Deep Condition Day

It is so time. I have been doing my deep conditioning in braids for 2 months now, and I finally took my hair down and applied my ORS hair mayonnaise piece by piece. It feels so good. Currently I  am 11 weeks post relaxer and my hair is manageable thanks to the GHE I have been doing every night for 2 months. It is very cold out and I am afraid my hair will be dry under my wigs so I made it my business to keep my hair moist for long periods of time (overnight) in the braids that I have been wearing under my wigs.

I see length retention in the 2 months of not combing my hair very proud of myself....

Protecting my Mane

My last post was in September and since then I have been protective styling. I wore a weave for 6 weeks and than a wig for 4 weeks my hair has been in and out of braids, I have been cowashing and doing the GHE. I have not measured my hair in a while, but I can see that it has grown a lot and pretty fast.

I still have a problem drinking water and taking my vitamins, but soon I will get with the program because I am super busy and those vitamins will help with my energy level.

Update I am still not BSL and I have been on a hair journey since Aug 5th 2012 which is about 2 years 2 months... this really sucks I should have cut off my hair in the beginning and never visited the hair salon those 2 times in my journey, because the breakage I suffered was real. I don't think it makes since to take this long to make it from shoulder length to BSL clearly there is a problem... but I will keep trying to get there.


New regime will follow...

Relaxer update August 2014

I relaxed my hair toady at 16 weeks, and I am not happy that I am not BSL. I did experience shedding and knots but that is because I have been wearing wings and not combing my hair much from root to tip. I started using Aphogee products more in hopes of strengthen my hair to prevent breakage and decrease the thinness.

I don't know if BSL is in the future for me if I keep caring on like this.

A weave installation is in order for 2 months!!!!

2 year hair growth anniversary!

Aug 5th was my 2 year HHJ anniversary. I am still not BSL. When that date came I did not feel like making an update because I know that I was not at my goal of BSL, so what was the point in doing it. My hair is thin, it is not where I want it to be, and I am just going to have to deal with it.

Reasons why I believed this happened

• I stopped taking iron pills for months
• I barely take my multivitamins
• I have been busy and stressed working 3 jobs and going to school online

My solutions

• I now take high potency iron pills daily
• I purchased the gummy multivitamins (the candy taste makes me take them)
• I am developing myself and learning how to become more organized (through reading books and research)

We have 4 more months left in this year so I only hope and pray that I make it to BSL before the year is over with the little changes I have made so far.

Wish me luck!

Wild growth oil review

I have finished my first bottle and now on to my second. For the next 4 months I plan on buying and using this product because BSL is still my goal and I haven't made it there yet. Once I reach BSL I will definitely wear my own hair out for much longer periods.

I haven't done a length check and I do not plan to until my 2 year hhj anniversary in August but by then I should be at my first major goal ready to move on to my next.

I shall keep you posted...

My tentacles

Decided to just let my tentacles breath for the day. They are getting long under my wigs,  I just hope that it's all progress to BSL. I think I will continue with wigs until my birthday I just don't want any set backs from wearing my hair out.

BSL here I come... wild growth oil please give me 2 inches!

Just some hair talk

I have been using the wild growth hair oil for only a few days and my roots are getting so, so, so thick. It has gotten to the point where I grabbed my calender just to see how many weeks post I am. I am only 4 weeks post. There in  no way that my hair has gotten this thick in just 3 days of using the oil. It does have a medicine smell like everyone claims but I am sitting in the house so It's not a problem. But, did I really start growing new hairs already is what I am concerned about. This is just between you and me, but if I have started to sprout hairs in 3 days of using this oil I will never let wild growth hair oil leave my side ever in life this will be my staple scalp oil for years to come.

So, yesterday I decided that I was going to stretch my hair a little with detangling and grapeseed oil to see how far I have to grow to get to BSL (my goal was to make it there by April my birthday) and to my surprise my hair looked way longer then it did the week before. I don't know if my eyes are playing tricks on me but if I make it to double digits on my length check t-shirt I will jump for joy lets make no mistakes about that. To my knowledge I am somewhere around line 8 at the moment. I have been doing my best to nurse my hair back to heath by decreasing the shedding, dusting my ends, and fixing my porosity issue (ASV rinse which will be in a up coming blog). The goal for me was to make sure that without a doubt I was keeping the hair that is already on my head, well on my head and to just grow from the roots to gain length.  I claim BSL at line 11 on my shirt. Line 10 is the top of the bra strap and line 12 is the bottom  of my bra strap, I don't want to meet the top of the bra and scream BSL!!!! no, I want to be right on the bra at line 11 if I grow below it great but line 11 is my short term goal right now and if I am at line 8 that means I need only 3 inches. According to the reviews that's about how many inches people grow after finishing the bottle using it 3 times a week.

