Hair Diary #5

Okay you guys so this post is like a week late BUT it’s always better late than never lol. Okay so last week Dec. 13^th was my wash day. I’ve decided on going back to weekly washes and will only do every 2 week washes if I’m like very very busy. I just realized hey I can’t do that because my black tea rinses need to be weekly for a while to help with the shedding. So yea I ended up going back to my weekly wash days.

So last week I made another homemade DC just trying new things I guess you could say. I mixed in a bowl some yogurt, honey, VO5 strawberry & cream moisture milk conditioner, small amount of smoothing mangosteen yogurt vitamin conditioner (finishing it up), olive oil cholesterol, amla powder, avocado oil, almond oil and castor oil and applied it on dry hair. Once the DC was completely saturated on my hair I held my head over the tub and poured the black tea rinse on my hair concentrating mostly on my scalp then to the rest of my hair.

This is what it looked like :  

After this process I put the shower cap over my head and a regular grocery bag. I watched a movie, got on YouTube, facebook etc and fell asleep lol. I no intentions on falling asleep this time but it happened oh well EXTRA moisture for me ha-ha. So in the morning I washed my hair out. It left my hair feeling really silky and strong at the same time. While it was still pretty much dripping wet I applied my leave in conditioner to my hair KCKT (Kinky Curly Knot Today) which I need to buy more because I’m very low. Then added a small amount of my favorite butter which is Macadamia nut butter to my hair and put it in twists. After I finished the twists I got some castor oil out applied it to my scalp and every twist.

Later on that day when I took my twist-out  out it was so pretty and very moisturized and my curls were seriously popping like so crazy. I have a few things in mind to do with the castor oil. In the upcoming months I’ll be trying a few things with it. Today is my wash day again and my curls are still intact and haven’t started to frizz yet I’m so loving it. If you haven’t already tried out some castor oil on your hair and let me know how it does for your hair. I used Home Health but any will work if its natural/organic ex: Jamaican Black Castor Oil. Until next time..!! J 

Hair Diary #3 Black Tea Rinse

Hey you guys!!! How’s everything? I know it’s been a long time and sorry to keep you hanging, but now I’m back. On my previous hair diary post I told you guys I twisted my hair up and besides my Knot Today leave in conditioner the only other product I had in my hair was Coconut Oil. Below I will post a video I did the next day of my Coconut Oil only twist out results.

So the twist out lasted longer than expected. There was a death in the family and the funeral fell around my hair washing day so it didn’t happen lol. I actually wore the twist out for a full two weeks. That’s long for me because I’m the wash my hair every week type of girl. Believe it or not though I liked it, it gave me more time of a style and a break from a whole day or half a day of washing my hair every week. So lately I’ve been washing it every 2 weeks instead of weekly. I think this may only last during the colder months.

Besides that I continued to DC (regular homemade) on dry hair and still LOVING it. I’m actually quite mad I stopped to do it on wet hair. Uggh!! It is such a breeze.  I finger detangle a little bit before I apply the DC to my hair. After it is fully applied to my hair I add my black tea rinse. This by the way is making a tremendous difference to my hair shedding. I will post pictures below showing you how much shed hair I got detangling while my hair was dry and also detangling in the shower every 2 weeks.

I keep the black tea in two of these bottles so it's easy to pour out without the mess

This was the 2nd go around after the trimmed ends and this is my shed hair of  the week (L-R) Dry, In the shower

This is the 3rd go around the hair in the hair stopper is shed hair of 2wks in the shower and on the side is dry

Shed hair from the hair stopper taken out and the dry detangling

I also added another new thing into my regimen. I did it on my last wash it is called the hair smoothie. It consists of Avocado, Banana, Coconut Milk, Egg and Honey. I will be using this hair smoothie probably once a month so I will use it again when I wash my hair next week. It is like a medium protein treatment so if your hair loves and needs protein give it a go, If not this may not be for you. I will post her video where she shows how to make the smoothie and the benefits of each item included in the smoothie.