Pictures with my hair rambles!

I've been told that I need to add pictures several times now, so here you go! This is the picture from the very last time I'll ever get a relaxer, and probably one of the last times I'm ever going to get my hair done at a salon. Now that I've started taking care of my own hair with my home made products, I see absolutely no reason to let bad stylists cramp my style.

These were nice, the curls were a bit tight for my taste. Funnily enough, this is what my hair looks like when I use curlformers. What my stylist didn't tell me was that they accidentally texlaxed my hair. So now I'm transitioning to texlaxed instead of dealing with them. I was going to wait until I graduated, ho hum, now I have to find out how to replicate their texlax so mine will be even. SIGH. Anyway, I'm going to start with the ORS relaxer system. I was going to use Affirm but I make very little money with my three jobs, and I'm a college student, so a fourth is out of the question. :S

This next picture is from one of the days I washed, airdried in two buns, then did headband curls overnight. It turned out alright. I realised, though, that my hair is a lot longer than I thought. I could never tell since I'm always curling it so it doesn't dry out and get frizzy when I air dry.

I'm covering my face because I have Moroccan red clay on my face that is half dried and half wet; I looked like a broken doll. Figured no one wanted to see that :P. I haven't taken many pictures recently because my hair has been good so long I haven't thought "I need to take a picture of this!".

I added the LOC method to my nightly regimen, and I bought curlformers yesterday.

LOC: Holy crap, so I did the LOC method with the three comb method and when it finished drying my hair felt like someone had flat ironed it at a salon. [I say someone because I'm pretty bad at flat ironing my hair, and it wouldn't have felt this good.]  It had tons of movement [a gust of wind blew it so much I put on a hat!] and was so silky and smooth that it didn't irritate my neck or arms when it brushed against them, and my skin is sensitive. Very soft, indeed! Sad thing is, my hair was dry again by the end of the day. I think I might need to do it twice a day...how is my hair this thirsty? I can accidentally put too much coconut oil on and my hair will have *completely consumed it* by the next morning. I'll figure it out! It's a journey, after all. Actually, my hair seems to LOVE leaving in heavy things even though I'm [mostly] relaxed--I accidentally didn't rinse out my conditioner two washes ago and my hair had never been softer, and never for so long [it stayed soft until my next wash!]

Curlformers: I'm still getting the hang of them, I'm pretty sure I need to buy more [but I'm so poor :(], because I have to put MUCH more hair than I'm supposed to on any given section, and that makes it difficult. It goes perfectly fine when I put the correct [2 cm approx] on the rod. Sigh. #poorhairproblems. Either way, they turned out amazing this morning, I got many-a-complement. I can't smooth out my ng, but I got most of the texlaxed hair. I just don't have enough to really get them close to the scalp, my sections just have to be too big.

So, here are some more pictures from my hair journal--mostly from the end of last year.

Hair when I moisturised and sealed, then let it airdry in a ponytail: [Bad]

It gets rather dry when I do that, like I didn't moisturise and seal at all. The ponytail looks nice because it doesn't actually frizz up like when I do it on freshly washed hair.

My hair airdried in two buns, this is what it looks like when I take it out of the bun [You can see the newgrowth I had peaking out the top there, :D]:

My go-to overnight style Headband curls [will probably be replaced by curlformers]:

 My go-to 'didn't like the way this turned out, need a quick fix' hairstyle Pocahontas braids/twists, I used a foam roller on the bang:

Note: while these are all from different times, every time aside from the first is after I had done my own hair, washed and everything, not just styled off a salon visit. Red means it's something I need to stop, or to work on, or to fix. The texlax itself isn't bad, the fact that I didn't do it myself, so I'm going to need to work with making three textures of hair blend together and figure out if I want this hair to be a bit more 'laxed' or not. I think I want the middle-back section to be a bit straighter, because it's curlier than the rest, which is awkward, then I'll try to keep up the texlaxing on the rest of my hair. I need to figure out how to keep my hair moisturised for multiple days [I'm going to do it every other day anyway, now that I have curlformers. This is to minimize breakage, and to keep my ends protected by being curled up/in instead of vulnerable. The airdrying out thing was a bad decision. I wanted a thick ponytail, but I should have let it dry in a bun first, then combed it out, or something else. I like bungs more than ponytails now, anyway.
Well, there's a rambly update with pictures! Hope you enjoyed it!
Next DIY article will hopefully be about my hair wants, if I get them: I want black tea and coconut milk. I'm running out of the thing I was using as a protein leave in, and I'm going to eventually run out of protein DCs from my old PJ days, so I really want coconut milk. Black tea helps with shedding, and will make my hair colour go back to being the shade it started off as [very dark black, but the honey lightens it to a dark-brown], so I'll feel less bad about DCing with honey.
Feel free to leave a comment if there is anything you want to hear about, or if you have any question.