In the hair community using carrier & essential oils is being most advised to use when you want to grow your hair. Growing your hair by incorporating oils in your regimen is a good thing, but how do you go about it?
After 20 weeks of stretching it’s time to relax my hair
Yeah boooy *flavorflavvoice! 20 weeks of stretching my relaxer is over and I can finally relax a.k.a. texlax my new growth.
Wash day | Which conditioner to use?!
wash day which conditioner to use
In the morning I was all gassed up for my wash routine. I started my day with going to the gym and do some groceries. When I came home, I start thinking of which products to use and there is where I got stuck. Because of my last week wash routine I wanted to make sure that I only used products that have moisturizing elements.
Step 1 Shampoo
I enjoyed using ApHogee Deep Moisture Shampoo last week, so why not using it again. This time I didn’t part my hair in sections. While I was shampooing my hair I made sure to really focus on getting my scalp clean. My work-out in the morning had my scalp sweating. After two rounds of shampooing I rinsed my hair with lukewarm water. Before I get ready for the next step I cover my hair with a t-shirt and t-shirt dry my hair for 20 minutes.
Step 2 Conditioner
Normally I know which conditioner I want to use, but this time I was lost. You know that my focus is on moisturizing my hair. So with that in mind I had to use Creme of Nature Pure Honey Moisturizing Dry Defense conditioner. To give the conditioner an extra boost, I added some oils (Castor oil, Jojoba oil and Peppermint oil). In sections of four I applied the conditioner to my hair, concentrating on my new growth, nape and edges.
Without heat I let the conditioner sit for 30 minutes.
Step 3 Leave-in
Let’s continue with using moisturizing elements. After t-shirt drying for 30 minutes I applied Creme of Nature Pure Honey Knot Away Leave-in Detangler. Although I don’t need help with detangling my hair, I like this product because of the thickness. Concentrating on my ends I applied the leave-in to my hair and sealed with Jojoba oil.
I didn’t have any plans, so I just combed out my hair and let it air dry.
Wrapping up!
My wash routine started a little bit off, but baybey at the end my hair felt sooo good. I really believe that adding the oils to the conditioner really gave my hair some extra TLC. During air-drying I ran my fingers through my hair and let me tell you. My hair felt so soft and thick!
Which moisturizing conditioner did you use lately?
Wash day | May 14!
For the last two weeks I have been wearing my wig as a protective style. I’m trying to leave my hair alone and protect it from the weather. So far I’m holding on. Before I started with the protective style I did a protein treatment, two weeks ago, to strengthen my hair. I planned to wear my wig for another 3 weeks – I hope I can manage, after a while I miss my hair – .
At this moment I’m 18 weeks post relaxer
Pre-poo treatment
For a while I wanted to do a pre-poo ‘oil’ treatment with my steamer. I applied vitamin E oil mixed with a little bit of Jojoba oil all over my hair and scalp. Normally I would use Castor or Coconut oil, but I wanted to try something different. I used the Huetiful Hair Steamer for the treatment. After the treatment the front of my hair felt soft, but the back felt a bit stiff – weird -, I need to play with using Vitamin E oil for a pre-poo treatment-.
Wash day | February 14!
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outine for relaxed hair
Wash routine for ‘relaxed‘ hair
[1] My hair was dry as #@$!. So I started off with a pre-poo treatment by using Olive Oil. In sections of three I applied the oil to my hair and scalp. I did the pre-poo treatment for like an hour without heat.
Relaxer | January 10!
With every stretch I tell myself that I won’t go further than 18 weeks post, but here I’m again at 24 weeks post relaxer. Don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with stretching for a long period of time – I have been doing that for the longest – but I wanted to try something different and see how my hair will react.
With every stretch my focus has been with retaining my length. At times I’m still dealing the extreme breakage and split ends. Like sometimes I will talk to my hair and ask “Can I get a break?” and living in the Netherlands doesn’t help either – the weather is pissing me off- but on the positive note, I’m happy with my new growth. I’m transitioning from relaxed hair (bone straight texture) to texlaxed hair (semi straight hair).