I am just going to stop this long blog here and hope for the best.

Wild growth hair oil?

Well I have purchased it and have decided to give it a go. It has been 1 year and about 8 months now,  and I still have not made it to BSL. I  have noticed that my hair was not the strongest and was breaking a bit more then it needed to in my journey,  but now that I feel I fixed that problem by not using heat so often,  deep conditioning, hot oils, and hiding my hair it should have no choice but to grow to BSL now. I plan to do a length check before I start using the oil and after the bottle is finished and hoping that this bottle can give me what I see raved about (2 or more inches in a short period of time).

Hiding my hair under wigs since January was my way of not seeing my hair and playing in it for a long enough time so that I can actually see length. I will not flat iron my hair on either of these length checks because I am on a heat free challenge at the moment,  but I will make sure that the length is visible the best way I can.

I plan to apply the oil 3 times a week until all gone. Form the size of the bottle it may last a month or a month and a half we shall see.

8 days have gone by...

Low low manipulation is the name of the game. I have not touched my hair since I relaxed it. I sprayed it ounce with a little water and conditioner to moisturize and sealed that in with coconut oil without taking down my braids and I was good to go. I said I was planning on keeping my hair up for seven day in  these 2 braids and I sure did. Now on to my wig of choice for this month.

Put my hair away for 7 days!

Well, It's a new month so let me just take a week break from my wigs and wear my hair. Well, the best way for me to wear my hair at this point is braided. I wanted it off my shoulder and tucked away so I went with my fav. Hairstyle the Halo braid. Keeping it in for 7 days exactly,  then I will proceed to wash and pick the wig of my choice for the month of march.

P.s my bald spot has not gotten any better I will just except defeat at this point.

Relaxed @ 9 weeks

The deed was done and I don't really care for  it I guess I have to wait to wash it because it is so flat. I have decided not to flat iron it when it dried and I did not blow dry it neither, because a special someone (my puppy) decided that he wanted to eat the cord of my hair dryer. So, currently I am on a no heat challenge by force because in no way am I about to but a new hair dryer at this time.

I relaxed with the Amla relaxer and deep conditioned over night with the conditioner, my creme of nature conditioner and Aussie 3 minute miracle. I was not playing. For this upcoming month I will start to focus on adding more protein to my hair because the relaxer took a bit more then I wanted to and I know there was some overlapping done so fragile, fragile, fragile is the name of the game.

Look out for my upcoming post on my March wig selection.

7 weeks post!

So, here I am 7 weeks post and still doing the aggressive growth challenge to BSL. I started in January at 3 weeks post and here are my roots now. Yes, it is a lot of new growth. Just to recap I have been hot oil treating my hair with almond oil, deep conditioning, taking my iron, biotin 10000mcg, women s one a day multivitamin daily,applying castor oil to my scalp and doing the inversion method one week out of a month and I am currently on my second month, and finally GHE a few nights out of the week... I hope I didn't miss anything, Oh, yes wearing my wigs for 3 weeks at a time not manipulating my hair but keeping them in these braids underneath. 

I posted what number my hair was at on my legnth check shirt last week and it was at line 7 with these thick roots, so I am really curious to know what number I am truly at when I stretch my hair on relaxer day.

Giving it a try!

So, as you know I am doing an aggressive hair growth challenge to grow to BSL and there has been and will be many days where I just sit in the house and do nothing, but study for my state boards exam and play around on the computer. I have now added an additional hair growth technique that I don't believe will hurt the process in anyway so why not try it. It is the GHE, green house affect. While I lounge around the house I can keep my hair moisturized, so currently I have on a plastic cap and 2 bonnets. I slept like this over night woke up with moist hair, took them off and let it dry a bit throughout the day. Now that I am back in bed and don't plan on doing much today I put all 3 head garments right back on. This could be the norm for me from now on since I have not landed the nursing job that I so desperately seek. I have all the time in the world to GHE.

