Welcome Back

So I know I have been MIA for a very long time but I am back and here to stay. So lets see where I left off last time.....I think my last post was a wash day post so nothing really special. I am still wearing wigs and hats everyday so that I can keep my hands out of my hair and give it a break. Where I live the winter has been pretty bad so I have been keeping my hair hidden from the cold air and snow. I still only wash my hair every two weeks. This method has been working for me because I have more time to do other things outside of my hair every weekend. If you guys are anything like me a wash day is an all day event lol!!! And since my hair is getting longer it requires large amounts of a product which mean I go through product faster and end up spending more money. I love my hair and all but I don't like spending all my money on hair......a girl has bills to pay lol!! Since I reduce my wash days from every weekend to every other weekend I am using less products.

I have been on my hair journey for about almost two years now so I have found most of my staple products. So it is not too hard to keep my hair soft and moisturized even though I am skipping two deep conditioning sessions a month.

I still go to the hair dresser every 12 to 16 weeks to get my relaxer. Yesterday was a relaxer day for me. She usually just relaxers and blow dries my hair straight and I wear it down for the rest of the weekend then I braid it up of the rest of the week. But the people at my job have been asking to see my real hair so I decided to flat iron my hair after I left the salon. I have not flat iron my own hair since July 2012 so its been a minute. I usually just let the hair dresser flat iron it or I just don't flat iron my hair at all after I get the relaxer. My ends did not look too bad so I just did a light dusting.

I have had my flat iron since 2007 and it is still holding up. I noticed a crack in it near the handle part but it is not a big problem to me. I use the HerStyler flat iron, they are the ones you see being sold in the mall at those little carters in the middle of the mall hallways.

So that's all I have to really say I did have a setback a couple of monthes ago but I will talk about that in the next post because I don't want to make this post too long. So here are some pictures I took on my iphone. Enjoy and don't laugh too much at my make up I am still learning and trying new things.

Happy hair growing and coming along and grow with me!!!!   

Wash day!!! Everyone loves a wash day

So today is my wash day!!! Since I have been wearing my wig everyday I only wash my hair twice a month.......ewww I know but it is so much easier on me.



I started off by putting oil on my fingers and started taking out the 12 braids. After I took a braid out I saturated that section with Tresemme Naturals conditioner and used my wide tooth comb to detangle. I love this conditioner because it gives my hair great slip and makes detangling so easy. For not combing my hair in two weeks I did not shed too much so I am happy about that. Once each section was detangled I put four large twists in my hair, covered it with a plastic cap and went to the gym to workout. This was my pre-poo treatment I guess you can call it. Really I just wanted to get the gym out of the way so I could just focus on my hair for the rest of the day. I wasn't at the gym too long probably about an hour and a half.

 

Once I got home I hopped into the shower and started to shampoo my hair with the elasta  qp conditioning shampoo. I tried to keep my hair in the four twists but for some reason I can not get the shampooing in sections down so I just ending up washing my hair regular. I did a green tea treatment on my hair to help reduce the shedding..........even though I did not shed a lot its better to be safe then sorry. I left the green tea in my hair for about five to ten minutes while I washed the rest of my body. I rinsed the green tea out of my hair and followed up with the same conditioner I pre-pooed with which was the Tresemme Naturals. This conditioner also does a great job with softening up my hair. I left the conditioner on for about three minutes because it does not take long for this stuff to work its magic on my hair.

I t-shirt dried my hair to soak up some of the water and then I proceed on to deep conditioning my hair. I used the Nexxus Humectress Ultimate Moisture Conditioner mixed with a couple different oils. I used my heating cap because I was watching tv and did not feel like sitting under the hooded dryer. After I rinsed the deep conditioner out of my hair I t-shirt dried my hair for about 20 minutes then applied my leave-in conditioner, which is the Giovanna direct leave-in. After I put the leave-in on my hair I then put my moisturizer and a serum over that, then I detangled my hair. I also used Mane N Tail detangler and Tui from Carol's daughter to help with the couple of tangles that I get in the middle of my head. Detangling was pretty easy because I had already detangled before washing my hair.

I let my hair air dry and then went to bed. I was too tried to braid it up so I just did that the next morning. Here are a couple pictures of my hair. I think my ends are holding up good. I will be flating my iron by myself at home next week because July 28th marks my one year on this healthy hair journey!!!! I will have comparing pictures talk about what I have learned on this journey.

