Super Healthy Ends Challenge.

Dang I almost forgot about this challenge. I'm good. Im in a sew-in until either July or August. Probably July since I really don't want to risk a set back.
 
Can I join too?!?! Please! I've been following since the challenge started, and I've been faithfully sealing my ends with coconut and castor oil every night, and alternating weeks baggying with it (too much baggying leaves my hair mushy feeling). Thanks! This is a great challenge!
 
Ronnieaj said:
Can I join too?!?! Please! I've been following since the challenge started, and I've been faithfully sealing my ends with coconut and castor oil every night, and alternating weeks baggying with it (too much baggying leaves my hair mushy feeling). Thanks! This is a great challenge!
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Sure Ya Can! We're all here to motivate each other and promote healthy ends!!!
 
I would love to join if possible!:grin:

I am still working on my regimine. I am going to do a moisturizing wash and DC weekly.

After my wash I will rollerset. That is the part that I am still working on. But I want to know is it bad for my hair if I pin curl at night with large bobby pins and sleep in them? I have a feeling that they might cut my hair...I dunno, lol!

I am going to moisturize my ends before bed as well.

I don't want to wrap my hair because that would be a decent amount of manipulation 2x a day...:wallbash:

Oh I had one more question about sealing. I am sure both of my questions have been answered somewhere before. But a person is supposed to moisturize and then seal, right? But when you moisturize the next day doesn't that just sit on the hair and not penetrate, because the hair is sealed?

I am so confrused, LOL! Hep me please!!!
 
I swore I wasn't going to join another challenge. But I've been lurking here....
I was doing good focusing on my ends but I have slacked off. So if its not too late I'd like to join. I just got my JBCO in the mail today. I will be misting my ends with a liquid leave in each night, then sealing with JBCO or coconut oil. I cross wrap for bed and mainly wear french twists or a fake bun to work. I am SL now and hope to be APL (in U shape) by Dec 09.
 
Okay, so I have been really bad on the weekend (was off the island without my stash for the holiday weekend).....did not bun, lots of combing, hair got wet in the rain while in a pony, not properly sealing my ends :nono: .....bad, bad, bad!!!! :wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:....well, at least I had my scarf with me!!

So I am back on board and getting with the program. Last night, after I flew back in I moisturized with CD Healthy Hair Butter and sealed with EVCO with JBCO on my ends. Today I am using my Flexi-8 with my ends tucked under. Tonight I will be doing my Henna and Indigo application.......I hope to go BBBBLACK.

That's all fer now folks....maybe I will post a photo after my Hendigo.
 
I've been mostly bunning and using my flexi8 for protective styles. I moisturize with NTM or my homemade moisturizer. I seal with vatika frosting, cocasta shikakai or almond glaze.I am getting a trim and a flatiron on Saturday.
 
chokolate miss said:
... But a person is supposed to moisturize and then seal, right? But when you moisturize the next day doesn't that just sit on the hair and not penetrate, because the hair is sealed? ...
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I was thinking about this same thing recently. Occasionally if I wear my hair out, the oil seems to wear off of the ends, but if my hair stays in a bun, twists or is braided, the ends remain moisturized and sealed, so I don't moisturize and seal again when they seem fine - I don't want an extra oily mess. My hair overall is looking better and staying moisturized, but I'm still seeing a lot of split ends. :(
 
Checking in...still using my beloved coconut oil. I'll be taking/and posting a pic Wed. My ends still look good.

How is everybody else doing.
 
Checking in. Used coconut oil/aloe vera gel to do my twists, sealed with castor oil. Love that stuff! Using a castor/coconut/shea butter blend to seal during the week. Hope everyone is else well.
 
Checking in...still using my conditioner spritz mix, sealing with coconut oil, and bagging daily. My ends are looking great and I could not be happier.
 
Check in: moisture and sealing ends every other day! My relaxed hair is not hanging with my texlaxed hair....lots of breaking.

I hope I do not have to BC to texlax hair.....lol.
 
checking in! i'm still roller setting.... moisturizing and sealing whenever i remember... and protective styling 6 days out of the week on average.

i am due for a touch up in a few weeks. perhaps at that time, i will get a trim... or attempt to do a dusting myself. the last time i did a search and destroy, i didn't find as many split ends, or splits in the middle of my hair. perhaps all that i am doing is working for me. :)
 
I'm a month and few days late but here's my starting pic taken this past Monday.

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I currently moisturize twice a day and put ORS Replenishing Conditioner on my ends then seal with castor oil. I then put it in a bun.
 
I am pretty much wearing PS all the time. I am rocking a phony pony puff pinned around my bun. This will be my summer style. I take down the puff at night and re moisturize and seal if needed. That's it for me.
 
Checking in:still using my homemade spritz mix, sealing with coconut oil, and bagging daily. My ends are looking great and I could not be happier.
 
This challenge has brought me so much more then just healthy ends. Because I'm in the challenge I've gone back to a lot of things I used to do and come up with a really really good regime for myself. Because I needed a way to protect my ends I finally learned how to bun my hair and how to wet bun which has made a ridicoulous difference. The sides of my hair that I guess pull the most and were shedding badly between my PCOS, birth control, and lack of vitamins and "greasing" (without grease) my scalp. My hair is super thick again and shedding less and those spots are filling in. I have much MUCH much less breakage and thick hair again.

I was looking at my ends the other day before I washed and my hair was not all scraggly and broken and split. I just feel like this challenge has put me back on track from whenever I fell off in 2008.
 
Okay so I have really been sleeping on this challenge and its showing!! I had braids in for about 7 weeks and when I took them out I realized I'm having some breakage issues on my left side. I posted a thread about it http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=372885 My ends are really thin and breaking..but only on the left side of my head. I have managed to stop the breakage and now I am starting to nurse my hair back to health. There is a pic of it in the other thread.

I'm going to start being more faithful to this thread..hopefully I can make a full recovery by the end of the year.
 
I've been babying my ends and wearing protective styles, but I think that buns are doing my hair more harm than good. I may have to trim a half inch or so. If so, I'll post a pic....
 
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