Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

Anyone here relaxed and color their own hair? I am thinking these colors. I last relaxed four weeks ago and I'm touching up my roots in another 20 weeks

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Beany said:
^^^ Holla this is my current struggle. I keep a few conditioners in my fridge (I think I have 4 in there) and the rest under my bed (a tip I got from Lita, it's cool and dark). The container of products under my bed overfloweth lol, but QB sales are SO rare...the struggle continues.
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Beany…….

Why didn't I think of that??!! Under the bed!!! I have plenty of room under the bed! I would rather put stuff under my bed than in my fridge to be honest. I'm scared someone will go in the fridge one day…see nothing but …banana brûlée, broccoli creme, or whatever food scented conditioner and taste it thinking it's flavored whipped cream or something. Wasting my conditioner and possibly getting sick on top of it.
 
decided i would neaten my twists. i cleansed, dc'ed & moisturized in the twists last night. today i am just taking a few twists out at a time and retwisting them. i think i like this method...rather than taking all of my twists out at once and retwisting. this works for me.
 
youwillrise said:
...i am just taking a few twists out at a time and retwisting them. i think i like this method...rather than taking all of my twists out at once and retwisting. this works for me.
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It's this method that allowed me to keep braids/ twist extensions for months on end lol (out of shear lazyness). My longest stint was 18 months with human hair pick and drop extensions. I just redid each braid as needed and added new hair to 'refresh'. It felt easier than getting my hair done all over again. I remember I retained a lot of length with human hair braids.
 
AbsyBlvd said:
It's this method that allowed me to keep braids/ twist extensions for months on end lol (out of shear lazyness). My longest stint was 18 months with human hair pick and drop extensions. I just redid each braid as needed and added new hair to 'refresh'. It felt easier than getting my hair done all over again. I remember I retained a lot of length with human hair braids.
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my twists are on my own hair, but it's the same idea. i'm trying to hold onto these for a while before i have to do completely new ones haha. i re-did more of the back than i did the front...it definitely looks much better now!
 
Has anyone used this?

Taliah Waajid Nutrient Shine Butter...

I had to buy it after I smelled it. Today is wash day so I'm going to give it a try.
 

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I just sealed three large USPS boxes full of products for my niece and great-niece. They are such enthusiastic HHJ newbies; I'm really enjoying participating in their journey.
 
Rant: I can't stand ignorant people's views of what a black woman's hair should look like and the assumption that if it doesn't fit their criteria she's either relaxed, weaving it or bi/multiracial. I got accused of lying about being Puerto Rican (I don't look PR at all, not even a tiny bit so that threw me waaaay off) because of my hair. Then two minutes later the same person tells me I must be biracial or "mixed with a whole lot of something" because I have "that good hair" and there's no need to lie to them :look::look::wallbash:

First of all the term "good hair" irks my soul and I wish it would go in a corner and die. What exactly is "good hair"? Do you mean hair that is in good/healthy condition? Then yes I have good hair but if you're referring to my texture being superior to another then no, that term doesn't apply to me. I don't run around claiming to be 1/4 this, 1/8 that and 1/45577 of something else for the sake of bragging about or justifying the texture of my hair. Can I just be a black woman with naturally wavy/curly hair because that's the hair that God wanted to grow out of my scalp, and it's not because I'm mixed with something? And more importantly can we please kill the good hair/bad hair bs? I should've just stayed in the house until it was time for class.

End rant.
 
I haven't retwisted my locs since Thanksgiving and I'm trying to decide if I'm going to retwist this afternoon or just wait a few more weeks.
 
I'm finally back home and my hair needs some loving. I'm sitting with some Terra Veda Growth Oil and Latte Di Coco Rainbow Sherbert Conditioner by Belleza Naturals sitting on my hair. So happy.
 
I just put some "drinking water" from walmart into my hand steamer instead of using my usual Distilled water because i ran out.

