Twist, Braid, Bun for Growth Challenge (1/1/13 - 3/31/13)

I had a twisting disaster this weekend, the first day was so pretty, the second day I woke up and untwisted and it was a frizzy, untwisted mess. I had to go out that way. I just tucked it behind my ears and hoped for the best and I told people that asked that I was having a bad hair day...which was SO true.

So I made a run to Target last night, all the Shea Moisture products were GONE. I bought Miss Jessie's Curly Pudding and Miss Jessie's Shea Moisture stuff and when I got home I started twisting and I slathered the Shea Moisture on first - focusing on my dry ends and then the Curly Pudding with "praying hands", at the front I added a bit of Ecostyler gel...but I don't think I need gel going forward.

My hair is softer without the gel. So I woke up and untwisted...I have some beautiful spirals in the back (Thanks Natural85 on Youtube - cocooning the twist works). I'm going to try to perfect this technique.

This was my first time twisting my 4b/c hair without blow drying. I really can't tell a difference between blow dried - twisted hair and wet to damp - twisted hair.

Here is a picture of the back of my head:
 

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sooo last week I redid my twists but I chose to add some cholesterol to the length of each twist.
last nite.. I decided to rinse my hair in the shower and used my whipped shea butter cream that I mixed up last week. my hair feels pretty good... I may do this again
 
I woke up this morning with this lump in my bonnet. When I reached for it, it was a barrette :perplexed Then I felt around some more and realized I had left an entire section of my hair untwisted :blush: It would have been so embarrassing to have gone to work with this big shrunken section on my head. I don't even know if anyone would have even told me. :nono:
 
^^ I took some pictures but they look exactly the same as the last time :lol: I'm not sure how much longer my hair will have to grow for them to look different. Don't tell, I think I still haven't posted my starting picture. I will make sure I do that this weekend.
 
the set of mini twist that I put in last week started to tangle, so those suckers had to come out. I washed and conditioned my hair yesterday and dried in big twist. Today I put in medium size twist and will be wearing them for a week.
 
I've been taking my vits and keeping my braids moisturized consistantly which is pretty good for me. I've been hair lazy lately. I do find my scalp itching like CRAZY though and idk why.
 
I noticed that my hair has been really dry lately and I figured that I over did it with using the aloe vera gel every time I twisted my hair for the past few weeks, so I shampooed my hair on Sunday and cowashed yesterday. I detangled my hair and left it out in a wash and go. I plan to start bunning my hair regularly, but my buns always look so horrible. So I'm going to try using spin pins to hold the bun instead of scrunchies and see how that goes.
 
Hey Ladies, I hope all is well. I am still wearing my two strand twist. I have them in a ponytail today. I plan to wear them for another two weeks.
 
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Well it's day 3 and Miss Jessie's Curly Pudding DOES work for me. I posted a pick a few pages ago. But here is the thing...does anyone want to help me figure out this humidity problem. If I'm in the bathroom with hot water running and my twists are twisted out...it's over, immediate frizz. My hair looked so good this morning and now it looks crazy.

What can I use to block humidity while in a twist out? Would gel help that problem?
 
1. Braids in a bun

2. I've had medium sized braids in for 3.5 weeks. I planned on 2 week cycles, but they held up better than I expected. I DC and shampoo weekly, and M & S every other day with a Silk Dreams conditioner + castor oil.

3. Natural

4. I've been stuck at WL for a year so I'm hoping this will get me over the hump.

5. I'm not wearing my hair out at all during this challenge.

I'll be an unofficial challenger since I don't have pics. I just need somewhere to vent about how tired I am of my braids. I'm washing today and getting my hair cornrowed tomorrow. After that I'll go back to box braids. I might work my way around to some mini braids but those things are a headache to install and take down.
 
FoxxyLocs said:
1. Braids in a bun

2. I've had medium sized braids in for 3.5 weeks. I planned on 2 week cycles, but they held up better than I expected. I DC and shampoo weekly, and M & S every other day with a Silk Dreams conditioner + castor oil.

3. Natural

4. I've been stuck at WL for a year so I'm hoping this will get me over the hump.

5. I'm not wearing my hair out at all during this challenge.

I'll be an unofficial challenger since I don't have pics. I just need somewhere to vent about how tired I am of my braids. I'm washing today and getting my hair cornrowed tomorrow. After that I'll go back to box braids. I might work my way around to some mini braids but those things are a headache to install and take down.
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Even though you are unofficially a challenger, I officially welcome you to the challenge. You have all the rights and privileges as any official challenger! :lol:
 
I want to start french braiding my hair instead of doing a bunch of smaller braids, but I haven't been able to find a tutorial on YT that shows how to french braid on shrunken hair. I see lots of stretched hair.
 
NikkiQ said:
I want to start french braiding my hair instead of doing a bunch of smaller braids, but I haven't been able to find a tutorial on YT that shows how to french braid on shrunken hair. I see lots of stretched hair.
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My hair has to be stretched to some degree unless I am braiding damp hair. I run into too many tangles on my shrunken dry hair.
 
^^^So my best bet would be to either do it immediately after washing out my DC and applying leave in or band my hair then do it? Oh boy.
 
The twists have grown on me. I'm used to them now. I've gotten some compliments too. Been moisturizing every other day bc its been easy to forget. Working on that.
 
Last night I did an black tea rinse. Spray my roots with it, leave it for 20 minutes then apply my mix conditioner on top of it for an hour. Rinse it out then apply mane n tail conditioner rinse again. Did Bantu knots then took it out this morning before class and this is how it came out

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I went for a rounder bun today. My biggest issue is I can't seem to get a tight ponytail, no matter how stretched my hair is, unless its blow dried or flat ironed of course. My buns stick out so far from my head lol. I guess it's good that its not too tight but I'd still like less of a bulge. I'm going to look up some techniques.

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