This has been all wrong!

I've come to the realization that my whole regimen is WRONG. I have been putting nothing but proteins, proteins and more proteins in my hair. I'm suffering from an extreme protein overload. So for the rest of the month I will not apply a single protein to my hair. I will co-wash with a non-protien conditioner, hot oil treatment with honey and evoo and moisturize with a non- protein moisturizer and seal with grape-seed oil. I'm very discouraged bc I just really thought I was doing so good when it came to my hair, but I was obviously mistaken, So I will be trying my best to reverse my damage. I will make a new blog about what takes place on this particular wash day on the day of.....

I've decided to stretch this next relaxer till 16weeks Part 2:

For the next wash day, I finally purchased the greek yogurt to complete my "concoction"
 and added it to my previous ingredients ( greek yogurt, coconut milk, avacado, honey, olive oil and I also have now added my oil mix to it as well. this oil mix consist of every oil I own, this makes the the concoction less dense)...

This was purchased from Whole Foods 

My results produced looser curls, shiny and soft hair. I love this method and its perfect for ladies who are stretching their relaxers. This "concoction has become my STAPLE, as I am stretching this relaxer to 16 weeks. I love it I love it I love it! Ok here are the PICS...

I've decided to stretch this next relaxer till 16weeks Part 1:

I had originally intended on stretching this next relaxer from 1-12-12 till 3-29-12.. But I've come to the conclusion that I would like to relax every four months.. My new growth is definitely in the building! So I began to research so methods on controlling and loosing up my curl pattern, because my hair doesn't get the typical kinky that most get once it's time for a relaxer. It get extremely CURLY... So through my research I found that coconut milk and greek yogurt help to loosen the curl pattern. The first time I tried this, I only used coconut milk (I hadn't purchased the greek yogurt just yet), honey and evoo. The initial results were great...


Before:

As you can see the hair is laying down on my scalp after I added the coconut milk, honey and evvo. I let this sit on my hair for 2hours, 1 under the dryer and the other hour just under a plastic cap.

After:

My curls were softer and more loose, the results were great. I'm excited to see how the greek Yogurt will enhance my results.

My first attempt at a roller set 2-16-12

Each style I am interested in I learn how to do, so this particular week it was a Roller Set... This was actually a lot easier to do than the cold wave roller set. The results were cute the only issue was I should have just worn it curly instead of wrapping it and the rollers could have been tighter because I really need a relaxer!! But all in all I was happy with the results....

Feb 2-8-12

I was feeling very ill, it seemed as if I was coming down with the flu or something. But my 25th Bday was on 2-9-12 so I had to get up and do something to my hair. I decided to apply heat ( I dreaded to do it, but I hadn't done a full length check since I relaxed). I absolutely love to wear my hair straight what better day to wear it that way than my BDAY!

Process: 

• I co-washed with VO5 Clarifying Conditioner
• Black tea rinsed
• Deep conditioned for 2 hours with Silk Elements Luxury Moisturizing Conditioner ( One of my staple products LOVE LOVE :))
• Sprayed Aphogee Keratin and Green Tea Reconstucturizer ( A new staple)
• Applied Cantu Shea Butter Leave-In Conditioner
• I placed a drop of Proclaim Argon Oil Hair Treatment ( Another new staple, gives great shine and and softness)
• Placed a drop of Chi silk infusion ( I'm going to have to try this again to see how much I loved it, it was hard to tell)
• I sat under the dryer for about 15 mins
• I blow-dried  the rest
• And I flat iron with the Her-Styler the very best flat iron EVER

Products Used

The Best Flat ( In My Book)

Process from beginning to end I was happy with my results and SWANGING my hair on my BDAY :)

