awesome growth! what is your regimen?
1 year 2 weeks for me today, i will be wigging it till 2010(crown + glory challenge begins). 11 months 2 more weeks to go
I have a group of naturals that I became friends with when I was natural & they never kicked me out of the group when I decided to get a curl. I told some of them that I was transitioning to stay committed as well.I would love to join! I just shared with my sister that I am going to go natural and she is quite pleased to hear although she doesn't believe me. (She has beautiful waistlength dreads) If I start sharing with everyone that I am transitioning then I will have to stay committed.Thank you ladies.
I take cysteine, lysine, a hair, skin & nail vitamin (all by Nature's Sunshine) and I take a tbsp of MSM in water twice a day, alta silica, and foti root. I used to take Biotin but I never got any headaches. I stopped taking it b/c it was GNC brand & I no longer shop there & I guess I forgot to ask my herb lady about biotin.Are any of you taking hair vitamins that you recommend or find to be helpful during the transition? I'm interested in Biotin but I fear headaches.
Nooooo. Come back. We can do it!!! I'm just teasing you DDT. Well I hate to see you stopping, but do remember that this thread is a support thread, so do feel free to chime in with your challenges and hopefully we can get through them. But I completely understand, if the bad outweighs the good, then I can understand you holding off. I gave myself that same exception, if it ever ends up in a negative state, than I may have to restratagize my plans. But hang in there DDT and I hope you jump back on board soon. 
Just checking in. Ok so I've had my hair in a PS for about a week and a half and I've noticed a major difference. It's a lot more moisturized and I'm starting to see less breakage. 
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. Luckily I am a headband girl so I just shove the hair under the headband and the straight ends blend into my half wig. I actually think with this cut in the front I can wear lots of different half wigs since blending won't be hard to do with only a few strands. I can stick them under the wig hairs lol.
Hey!
The good thing is that I learned something about my hair: it cannot handle water more than once a week. I washed my hair last Tuesday because I had never done a midweek wash and I wanted to try it just to see what it would do. Unfortunately it seemed like it made my hair a lot dryer. I had planned on air drying it and keeping it in the PS but it just didn't look right. I ended up flat ironing (which is what I'm trying to eliminate if at all possible). So the moral of the story is that I actually listened to my hair and responded quickly when it told me
I totally agree with you. I'm planning to wear wigs but until mine gets here, since I have 22 wks of new growth, I decided to cornrow my hair. I went over a week without washing my hair. Normally I wet it daily. I did an overnight prepoo with Ojon's Tawaka Ancient Tribal Rejuvenating Cream. When I pooed my hair (Design Essentials Moisture Poo - I'm trying to use up some things before I start hiding my hair) & DCed with Design Essential Express Cond mixed with a lil Joico Moisture Recovery it was sooo soft. I mixed some Cantu Shea Leave-in (again I'm using stuff up) with some Qhemet AOHC & put my hair in 4 celie plaits to air dry.
I had much less hair loss than normal when detangling. Actually I wouldn't even call it detangling b/c my hair really wasn't tangled. I may have to add an Ojon treatment to my monthly routine. Maybe I'll do it when I take my braids down once a month before my protein treatment. I will be listening to my hair. I will only be wetting it (outside of moisturizers) once a week from now on. Guess I've gone on long enough...
kayex, girl everytime I see your siggy I can't help but!
Don't laugh at my braiding skills.
Thanks so much! Last night I washed by hair and DC'd with ORS replenishing pack mixed with some Proclaim Natural 7 oil while my hair was dripping wet. I put on a conditioning cap and sat under the dryer for about 20 or 30 minutes. Then I let it sit for about 4 hours without heat. When I finally rinsed my hair the new growth was so soft and manageable! And this was all before I read your post so you were right on the mark!If you are just using an oil- you may not be giving your hair enough moisture. This could be why it feels so dry. Maybe spritz a lil water on the new growth first, then using an oil or find a water based moisturizer and then seal with oil, see if there is a difference after a week or so. Oil works for some people as a moisturizer (many say coconut) but most find that a water based moisturizer, then an oil works better
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