jaded_faerie said:
WOW, what was your regimen toinette.
I plan to stop with all the protetive styling and such once i reach my goal length of MBL. Hopefully sometime in 2010.
When I first started my hair journey after my horrible touchup in May 2004, my hair was a MESS. I was relaxed when I was about 8 because my mom said my hair was too thick and troublesome. My dad was out of town when she did this and was mad when he go tback
so i just grew it out. I got relaxed again right before my senior year of highschool. I would go get my hair done every two weeks at the salon. By the time I went to college the next year, my hair was BSL and thick. The problem came when i went to college. I had never had to deal with my relaxed hair on my own. I went to school in a place where there were no people to do black hair (or so I thought at the time) and I didnt know how to take care of it. I was doing everything wrong that you could think of
That bad relaxer was probably the best thing that could have happened to me because I rediscovered this forum. In some parts, my hair was literally broken off to 1 inch strands. When I washed my hair, hair would just come out in clumps. It was BAD!!! So dont give up
Well, when i first got my hair cut I had never had it that short in my life. I am a typical ponytail or wear it down kind of gal. at first, i would go get it rollerset at the salon every two weeks. As it was short and i wasnt used to it, i basically would never wear it out. I would just grease my scalp, throw on a fall (or a half wig as they call it) and a headband. I wore my hair like this for months
I got me some MTG in the summer of 2005 and I think that is the main thing that contributed to my growth. I've slacked down on it a lot just cuz i'm lazy but it does work. Other than that, I don't shampoo my hair that often, i use cheapie conditioners for that. I try to deep condition at least every two weeks( i hardly ever use heat, even though I finally bought a new dryer) with Silicon Mix. I only use protein (Nexxus Emergencee) in the first wash after my relaxer and the last wash right before to restore and strengthern hair after/before the process.
Ever since I have been back to NYC, and due to lack of funds, the only time I go to the salon (Dominican) is to get a relaxer (ORS Olive Oil which is great BTW). I only get 3 to 4 relaxers a year. I cant rollerset for my life, so I try to keep the straight look as long as I can. I literally do not do anything other than grease my scalp once a week with my MN/MTG mixture for the frist three weeks after I get a relaxer. After that I just CW my hair and grease it every 2 to 3 days. SOmetimes i blowdry with comb attachment, and i just got a Sedu so i'll be doing that more. oh and I hardly ever comb my hair.Yesterday I decided to moisturize my ends for the first time and I used the ORS Olive Oil hairdress. I was shocked at how "ungreasy" my hair turned out so I will incorporate that into my routine as well. Basically, in the end I don't really do that much - no protective styles, no pills, no special egg/mayo/avocado/etc treatment, etc...When i first joined the forum, i was jumping on every bandwagon but in the end my laziness won out, and it works for me
ETA: I haven't trimmed my hair since May '05. If I see a spilt when I'm blowdrying, i'll just cut it. I 'm gonna get a trim in June or July, whenever I get my third relaxer this year.
omg, i just did a search on some of my old posts to see what I was going through with my hair before I cut it, and it was worse than I remembered. One post at the end of 2004, I was actually considering doing a BC to the 0.5 inches of NG that I had
Like i said before, do not give up
) but once I reach it I'll still care for my hair the way I've been doing.
