Everyone's hair looks FABULOUS!!! We've got about a month and a half left in this challenge and I can't wait to see everyone's progress! I've been in a twist out for the last five days and will probably spend all day tomorrow detangling, lol. I have an olive oil pre-poo in my hair now...I'll deep condition tomorrow afternoon, and wash and twist on Sunday. By the way, I FINALLY got my shea butter. It took 10 days! I like it though...smooth. I've been using my yummy mix on my hair and skin and both are soft as all get outI love shea butter, lol.
I've been following this challenge from the first one I think. I love it...y'alls twist look so good and as Yodie said you are all great inspirations.
I'm taking my hair loose tonight because I'm going to a natural hair expo in the DFW area tomorrow. Gotta rock the big hair!
Sunday 11/8
Natural Beauty Expo
Desoto Civic Center
211 E. Pleasant Run
Desoto, TX 75115
1-6pm
Update after one million years. I've been wearing TOs for the past week and trimming as necessary. Most of my 'blonde' ends are gone now that I've accepted that that means my hair has split ends and is not 'sunkissed'. I actually wore pigtails as a style for the first time in my life without it looking a mess, so I think my hair is growing/thickening up.
I'm not part of the challenge, but I do have an untwisting tip. Now this might be blatantly obvious to most of you but for the few of us that don't know any better...
When untwisting, start from the very bottom of the the twist. Apply your detangler to atleast the bottom part of your twist. Unpick/unravel this area first then take out the rest of the twist.
I use to take my fingers and pull the 2 strands apart about 1 inch up from the end of my twists.This caused my hair to form a tight knot at the end of my twists and I'd often have to rip or cut my hair out.
Since coming to my senses, I don't have this problem anymore.
I hope this helps at least 1 person to retain their growth
Lys
Hey Yodie! I cowash my hair daily when in twist and Im one of the ones that keep them in longer then 2wks at a time. I dont scrub my scalp so basically Im just rinsing my hair. I shampoo or ACV rinse every other wk or when I feel like my scalp is really dirty. But I think the conditoner alone does just fine. I workout and sweat a lot and my face breaks out or some reason if I dont wash my hair...build up I guess.
Here are the pics from the wedding. I twisted out on Saturday morning and was excited with the results. I used my shea butter and coconut oil mix and started from the top of each twist. I didnt seperate them after because I didnt want frizzes. I had a couple that were frizzy so I just retwisted them smaller and took them out before I left the house. I kept the front out for a little but was tired of hair hanging on my forehead so I pinned the front back. I received a ton of compliments and my BF mom first thing she asked me is if it was my real hair. Another friends mom put her hands all up in my hair while saying it feels so nice ( like she was expecting it to feel differently??)...lol!! I don't mind because all my hometown friends are WW and Im just to the questions, comments and remarks. All in all it was a great night. I havent decided when Im going to twist up again. It will either be tomorrow night or Tuesday when I get home from the airport. Here are the results...more in my fotki
OK! I got my pics uploaded:
Started with clean, damp hair. I washed with my shikakai bar, then left in some Suave Topical Coconut and sealed with my coconut/olive oil mixture.
Started twisting away....I used IC Hair Polisher Gel to grab the baby hairs and smooth my roots in.
Here's a close-up of the hair I used - B.Marley Pony 19" Vienna Brand:
I started rodding the ends the next day - it took me 5-6hrs to do the twists the day before.
Uncurled side / Curled Side
The twists were waist length in the back and it was too much hair for me so I chopped off about 4" this AM.
There are more pics in my fotki. This is my first set of kinky twists, and the only time that I've added extensions by myself. Some of them you can clearly see where my hair ends, but the worst of it is hidden, and I'm hoping that as they age they'll look better. I intend to redo them as I go anyway.
CHECKIN: Okay, I've been MIA again. Bear with me ladies; it's been a tough month. Anyway, once again, everyone's hair is looking GORGEOUS! After the 5 weeks in twists, I did this twistout (with a few twists left in there). It wasn't as defined as I usually get it because my twists were super fuzzy at this point:
I wore the twistout for some days. Then I went back to twists. Since then, I've been re-twisting my whole head every 2-4 weeks depending on how I feel. So far it's been working out fine. I now wash bi-weekly instead of weekly.
So I've showed you my oldest daughters hair. Well here is my youngest daughters hair. As you can tell all the ladies in my family are twisties
So I've showed you my oldest daughters hair. Well here is my youngest daughters hair. As you can tell all the ladies in my family are twisties
Ooop2, you're daughter's hair is beautiful! I am going to try and part my hair that way the next time I do my twists. Can you tell us how you do her's? Is her hair wet/damp/dry when you twist? How do you detangle? Do you use rubberbands at the top of the twist? So many questions!!!
okay i'm a dork. 