NOT THE BIZNESS. My hair felt weird. I read the ingredients on the drinking water and it contained Sodium Bicarbonate (i.e. baking soda. which i was okay with) but also Calcium Chloride (not cool). I never knew it would make a difference on my hair but it does. Apparently Distilled water doesn't have any additives and my hair was NOT fooled.

There is too much snow outside to go get more distilled water so I'm stuck like chuck til tomorrow.

Random.
 
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I just used my new Ouidad Superfruit Cleansing Shampoo for the first time and I really liked it. Now when it's gone I'll have to decide whether to repurchase this or the ORS Creamy Aloe. :ohwell:

I just realized I've been protective styling for the past two weeks. I had my hair in eight braids and wore a hat when I left the house. I was being so lazy. I wish I could figure out how to do this and NOT feel lazy.
 
I want to straighten my hair and enjoy my length, but I am afraid of heat damage, I don't own a flat iron, and I don't have the time to sit in my bathroom for 5 hours. Maybe I'll do a curlformer set this weekend even though those things drive me insane.
 
overtherainbow said:
I want to straighten my hair and enjoy my length, but I am afraid of heat damage, I don't own a flat iron, and I don't have the time to sit in my bathroom for 5 hours. Maybe I'll do a curlformer set this weekend even though those things drive me insane.
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I will never understand this custom of standing in front of a bathroom mirror to style one's hair. My Mom, aunts, sisters and I all had vanity tables - a tabled seating area with good lighting and a nice sized mirror that is dedicated to beauty. I do a multitude of things at my vanity table, from detangling, flat ironing and applying conditioner to manicures, pedicures and post-bathing moisturizing. I highly recommend constructing some sort of vanity table for yourself because it simplifies the process of "beautification," which is so time consuming.
 
I brought Con Argan oil shampoo to the salon today and my hair is so soft. I usually use Keracare detangling shampoo, but I ran out...
 
PJaye said:
I will never understand this custom of standing in front of a bathroom mirror to style one's hair. My Mom, aunts, sisters and I all had vanity tables - a tabled seating area with good lighting and a nice sized mirror that is dedicated to beauty. I do a multitude of things at my vanity table, from detangling, flat ironing and applying conditioner to manicures, pedicures and post-bathing moisturizing. I highly recommend constructing some sort of vanity table for yourself because it simplifies the process of "beautification," which is so time consuming.
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PJaye
You are 1000% right
That's cause most women don't pamper themselves anymore it's go and hurry up we need to get back to enjoying that time I take forever one self spa days and I don't feel guilty about it either
 
PJaye said:
I will never understand this custom of standing in front of a bathroom mirror to style one's hair. My Mom, aunts, sisters and I all had vanity tables - a tabled seating area with good lighting and a nice sized mirror that is dedicated to beauty. I do a multitude of things at my vanity table, from detangling, flat ironing and applying conditioner to manicures, pedicures and post-bathing moisturizing. I highly recommend constructing some sort of vanity table for yourself because it simplifies the process of "beautification," which is so time consuming.
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I second this, which is why I do most of my no-heat styling sitting in the comforts of my bedroom. Honestly if it werent for that, I would have cut off most of my hair by now because standing is not cool. I do have two vanity tables, but I prefer sitting on the floor and use them to display make up/perfumes and stuff :). Unfortunately, whoever built my townhome failed at planning out the outlets so I always have to blow dry in my bathroom. Its very annoying.
 
My halo twists are super fuzzy but I'm not redoing them. Today is wash day so for now I'm taking my butt to class. Fuzzy hair and all.
 
Napp said:
I think i am one of the few posters on here that have been online forever but have only a lick of hair :(
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No I have seen some complain about the same thing. I had to see health over length before anything. I had to get the healthy practices down first. I have been on here almost four years and just starting to see length. That's because I was practicing healthy practices on already damaged hair and had to cut off a lot after it broke off in the back. Had I been chopped it off, I would be way more a head. Napp
 
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