Transitioning without BC'ing Support Thread

havilland said:
I have been juicing for a bit now. and i love it! i have been doing a juice feast since august 1 and the results are amazing!:grin: come over the the natural living section and check us out.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

this is how i felt...i bought a $30 Black and Decker juicer from Amazon to get me started. that way if i didn't use it, i wouldn't have wasted too much money. so far i love it and my hair has been so much softer and shinier since i started juicing. so that is a bonus!
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Wow, cool glad to hear good things. I am going to check now. Juicer newbie or real.
 
Leslie_C On my hair, the key to getting my twists to stay is doing them on dry hair without adding product. If I air dry and then twist, they stay without a problem. I do not know how long this set of twists would last because I am getting cornrow extension put in this evening, but they have stayed for at least two weeks in the past (could have stayed longer, but I took them down and washed). HTH!
 
The Princess said:
Congrats on your one year! Do you have any pics. Starting from the beginning until now. It will be motivation for the rest of us.

Also at the bolded, well you here now and thats all that matters.
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I think I may have a few pictures. I'll post some after I take my braids out.
 
Leslie_C said:
Rae81 How far are you into your transition? I believe in scab hair, my crown was the same way, but now it is doing much better (for about the past month) and is retaining moisture well. Im not sure if it was time, consistent deep conditioning, finding better products that happened to work well, or a combo of all three...but with patience it no longer feels like a brillo pad!.
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I am I year post and maybe I do need to show it some extra love. So I have started deep conditioning that section first

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Is anyone here using a steamer? How often are you doing this and how are you steaming?

Do you use shea butter? What role does it play in your regimen and how often do you use it?
 
daviine said:
Do you use shea butter? What role does it play in your regimen and how often do you use it?
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Yes I use shea butter and I use it to seal. I use it once a week or as needed and my hair stays moisturized for days. I prefer butters over most oils, it's a staple for me. My hair needs something heavy to stay moisturized. Good for when I don't want to be bothered with my hair.
 
My cornrow extensions:
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I will keep these in for at least 4 weeks.
 
JJamiah said:
Wow, cool glad to hear good things. I am going to check now. Juicer newbie or real.
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is that a question for me or about the challenge?

I'll answer both.....i have been juicing since May? i think. so i consider myself intermediate:yep:

the challenge is open to anyone who wants to juice feast or fast.
 
havilland said:
I have been juicing for a bit now. and i love it! i have been doing a juice feast since august 1 and the results are amazing!:grin: come over the the natural living section and check us out.
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I think I'll check out that section too...
 
I have switched to water and aloe vera gel to lay my hair down for my buns and I love it!!

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daviine I use Fruit of the earth . I washed my hair and put some conditioner in as a leave in and then put the aloe vera gel and my scarf and the next morning my hair was laid down nicely and it wasn't hard. Last night I just spitzed my hair with water and put some more avg in my hair and I love the hold it gives me

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Napp said:
.........so far the keratin treatment has reverted in the back from sweating but i just wet my edges with water and put my scarf on and they are bone straight like i had just pressed them! the curl pattern looks the same but it flattens much easier! i can work with this:yep:

also i still dont know what to do with all of my fake hair. i just gathered it all up and have 3 boxes full:spinning: maybe ill stuff a pillow with it LOL.
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I want to get a keratin tx, may get one around the fall once it gets cooler outside.
What kinda fake hair do you have in the boxes Napp?
 
Yesterday I did a homegrown steam treatment with Giovanni SAS in my hair. I chose SAS because it claims to be a deep conditioner. (The only other DCs I own are Aussie Moist and Giovanni 2Chic Conditioner) I applied my diluted Giovanni Direct Leave-in but I'm not sure why I did that. I usually use the diluted one on days I don't wash/CW and I use full-strength on wash days. I was undecided about SAS so I'm not sure if I did the steam treatment wrong or if it was the actual conditioner but my hair was so dry. It could also have been that I didn't use my leave-in full strength. Who knows?

In this "dry" state I was able to see the true state of my hair. My hair is in horrible condition (or does all hair appear damaged when dry?) If I'm right, I should BC and save my natural while I still can. But I'm so not ready. I haven't completed my mental transition and I'm just not ready.

I still haven't gotten my regimen down. Cowashing and wet bunning seemed to work well for me when I was on vacation in Florida. I had limited options and did what I could. However, once I got back home, I just felt overwhelmed.

Why overwhelmed? Too much information (LHCF, blogs, YT), too many products, too many different variations on the order that I could use said products, etcetera etcetera.

I already feel like I'm racing against time to get products down and now I feel like I'm in a race to save the length of my hair. I'm getting nervous.

Braids and weaves are not an option; wigs might be if I can get over my husband laughing at me and telling me I'm not proud to be black, blah blah blah...

Just another day on the transitioning roller coaster. I can't wait until my siggy says "x years natural". :spinning:
 
I took my weave out and washing was a BREEZE. The 1st wash since i started transitioning without me crying and cutting out tangled relaxed ends. Its crazy because washing after taking out a weave is usually not like this.
I washed with 613 and then Kenra MC to condition. I also used my magic star comb with no probs. Im about to order WEN fig on QVC as we speak.

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9 months post and strongly considering BCing at 15 months post on my bday in February.
I checked out a thread asking "How many months post relaxer/bc were you able to fit your hair in a ponytail" and the answers ranged from 15 months-18months.

If I can't fit my hair in a ponytail at 15 months, I will just rock extension braids until I can.

I saw so many beautiful ladies with TWA's or BAA's in NYC and it so tempted me to BC now. But I def know I'm not ready, plus I can't see myself cutting off all this hair when it's still very healthy.
 
I need to post a picture of my pony puff, it is huge but not one person has knew from the jump it isn't mine.
 
JJamiah said:
I need to post a picture of my pony puff, it is huge but not one person has knew from the jump it isn't mine.
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Same with me! Even some of my family that saw mine a few months ago looked completely confused at how I went from transitioning to super thick fro in such a short time.
 
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