What was your hair regimen before LHCF

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braids or phony ponies with whatever hair was the same color as mine (dind't care about quality or synthetic shine lol)
gels, anything from the "ethnic" hair section, grease instead of leave-ins
i actually tried to use these in the best way possible, but i still wasn't retaining and my hair looked and felt a mess.
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Oh yeah... I had to have ultra sheen (green bottle) that bottle was THE TRUTH back in the bad old days! :lachen:

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It actually hasn't changed that much. I just had a relaxer. I still occasionally use the same products (grease and all).

I shampooed, conditioned, and then did a hot oil treatment with either EVOO or one of those Queen Helene bottles. (I now do hot oil treatments before I shampoo)

Every now and then I would do a conditioning treatment with Hellman's mayo and an egg. And every now and then I would forget to rinse with cold water. d'oh!

The only products I can remember liking are Ultra Sheen green grease, Optimum hair moisturizer (big yellow bottle), Biotera leave-in was the ish, EVOO, Queen Helene Cholesterol Hot Oil Treatment, ORS packet (I used to write them regularly to put it in a large bottle), ORS oil sheen, LIV (the cream in the jar), African Pride Leave-In, and African Pride 2 in 1 shampoo.


ETA: My favorite relaxer was by Revlon in Mild. I also love love love the Motions Neutralizing shampoo. Best one I ever used.
 
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Pre-LHCF regimen 1 (relaxed):
1. Wash with CON red or green
2. Deep condition with Profectiv Mega-Growth
3. Rollerset to dry and wrapped.

Didn't moisturize during the week or anything like that. Relaxed every 8 weeks, learned to stretch to 10-12, but had been a chronic 4 weeker for years before that.

Pre-LHCF Regimen 2 (natural):
1. Wash every other day with CON red or green
2. Apply KC Knot Today, followed by KCCC which my hair still loves)

Once a week I'd deep condition, but I always wore my hair out. Now I still use CON red or green (depends on weather), DC under a steamer, acv rinse and twist my hair.

I NEVER protective styled when I was relaxed, growing up in California I never needed to, and it wasn't until coming here that I realized that not doing this was the reason my hair was always shorter in Ohio and DC. Now my stretched hair is almost as long as my hair was relaxed, because I keep it much more protected than before :yep:.
 
Mine was similar to what it is today. I'd wash and condition every 2-4 days, but with Herbal Essences instead of V05; bun my hair soaking wet, instead of putting it up in a towel and then damp bunning, and use elastic hair thingies, instead of sticks or forks. I'd use hair serums to control my frizz instead of oil.
 
Same as it is now, only I didn't DC nor ACV rinse back then because I didn't know about them. Tried new regimens that I discovered on LHCF but none worked for me as well as my old one. That regimen involved washing my hair w/ shampoo then conditioning (or just CWing) whenever it felt dry, towel drying and not using leave-ins/moisturizers, baggying at night. My hair was usually in braids and if it wasn't, then it was braided at night before baggying.
 
didn't really have a personal regimen per se prior to finding the boards...washed once a month @ the salon, blowdry ALWAYS, flatiron ALWAYS, moisturize NEVER, excessive grease & never even heard of a heat protectant!:perplexed:blush:

i left my haircare to the salons & once i fell out w/ the lady i had been goin 2 all my life, i began goin 2 whichever salon was closest & cheapest. they always made my hair look nice but it has never been past shoulder length.

i never really knew what DC was, but i assumed it was only for people with relaxers??? idk why? maybe cuz i was natural & no stylist ever asked me if i wanted one:blush:

i have always been a heat-straightened natural as well & i have absolutely NEVER in my whole life dealt w/ my natural text until last yr. when i found lhcf & stopped putting heat on my hair

now that i know which products make my hair BETTER instead of just LOOKING BETTER i feel so thankful & just thank God everyday 4 this knowledge.:yep:
 
Regimen before lhcf? Mine was non-existent :)

I washed my hair like twice a week b/c my scalp stayed dry and my hair is fine so I hate oily thin looking hair. I washed with take your pick optimum, pantene, neutrogena's t-gel, whatever I used was all over the place. My version of deep conditioning was pretty much leaving the conditioner in all day whatever that conditioner was it did not matter.
I called my self moisturizing with Lusters-just a dab
flat ironed everyday
touch ups every 8 weeks
I may have used ORS olive oil oil sheen every once in a while also
thats it!! Poor hair and I wondered why it shed and I had breakage like craaaaazy........
And my hair never grew past NL

Now I my hair sheds about 3-6 hairs (give or take) a day and I have veryyyyyyyy little breakage. Now my flat iron use is what im working on (I do not use heat from Fri-Sun and every other day during the week-which is huge for me)
My hair is currently a little past EL and my goal is to have healthy APL hair:yep:
 
My regimen hasn't changed a great deal but lets just say there were:
no prepoos
no ACV rinses
no wigs
and a definate lack of product knowledge (ingredients)

I used to poo and DC weekly and only had the moisture/protein balance going on by chance due to the contents of the products and the fact that I rotated them e.g. I would DC with moisture mainly but every now and again I'd through in a Mayo DC which provided my hair with protein.:blush:
 
I never cared about healthy hair practices pre-forums I figured that since my hair was thin and fragile.. I would be a weavestress for life..

Its funny.. before my mom let me start taking care of my hair.. I was just fine :yep:

My post-mom, pre-forum regimen:

Relax when I felt like it.. usually every 6 weeks..:perplexed

Wash with shampoo once a month.. followed by instant conditioner.. :perplexed

DC .. only after my relaxer :perplexed

Protective style- My glued in weave.. would keep in for 6 weeks or so.

Moisturiser of choice.. anything that smelled good :fishslap:
 
Every two weeks I went to the salon where they'd deep condition my hair with a tablespoon of conditioner. I'm sure half of my hair strands never saw one molecule of that dc. Other than that I didn't do anything in between visits other than wraping my hair at night (not always), curling with an iron and combing. I'd sometimes do my hair myself wash, blowdry and curl.

That was it...but it was breakage and dryness city. My scalp was always itchy....

ETA- If I wanted longer hair, I got glued in weaves...I got a sewn in once and left it in too long and got locs in the back (according to the stylist).
 
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Grease, Mineral oil, sulphates, no DC's, blow drying, etc...
Among many other sins, two words.
FLAT IRON.

OFTEN
 
Just before LHCF my regimen was pretty much nothing. Wrap,comb.. wear out, Wrap.. sleep. Once in awhile I'd "grease" my scalp with a moisturizer, and a few times I would moisturize my hair.

Everything was done in a Dominican salon ever two weeks - three weeks. They used what ever relaxer, which I would get done every 6-8 weeks. they would Deep condition with Silicon Max. My hair stayed at a little blow my shoulders for years. Hair was always the last thought on my mind.. u see MY hair was my hairdresser's concern.

I haven't been here long but there is a drastic different in my appearance and health of my hair. I love you LHCF :notworthy

Oh yeah and when I was 13 or 14 I would use pink lotion and blow dryer to style my hair ... oh god let me stop typing
 
Varied from different stages in my life but basically when my mom was still kind of doing my hair
I would wash once a week and rollerset and wear the curly style..
sleep in cotton scarf every night
henna religiously
stretch relaxers at least 8 weeks because my mom made me

when I started "taking care" of my hair

wash every 2 or 3 weeks, if even that often :perplexed
blowdry, flat iron and curling iron :look:

Ya, I had to cut my hair to ear length from that, but then my hair thrived like crazy when I chopped it, I was back at apl in a year; but never past that... I started to stop using so much heat and air drying but I still went to dominican salons, never detangled never deep conditioned, I had stopped using henna


