Moisturising and Sealing

Now, when I started my hair journey, I always heard M&S, M&S, M&S. And trust me I thought I was doing it right but no way!!! I hair was not getting all its moist!! And I was just not doing it right!!

Today I watched Tracyee from KISS on youtube M&S her hair! OMG, thank goodness I did this, cause I kept on asking myself why my hair was breaking, turns out I was moisturising and sealing with only my sweet almond oil and using my carrot oil on top of it!! So so so wrong.

My tools, ORS carrot oil, sweet almond oil with lavender oil

This is now my revised process:

1. Section my air dried hair in 4 sections, using my fingers.

2. Then I rubbed some carrot oil on my hairs and started from the bottom of the hair and working up, then sectioned the hair again and moisturised it in all the areas.

3. After this I sealed my moisture with my sweet almond oil with a few drops of lavender oil.

4. After this I combed it through from the bottom first and twisted it back up as I completed the other sections.

5. When all this was done I put a little bit of the sweet almond oil on my scalp in each section and massaged it.

6. After I finished M&S I used my fingers and made a mid way messy loose bun!

My hair feels sooooooooooo soft and amazing! I am really enjoying my hair journey!

Final results

3 weeks post relaxer

I have been entertaining the idea if getting box braids for a month, might have them put in next week, and as I have some time, I will attempt to do this in my own!

Today was my wash day, wanted to have my wash day tomorrow but felt like today would be a better day.

I followed my usual regime minus the black tea rinse. I have ordered some rosemary tea and really wanted to try it out this week but it hasn't arrived yet!! So next week before my box braids go in.

1. I prepooed will my usual tresemme rich moisturising conditioner and sweet almond oil, this stayed in my hair for about 30mins.

2. I washed my hair with my tresemme low sulphate vibrantly smooth shampoo.

3. I mixed my ORS hair mayonnaise with some coconut oil and sweet almond oil and lavender essential oil and deep conditioned for about 2 hours as I did some errands.

4. I rinsed out the conditioner, and applied my S Curl moisturiser and home made water and conditioner spritz, and air dried my hair loosely for 3 hours then in a bun for the rest of the time. I will be M&S tomorrow.

As my tresemme conditioner is almost halfway I will be researching to see what to try next, I love the tresemme but as I am so early on in my hair journey, need to experiment with other different conditioners.

Hope your wash day was just as good!

April hair goals

Ok I have never done hair goals, but there is always a first for everything

1. Drink 1 litre of water a day, am bad with water, so need to get it down

2. Maintain weekly wash days

3. M&S every other day

4. Control my breaking

5. Research and understand on protein hair balance

Think 5 will be a great start. Wish me luck and hope I hold to it!!

Wash day - 2 weeks post relaxer

I am now exactly 2 weeks post relaxer, hair is still super manageable.

I opted to wash my hair and do a black tea rinse as well, so that I get the full benefits of it. This is what I did.

1. The night before I mixed my Tresemme Keratin Smooth Masque treatment with oilve oil, rosemary essential oil and lavender essential oil, to use for my pre poo. I applied it all over my hair and slept with a cap on.

Used for my pre poo mixture

Pree pooing hair overnight

2. In the morning I boiled 3 tea bags of PG tip black tea and let it cool down. (1 litre water)

black tea mixture cooling down

3. I then washed off my hair with my usual shampoo Tresemme Naturals Vibrantly smooth shampoo which is low in sulphates. 

my usual

4. I then put the tea in my spread bottle and sprayed all over my scalp and worked it through to my hair length.

5. After squeezing out the excess tea, I applied my conditioner to my hair (with the tea still on it) Tresemme Moisture Rich Conditioner. I then placed a cap on my head and washed it off after 15 mins.

hair with tea rinse after excess water was removed

6. I towel dried my hair. I spritz my hair with S Curl No drip activator moisturiser and my home made water and conditioner mix, and then processed to detangle my hair with a wide tooth seamless comb. I did not have much shedding just a little be of breakage, but not as much as I have been having.

towel dried hair after tea rinse

7. I roller set my hair and air dried my hair till it was more than 50% dry, then I finished it off with my hand held dryer.

Voila roller set

My seamless detangling comb

There you have it my wash day success story

NB: I am loving the black tea rinse, my hair has a soft feel to the touch, and my breaking has also decreased, I have not experience any shedding as well. I will carry out another black tea rinse next week and write up a review about it, but I feel it is really great.

Hair oil challenge

I was using sweet almond oil at the start of my hair journey, but it went a bit pear shape when I fell ill. So am now hosting a 3 month oil challenge (sweet almond oil, caster oil, olive oil, avocado oil, Grapeseed oil, basically the carrier oils)

Rules:

1. Moisturise scalp and message with oil every other day, or daily if required.

2. Wear hair in protective styles to retain length.

3. Take a length check picture at the start of the competition, and texture picture at the start as well

4. After 3 months take a length check picture and texture picture after 3 months

5. State which oil you will be using on you length check pictures on your blog.

Ok here goes, the starting day for the challenge is 1st of April, through to 1 July.

Lets do it together HHJ sisters!