Thursday, December 31, 2009

Hair Plans for 2010

My house is in order after a super cleaning spree yesterday. I think I went clean crazy. I put on the music and got to work. When I was done, I was ready to relax and browse the hair boards of Long Hair Care Forum. Then I began thinking about all the hair challenges I have signed up for. I have signed up for a total of 5 challenges. All of them work well together. Although I'm still trying to work out some of the kinks for one. Here are my challenges and this should be fun to see how I fair in them.

Challenge ONE- Valentines Day 2 Month Challenge
This challenge has already begun in fact it started on the 14th or 16th of this month and I have been trying to be diligent in this because I believe that I may be able to graze bsl by the end of this challenge. I am truly hoping that this will be the case. What have I been doing for this challenge?

Drinking half a gallon of water daily
Taking my Woman's One A Day and Kelp Vitamins
Moisturizing and Sealing my ends 1-2 times a day and Bagging at night
Protective styling with the exception of Christmas Day and SO's B-Day
Washing once a week

Although I have to admit that I have not DC in about two weeks which is probably why I have resulted to the Baggy method. I do not condone it as a substitute I imagine that if I deep condition and add bagging to compliment that then my hair would probably flourish beyond what I could imagine. I've just been very very lazy lately especially since school has let out for winter break.

Challenge TWO- 4 Month Ayurveda Newbie Challenge
For the past few months I have been researching Ayurveda practices and herbs as well as checking out the threads on them at longhaircareforum.com. I really like what I saw and had been seriously thinking about trying it. Especially since my hair really likes Henna and natural products. When I saw the sign-up thread I couldn't let it pass me by. My current regimen will change when I start this challenge in about a week.

Challenge THREE- 2010 Braid Challenge
This is the challenge that I have been trying to work the kinks out on. I am beginning to be hooked on twists and honestly after the hide your hair challenge I am beginning to grow tired of fake hair. The only thing with this is that I still have enough hair to do two sets of micro braids which could last me about five months. I also don't see myself just braiding my own hair without fake hair. To get myself prepared for this challenge I have been trying to wear my own hair in protective styles. I know eventually I will get tired of my hair and probably will end up braiding it with fake hair unless I can find something more interesting. Sorry for the rambling I'm just trying to figure out how I want to wear my hair. I probably just need a new braid book that always inspires me to go back to them.

Challenge FOUR - 2010 Super Healthy Ends Challenge (Both Sessions)
Although the challenge has not begun I have already begun. This is where the baggy method comes into play. Every day I have been moisturizing my hair with water and cantu shea butter leave in conditioner (review coming soon) 1-2 times a day. Then I seal my ends with unrefined shea butter (the yellow kind). At night after I moisturize and seal I put a plastic shower cap on my head and wrap my hair with a satin scarf. Doing this for the past few days has revived my ends from being hard and crispy almost crunchy to soft and silky. I love it and I don't think I'll ever stop doing it unless my hair tells me to stop. Please do keep in mind that there is a such a thing as too much moisture. Hair can become mushy and the best balance for that is protein. If this were to ever occur I would probably switch out the cantu for a protein leave-in conditioner I have and skip the baggy when I wrap my hair until my hair got back to normal.

Challenge FIVE - 2010 MBL
The Ultimate Challenge for the year. Middle Back Length is the length I hope to be by December 2010. Why? Because I finally graduate from College and nothing, I think, would go better with my cap and gown then long MBL hair. This would be awesome. When I first started thinking about growing out my hair this was my long term goal and APL was my short term goal. Since I started going on to Long Hair Care Forum I have made the goal of APL twice. Once during my transition and now that I am natural. With a little over an inch to BSL, this is my new short term goal, I think I can really make it to MBL by the end of the year. Wish me luck.

Those are the 2010 Challenges at a glance and I need to go eat and get ready for this evening's festivities. So HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! and I'll chat with you all in 2010.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Happy Holidays!!!!

Hey everyone. I'm back officially now. I've finished a Hide Your Hair Challenge which is one of the reasons why I haven't posted any pictures as of late. So I do have a lot of updating to do. So I guess you can look forward to my review of the Softliss BKT which I'm currently not wearing for several reasons I will discuss in another post. But first before I get into what I've been doing over the last few months let me share the progression of my fro and the length of my hair now. Sorry for the shoddy pics I really must invest in a digital camera.

a comic strip!

Also coming in 2010 I have a few surprises I'm working on for this site and my other site.
Stay tuned for updates and reviews.