As for products, that varies, there was a short stint when we were using nexxus but we mostly used pantene and head and shoulders :perplexed

we religiously used infusium leave in

my most important thing was getting rid of the curling iron, flat iron and blowdryer and just using them sparingly, like hardly ever, but I still have a length plateau at apl which I'm hoping to pass right now
 
:nono:

i dont even wanna share for fear that someone may judge me or employ parts of that regimen that left me looking like this back in the day:

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yes it was above my neck and i never was cutting my hair.

i just remember it involving super strength cheap relaxer, tons of Biosilk, super gro hair grease, and a cheap revlon flat iron from walmart
 
It's comforting to hear that I'm not the only one who never even thought about moisturizing and had dry scalp without ever attributing it to how often I shampoo washed.

My hairdresser even got me to by some blue tube of topical cream for dandruff rather than just asking me how often I washed my hair or what I washed and conditioned my hair with at home.

BTW... I forgot to add that I did strech between relaxers (usually 3 months) but I would blowdry my hair with a comb attatchement (straightening my new growth and breaking my hair in the process)
 
When I started to straighten my hair all the time, I would wash every 4 days and prepoo overnight using olive oil. I'd use a sulfate shampoo (tresemme), condition, blowdry, then flat iron. I would either apply a small amount of MorrocanOil oil treatment all over my hair before blow-drying OR I'd apply John Freida's flawless finishing creme on my ends after flat ironing (I never used heat protection). My hair was always out. I'd deep condition every 3-4 months when I'd go to the salon for a trim.

THEN...I stopped straightening, pre-pooing and started shampooing (still sulfate) once every two weeks and co-washing everyday or every other day. I used Organic Root Stimulator olive oil moisturizing lotion as a leave-in. I would pony-tail, cornrow or flat twist the front and leave the back out, or wear a head band with my hair up in a pony or down.

Eventually I wanted to use more natural products on my hair. I found Nubian Heritage raw shea butter shampoo and conditioner at the Rasta market and been using it ever since. My mom discovered coconut oil, she uses it for her skin, and I started using it for my hair.

I got online because I wanted to start making my own oil concoctions as a leave-in. I didn't like how my mixtures were smelling and I wanted to use perfume oils to get them to smell nice.

Then I found LHCF using on a google search :)
 
* wash every 1-3 months
* pink oil and grease to "moisturise"
* flat iron with no heat protectant in the morning before school or my hair was kept braided when not loose for 2-3 months a time
* relax every 2-4 months
* an egg treatment maybe 2x per year
 
I used to wash my hair everyday because I'd mix leave-in conditioners with gel or I'd use mousse and I didn't like how it got flaky the next day.
 
I used to use heavy protein like Sabastian Penetrait as a deep conditioner and leave it on for hours and didn't know enough to follow with a moisturizing conditioner. And then I would wonder why my hair came out so dry and tangled.
 
Nichi, you've made incredible progress! You gots ta share...share with us. :look:


I had two pre-LHCF regimens. I had the pre-LHCF, pre-high-school regimen and it was:
1. Relax every 4-6 weeks, applying relaxer from root to tip and leaving it until my scalp was about ready to slide off my head. Then, sit in front of a fan, and leave it even longer. Gets it extra straight. :nono:
2. Wash with random CoN shampoo whenever I would scratch my scalp and see dirt under my fingernails. :nono: :barf:
3. No conditioner...conditioner is for white people. :nono:
4. Blow dry on high, using pink oil to moisturize every ten minutes or so.
5. Put that blue magic pressing grease all over my head and then curl my hair with my curling iron. Also on high. It had a steam feature, so I'd use that to moisturize. When my hair sizzled, my heart used to sing. :hair:
6. Curl my hair that way about 4-5 times a week.
7. When not curling, force my hair into the "flame" ponytail with bobby pins, brown gel and Fantasia IC gel (with hair "lites") and pink oil.
8. No silk scarf...scarves are for old people, like my mom. Who incidentally had BSL hair. But did I make that connection? Noooo. :rolleyes:


And then when I started high school, I started another regimen, which was:
1. Get micro-braids.
2. Grease scalp with doo-gro grease about once a week.
3. Spray braids with African Pride braid spray about twice a week.
4. Very very very rarely wash my braids. It ruins the style.
5. Keep braids in as long as possible, usually for three-four months.
6. Take braids down, relax my hair the same day (makes the hair grow faster), wait for the burns to subside, and then braid it up again.

