So I was reading my favorite hair blogger's website: www.justgrowalready.com [because we're both transitioning to texlaxed, even though she is much farther in her journey. Also, her hair looks absolutely perfect to me, you should look at her blog :D
She posted about how she successfully did all her hair goals for the month, and so I've decided to actually write mine down. I usually succeed, because my goals are pretty basic and simple, but I really want to have something written. That's also why I started documenting everything I do to my hair on this blog: so I will know what works and what doesn't.
My goals:
No heat: not even the 'once a month' heat I usually do--this is to prevent me from forgoing washes to keep straight hair. [I *can* moisturize my hair when it's flat ironed, though. It seems like most people can't??? It works perfectly fine for me, even with a liquid moisturizer, and my hair stays straight AND detangled.]
Cowash hair whenever necessary: Be that once a week, twice a week, or every other day. If my hair doesn't feel mositurised, I will cowash.
Learn what hair feelings mean: I want to learn exactly what every texture, every feeling of softness, fullness, etc feels from my hair. If my hair feels particularly poofy, what does that mean? etc etc. I want to be able to correct every problem as it happens so I don't have to worry.
Protein once a week: Unless it does any serious damage, I want to up my protein. I had a pretty good hair journey in the beginning where I used mostly ApHogee products, I thought it was because of the PH, but since I make my own products now, I know that's not necessarily it. So now, I'm upping the protien as much as possible. Eventually, I'm going to buy coconut milk and that will also be part of a home made treatment [right now, I use ORS Hair Mayo and / or ApHogee Keratin 2 minute Reconstructor].
Finish up one product: I'm trying to get rid of them, so I'm going to try and completely use at least one of these way-too-many products, at *least* so I can use the container for something else.
If I get black tea, I want to do a black tea rinse once a week, AND a honey prepoo once a week. I've been using less honey for two reasons: I'm almost out of what I bought 7 or so months ago, and because it lightens hair and I can tell. If I do the black tea, it should darken it, and I want that. Plus, I want to do henna treatments once a month or so in the future, and I'll want my hair to be extremely dark so I'll only have a slightly red glow [cassia doesn't last as long, and indigo is a separate treatment, I don't want to do two. I won't mind the red--I love black and red [fav colours!], I just want to minimize it]
Alright, there it is~ now, since I'm documenting everything I do, I just moisturized and sealed, so here is what I did since it was slightly different. My hair was still very soft and had movement, but it didn't feel moisturizer [I only used coconut oil on the wet hair, BAD decision because it's more of a moisturizer than a sealant, at least for me.] , so I did the LOC method.
Liquid: My water/aloe vera/ApHogee pro-vitamin leave in [that's in proportional order. I added the protein because my hair hasn't been holding on to moisture, and that's usually the reason].
Oil: Coconut! I'm thinking of mixing coconut and grape seed oils if this doesn't work.
Cream: raw shea butter. I was doing a mix of whipped shea and so much other stuff, but even that didn't work. This is the second most creamy thing I own. If it doesn't work, this method probably just isn't for my hair!
I've heard of people doing LCO, but the shea wouldn't let my oil get through. No way.
~~Healthy hair everyone!
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