Sl 2016 Challenge

I tried an oil rinse tonight. I wet my hair and then coated it with Naturelle Grow Deep Conditioner. I detangle. Then I put a quarter size amount of oil on each section. I had 4 sections. I showered and then rinsed it out. I thought it might be greasy but it wasn't.

My hair was easy to work with after that. Then I mixed Jane Carter Curling Cream with some AVG and put that on each section and put it back up into flat twist.

I will have to see how it feels tomorrow and when I take it down on Sunday to see if its worth repeating.

Figured I would take a little break from the TVO products so I can use up a few things.
 
I feel like my hair is growing super fast, but I don't know why. :lol: Prolly just cuz I cut it. At the end of August, the back wasn't even long enough to catch for twists. I had to leave it loose and hope my wig cap flattened it enough. Now the twists hang down to my neck. Too bad the back grows waaay faster than the rest. :rolleyes:

I see I won't be claiming SL until the front is at least chin length. :yawn:
 
My flat twists had a few days to cure so I took them out to celebrate TGIF!!! My hair is way too short and thin to wear them completely down right now plus I need a trim badly because my ends are dry, ragged and is hard to detangle. I hope I can still style my hair like I have been lately after 1" is gone.

Here's my style for the week....one day I'll learn to make that flat twist go upward instead of down, lol.
 

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KiWiStyle said:
My flat twists had a few days to cure so I took them out to celebrate TGIF!!! My hair is way too short and thin to wear them completely down right now plus I need a trim badly because my ends are dry, ragged and is hard to detangle. I hope I can still style my hair like I have been lately after 1" is gone.

Here's my style for the week....one day I'll learn to make that flat twist go upward instead of down, lol.
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Looks cute. How are you liking it?
 
Washed my hair today after a rod set. I haven't touched my hair in a week so it was really tangled. Even had a knot that worried me for a minute and I shed a lot more than usually.

My hair felt horrible. Dry dry dry. I shampooed with Aussie Moist and then used Tresemme conditioner to detangle. I used Nexxus reconstructor conditioner and let it sit for a few minutes. Normally my hair feels really soft after this but it still felt crunchy.

I used Aussie Moist 3 minute after that and even while the conditioner was on my hair it felt strange. Not hard but not soft either. I added a little more Nexxus with the Aussie Moist and deep conditioned for 2 hours. Rinsed and my hair felt better but I'm not sure what the problem was since I haven't done anything different. I just hope I'm not about to have a set back.
 
I was supposed to wash my hair tonight but just not feeling up to it. I may do it tomorrow if I make it home early.
 
Moisturized my ends only tonight. I'm going to do this nightly and see if my hair feels any different at the end of the week.
 
my flat twist was bad too.... if you keep trying it will get better.:2inlove:
KiWiStyle said:
My flat twists had a few days to cure so I took them out to celebrate TGIF!!! My hair is way too short and thin to wear them completely down right now plus I need a trim badly because my ends are dry, ragged and is hard to detangle. I hope I can still style my hair like I have been lately after 1" is gone.

Here's my style for the week....one day I'll learn to make that flat twist go upward instead of down, lol.
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Yesterday was wash day! Used Dove Quench shampoo and conditioner along with the hair mask for the line. Hated the hair mask, it burned. Afterwards I used Cantu for a leave in, Njoy's Growth Oil, and my own blend of oils to baggy with over night. This morning ill just let my hair dry on its own and hope it stays moisturized. I may go back over with more oil to seal.
 
First day ever I woke up and didn't know what to do with my hair. I was 15 minutes late to work this morning because of that.
 
KammyGirl said:
Just ordered my hair analysis from Komaza. I had one done in 2013 when I didn't really understand my hair very well and I was relaxed then anyway. I big chopped shortly after that. So this has been a long time coming.
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Got my hair analysis and it is disappointing! :cry3: WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD.

Firstly my hair is medium thick! Huh?! Where? I must have extremely low density because ain't nothing hardly ever been medium or thick anything about my hair. Next, porosity is high? Oh yeah? Then why do I need to keep my head under the water for nearly 5 minutes before it gets wet? Jen did say that porosity was higher in my damaged areas. I wonder why that is. I didn't do the over the phone consult this time.

Since I use heat she suggests regular trims. Every 10-12 weeks. Not surprising. But my trusty perm rod set has to go bye bye. She says the perm rods are causing indentations on my hair which is causing weak spots and ultimately breakage. A lot of breakage!! She says to switch to flexirods. I guess I can do that except the curls are a little different and sleeping in them is a nightmare. I might try pin curls instead.

Worst of all most of my shed hair shows follicular dystrophy? Which is basically thinning...all over my head!! :cry3::cry3::(. How ?? Why?? She recommended a serum from their line that would help and a boat load of vitamins. L-Cysteine, magnesium, omega 3 and some others along with a multi and/or hair skin nails vitamin. Ugh! I can barely remember my darn birth control pill.

She says to continue washing once a week with shampoo and use a mild protein and then deep condition. I've been doing that anyway so I don't get what the problem is. She did mention that I don't have to deep condition as long as I do. 10 minutes max and try not to keep my hair wet for too long. And then I should use a leave in, then my styler.

For straight hair she says to do a protein treatment and then use a serum and blow dry. Before I flat iron use more serum - a pea size amount.