Quick stop by

So I was thinking about washing my hair today but then I got lazy so I just re-braided my hair. I took each braid out and lightly finger detangled my hair to remove some of the shed hair. After that I applied my moisturize and seal with grapeseed oil. My hair felt pretty soft which was a shock because I did not apply anything to it for like three days.......ok wait that's a lie I did spray some water onto it but that's all.

This is a short post. Just wanted to stop by and let you guys know what I have been doing to my hair, since this is a hair blog lol!!!

Next weekend I will be washing my hair so the post will be longer and I will have lots of pictures. I don't know about you guys but I love hair pictures!!!!

Hey I am Back

Hey guys!!! I know that I have been gone for some months now and I am so sorry! Life got in the way as always lol! But lets get back to the hair talk.

I have been wearing wigs a lot lately because during  my last stretch ( which was 16 weeks) I realized that my ends on the left side were thinning. So I had to trim my hair and lost almost all my growth from the stretch. I was sad at first but I got over it because after my trim my hair looked much better. I trimmed my hair myself because my original hairdresser does not work there anymore so I had to have someone new relax my hair. She did a good job but I still don't trust her yet with trimming my hair.

Under my wigs my hair is in about 12 braids. I part my hair into four sections. I put two braids in each of the front sections and four braids in each of the back sections.......that's 12 right? lol I was always a little slow at math. Hold on let me double check........ok I was right that does add up to 12 lol! I didn't cornrow my hair simply because I suck at cornrowing lol! I know that I need to just keep trying and I will get it one day but my head is too big and my arms get so tried. I will learn how to cornrow when I have a daughter which is no time soon so I have awhile to learn.

Since I have been wearing the wigs I find myself moisturizing and sealing my hair every other night instead of every night. I do the greenhouse effect(I will do a post later this week explaining what this is if you don't know) every night and this seem to be keeping my hair nice and soft.

I also only wash my hair every other week now. I washed my hair this past sunday and used a protein deep conditioner.

I will try to post at least once to twice a week from now on. I cant leave you guys hanging like that again lol it was just rude. Pics coming soon!!!

Also let me know if there is something else you would like me to post about!!!

Blah Blah Hair talk

So I have been cutting back on taking so many pictures of my hair on wash and co wash days. When people look through my phone (even though no one should be going through my phone cause they don't pay the bill...) it looks like I have some weird crazy love of hair. I can take probably 15 pictures of hair in one day just getting different angles and lighting.

I wanted to see how my ends were looking because well detangling they felt a little thin and I know that I am due for a good trim in may if I end my stretch then.

These pictures were taken when my hair was 85% dry ( my roots were the only thing really wet still). I had already put my leave-in conditioner in (cantu-shea butter) I am almost done with this product so a review will be coming soon. I had also did a light protein deep condition on dry hair. After looking at the pictures I feel like I will need about an inch taken off which is not that bad because my last trim was about 6 months ago. Sorry about the lighting but when I transfer pictures from my iPhone to computer they mess up a little bit. The top picture on the left shows one half of the back portion of my hair. As you can see the ends are not as blunt as I would like they come to a point which is not too bad. In the picture on the right I am trying to show where my waist is and how far away I am. From just looking and not really measuring it I would say I am about 5 to 6 inches away. So if all goes well I can be WL in early 2014. But my goal for this year is to be at full MBL
with a blunt cut.

 

Pardon the naked back lol!!! But yall know when doing your hair it can get a little hot!!!! Let me know what you think of my hair and how your hair looking after detangling???

See ya next post!!!! HHJ



 

Different relaxers and different people

I was looking through my pictures that I took of my hair and I realized that some parts of my hair are telaxed(unprocessed) and some parts of my hair are relaxed bone straight. At first I did not realize why my hair had different textures, but then I realized it was because different people were relaxing my hair.

Two of the four people who relaxed my hair were at the same salon and used the same relaxer but the time that they let it sit on my hair was different. One lady did not let it sit long enough so I was left with some textures to my hair which I dont mind but it does get annoy when I am air drying my hair and the bottom half of my hair has waves the middle it bone straight and then toward the top I have some more textures because of my new growth. Smh and I have also realized that no matter who relaxes my hair the middle will never get bone straight and I am ok with that.

The point of this post is to stick with the same relax and method. Even though even relax can relax a person's hair bone straight you may have to use a different method.....such as a longer or short time to let it sit on your hair, or smooth it more.

Here are some pictures of my hair will it is air drying. How you can see what I am talking about?

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