big sample of a leave-in called curl charmer

has anyone heard of this? it looks like it would be more for naturals i think

Curl Charmer

easy detangling

amazing shine and softness

stop hair shaft split

minimize single knot strands
 
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I am supposed to do a company video in a few hours, but I cannot stop touching my hair. I am sure it will be a frizzy messy by the time I get on camera. I wonder if they would think I am vain if I ask for test shots.
 
This has been the best relaxer stretch I have had in a long, long time. For my last touch up I smoothed the relaxer down a good portion of the length of my hair to get rid of the texlaxed hair. My hair isn't bone straight at all but some of the bulk is gone and with it went the breakage of multiple textures throughout my hair. I stopped using honey in my deep conditioner and adding Hot oil treatments with Vatika oil and overnight pre poos with JBCO.

My new growth is soft and easy to comb. I will keep my relaxer touch ups to every twelve weeks for now.
 
I've been found myself checking my bun all day, and I'm sooo surprised every time I touch it by how soft it is :D

Yesterday I picked up a box of ORS relaxer, but I ended up putting it back. I'll be 10 weeks post in 2 days, and I couldn't be any less bothered by my new growth. I wanted to get it to relax the length of my hair, and I thought how weird would that be to relax and not touch my new growth. So I decided to go with plan b and just flatiron my hair. That should take care of my tangily ends, and I can relax everything when I'm over dealing with my new growth. . .however many weeks from now that'll be LOL!
 
Pretty sure I'm going to straighten my hair tonight. Ahead of schedule by a month. Nervous about seeing these ends, may be a lot of chopping going on tonight. I've been very neglectful of my hair these past two weeks!
 
Trying the honey lightening treatment now. Hopefully it'll give me the results I wanted with cassia...maybe I'll sell my henna sooq cassia.

Anyway the honey is very messy and sticky. Plus the smell is :perplexed someone online said it smells like cat vomit :rofl:
 
I've been neglecting my hair lately out of frustration. I'm 5 months post and transitioning and the limit on the styles I can do is causing me to not want to do my hair. I need to get it together.
 
I know my hair does best when it's stretched and organized. Doing everything in sections and not letting it curl up on itself works. I used to wet bun, which was okay, but roller setting has been like 10 times better.

So why do I want to do a wash and go next weekend??
 
So, I think I got 1-2 inches (various growth rates) during this past stretch. My hair in the back is shoulder length and the sides are about an inch and a half away. It doesn't sound like much of a difference, but I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror today and almost did a double take when I realized how much new growth I had.
 
Thank God for Baba de Caracol intensive treatment. It saved me from a true hair disaster. I over processed with color and this was the only thing that brought my curls back to life.
 
I sat home all day waiting for USPS yesterday and my package wasn't delivered. I have plans today and yet I will be here waiting for USPS and UPS to get here. I wish these delivery services would get it together. I pay a lot for shipping and yet the time predicted to receive my items is never correct.
 
Long random thought/vent ...

I am still surprised at the amount of hair ignorance there is out there among Black women and our hair. I'm not even going to touch on the 'good hair/bad hair'. But just the general lack of knowledge regarding hair, it's sad. I sometimes take for granted that I've been educating myself about hair pretty much all my life. Even before the forums, I pretty much handled my own hair and took care of it. Then the internet came along. I guess in 2014 and with the bottomless amount of information readily available online I still don't understand how some can be so lost about hair? Literally afraid to touch their own hair, willing to spend HUNDREDS of dollars on a stylist to help them b/c they simply refuse to wash their own hair b/c they've never touched or dealt with their own hair. What is in the minds of these women who are afraid of their own hair? I get that not everyone is a board member or sits down and endlessly reads the blogs, I get that --- but afraid to even wash your own hair? I'm teaching you how to do a braid out and you're afraid to braid your own damn hair?!?!?! No idea of what your own hair feels like? Instead throwing money away to stylists and depending on them when you treat your own hair as if it's a foreign body part :nono:. I don't get it. I've given tons of advice over the years and have had plenty people urge me to start up a business giving skin/hair advice. But I feel like there is already so much information out there that it would be redundant, and honestly I enjoy giving hair advice, it's not something I'd be serious enough to start a business on though.

I just don't understand how one can be so terribly afraid of their own hair? I don't understand how you continually go to a stylist and let her rip your hair out with bad weaves and you see your hairline receding and you know your stylist ain't ish and you keep going... until, your hair is in totally bad condition and then you seek out another stylist. I had a friend that would rely on stylists mostly for years, then she and I became close and I put her on to diff products and she felt sooooooo liberated :lachen:. She started to enjoy washing her hair, keeping her $ in her pockets, seeing how her hair started to feel healthier and cleaner. She even spread the love to her family members and they thanked me :lol:

I haven't seen my cousin's real hair in about 14 years. She is always in braids and tacky looking weaves. She told me she's natural underneath her fake hair but she refuses to wear it b/c she says it doesn't look 'done' :rolleyes: and she has no time to be braiding up hair at night for braid outs :rolleyes:. This is coming from someone who braids much faster and quicker than the average person since she braids hair for a living. Anyway, I saw her with her natural hair and I literally GASPED. She looked so freshed face, so much more clean and, so cute. It's amazing how I've gotten use to her with raggedy weaves/braids over the years that to see her w/o them was such a breath of fresh air.

I say all this to say, I totally support the hair blogs, the hair forums, all the hairnista's out there that are giving information and options for us. I support the hair movement, I really do.
 
Finally bought some sulfur8, JBCO, scalp oil mix, and MN. Put them together in an applicator bottle and oiled my scalp. I won't join a challenge just yet but this better be worth it. I still hate grease.
 
I trimmed an inch from my ends last Sunday and my hair feels so strong and luxurious now. Why did I wait so long? I have to remember: If I prioritize hair health over length, the length will follow.
 
naija24 said:
Love not using heat!!!
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It's way easier than what people think. As long as you can twist or braid or can use a flexi rod or any type of rollers anyone can do it. Rollers will stretch you hair and drys smoothly
 
I wonder if I can just do three twists and put a perm rod on the ends will I get the same curly crinkle as doing bantu knots because I can't seem to do them. I can explain how to do it but my ends always ends up straight and frizzy. SO can do it better than me but he is more aggressive than me with my hair and I can feel tugging and him trying to get every bit of hair which I don't worry about because I don't want to pull short hairs at the nape. He had did all three the other night and one came a loose and I took my scarf of and redid one and the other two curled perfectly and the one I did was a freaking mess
 
I have been using komazA lengthening serum and I did a major trim in December and went from apl to cbl and can't wait to relax to I see if there is a difference. And I also did inverting and took nature bounty hair and skin gummed vitamins (it was so delicious , I have to pick some up I ran out of them, I also have to look for the coupon I had as well)
 
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