So basically I have breakage, some cuticle layer damage and thinning. I thought I was doing everything right. All the advice she gave isn't anything I haven't heard and nothing I haven't done. So how do I get my hair to actually respond?
 
KammyGirl said:
Got my hair analysis and it is disappointing! :cry3: WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD.

Firstly my hair is medium thick! Huh?! Where? I must have extremely low density because ain't nothing hardly ever been medium or thick anything about my hair. Next, porosity is high? Oh yeah? Then why do I need to keep my head under the water for nearly 5 minutes before it gets wet? Jen did say that porosity was higher in my damaged areas. I wonder why that is. I didn't do the over the phone consult this time.

Since I use heat she suggests regular trims. Every 10-12 weeks. Not surprising. But my trusty perm rod set has to go bye bye. She says the perm rods are causing indentations on my hair which is causing weak spots and ultimately breakage. A lot of breakage!! She says to switch to flexirods. I guess I can do that except the curls are a little different and sleeping in them is a nightmare. I might try pin curls instead.

Worst of all most of my shed hair shows follicular dystrophy? Which is basically thinning...all over my head!! :cry3::cry3::(. How ?? Why?? She recommended a serum from their line that would help and a boat load of vitamins. L-Cysteine, magnesium, omega 3 and some others along with a multi and/or hair skin nails vitamin. Ugh! I can barely remember my darn birth control pill.

She says to continue washing once a week with shampoo and use a mild protein and then deep condition. I've been doing that anyway so I don't get what the problem is. She did mention that I don't have to deep condition as long as I do. 10 minutes max and try not to keep my hair wet for too long. And then I should use a leave in, then my styler.

For straight hair she says to do a protein treatment and then use a serum and blow dry. Before I flat iron use more serum - a pea size amount.

So basically I have breakage, some cuticle layer damage and thinning. I thought I was doing everything right. All the advice she gave isn't anything I haven't heard and nothing I haven't done. So how do I get my hair to actually respond?
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:bighug: I'm sorry it wasn't great news. However it didn't sound like it was really bad. Everything sounds like you can turn it around in a few months.

As far as the thinning, you can reverse that too so don't worry. Just get on it now and you can stop it in its tracks.

I found that doing a mudwash at least once a month, water rinsing my hair every 3 to 4 days and oiling my scalp with oils and essential oils turned my thinning around. Even Rene was surprised. I wasn't but she was.

So I know its reversible.
 
I am here trucking along with my simple, low manipulation reggie. I have an upcoming update appointment with my hair stylist next month. So I will see if what I am doing is paying off.
 
faithVA said:
:bighug: I'm sorry it wasn't great news. However it didn't sound like it was really bad. Everything sounds like you can turn it around in a few months.

As far as the thinning, you can reverse that too so don't worry. Just get on it now and you can stop it in its tracks.

I found that doing a mudwash at least once a month, water rinsing my hair every 3 to 4 days and oiling my scalp with oils and essential oils turned my thinning around. Even Rene was surprised. I wasn't but she was.

So I know its reversible.
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I remember seeing your progress pics so that's encouraging. Thanks. I've been curious about that mudwashing for a while. I think I can make some changes in my regimen to include this.
 
MileHighDiva said:
@KammyGirl
When she said medium/thick, don't you think she meant the diameter/thickness of your strands? Not overall density?

Will end papers prevent damage from the rods? If you're so invested in that curl/style...

I'm confident you'll be able to reverse the follicular dystrophy! :hug2:

Please keep us updated!
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I'm going to try the flexis tonight. I guess end papers could work right? But it sounds like more trouble than it's worth so I'll be good and just change the rollers. Also, to your first part yeah i think that was for the thickness of my strands. But my hair has always just looked so thin and the strands always felt fine. No thickness to the strand anywhere. Not to me anyway. So maybe I have thick strands but so little of them (low density) that I assumed my hair was fine? I don't know.

KiWiStyle said:
@KammyGirl, I'm sorry you feel disappointed with your analysis. Like faithVA said, I do believe you can turn things around easily. I take a really good multi vitamin, a iron supplement and L-Cystein, it's an easy regimen.
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Really? I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it. She also recommended super greens powder to get all my vitamins and nutrients easily. She said I can mix it with apple juice? Never heard of it but googling it now and going to pick some up.
 
Did my mid--week wash. I cowashed with Naturelle Grow Deep Conditioner. Trying to use it up. Then I used the Jane Carter Curling Cream mixed with AVG. Trying to use up the Jane Carter as well. Sealed with some type of oil. Can't remember whats in the bottle. And put it back into flat twist.

My color is holding OK. Will color over the weekend.
 
Used the flexi rods last night and the curls were pretty much the same. They tend to be a bit more spiral type curls with these but I don't mind that.
I used about 9 or 10 and it wasn't hard to sleep in them at all. Looks like I'll have to buy more of these and store my perm rods for a while. I imagine once I nurse my hair back to health I can use the perm rods occasionally. Now time to start on all the vitamins. @KiWiStyle where did you get L-Cystein?
 
No longer in the challenge as my hair is falling out. Will probably have to shave it or cut it very short at some point. Trying to treasure as much time with my hair as possible. Given up. This is very traumatic.
Thanks for the support
 
How many inches or so does one need to reach full shoulder length in the back only? Or does height etc. matters? I think I'm measuring wrong it says I only need 7 inches to be full shoulder in the back..I'm 2 inches in the back.. now...need only 5 inches in the back to be full sl
 
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