Hair Styling: Playing around with Box Braids

I plan on wearing box braids when I'm natural so I was just messing around getting a preveiw of what it would look like. I did box braids on my hair ONCE when I was natural. lol Kept them in for a month. I really liked them, but I mostly wore braids with extentions when I was natural or a blow dried bun.

This is my temple area on my thinner side so it's looking pretty scalpy. But I still like them, and can't wait to do them on my fully natural hair. :-)

100 Day Challenge: Day 10 of 100

Today's Date: 6/22/10 (Day 10)

New Growth Measurement: 0.85-0.90 inches

Days Since Last Relaxer: 54

Next Update: 7/2/10 (Day 20)

Final Day: 9/20/10

Vitamins and Supplements:

• I will no longer take the Vitamin D supplement. I ran out about 4 days ago. I was only taking it because my mother had bought it and I though why not. If she buys again I may add it back in.
  
• I added CHLORELLA to my vitamin/supplement regimen about 4 days ago. I am at one gram per day currently, and will bump up to 2 grams per day next week.
  
• I have slacked on my protein shake intake. I only had 3 over the last 10 days. But I have been supplementing it with Think Thin low carb meal bars which have 20 grams of protein in one delicious bar (2 for $3 at Whole Foods)!!! The goal is to help boost my daily protein intake.

Exercise and Nutrition:

• I have been eating pretty decent but I could definetly make some more improvements. I want to up my daily veggie intake by one serving.
  
• I drink 60-80oz of water per day. I rearly drink juice (8oz or less 2-3x/week), and I NEVER drink soda.


• I have been slacking with my exercise. I had three cardio sessions over the last 10 days. Boo!!!

Hair Care:

• I washed, DC, and airdried my hair on days 1 and 5. I either wear it in a ponytail or bun.

The Pics:

• Sorry about not having pics of my new growth on day one. Shame on me :-(
• In the second picture the 3rd line from the bottom in the one inch mark. My wave pattern ends just a little before it. But I will not claim and inch just yet.
• In the 3rd pic the yellow line is about where my wave pattern ends.

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.

100 Day Challenge: Mega-Tek

So I dug up my old bottle of Mega-Tek that I ordered forever ago and never used. So I thought why not add it to my 100 Day Challenge.

I made a mixture (in a color applicator bottle) of about 60% Mega-Tek, 30% Grapeseed Oil, and 10% S-Curl. With about 25 drops of Tea Trea Oil.

I will be using this mixture on my scalp 2-3x a week. :-)

100 Day Challenge: Day 1 of 100

I got my vitamins on Friday so today (June 12th 2010) will be the first day of my 100 day challenge.

New Growth Measurment: 0.75 inches

Days Since Last Relaxer: 44
Next Update: 6/22/10
Final Day:September 20, 2010

Breakage!!!

So much for healthy relaxed hair. Mines Is far from it. This is a section from the crown of my head. As you can see the bottom half of my length is breaking off horibbly. This is one of the worst sections, but there actually are worst in places. Sigh. This is one of the main reasons I decided to transtion. My hair has been very resilent, but I just don't think chemicals are for me. My hair thrived when it was natural. It was beautiful. My relaxer days were fun, but I honestly regret going back to the crack. lol I am really going to enjoy rediscovering my natural hair over the next couple of months. :-)


My Natural Hair (Flat Iorned Reverting)

My Fear About Going Natural

Honestly, my only fear about going natural (again) is my love for long hair. My fustration with shrinkage, and waiting for my hair to get where I wanted it to be (length wise) is what made me run back to relaxing the first time around. So I'm condsidering maybe transitioning for and extra 6 months for a total 18 months. But I can see myself getting fustrated with the two textures and just wanting to chop the relaxed ends off. I guess I'll just have to see how I feel as I go along. I definitly wont be chopping until I have a solid 6 inches though.