Use 1 Buy 1 Challenge pt.4

I used up both conditioners, dcing right now. Going to use hv moist 24/7 for a cowash until gone. And use sheamoisture dc until gone.
 
I see that Curlmart is having an Elucence 20% off sale. Lawd, why is it still January? It should at least be March right now. This is gonna be a loooooong No-Buy. I'm fine when it comes to other products, but there's just something about my boo Elucence. That was my staple for the first 2 years of being natural.

You know, I could deal with not buying other items that I wanna try. But when it comes to my tried and true, I 'ono y'all :nono:

ETA: I still have 2 unused 10z bottles left of the shampoo and conditioner, but about a month ago I figured I could sell those on the exchange forum to minimize my stash since I had so much opened stuff already. I ain't wanna be faced with having to actually use EVERYTHING. But, I now I want liters at the 20% off rate. It was such a good leave-in too.

I'm never gonna get done with these darn products. I've been trying to double up on conditioner and I still have a lot left, especially with AO HSR, seems like it's never gonna go down.
 
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It must be the lottabody or something because 5 days later, my hair is still curly from the rollerset I did last Thursday. I've been bunning my hair everyday since then, and everytime I take it down, I have these volumous curls. You'd think they would have flattened out by now.

It could also be because I haven't been combing it with a comb everyday, but I have been finger combing. I dunno, but I'm loving it. I'm thinking about wearing it out today rather than bunned up.

Oh yeah, if it matters, I used the red magnetic rollers (from Sally's) to set my hair.
 
ANOTHER thread on heat? People just tryin to start mess now...I'm done. Y'all can have your funky ol' heat trained hair with the sad broken bonds of oppression.

Being facetious don't blow a gasket.
 
hey eveyrone
im sitting under my dryer right now with my hair in four braids. i just got finished shampooing with aphogee and conditioning and detangling with aphogee 2 minute for about 10 minutes. now my hair is saturated in aphogee leave in and fantasia heat protectant because i decided to straighten my hair. i dont know why i just wanted something different. i hope the braids stretch my hair enough so that i can flat iron with the comb chase method.
i also hope that way i only have to go over each section once maybe twice.
before i flat iron im going to add more fantasia heat protectant cause yall know im paranoid lol.
i dont know what im going to moisturize my hair with through the week. probably just oil. or some keracare cream hair dress if my mom still has some. i used to love that stuff when i was relaxed.
 
for some reason i get the feeling i threw away my blow driers. i had two. a bed head one and a T3. i cant find them and there are only so many places i would put them. i have a habit of throwing things out and i have a feeling thats what i did. if i did im so pissed at myself.
 
EllePixie said:
ANOTHER thread on heat? People just tryin to start mess now...I'm done. Y'all can have your funky ol' heat trained hair with the sad broken bonds of oppression.eing facetious don't blow a gasket.
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:lachen:You are too funny. I don't plan to straighten my hair ever. Seriously unless ya'll tell me something different.....well I may do a rollerset one day but flat iron :nono:. I don't care that my coils are shrunken & frizzy. That's what my hair naturally does and Imma let it do what it do. Of course I may try to minimize the frizz but I'll be aiight if I don't. I :love: my hair. I have never eva eva eva eva said that about my hair until I went natural.
 
My braidout is awesome but now it doesnt want to go up into a puff. I think it is the way I slept on it. Lemme go fix this.
 
Shay72 said:
:lachen:You are too funny. I don't plan to straighten my hair ever. Seriously unless ya'll tell me something different.....well I may do a rollerset one day but flat iron :nono:. I don't care that my coils are shrunken & frizzy. That's what my hair naturally does and Imma let it do what it do. Of course I may try to minimize the frizz but I'll be aiight if I don't. I :love: my hair. I have never eva eva eva eva said that about my hair until I went natural.
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I said that initially, but I just like to change it up. Sometimes it's nice to not have wet hair everyday for a week. I've only straightened my hair twice in the past year though, and I find that my hair feels fine afterwards as long as I don't blow dry my hair in order to flat iron it. I think blow drying messes up my hair way more than my flat iron. BUT I will say that my hair is fairly coarse and resistant to processes. If I had fine hair I'm not sure I would take the risk.

