Length check 10/28/2012

I took down my wig protective style on August 22, 2012. My hair has been out for a little over two months. I grow 1/2" to 3/4" a month so that means I had 1" or a little more of growth. I've protective styling mostly in updos and moisturizing one or more times a week.  Full reggie coming later.

Thanks for reading.

Quick Mini Update - 97 day old cornrows out

Please excuse the screw face. Taking hair pics
with an iPod sucks. I broke my digital camera. 

Hi everyone. I'm giving you a quick update on my hair. I took down my cornrows this past weekend and did  a twist out for work today. I didn't get to wash yet since I didn't have enough time. Don't judge me. :/ I'll have a more detailed post up when I wash this coming weekend. Now I have to fit this into my workout routine. I'll be keeping it reeaallll simple. Here are some pictures I took this morning before work.

I moisturized with Organics Texture My Way Curl Keeper. Great stuff, great price. I sealed with stinky Wild Growth Oil but my hair is soft though. The site does look janky in my opinion but that oil is good stuff. It never fails me. The only thing that stops me from using it consistently is the smell but I guess it's nothing some essential oils can't fix.

My hair was in about 10 to 12 twists. I had them in for about a day then took them out this morning. It was completely dry. I untwisted each one, gently pulling on them once undone to loosen them up a bit. After taking them all down I separated each section in two to give the style more body. I think I created some frizz but I accept frizz as part of being natural. It used to bother me a few years ago but now I just don't care because it WILL happen. It's the nature of afro-textured hair. This along with other characteristics, I've accepted about my hair. I don't hurt my head try to find solutions to too many things and my hair thanks me for it.

More later. Thank you for reading. TTYL.

ETA: This morning as I was getting out of the train station the rain was drizzling lightly. So I SCRAMBLED for my umbrella. I wasn't gonna let those drizzles ruin my twist out. LOL.

My Hair Journey

August 2011

I started my hair journey in the Spring of 2007, I believe. I wanted long hair for a long time but I didn’t know how to get there. When I first came to this country I would search online for natural hair care tips but never found anything I could really use, or maybe my mind was wasn’t prepared. I think it’s a little of both but more of the latter. Throughout the years I did relaxers and weaves along with other normal heinous acts toward my hair such frying, dyeing, and laying it to the side.

One day I wanted a change and got braids and when I took them out my hair had gained a considerable amount of length, as I normally hovered somewhere around shoulder length. I don’t remember how much length I had gained and wasn’t into taking hair pics yet but even my hairdresser said something after my relaxer. I do know I wasn’t APL though. So that prompted me to resume my search for hair care tips which led me to fotki and McElweewife. [Ya’ll remember her? I remember when she said she wouldn’t be around much anymore.] After watching her methods and one year progress at the time I decided that it was doable. I could get the same progress if I followed her regimen of wash and dc twice a week, and moisturizing, sealing, baggying my ends. I was then led to LHCF and BHM. I am so happy to have found her to this day as her progress was inspiration for my own hair journey.

Over the months I followed that regimen, then modified, then after reading about growth aids I hopped on band wagon after band wagon either failing or getting fed up of doing too much. I finally made it to nearly bsl after battling to get to apl and a scissor happy stylist cut off TWO WHOLE INCHES!!! After a few months I decided to go natural as my hair just didn’t feel right which I think was because of the bandwagons. I tried to do a long term transition but punked out after 3 months. 

THEN: - June 23rd 2008, 2am

I relaxed again January 19th 2010 after boredom and frustration with SSKs(single strand knots). I was APL(armpit length) but I instantly realized that I had made a mistake and relaxed two more times while weaving most of the time. September 2010 was when I decided that I was going to officially transition for as long as I can hold on to my relaxed ends and haven’t looked back at a relaxer since.  I can’t find all my pics but will surely update when I do but here are my last two updates. 

BSL (bra strap length)

MBL (mid back length)

Throughout this entire experience I've learned to stick to the basics and that less is definitely more. Leaving my hair alone and maintaining moisture, protein, and my ends have really given me fabulous results. It has been surprisingly easy working with my 13 months post hair.