You skipped so many posts this week, why?
School and summer break. Loads of plans :P
I've washed my hair twice since my last post, but it's been breaking a bit more and it's definitely extremely dry [but only when wet...:S It feels great when it's dry...]. It's *completely* failing the stretch test. It's not good at all. I've DC'd twice and it's not working out too well. I've tried protein and moisture. I'm going to DC overnight next. I think it's all the recent shampooing. I've been shampooing more often because I've been using products with cones more often [to get rid of them], and they build up, but I think I'm being paranoid. I have no real reason to believe there is any build up, so I'm going to stop using shampoo for at least the next week. We'll see what happens.
Anyway, both times I did a black tea rinse, the second time, I actually steeped the tea with hot water [I don't have much access to hot water here, so...] and it was much darker. Honestly, I don't think it was all that necessary. My hair did the whole 'feel dry when wet' thing a few people have mentioned, but it was already feeling kind of iffy. Either way, I'm going to go back to overnight steeping instead of hot steeping.
Whatd'ya use?:
I clarified with Ion the first time, ApHogee shampoo the second time, Silk Elements Megasilk to DC the first time, ORS Replenishing the second. The first time, I applied my normal, home made leave ins. The second time, I used coconut oil, then followed it with the ORS Moisturizing Hair Lotion [in the bottle] as my cream. [I don't usually do the L of the LOC if my hair has just been washed. I just count water as my L.] Afterward, the second time I did an ACV rinse [left it on for the length of my shower].
My hair feels great when it dries, but it feels strange when wet before I've done anything to it [even before shampooing!]. and I'm skipping a week of black tea because of that. I think I can do it every other week anyway. The additional breakage is my biggest issue. It's might related to the fact that I have had the black tea under the conditioner: it might be preventing the conditioner from absorbing, combined with the stripping of shampooing more than once a week, not a good combo. So....yup, my plans are → Black Tea rinse goes with ACV rinse, and will be the last step before LOC&airdrying. Shampoo once a week again, but give hair a break from it this week.
Side note: Man these Curlformers really get at my roots. I have 20 of them, and when I use them, my texlaxed and ng hair gets smooth enough to run my fingers through it, what!? Never thought that could happen. So...yeah...I've had no reason at all to want to use heat. I've even thought 'I could flat iron my hair, I haven't done it this month' and then 'Why? What would be the point of flat ironing? Why would I need to do that? Uniformity? Smoothness? Shine? Movement?' I have all of that already!' Wonderful.
At any rate, I've stopped the 3 Comb method for the most part. I don't seem to need it so much with the curlformers, but I do it on whatever sections need it [usually one or two out of the twenty]. Overall, my hair is still much much healthier than last year, it's just...more breakage than it had been when I was really doing well the last few months. Protip: if you don't have a way to set your hair, I'd recommend the 3 Comb Smooth method, otherwise, you probably don't need to start it.
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