Keep It Straight

As if I needed further proof that Manetabolism works.... Left is hair after my last relaxer on April 25th 2015. Right is my hair right after I got a little snip happy in March. The results are pretty clear to see. My hair is thicker, about an inch longer and what's really awesome for me....that damn inverted U looks like it's been filled in! I'm really glad I took pictures to keep record. I didn't think my hair had moved an inch during that month...but obviously it had. This month I'm working on getting the top of my hair to grow faster and stronger. I'm moisturizing it as a group and trying out ways to not tie it up with the others. So mostly some variation of a victory roll and braids. There are a couple of pictures on my instagram of styles I've tried. I plan to get better with practice. So try this challenge out for yourself.  Take the pills. You can thank me later.

So I had a very successful wash day. I think I've finally found a winning combination of products that work well for my hair. So yay! I also got a brand new pair of hair shears....the use of which leads me to my Manetabolism Challenge  A weapon of good or evil

OMG I think I may have stumbled on my ideal wash day routine.... maybe even two versions of it.

I've had such good results with the Hairveda Sitrinillah deep conditioner that come black friday I decided to add a little smnsmn to the list. Red Tea Moisturizer. It took some getting used to but I'm so glad I bought it.

I'm trying to be serious with this wash day log because I've realized I don't always remember which combination made my hair look good. So every week is a surprise. Wish me luck! New Products :  Queen Helene's Cholesterol I remember using this product when I was home as a deep conditioner. My hair never really liked hot oil treatments (or at least the hot oil treatment they were using) so instead I would deep condition with Cholesterol.  I was looking at pictures of my hair back then and it was full and rather healthy so something must have been going right. Right?

Every relaxer session is an opportunity to try something different in my quest for the (quasi) stable hair routine.  For this stretch I worked on length retention...so making sure my ends were well moisturized, trying to keep them away from clothing and scarves and deep conditioning every week.  I tried to extend that practice to my relaxer prep. 1 Week before relaxer. I applied both a protein conditioner and moisturizing conditioner for my deep condition. I used Hairveda sitrinillah on my new growth and put Cantu on my ends in a effort to strengthen them before relaxing.  Market consensus is that relaxers break down the protein in your hair in order to get them straight. So you've got to do what you can to fortify them. Of course this made my hair a little extra dry that week so I had to up my moisturizing and sealing regime. I switched to 70% castor oil mix. 3 Days before relaxer I started prepping my scalp and already relaxed and texlaxed str...