Sl 2016 Challenge

KammyGirl said:
I'm never going to make SL. Whenever I get some growth I fell like my hair doesn't look neat so I clean it up and then I'm back where I started. I need someone to keep me from cutting my hair. My obsession with trimming and evening things up is getting out of hand. I just cut the mullet two weeks ago. Scissors were not supposed to touch my hair again until August.

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I see a difference! Start wearing it curly. Like just put some flexi Rods to give you some soft curls. No wet set.
 
jennifer30 said:
I know. I don't know what I would do without you guys...you are all so insightful and I just know nothing about hair. Thanks for all the advice and tips
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Anytime! Lol I still trying to figure out what to do with my hair! I'm going to wash it, but I don't have a clue on what to do next. It's gonna be extremely hot again soon.
 
shortdub78 said:
I see a difference! Start wearing it curly. Like just put some flexi Rods to give you some soft curls. No wet set.
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I never thought of this. Usually if I put flexis in I comes out the same way as if I wet set it. But I think I know what to so this time. Right now my hair is in 2 braids. I'm going to take them out and put in only a few flexi rods and see what it gets me. I won't roll them too tight either because I'm going for a soft curl like you said. Fingers crossed.
 
jennifer30 said:
Well at least u have something to work with..lol
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But you know my hair was as short as yours last year. It would be longer if I would have stopped at the first haircut. But I enjoyed that cut! I played with color, and had it cut into a style! So I didn't really think about my hair until I started growing it out again.
 
shortdub78 said:
But you know my hair was as short as yours last year. It would be longer if I would have stopped at the first haircut. But I enjoyed that cut! I played with color, and had it cut into a style! So I didn't really think about my hair until I started growing it out again.
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How many inches do you have now?
 
KammyGirl said:
Why do you need to straighten? To keep your hair detangled?
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Yep! I'm not in the mood for twists and coils. I finally got that dove conditioner to act right for my hair. I rinsed my hair, applied, detangled with my jumbo magic rake comb, styled it a little, and that's it. I'm just not feeling the in between stage, and it's gonna take 2 years to get out of it. Meaning being able to wear a bun, or a ponytail.
 
shortdub78 said:
Yep! I'm not in the mood for twists and coils. I finally got that dove conditioner to act right for my hair. I rinsed my hair, applied, detangled with my jumbo magic rake comb, styled it a little, and that's it. I'm just not feeling the in between stage, and it's gonna take 2 years to get out of it. Meaning being able to wear a bun, or a ponytail.
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I'm feeling the opposite lately. I was just thinking about it this morning on the train. I may "accidentally" transition out of my heat trained hair. The only reason I started straightening was because I was style challenged and thought styling would be easier on straight hair. Plus the front of my hair loses the curl pattern as it gets longer. Funny that I learned styles to hide damage and problem spots when if I had learned how to do my hair to begin with I would have never had any problems.
 
KammyGirl said:
I'm feeling the opposite lately. I was just thinking about it this morning on the train. I may "accidentally" transition out of my heat trained hair. The only reason I started straightening was because I was style challenged and thought styling would be easier on straight hair. Plus the front of my hair loses the curl pattern as it gets longer. Funny that I learned styles to hide damage and problem spots when if I had learned how to do my hair to begin with I would have never had any problems.
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If you do two strand twists, just rod the ends in the front to curl them. Just wash your hair and don't blow dry it! That's how the accident will happen.
I may get some goody bands and more Aloe gel.
 
shortdub78 said:
If you do two strand twists, just rod the ends in the front to curl them. Just wash your hair and don't blow dry it! That's how the accident will happen.
I may get some goody bands and more Aloe gel.
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Yup. I'm planning on doing bantu knots since I really liked the way they came out last time with my flexi rod set. So many different ways to keep my hair cute. Now if only my edges and nape will act right and let me be great.

What kind of aloe gel do you use. I love fruit of the earth. That gel right there is just :2inlove:
 
KammyGirl said:
Yup. I'm planning on doing bantu knots since I really liked the way they came out last time with my flexi rod set. So many different ways to keep my hair cute. Now if only my edges and nape will act right and let me be great.

What kind of aloe gel do you use. I love fruit of the earth. That gel right there is just :2inlove:
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That's the gel. It doesn't give me a lot of hold, but it will not dry my hair completely out. Ecostyler will give me better results though.
 
I pulled my hair up in a puff, so I could have a neat, clean style. Well now I feel cute again, but I can't sleep like this. I like my edges! Lol
 
I'm in love with Bantu knot outs! My hair came out so cute. I got so many compliments and I wanted to take a pic this morning before I unraveled but I was running late. Next time because I'm definitely using this as an alternative to the rods.
 
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I think flat twist outs are now my go-to style. :yep:They are so easy and quick to do. When i did my hair yesterday it only took me an hour to put my twist in. Which is amazing for me because my regular twist outs will take me about 3 1/2 hrs to put in and my braidouts take anywhere from 1 and 15 mins to almost 2 hrs depending on how fast im going and if my hair is being super tangly. The time is mainly because my hair is super thick and I prefer smaller tighter curls so I dont have to do my hair as often.
 
KammyGirl said:
I'm in love with Bantu knot outs! My hair came out so cute. I got so many compliments and I wanted to take a pic this morning before I unraveled but I was running late. Next time because I'm definitely using this as an alternative to the rods.
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Will you take a pic of the bantu knots? Are you doing them on stretched hair? What products are you using?
 
faithVA said:
Will you take a pic of the bantu knots? Are you doing them on stretched hair? What products are you using?
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I'm not supposed to do my hair again until tomorrow but I have a memorial service to attend so I'm doing them today. I will take a pic of the knots when I'm done and then when I unravel and then when I separate. It's good for me to see them too because if I ever mess up I can back to them.

On Wednesday I used Shea moisture curl and style milk and a little bit of eco styler for hold. The last time when I did the knots on the side and flexis down the middle I added a serum in between the curl and style milk and gel and I think I used aloe vera gel but I was dentangling with a comb so I needed more slip. I'll come back with pics in a few hours.
 
Pics of the Bantu knot out. They didn't dry all the way that's why the last pic is a little frizzy. But generally they dry really fast. I did this on the old Bantu knot set and I only finger detangled a little bit when I applied product.
 

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