Did my mother's hair last night!!! Also, see my hair in a mostly-natural bantu knot out!

Last night my mom, who is a serious relaxed head who dislikes managing her natural texture, finally asked me to help her with her hair for a new [free] look.  She normally rocks a ponytail, a salon Just-Relaxed and Flat-Ironed look, or long braids.
I'd offered to do it for her before but she's always gone to other family members or just waited and paid for a salon visit. It's been a few years since I got up on my hair game and she recently saw me with four flat twists and made a comment on how she wanted to change up her hair. This past week, she asked me to show her how to do the twists, but she didn't seem very confident in trying. I told her I could rollerset her and she decided she was willing to try it.
So, while she played Backgammon [I think...might have been Pachisi, I wasn't paying much attention] I conditioned and roller set her hair.
I've been really bad recently, you guys. Like, cones and nonCG all over the place since I ran out of my conditioner and we  lost all my coconut milk moving out of my dorm [though, I found a can this morning!!! I'm planning on trying to get back into it some time at the end of this week with a serious cleanse and then restarting. Sigh.]
So, on my mom's hair, especially since she doesn't care about cones or anything, I used the following:

Process:

I dampened her hair with a bit of water to make it more malleable, then applied Hair One Argan Oil, to her strands and roots. I then slowly combed out her matted roots, taking care to not irritate her scalp [though, she said it was fine. I'm not sure if she was just being a nice mom, though!] I used my old broken Hercules Sagemann comb to detangle and followed up with some Garnier Fructice Sleek and Shine Anti-Frizz serum [have I mentioned my old room mate gave this to me? It smells great...it's good if you're doing a flat iron / don't care about cones week, but I prefer Paul Mitchel Super Skinny] then I followed with my modified Denman brush. It did like no damage to her hair, unlike mine, so I ended up doing every section this way. I want to say I used about 9 sections.

• Her hair is severely broken at the crown, all the way up to the natural hair. The fact that her natural hair is fine means the relaxer is doing serious damage to her hair, which is especially obvious because of how incredibly thick her natural hair is. It's a much more dramatic shift than mine [mainly because her relaxed hair is pretty thin], which I had previously thought was pretty damn dramatic.

After detangling and smoothing, I set her hair on Curlformers and it took her hair about 2.5-3 hours to dry. I didn't even know hair could dry that fast! Anyway, she took it out and it looked great. We fluffed it up a bit with out fingers. It's actually the same style she gets from a salon, so she liked that...but what she said after is what really surprised me. She said "Whoa, it's so soft."

I know this might seem weird to you, but I've never heard my mom remark on the quality of her hair, just the look. She seemed to really appreciate how much more manageable and soft it was, so my Ultimate Plan (tm, right?) To Get My Mom To Do Her Own Hair [not including relaxers, if she still wants those, I can see how hard that'd be to do to your own hair.] is underway! So, we'll see how well this continues, how long her hair holds onto the moisture, etc.  Unfortunately, I'm not posting a picture because my mom doesn't like her info on the web! Sorry!

As for me, I did an overnight bantu knot out and ended up with a curly fro. I felt like being glamorous so I applied my homemade tinted lip balm and took a picture. It was not this shiny when I originally applied the balm, but I think my skin warmed it up and made it shinier or something. Here's a pic to make up for the lack of one above:

It's weird to see the results of something I used to do with relaxed hair look so incredibly different. Here's a pic of an old overnight knot out on relaxed hair: