Hair Thoughts: Longhairdontcare2010

I'm sure you guys have already heard of this lovely lady with her gorgeous waist length natural hair (If not look her up on YT). She is definitely my number one inspiration. I stopped relaxing my hair around the same time she did, and It kinda burns because I would probably be where she is if I had not relaxed.

I really like her methods and I will definitely be adopting some of them once I am natural. And maybe even during my transition.

I love her braids and I love braids period (on natural hair w/o extensions even better). So those will definitely be a staple for me when I am natural. Also I like the idea of using the blow dryer once a month to make the hair easier to handle and to stretch out for braiding.

My hair held up very well with blow drying when I wore my hair out as a natural. I did it about 2x a month and followed with my maxi glide. And by end of three months all I really had to trim was 1/4 of an inch which is not bad at all.

Also I remember that when I wore braid extensions (for about half of my natural journey) I only washed my hair (in the braids) about once every 3-4 weeks. And my hair still grew healthy and strong, also there were NO problems with dryness or breakage after I removed the braids... which I kept in for three months at a time. I did moisturize daily though... with a braid spritz and/or water, and I also had an oil spray.

2 and 1/2 years of growth from my last relaxer and I retained about 14 inches of growth (crown area). The shortest area was about 10 inches, and this was at the back of my head which had been purposely trimmed to slowly get rid of layers.

So yes I am already contemplating my regimen for when my hair is completely natural.

Grow Hair! GROW!!!

Hair Thoughts: Stress or MT... ugh!!!

So I have decided to eliminate Mega-Tek from my 100 Day Challenge. I washed my hair two days ago and while I was detangling in the shower as I usually do I noticed that I had lost 2-3x as much hair as I usually do (should have taken a pic... the hair is still in my bathroom trash bin but I'm not about to dig in there and take it out. lol). Yikes!!! It just kept coming out. :-(

I really don't know if it was solely the Mega-Tek because I have also been extremely stressed out over the last week or so. And I had a stress blister on my lip to prove it (which went down 2x faster than it usually does... I think because of my vits and such).

So I really don't even want to risk trying my Mega-Tek mix again. Because I couldn't stand to lose that much hair again. I was balling... and my hair is already thinner form breakage.

Sorry Mega-Tek. I might give it another shot one day.