Wash day | Moisture & tea rinse #week4

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This week’s highlight was same as last week moisture and tea rinsing

[1] Sectioned hair in 4 and pre-pooed with coconut oil, each section was then braided.

[2] Put hair in heat cap for 30 minutes, and detangled

[3] DC on dry hair with Vatika Deep Conditioners (Contains henna and almond oil) and a bit of glycerin, used heat cap for 30 mins, and detangled

 [4] Shampooed hair with HEHH Shampoo mixed with walnut oil and diluted

 [5] Tea Rinse with ginger tea

[6] Applied Luster’s Conditioner for 5 minutes and rinsed out (needed to finish off a sample)

 [7] T-shirt dried hair for 45 mins.

[8] Sprayed Aussie Hair Miracle Insurance Leave in and coconut oil to each section and left it to air dried for the whole day.

[9] M&S with ORS Carrot Oil and a serum. (L = leave in O = coconut C = Carrot oil O=serum method)

[10] During the weekend I wig’ed it, my custom wig is not making me happy at all, I will have to get it unravelled and redo, it doesn’t sit well, the hair doesn’t curl well, the closure is losing hair…not a happy customer at all! :-( see below how the same hair was as a weave and then as a wig.

Left: current wig, the length is uneven, clearly no thought when
wig was being made regarding lengths of the hair and how the hair was
laying, plus there is a hump on the wig, I 'll stop there.
Right: Weave

I PS my hair on Sunday for the week, but oh dear my hair was dry by Monday, I took down my PS and my hair was still saturated with moisturiser but it was dry! So I bagged my hair for 3 hours on Monday (girl on holiday) still was dry after. I saturated my hair with Aussie leave in and then PS it. It felt ok for the day. This morning it was still ok-ish…but I don’t think it will be fine come tomorrow….what is going on??! Winter is gone my hair should be bouncing with moisture!

Weekly PS, before take down.

I will be protein treating (mild) my hair next wash today or TODAY if I can squeeze in the time. From reading last week’s post I had complained about dryness after changing from Aunt Jackies to Vatika Conditioner. Also my serum is rather oil and it has most likely expired, so that has gone. It could be a moisture protein imbalance…

Next week’s wash day will be protein treatment time.

How was your wash day?

Happy Hair Journey’s Ladies! :o)

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Fitness Friday| 10K I did it…well!

So my fitness activities have not been the best for the past 2 weeks, at the most I have been running once a week, boohoo.

Last weekend I was talking with the office coordinator who is training for a walking marathon, actually happen this Saturday night! As my last gift to her as she embarked on this 7 to 8 hour walk was to join her for one of her works from work back home. Our home route is the same for the first 5K then we branch off.

For the first 5K, I walked with her steadily not wanted to cause any injuries before the big day. Then after the 5K mark I ‘zoomed’ off and jogged the rest of the way home.

I had not really looked at my app tracker till I got home (an hour and a half later) but I had covered 11K and burnt over 990 calories (less call it 1000 :p)

I was super chuffed, I had been so scared to even get this far, the furthest non-stop run I have done was 7K and at the 7 mark my mind went in overdrive and my legs then turned to jelly….instantly! It was the realisation that I had been running continuously for over 50 mins.

Now that I know I can run from work to home I will definitely be doing this more often! The views through the parks are amazing; I have never really appreciated it!

This fitness Friday I have definitely won the battle with my mind! Even though I did not run 10K continuously, after doing this I could so do it! #yay me!

Happy Fitness Friday! :o)

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Technique Thursday |I have no time for a HHJ

When I look at people’s hair progressions, I think, man I should have started this healthy hair ages ago! However when I did start researching wow the level of information and time it appeared to take, was so overwhelming.

I have now started a hair journey and after months of doing what my hair crushes were doing, I soon burnt out…Saturday morning was a full working wash day. The prepooing, that you started overnight, shampooing, tea rinse, jump out the shower, remove excess water, DC for 3 hours, jump back into the shower, rinse out, ACV rinse, t-shirt drying, leave in, roller setting, sit under hooded drier for hours then M&S, three times a day, after it’s gone part Saturday midnight you are done! Phew!  

Then you see others are doing this twice a week! Boy can it be intimidating, plus all the exotic hair products that you have to get!

You will be happy to know you can be on a ‘lazy’ hair journey

Wash Days

1.       These don’t need to be done bi-weekly, once a week will do just fine

2.       DC on dry hair, this avoids jumping in and out the shower

3.       You don’t have to DC hair for 3 hours, with heat 15-30 mins will do just fine

4.       You don’t need to do the tea rinses, ACV rinses, aloe vera rinse every wash day

5.       You don’t need to roller set your hair every wash day

Your wash day can be as quick as this

Prepoo (15mins) >> DC on dry hair 15 - 30 mins with heat >> Shampoo hair >> T-shirt dry >> leave in and air dry.

M&S can be minimised to when you hair needs it and bag you hair at night to retain the moisture, can also count down the times you M&S.

Personally in between the week I protect style for the whole week, so hey, I don’t even need to comb my hair!

As for products, you don’t need the whole shop floor

1.       An oil – for you prepooing and sealing

2.       Shampoo

3.       Moisturising Deep Conditioner

4.       Protein treatment

5.       Leave in conditioner

6.       Moisturiser

7.       Heat Protectant

What tips and tricks do you have that have helped you through those lazy times?

Happy Hair Journey’s Ladies! :o)

 

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Wash day | Moisture & tea rinse #week3

Prepooed with coconut oil; DC with Vatika; shampooed with Elasta QP and walnut oil
diluted with water

This week’s highlight was same as last week moisture and tea rinsing

[1] Sectioned hair in 4 and pre-pooed with coconut oil, each section was then braided.

[2] Put hair in heat cap for 30 minutes, and detangled

[3] DC on dry hair with Vatika Deep Conditioners (Contains henna and almond oil), used heat cap for 30 mins, and detangled

 [4] Shampooed hair with Elasta QP crème and conditioning Shampoo mixed with walnut oil and diluted

 [5] Tea Rinse with ginger tea

[6] Applied HEHH Conditioner for 5 minutes and rinsed out

 [7] T-shirt dried hair for 45 mins.

[8] Sprayed Aussie Hair Miracle Insurance Leave in and coconut oil to each section and left it to air dried for the whole day.

[9] M&S with ORS Carrot Oil and a serum. (L = leave in O = coconut C = Carrot oil O=serum method)

[10] During the weekend I wig’ed it and then PS for the week on Monday. (This is my new customise made wig, I will be reviewing it shortly, for now here are a few pictures)

The closure is a 3 part closure, am using the side parting,
The wig is SL. more details and better pictures soon

3 week post relaxer, at this stage I am not expecting to have much new growth, however I have been having dry feeling at the first inch of hair from my scalp. My thoughts are my texlaxed hair texture was more under-processed than usual and this hair is mimicking the behaviours of NG. Also my hair is missing the intensive moisture it got from Aunt Jackie’s. The bank of my hair is LP and leaving out the glycerine/honey from my conditioner is very evident.

Protective style for the week, loved lasts weeks a bit too much

Next week’s wash day will be similar to this week’s, but in between I will be working on moisturising my thirsty hair.

How was your wash day? Why don’t you join the wash day experience linkup with SOS and Just grow alreadyevery Wednesday.

Happy Hair Journey’s Ladies! :o)

 

 

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Technique Thursday | A section here, a section there

The one thing I have learnt on my hair journey to minimize tangles and subsequently detangling time, as well as making sure all my hair strands get enough hair product is by doing everything in sections.

Wash day – I always carry out my wash day in 4 braids

·         This helps me minimise detangling time

·         Gives me smaller sections to work with

·         Makes sure I get product on all my strands.

M&S – 6 months into my hair journey a lot of the hair at my crown and back fell off because my moisturiser was not getting to it. Since I started working in sections, I swear the hair at the back of my head has improved.

·         Helps with detangling

·         Helps making sure all my hair gets enough product.

Dealing with hair in sections makes it easy for me to inspect the health of my hair on a regular basis.

It’s Thursday! Head over to Relaxed Tharaipy for more tips and tricks for your hair, or share your hair tricks!

Happy Hair Journey’s Ladies! :o)

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