Since reading SBH book I have been very aware of the state of my hair. I have not relaxed again and I think I am about three months post, In fact lets just say that I last relaxed the 1st June 2011. I am not excited with the three months as I have bee here before. I just can not wait for six months to arrive again so that I can start to really enjoy the challenge of transitioning.
So far `I have learned, on refection, that my hair being course and wiry does well with gentle heat to help me manage the density but not very well with air drying and flat ironing. I have an unbelievable amount of breakage on my crown from the bad relaxer I had before my last. I left it for about five weeks before correcting and air dried it lose to try and keep breakage down. Hair always all over the floor I knew something was wrong, however it was not until I tried to air dry a roller set that I really saw the damage as there seemed to be lots of short hairs within my long hair all over my head. My ends are pretty good with just the odd split end but inside my dense hair I would say I have 80-70% breakage at the point of that relaxer application.
I have also rediscovered the very curly tight 'O' type hair on my crown which tends to be the worse for breakage and when fully natural, knots. I have neglected this area and have decided that I am going to maintain my transitioning hair through gentle blow drying only. I only use heat which feel comfortable against my skin and I hold my damp (not wet) hair taught as I dry, concentrating on the roots mainly.
To of set this new addition to my regimen I have decided to try and use less products so that I do not have to wash so often. I mean I have dry scalp and dry hair, so really I am only washing off what I put on my scalp, so to keep my scalp clean I will not add too much product.
I have also been on a search for a creamy leave-in and I found it! Cantu Shea butter Leave-in. £5.50 for 500g, a good price and it offers moisture and heat protection. I used this on towel dried hair before I went to bed, ignoring my healthy new growth. Then I spritzed my roots with water in the morning, added my nexxus heat protection spray and divided it into small sections for blow drying. The result was lovely soft hair that was not weighed down of stick straight. I plan to moisturise every night wear my hair up as it is getting quite long now and can get in the way.
Products:
Shampoo- Nexxus moisturising shampoo, Kelate for clarifying before a protein treatment.
Conditioner- Nexxus moisturising conditioner (managed to get 1 litre very cheap) HSR for pre-poos.
Protein-Nexxus Emergencee my hair loves protein! pree poo GPB if I feel it needs a boost.
Leave in- Cantu Shea butter, this contains glycerin so I hope that it will work well with water spritz.
Moisturiser- water bottle spritz (mineral water)
Sealant- coconut oil, moisturising in its own right and soaks through to the cortex leaving opportunity for further moisture.
Style- NO heat and protective styling, buns, trying to avoid hair bands, pincurls.
Wash every two weeks prepoo and wash day before, sleep in four loose pincurls with leave-in conditioner. Blow dry in morning, moisturise nightly, hard protein every six weeks.
This should save me money too as I have been washing up to twice a week and slapping heavy products on as if there is no tomorrow.
Good news in that my hair is now 21 inches long, only three inches left until bra strap! Six months!
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