Feb. 5, 2012 Wash Day

Hi, Boo's! I have been QUEEN of procrastination for the last two weeks, I will give myself a pass because school is back in and in effect. It's my last semester as an undergrad so I must finish strong. I decided to just  do about 3 or so different blogs detailing my most "memorable" washdays since the last time I blogged and today... I specifically set aside the time today to do this. So lets get to it! On my last blog I stated that I wanted to try the coldwave roller set, I was getting so discouraged because I kept getting the wrong size roller and the beauty supply store workers were so rude.. I was just beside myself. So I decided that although Sally's are expensive they are the better way to go. You don't have to worry about asinine policies (as far as returning and exchanging) and you can even try out there products, if you don't like you can return. So I came to the conclusion that you get what you pay for. So the rollers that worked for me are the short white rollers ( I will post a pic).. It probably took about 10 bags or more for my whole head. I really should have counted specifically... But I did however take a picture of ALL of the roller once I had taken them out... 

This process was quite a tedious one, it took me a whole 2 HOURS to complete, I didn't quite get a rhythm down so I was just kind of all of the place with the direction of the way I was applying the roller to my hair. The curls came out beautifully however I didn't quite let them get as dry as they could have and I also didn't master how to get the rollers secured in my head really tight, so its obviously going to take some practice. But I made it through nevertheless.

Products I used:

• I co-washed with VO5 clarifying shampoo my absolute fave thing in the whole world
• Oil-rinsed for 2 hours with grapeseed oil
• Acv- rinsed for 3 minutes
• Sprayed Keratin and Green Tea Restructurizer ( new to the stash and another new love of mine, it leaves the hair so shiny, strong and healthy looking and feeling)
• Applied a squirt of Creme of Nature Argon Oil wrapping lotion
• Cantu Shea Butter Leave-In Conditioner
• I sealed and moisturized with- Elasta QP Mango Butter Moisturizer and avocado oil ( I chose avocado oil because it's really light and doesn't weigh the hair down. It is an excellent oil to seal with when you actually have your hair in a style)

As you can see from the picture on the far right the curls didn't really hold up, but it turned out very cute, and I was pleased with the results overall.

First Wash Day of Feb. My Bday Month!!

HAPPY FEBRUARY! Such a Great month it's my late Grandfather's Bday month as well as mine and this Bday is somewhat of a milestone, it's my 25th birthday kind of bittersweet. But nevertheless I'm blessed to have reached this age (well to have almost reached this age my bday is Thurs.) Ok on to HAIR, my only passion these days ( I know it's sad) lol but it's true....
 My wash day was Sunday 2-1-12, I would love to update on the actual days, but it never works out that way, I'm working on it! As I stated in my latest post I've had a major set back in my opinion on my last wash day. So I decided to revert back to my original regimen: only using shampoo on my hair once a month, and seeing that I am using MT I will monitor that to make sure that's enough, the reason I'm saying this is because I don't want to have a build up issue. So as of now shampoo once a month (clarifying shampoo), cowash bi-weekly, tea rinse weekly, acv rinse weekly, apply Neutrogena Triple mask weekly, shea butter weekly, honey treatment weekly, prepooing weekly. The whole month of Feb. I want to stay away from bunning because of the shedding issue, I really dont want to manipulate my hair every day. So on on my next wash day I'm going to attempt the cold wave rollers once again, I'm going to actually get the RIGHT SIZE rollers this time. I'm excited abt Feb! I decided to do a hard protein bc my hair was feeling lifeless and doing a lot of shedding. I want to work on posting pics of my wash days the day of, I plan on having this issue corrected by my next wash day. So here are the pics and a layout of what I did from my last wash day:

2-1-12


Wash day

• Prepooed with coconut oil under the dryer for 30 minutes
• Shampooed with Aphogee Shampoo for Damaged Hair
• Applied Aphogee 2 step Protien
• Applied Aphogee Balancing Moisturizer 
• Deep Conditioned with Silk Elements Moisturizing Conditioner for 2 hours with a hooded dryer

Styling

• Twist-outs
• Moisturized using Wave Nouveau Moisturizing Finishing Lotion
• Sealed with JBCO (Jamaican Black Castor Oil *absolutely love this makes hair feel like silk*)