Currently doing an experiment!!!

So, as you know I am in the middle of an aggressive BSL challenge, taking biotin, a multivitamin, doing castor oil scalp massages, the inversion method, and almond oil hot oil treatments. To help keep up with the progress I have decided to braid a portion of my hair and will not upbraid it by any means. The purpose of this is to measure how much growth I get in a month.

Update on wig challenge!

I have become super aggressive when it comes to hair growth. I am tried of being at the same length and want to grow past my plateaued length. So, in addition to my 3 month wig challenge I will incorporate growth aids and strategies.

 

1. Message scalp with castor oil daily(mini castor oil challenge for 3 months)
2. Inversion method after castor oil message (mini inversion method challenge for 3 months)
3. Hot oil treatment with Almond oil (mini weekly hot oil treatment challenge for 3 months)
4. Take 10,000 mcg of biotin daily, with routine multivitamin ( mini biotin challenge for 3 months)
5. Drink drink drink water daily (helps with the biotin, and stay hydrated from the inside)

 See you guys in April with BSL hair!

4 month wig challenge

I have 5 wigs and I will be rotating them! It is winter and yes, I have plateaued in growth and its time to grow passed this length so, here is the plan:

Primary goal = Grow to BSL in 4 months! (Line #12)

1. Maintain 4 plaits in my hair under wigs
2. Wash and deep condition every week in 4 plaits
3. Moisturize and seal nightly
4. Do not trim,  Do not relax hair
5. Only unravel and re-braid  if needed
6. Air dry and use hood dryer to dry braids after washes

That's it. It will be simple and I will not fuss with my hair. This will be great for me because I will get to not see my hair for a period of time and when the 4 months are up I will reveal my hair with a fresh relaxer and flat iron... and that's all she wrote. 

So long since an update!

Updates on my hair

1. I started co-washing again (herbal essence hello hydration, and Vo5 conditioner)
2. I keep the weave install in for only 4 weeks couldn't make it to 6
3. I purchased new products to try with my hair
4. I am currently 6 weeks post
5. I am experiencing little shedding and very happy about that (started after co-washing, this is why I plan to co wash my hair until the end of December, shampoo free!!!)
6. I plan to relax at 10 weeks!!!!
7. Plan to wear wigs through the rest of winter (when it gets colder, January and February!)

Hair updates!!

I have weaved my hair for my senior pictures. I pretty much used the hair off the wig I created, washed it, cornrow braid my own  hair and sewed it in. My sew in is very full and barely sheds so I am happy with the results. I plan on wearing this hair for 4 weeks, if I can make it to 6 weeks I will be even more proud of myself because that would mean I kept my hands out of my hair for 6 weeks.. this is a challenge in it's self because I love playing in my hair, but at the moment I don't have time to so I am pretty sure I can make it to the desired 6 Weeks.

Wish me luck!

Relaxed 8 weeks

I have been so busy I forgot to update.... well I  relaxed my hair at 8 weeks post and I feel like my hair is not growing. I don't know what to say I deep condition and I keep my hair and scalp clean and moisturized and still not much of results to report. I was hoping to make BSL in one year to a year and 1/2 time but at this rate it don't even look like that is going o happen. Below is a picture of my one year and my one year and 2 months hair growth progress....

not much to hoot and hollar about!

New keepers!

I decided to wash my hair today, one day earlier than I normally wash and I am happy I did because I got to try out new products. So happy with my results that these products will now replace 2 products in my regimen for good. I used the Aphogee Deep Moisture Shampoo and the KeraCare Humecta Conditioner. Let me tell you, my hair is thick and the more weeks post the thicker it gets, well these products have my hair soft like butter and laid nicely. My new growth is soooo manageable it is not a joke. As soon as I put the KeraCare in my hair it began to instantly detangle my hair. I sat under the hood drier for 15 minutes and than played on my computer for about 2 hours with it sitting in my hair.When I went to wash it out... man oh man was every strand soooooo soft. Then it gets better, I divided my hair into 2 sections and applied the Aphogee shampoo and it smelled so good, it worked into a smooth lather so quick I was shocked. I proceeded to rinse it out and not one bit of my hair felt stripped. My strands glided through my hands like warm butter.... keepers!!!!!