The usage of oils. She believes that there is still a purpose for oils in our hair/scalp but in waaaay smaller amounts than we have traditionally used them. I remember being surprised and then thinking that made sense. It’s been a few months so that’s basically all I recall, though.
You are probably my SO pretending to be DVAnyDanyDon’t hurt me, but he has a point.I’m only saying this because of dealing with my mom. She is a school teacher and since October has had an opportunity to work from home with distant learning. She doesn’t even have to show her face for her digital classes and she doesn’t. They just use the audio.
She had said like one million times already she wants to grow her grey out and says she wants to wear her natural curls. Tell me why, every time I look up she is dying her hair (temporary but it does some major almost permanent staining) and relaxes her roots ( it still leaves her with some curls.) She does all these things that are counter productive for what she says she wants just to pull it back into a ponytail that no one literally sees. These days she even covers her hair when shopping in public.
Leave that stylist and her shears alone if you say you are trying to grow it out some.
Just for clarification the weather is warm so I am outside every day and I'm going places. Just watch and see 
And I have Zoom meetings every week. So, I only want my head to look so crazy on camera. But I made a deal with Toaster to wait at least until the end of April and I will re-evaluate.
You show him pictures@faithVA i show my husband my length check pictures... every weekand we’re definitely past the point of him looking. He just nods in the direction of my phone and says “yep. Longer”
I don’t say anything because he hasn’t said anything about my hair purchases yet
I can't even imagine. I once asked my SO how my hair looked as we were walking out the door. He said I don't even bother looking at your head 
. He said something else with it. Then I told him what he said and of course he said "I didn't say that". Whatever man.
Cool. No matter what the A's say, I didn't get rid of my clays. I won't use them frequently and I will wait until I get my technique down but I won't be throwing them away.
That is fabulous progress. You can definitely see the increased length. And the back looks so much better. It is evening out. It looks fuller too in your recent pictures, which means it is longer than it looks here.
Thank you!!! Pictures help me see growth more than anything. I’m in my hair twice a week so I don’t notice it growing every wash, but making sure I snap pics for my comparisons definitely keeps me from giving up.That is fabulous progress. You can definitely see the increased length. And the back looks so much better. It is evening out. It looks fuller too in your recent pictures, which means it is longer than it looks here.
I forgot to mention the most important part of my mom's situation. She hates her hair. She hates that ponytail. That's the same ponytail she chooses to relaxer her hair for.You are probably my SO pretending to be DVAnyDany
At this length I can't avoid the stylist completely. It needs to be cut into the shape I want it to grow out in. If I just let it grow out with out shaping as we go, then I just end up with a big chop at the end. Just have to figure out a good compromise.
But I'm sure you are my SO pretending to be someone else.
I concur. You see a significant difference.That is fabulous progress. You can definitely see the increased length. And the back looks so much better. It is evening out. It looks fuller too in your recent pictures, which means it is longer than it looks here.
to beforehand. Didn't even think a WNG would "work" for my hair texture. I was constantly fighting dryness. Now I understand why - I was using lots of shampoos and conditioners laden with oils and butters and then applying the LOC method on top of that. When I would get sick of my fighting the moisture battle, I would put my hair in braids for a few months. Just getting more dried out in the interim and then repeating the whole cycle. 
The FL brush doesn't really have a back on it does it? I wouldn't think it would work the same.
I could be wrong but I don't think the FL will work. I think the hair needs a larger area to rub against.
I agree. I have two brushes with that FL type back, that aren’t actual FL brushes. One has a “paddle” area bigger than my palm & the other is about the same size/shape as the FL. They are what I have previously used for detangling. After hearing from y’all earlier this week, I went to Ulta & bought the single “Tangle Teezer Large Ultimate Detangler” they had in stock.
Why do you prefer air drying? When you aren’t air drying, are you sitting under a hooded dryer or just diffusing? What happens when you use indirect heat that you don’t like?
Let me preface this by saying that I was probably doing everything Rhonda says
The results I've gotten.... My hair is a LOT more hydrated. I noticed that immediately. You wouldn't have been able to tell me before that I could go days without applying a product to my hair and be able to retain moisture. And a WNG that I thought was impossible has been made possible lol. Sections of hair that I thought wouldn't curl up.... actually have curls in them. Imagine that revelation!
All of this for me is a win-win. I follow Rhonda's regimen to a T to evaluate the results. Yup, I use the shampoo brush for smoothing. Rhonda also says it may take a minimum of 3 months to achieve proper hydration, and depending on what you were doing to your hair before, perhaps longer. So that's why I chose to stick to it for 3 months. I'm working from home and in the house 24/7 while this pandemic is going on, so I figured by the time we actually go back into the office that I should have the WNG mastered. Hopefully lol.
Why do you all have to give examples that make sense to me that I don’t want to do? LolI saw this vid of her using the FL brush for smoothing purposes while styling. She states why she would use it though.
The shampoo brush was a breeze through my hair. I’m going to test the FL brushes this morning on a section. Hey, I lied about the whole sticking to the HydraBar method completely for one whole month. I have two freaking brand new brushes and I’m not suppose to use them for the next 28 days? I don’t know about all that.
That’s great you have someone in real life to share this experience with who doesn’t think you are crazy or overly obsessive.
I didn’t realize how much info they had out there. I kept hearing references back to the vids and material they took down. So I thought all that info was located in what was removed. Basically they are making you pay to have all that info bundled all neat and organized with demos.
My sets last longer when I air dry. If I sit under the dryer I need to reset by day 3. And it doesn't matter whether my stylist does it with her wonderful dryer or I do it with mine. I typically never diffuse immediately so I'm not sure how long that last. I will have to try it again. I usually on diffuse in spurts after hours of air drying. When I air dry I can get 4 to 5 days out of a set.
Cause my hair ain't having these rules
Initially, I wanted to combine the best of the two schools to make my own Dany hybrid routine. I do understand it’s best to learn and understand the basics before I start breaking rules and improvising. I’m already starting to want to switch to the A’s method because my hair seems a little short for that shampoo brush when it comes to styling. That seemed to add more time and frizz, but I understand it’s a learning process.
They say products don’t matter but they still seem to. So which product recommendations are using currently? I’ll be out of my little samples before my products come in the mail. I’m going to cowash some time this morning.
I'm currently fighting off the urge to try some new products, so let me just say that 