With the first reggie, I was a damaged and busted ear length, and with the second, I made it to shoulder and stopped. Thank God for LHCF.
 
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Bleach and colour every six weeks when I take out my braids wash and condition (2 mins) my hair grew but was DRY as the S.a.h.a.r.a. since I didn't spritz with water or EVER DC:ohwell:
 
Didn't have one. What I did have was a continuously disasterous regimen to keep my hair fried and weaved up.
 
I cant even say that I every really had one...lets see... I used to wear glue in weaves constantly..only time I wash was when I was washing out the glue:(
I never conditioned..only sometimes after applying my relaxer but usually I'd just relax and wouldnt even bother to wash or condition afterwards:nono:... I'm suprised I had the little hair I had...:perplexed:blush:
 
I don't remember having a regimen until about the 10th grade. At that time I decided I wanted to see what my natural hair looked like, so I "transitioned" without knowing what I was doing.

I washed my hair every 4 days with a sulfate shampoo or even my dad's Head and Shoulder's lol. I did use conditioner, whatever was cheap in the Black Hair care isle, or anything with key words like 'shea butter' and 'cocoa butter.':rolleyes: After washing I would rollerset, using Motions Oil Moistuizer (thought it was a majour step-up from Luster's :lachen:), and once the rollers dried I would 'straighten' my hair with a cheap conair curling iron.

The final step was to laden my hair down with some coconut grease and set it tightly on sponge rollers, in the morning I would wake up to a coconut smelling curly fro:look:, which I usually wore in a faux puff. The style was actually kind of cute looking back, I would re-grease and roller-set my hair every night until the next wash day.

Surprisingly my neck length hair grew to slightly past shoulder length (my longest hair pre-LHCF) at this point, but I definitely had some scalp issues from all that grease. :nono:
 
Pretty much the same as it is now.

Shampoo and Condition once a week.

Use a leave-in, seal with a tip of oil.

Roller set.

Relax every 3-6 months

Do yearly stretches if needed.

My main changes are that I now:

Document my progress

I'm a lot more conscious about my hair ( e.g I now use seamless combs and detangle knots with my fingers )

Protein moisture balance.
 
What was your hair regimen before LHCF? A hot mess!
I didn't use anything special just Dove Daily Moisture Therapy Shampoo and Conditioner and that was it. I did use Profectiv Mega Growth Anti-Breakage cream (which my hair seemed to like) but stopped when I ran out of it.
1. I would shampoo and condition oonce a week and co-wash once or twice a week. (I didn't know I was co-washing at the time, I just did it out of lazyness. LOL)
2. I would get my hair relaxed about once a month, sometimes once every two months.
3. Slept without a scarf or tying up my hair.
4. Blow dry or straighten my hair without a heat protection product.
5. Curl my hair with a flat iron or curling iron multiple times a week.
6. Greased my scalp whenever it felt itchy and dry.
I did pretty much every no no you could think of. So my hair is NOT in the best shape right now.
I'm a newbie - having just found this lovely board a few days ago - and am currently researching products and working on creating a regimen.
 
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OoooWeee honey ! I washed every 2-3 weeks blowdry my hair then hotcomb. thru the week I would use the pink stuff on it, or, burgamont grease on the scalp pull it back in a plain ole rubber band tight... spray with hair spray so it would't move or slap lots of hair gel on it !!!!!!! no protection at night, no moisture AT ALL !!!!!!! NEED I SAY MORE ?????? HAIR WAS ALWAYS AT NECK LENGHT...AND TO MAKE MATTER WORSE HAD " THE DIEASE H.I.H " ( hand in hair diease)
 
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