I def agree about loving my hair more now, when I had a relaxer I was so eh about it.
 
i never thought i would flat iron my hair either. i just didnt have an interest in doing so. but when i did it back in december i was pleasantly surprised at my progress and my thickness and knew i would do it again. i didnt want to because of all i went through to get it straight but i loved the way it looked. this is my second time straightening my hair since ive been natural. it will be 2 years in april.
i wont be straightening again until this december.
and if by chance i get any damage i wont straighten at all.
 
Che, sometimes you just want something different. You may want to straigten now and then go through a phase where you don't straighten for months. There is nothing wrong with that.
 
Hey Ladies! Elle you are right, and Che don't throw it anything away put it in storage. IMO you can't do what everyone else is doing to their hair, every technique or product does not work the same, why else would there be 1,000 of products on the market and several techniques/styles to do your hair. People have to learn trail/error what works/not and not criticize others for likes/dislike. I know when I was relax my hair frizzed when it rain, sweat, or get wet and so being natural it does the same even if I straighten with heat. I can get 1 day straighten, it not a problem. I do my hair, pay for my products and that it.
 
Any L'occitane users? They have been having a big sale too. The shea butter mask for dry and damaged hair that I normally pay $22 for is selling for $15. I think I'll grab a couple. I remember mixing a canister of it with pure argan oil and the moisture level was crazy. My ends were on point when I did that as I was using it to seal them. They have a bunch of other stuff on sale too!
 
ladybeesrch said:
Any L'occitane users? They have been having a big sale too. The shea butter mask for dry and damaged hair that I normally pay $22 for is selling for $15. I think I'll grab a couple. I remember mixing a canister of it with pure argan oil and the moisture level was crazy. My ends were on point when I did that as I was using it to seal them. They have a bunch of other stuff on sale too!
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Never used it but one of my hair twins Nice/Wavy haven't seen recommended it and used it alot.
 
I'm on a no buy for long time I'm ashame all the $$ I spend in 2 months. Need a car, save $$ for dd college:nono: I forgot I had some MHC scalp elixir and some more stuff, I need to consolidate again. I'm wash my hair tonight just because I need to use some stuff. I'm sending a care packages off today so feel good about that.
 
im so stupid. i just remembered the reason i couldnt find any of my brushes, combs, blow dryers that i use to straighten is because i threw them away so i wouldnt straighten. omg im so dumb.
my hair looks beautiful but it took a lot to get it straight. just as much as it took last time. so i really really hope i dont get heat damage.
ETA: i used a heat protectant on wet hair before i blow dried(it wouldnt dry under the dryer) and on dry hair before i flat ironed so im hopeful.
 
chebaby said:
im so stupid. i just remembered the reason i couldnt find any of my brushes, combs, blow dryers that i use to straighten is because i threw them away so i wouldnt straighten. omg im so dumb.
my hair looks beautiful but it took a lot to get it straight. just as much as it took last time. so i really really hope i dont get heat damage.
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Stop throwing stuff away che, unless its just no good, you never know when you might need or want to use it again:yep:.
 
also i think it takes a lot to get my hair straight because i use a butt load of protein. because i know if you use a ton of moisture you get a very sleek and easy press.

sunday when i do my hair i will pre poo on dry hair with aphogee 2 minute mixed with an egg and evoo. then shampoo with aphogee then do another protein(dont know with what, maybe aphogee 2 step). if i do a hard protein i will follow up with mhc honey hair mask. then i will put my hair in 2 braids.
 
La Colocha said:
Stop throwing stuff away che, unless its just no good, you never know when you might need or want to use it again:yep:.
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i know right. i cant believe i did that. and i kept thinking nooooo i couldnt have thrown them away. then a picture flashed in my mind of the blow dryers in the trash:nono:. i paid good money for that T3 pro.
 
ladybeesrch said:
Any L'occitane users? They have been having a big sale too. The shea butter mask for dry and damaged hair that I normally pay $22 for is selling for $15. I think I'll grab a couple. I remember mixing a canister of it with pure argan oil and the moisture level was crazy. My ends were on point when I did that as I was using it to seal them. They have a bunch of other stuff on sale too!
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Absolutely!:grin:

I have several of their DC'ers.:lick:
 
I finished an Acai Berry this morning. I have a couple of back ups.

Yeah I don't really know what to do with straight hair so that's why I never see myself straightening. Style challenged ain't even near descriptive enough :lachen:. That's why people that know me really well were surprised about me wanting to grow my hair long. As I said before I thought I was coming here to learn about growing my hair long & healthy but what I found out in the process was about going natural. I knew nothing about "being natural" or "going natural" until coming to this site.
 
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