A Lesson Learned

I realized that I have to have patience with my hair. Reading Curly Girl by Lorraine Massey made me think about my detangling routine. Usually I get so aggravated/frustrated when I untwist my hair and start combing my hair. Everything hurts because I start tugging and pulling and eventually knots are gone but I'm left with split ends. This probably happens to those of us with lack of patience but that can deeply hinder our ability for hair growth.

update on hair regimen

I did a twist out today and my hair looked so good that people noticed. :) I also put a little bit of baking soda in the spray bottle. Today I sprayed my hair with my special concoction and used the tips of my fingers to massage my scalp. i purposefully scratched my scalp after doing this to see if there was any residue left over. There was none and it smelled nice!

My hair regimen for the first 3 weeks of May

I'm doing something different with my hair this month. Starting today, May 1st I will be leaving my twists in for 3 weeks. I have never done this before, but I read somewhere that Jill Scott does this, she, however gets her twists professionally done, but I do it myself. I will be using a spray bottle half filled with water with a quarter sized amount of Kemi MOYST No-soap shampoo for dry damaged hair with possibly a table spoon of witch hazel to clean my hair when it gets dirty or after sweating from playing tennis. Every day I will be using BB Moisturizing Growth Lotion. This is going to be hard. It's my ritual to wash my hair every Friday/Saturday and just thinking about not washing my hair makes me itchy.

Growth Specifics

This product produced by growth specifics and some people have witnessed growth in only one week. This product is called Boundless Tresses Growth Serum.
It costs $12.

http://www.growthspecifics.com

Hope this helps.

I really want to buy this too, I stopped being a product junkie awhile ago but I really want this.

Hair Butters

I found cocoa butter, avocado butter, mango butter at http://www.africaimports.com. I couldn't get a picture because they wouldn't allow me to copy it, oh well. To find the hair butters go to categories on the homepage and click on health & beauty and then lotions and butters and finally natural butters. I can't wait to buy some products in this online store, hope you guys find something you like. Enjoy.

http://www.africaimports.com

not happy

I have some terrible hair issues. I talked about Amla hair oil and how great it was for my hair because it made my hair softer and manageable, but the side effect I found is that my hair shrinks more and more because of it. When I wake up in the morning, one side of my twists is standing up or something and it's hard getting it to stay down. I get frustrated because I don't find myself attractive, and I look like I'm wearing a wig because it doesn't look like it's my hair, lol. I don't know what to do. I don't want my hair to be the way it was before but I have to feel attractive/look attractive to me so I can focus on more important things.
I actually need to trim my hair because I have a lot of knots and split ends. I'm not gentle with my hair :-( .
I'm going to tell you something. I don't feel girly in the least bit. My mom is not really a good example of a feminine woman. She is balding pretty badly and she wont stop perming her hair!! She never really knew how to do my hair, (she made me feel so ugly with her braiding styles). She bought my clothes as a child and I felt unattractive because she would buy unattractive adult clothes that children don't wear, it caused a lot of teasing among my peers and even friends.
Anyways, I'm going to try to get a new fashion style and/or hair style.