Twist, Braid, Bun for Growth Challenge (1/1/13 - 3/31/13)

[g.lo]

ladies, I wanted to share this: I have been struggling with my ends for about a year. the past 2 weeks i have change the way i moisturise, I do it daily now and using the Loc method with a twist and my ends have done a U-turn.

I spray daily with my hair tea, apply a light oil ( i use gleau) and follow with a leave in ( bear fruit hair). when that done, i will gather the ends ( i work in 4 sections) saturate them with water or tea, and seal again with a butter ( hair bling), I am telling you my ends are smiling again!!!
i will do a last trim at the end of the month!

 

[faithVA]

ladies, I wanted to share this: I have been struggling with my ends for about a year. the past 2 weeks i have change the way i moisturise, I do it daily now and using the Loc method with a twist and my ends have done a U-turn.

I spray daily with my hair tea, apply a light oil ( i use gleau) and follow with a leave in ( bear fruit hair). when that done, i will gather the ends ( i work in 4 sections) saturate them with water or tea, and seal again with a butter ( hair bling), I am telling you my ends are smiling again!!!
i will do a last trim at the end of the month!

Sounds like a good system. Glad your ends are looking better.

 

[BraunSugar]

I washed my hair and did a PT. I'm letting it air dry. I guess I will put it into a ponytail. My longest layer of hair is sitting right at BSB. This is the longest my hair as ever been since I started caring for it myself.

 

[Shay72]

Tomorrow will be 2 weeks and I'm still getting compliments even though I think they are looking "rough". Imma try to hang for another week then do a twist out the 4th week. I'm supposed to wash on Sunday too.....

 

[MeowMix]

Hi Ladies,

Finger combing and checking in. I've been seriously MIA, so I'm just going to do this to myself. I have got to do some serious reading this weekend.

Hope everyone is doing well.

 

[faithVA]

Debating on whether I'm going to stay in the challenge or not. I think my scalp needs a mid-week co-wash. This cold weather is killing it. I will decide on Sunday before I put my hair back up.

 

[trinity8mod8]

I washed and restyled my hair today. It has been really difficult for me to leave my hair in the same style for 5 days because it had been dry lately and I was trying to find ways to moisturize my hair. So I did a deep conditioning treatment with avocado, olive oil, mayo, coconut oil and honey which helped me to increase the moisture in my hair a lot. I was finally confident enough to put my hair in small twists and I will try not to do anything to my hair except to moisturize and seal for at least a week.

 

[DDTexlaxed]

Been a little hard due to the cold, but still going strong. Afroveda Shea Amla has helped along with the Totally Twisted butter on my scalp. I sealed with Shima oil. Surprised at the moisture retention with the products.

 

[darlingdiva]

Tomorrow will be 2 weeks and I'm still getting compliments even though I think they are looking "rough". Imma try to hang for another week then do a twist out the 4th week. I'm supposed to wash on Sunday too.....

I did a twist out yesterday, but my twists were looking "touched." Do you have any headbands? I always rely on headbands to help me out during those periods.

 

[Atdow71]

I'm going to attempt finger coils today after my wash routine.

 

[NikkiQ]

I'm going to attempt finger coils today after my wash routine.

You know what? That is the one style I have never tried before. I'm too lazy to do my hole head.

Sent from my Android...Boom.

 

[faithVA]

Atdow71[/USER];17782983]I'm going to attempt finger coils today after my wash routine.

Let us know how it turns out.

 

[Atdow71]

Let us know how it turns out.

faithVA will do.

 

[Froreal3]

Still in my big box braids. I simply spritz every other day and seal with GSO/castor oil mix. I did a couple over in my crown area. I have crown issues.

I think next week I will do a mild protein then cowash them. They are so much easier to maintain than twists and buns for me.

I will probably keep them in another two weeks. They are so big and ***** they don't deserve to see the light of day...so under the satin cap and beanie they will stay. Lol

I may do a more presentable set next month.

Sent from my SGH-T959 using LHCF

 

[BraunSugar]

I deep conditioned on dry, unwashed hair. I am about to wash it and then figure out a hairstyle for my UpZing.

 

[Shay72]

I did a twist out yesterday, but my twists were looking "touched." Do you have any headbands? I always rely on headbands to help me out during those periods.

You rarely see me without a headband. To the point that my supervisor who is yt but has curly hair too asked "Will you be able to wear a headband when you get your twists?" . I have not worn one since I got them but I think it is time .

 

[FoxxyLocs]

One week down in my cornrows and they still look fresh. I'm planning to keep them for 1 more week, then rollerset and bun for week before braiding again.

 

[LilMissRed]

Just checking in/reading uour updates ladies :waves: I'm on week 2 of my twists. Ive been massaging my scalp nightly w/a shikakai herb oil and my scalp and twists w/ jbco w/ coconut
Ive been noticing less breakage and more length but Im trying not to get overly excited

 

[jesusislove1526]

I am in week 2 with my mini braids. For this 2 weeks, I rope twisted them with 4 braids for each section. For some reason, now I want twists, so I think I will alternate between mini braids and mini twists for this year. I know that I will not be able to cowash as much with mini twists in, but since I have been wearing mini braids almost exclusively since September of last year, I think I need to change it up sometimes.

 

[skyslady]

I am late, hope I can still get in....


This will be my starting pics.

 

[lana]

skyslady - welcome and your hair looks lovely! Keep us posted on your progress.


I'm about to wash my hair (after a week of wearing a twist out) then I'll deep condition, rinse - meaning apply a black rinse to my hair and then condition again, rinse with water and twist for the night. The only thing I'm doing that has changed is that I will use these little scrunchies at my roots to see if I can get my roots straighter when it dries. My roots tend to really dry BIG and POOFY. Other than that - I am so happy with my twist out style!

 

[Tibbar]

You rarely see me without a headband. To the point that my supervisor who is yt but has curly hair too asked "Will you be able to wear a headband when you get your twists?" . I have not worn one since I got them but I think it is time .

Shay72 I pretty much wear headbands every day with my twists...
I think I'm an addict...

 

[yaya24]

I TEXLAXED YESTERDAY AFTER BEING NATURAL FOR 3.5 years.

The stylist (who is also my friend of several years) used Design Essentials regular strength relaxer and left it in for about 12-14 minutes. No relaxer was used on my edges or my extremely fine nape area.

My hair is still big and full of texture.. I was going for more detangling ease and manageability.
From what I remember post relaxer rinse out, I'm more of a 4a now.. def not a type 3 anything, (which is not what I was going for anyway).

After the texlax I got a round brush blowout, a nice shaped up cut and then flat twisted.

I left the flat twists in until I went out Friday night. Then before bed I moisturized/ sealed then did 8 braids and used perm rods on the ends of each braid.

I'm back at SL.. but I like it. With the flat twistout, it looks like I am NL.. but you know its an illusion.

I plan on going back in 14-16 weeks.

2013 the year of the new newwwww !!!!!!!!! I am looking forward on still reaching my December 2013 goals. My terms. My

way.

 

[BraunSugar]

I YESTERDAY AFTER BEING NATURAL FOR 3.5 years.

The stylist (who is also my friend of several years) used Design Essentials regular strength relaxer and left it in for about 12-14 minutes. No relaxer was used on my edges or my extremely fine nape area.

My hair is still big and full of texture.. I was going for more detangling ease and manageability.
From what I remember post relaxer rinse out, I'm more of a 4a now.. def not a type 3 anything, (which is not what I was going for anyway).

After the texlax I got a round brush blowout, a nice shaped up cut and then flat twisted.

I left the flat twists in until I went out Friday night. Then before bed I moisturized/ sealed then did 8 braids and used perm rods on the ends of each braid.

I'm back at SL.. but I like it. With the flat twistout, it looks like I am NL.. but you know its an illusion.

I plan on going back in 14-16 weeks.

2013 the year of the new newwwww !!!!!!!!! I am looking forward on still reaching my December 2013 goals. My terms. My

way.

I hope your texlaxed journey goes well!!! Your hair looks nice!

 

[yaya24]

Thanks BraunSugar-
I hope so too.
I'm adding it to my prayer list.

 

[Saga]

A mini-twist set I did earlier this month: curly Bob

 

[Shay72]

@Shay72 I pretty much wear headbands every day with my twists...
I think I'm an addict...

I know I am . I've worn headbands my whole life except when I used to get braids and kinky twists. Then I would just bun my hair. When I went natural alot of people were like "So you won't be wearing headbands then?". I've got a huge collection that I've still been able to use except the hard ones. I've slowly started giving those away. My new loves are the oh the name is escaping me but I have a ton of them.....they have the stretchy string and you put a "hook" through a decorative circle.

I was contemplating not doing my hair but I am. I'm doing a HOT now. Will put some conditioner on top of that then cowash it out.

 

[NikkiQ]

Just put in a set of pretty fat twists and they don't look half bad! I'm pleasantly surprised. Will try to keep them in for a couple days or at least until next weekend.

 

[kinkycurlygurl]

Hi All,
I know I'm joining in late, but I didn't want to wait until the next round.

These are my starting pics:

Stretched

Unstretched

This crown braid was my style for most of the week:

 

[BraunSugar]

Glad to have you kinkycurlygurl!