Reply: Worst Hair Experience Thus Far!!!! :(

I was reading through my old posts and found an entry that I forgot to reply back. I talked about how my hair was really dirty and the dirt was getting on my face, or so I thought it was dirt. It was actually the hair color I put in right before getting my sew-in. Before I got the sew-in my hair was brown, but the way I wanted my hair to be done my real hair had to be black. I wanted to have black hair with red tracks at the bottom. So in order to have that style I had to dye my hair back to black. I bought bigen oriental black and it was such a pretty color and very dark. I followed the directions exactly, but I guess because I got the sew-in the same day as the color there might have still been residue from the color. I know that when you color your hair it starts to fade so that might have been the case. I didn't give my hair enough time to remove the excess color. Well now I feel much better knowing that my hair actually wasn't that dirty, but it annoys me that it was the bigen that was running down my face.

I'm not sure if I'll use it again. If I need to make my hair black again I think I'll just buy a rinse, and I'll only use the bigen if I want it to be a permanent thing.

~~PèÂçĚ, ŁoVë, and HãŘmØňÝ~~

Original Post

Starting Over

Hey beauties!

It has been over a year since I last posted. I know that is really bad, but I have checked up on the blog to see if I got any new comments. And I have gotten a few but they all had to do with the Diva Smooth post I did earlier. I still haven't tried it, and like I said I probably won't until I find more reviews on it. I personally feel like it is very expensive, but then again I'm not natural and I'm living on a college student budget so I can't afford to buy products like that. Diva Smooth probably isn't the product for me, at least for right now.

As of what has been happening with my hair for the past year.... It's grown.... Not to the extent that I would have liked it to grow but it has. I'm past shoulder length. I think I need 3 more inches to reach Armpit Length. I then probably need another 2 inches or so to reach Bra Strap Length. I've seen so many ladies reach their hair goals within a year time span and I have yet to do that. I might not have been motivated enough to do it or maybe I just wasn't careful enough. I've recently noticed that many of my products have protein in them. I could have had a protein overload for the past few months and not even known it.

My hair has been breaking and shedding and I had no idea what to do. It could have been due to my long stretches or because I didn't have enough moisture. Whatever it is I'm going to fix it now.

I am starting my Healthy Hair Journey all over.

I am making a commitment to myself to do more research and to post more about my hair. I tend to forget what my regimen was when I wear braids or a sew-in for a long period of time. If I start fresh then I can come up with an entirely new reggie and have it documented.
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What Did I Do with my hair this weekend:

• Prepoo'd with Profective Mega Growth Lotion and Africa's Best Oil for about 5 hours (no heat)
• Washed with Organix Revitalizing Pomegranate Green Tea Shampoo
• Protein Deep Condish with Silicone Mix for about 4 hours (no heat)
• Moisture Deep Condish with Organix Pomegranate Green Tea Conditioner for about 4 hours (no heat) [DON'T DO THIS: I'll write about my experience soon]
• Air dried for the rest of the night

Because I was cleaning my apartment while air drying my hair I forgot to wrap it up [shame on me]. For church today I just put my hair in a bun and curled my bangs [yes in my relaxer regimen I said no heat but i have to have bangs and I cut them frequently so I feel like I can use heat on them more often than the rest of my hair]. Right now I am going to go eat and then moisturize and seal my hair and scalp because they are so dry.


This is a picture of what my hair looks like now. It looks like I need a lot more than 3 inches to reach APL but I had a lot of shrinkage because I just took it out of a bun when I took this picture and I have a lot of new growth. You'll be able to see the true length when I get my relaxer in the up coming week or two.

What's my Hairtype?

Since I have started taking care of my hair better I have noticed that my curls have more definition and are growing faster. But my question is, what's my hairtype. I always thought i was a 4c but I'm not really sure. My hair is supper thick and my new growth tends to be hard to comb through.

I recently took out my sew-in and my hair has grown a lot. So last week i decided to take pictures to show you gals and see if you can help. (And it seems like this has also been my first post in like a year so I am supper sorry about that!!! ::crying::)


This is my hair dry:



































This is my hair when it was wet: