BSL 2013 Challenge
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Guinan
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Steaming my rose petals now. They smell soooo good. I forgot that I had sum pure argon oil so I added that to the water.
I decided to start my hair journey after watching ytuber shorty2sweet & hairlicious. I honestly did not think that black women could grow their hair to WL; let alone be relaxed & WL. After stalking other long haired relaxed ladies on ytube, I was convinced that I can do it too. It just sucks that I had cut my hair to my ears & semi shaved the back a month prior to discovering these relaxed long haired ladies. I had cut my hair due to I wanted a change & b/c of extreme shedding.
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Guinan
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Ashawn Arraine
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My mother first went natural and I thought her hair was beautiful. I also saw beautiful pictures of long natural hair on here as well. It seemed like with a relaxer I could not grow my hair beyond APL the longest it ever was was BSL after having my first daughter. I wanted my hair to grow to new lengths and I was tired of the torment from relaxers.(It always seemed like your hair itched the worst right before a relaxer. Trying to set you up for failure and end up with a chemical burn.) I no longer wanted to deal with that so I just stopped relaxing and started research ways to make the transition as smooth as possible. I am 20 months post relaxer and 5 months post big chop. I love my natural hair and I am NEVER turning back to a relaxer again.
Evolving78
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this time around, i just wanted extremely long hair. that's it. i cut all of my hair off in 2010 for a change. now i am trying to get it to my waist. i have went through many phases and this hhj has really being a challenge for me.
i really wanna prove some things to certain people. i can't wait to reach my ultimate goal and swing it in their faces!
i really wanna prove some things to certain people. i can't wait to reach my ultimate goal and swing it in their faces!
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Cattypus1
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I hate ulol. I am sooo jealous right now!
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I second that!
SincerelyBeautiful
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NikkiQ said:
I was admiring a family member's long relaxed hair. It was really thick and healthy looking. So I was like ok enough of looking and wishing, I know there is something I can do to get that same looking healthy hair. That began my research and from there I found LHCF and here I am today
Now I have people admiring my hair and asking what do I do to my hair or asking can I do theirs lol.Sent from my iPad using LHCF
3jsmom
Moving to District 13
Just seeing other women with thick pretty hair. I just wanted mines to be like it.
jessicarabbit
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Steaming rose petals? Can you describe this to me? It sounds realllllly interesting!
Guinan
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lindsaywhat, I watch ytuber listed above. She used almond oil. I used pure argon oil & JBCO.
I bought a bag of mixed rose petals for a dollar from produce junction. I can't wait till the summer. I plan on adding lavender oil to the rose water. I think that will smell nice.
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jprayze
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I've been meaning to make rosewater in the spring and summer. I always have so many roses in my front yard. I wonder where I can purchase rose petals locally?
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jprayze
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My HHJ started when I got tired of seeing my hair and the others around me at the same length all the time. For me it was shoulder length and everyone thought it was long. One of my good friends had APL hair, but it just stayed at APL. Then I started thinking our hair IS growing, but where is it going? Lol. I landed on LHCF and made the plunge into healthy hair! The great thing is the HHJ makes you look at everything differently. I feel more conscious about what goes in my body and on my hair.
jprayze
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Jealous.com. I'm up to Connecticut visiting my SO and I haven't seen the sun since Friday lol
Angel of the North
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shortdub78 What???
I can't believe that!!! Hopefully there's someone in this challenge that may be able to help you Ashawn Arraine Your hair looks great, really healthy and thick...Gorgeous
That's exactly what happens to me too
erplexedMy initial HHJ came about when an older (male) cousin was staying with us for a while. After I finished washing my hair, he asked me if I was going to DC it, I told him that it was not something I did and I didn't have anything to DC with. He gave me his tub of Le Klair cholesterol, explained some basic haircare principles and gave me some money to go to the hair shop and stock up on some products. I was 12 years old at the time and his hair couldn't have been more than 3 mm long
I've been on many HHJ over the years for various reasons, this current HHJ is all about health and length
Guinan
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Some mexican & indian stores sell them. But probably not as cheap.
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KiWiStyle
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I started my HHJ after years if having a short, 1" nape, thinning receding hairline and super fine strands. My then stylist never had a solution for it, she just said some people have bad nerve spots. My hair stayed neck length and I never considered it short, i thought that was my terminal length. I started googling ways to grow my nape and thicken my hair and the google results would almost, always result in LHCF. I started to read the forum daily and implementing some the suggestions, I realized everything I was doing to my hair was counterproductive if I wanted long, full and healthy relaxed hair.
I cannot believe I used regular relaxers, didn't do protein treatments, didn't do DC, didn't properly moisture and definitely didn't seal it. I would wrap in the same direction, every night for YEARS. I didn't know that was why my hairline was tender. I didn't know that trimming with every relaxer every 5-6 weeks was the reason that my hair never seemed to grow. What if I had stayed ignorant? What state would my hair be in? What state would DD's natural hair be in if I had continued to put her hair in the hands of those so called professionals?? Thank goodness for the Internet/google.
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Fhrizzball
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So I'm still grazing (albeit barely) BSL even with today's trim so I'm happy about that. My thumb is covering up a a few micro cm's but i still don't feel like I’m anywhere in the ballpark for BSL. Hopefully by March I'll have more to show as I feel like I've been chasing after BSL forever.
itsjusthair88
Chronically at BSL -_-
Hmm...I really cannot tell you; I initially discovered LHCF a few years ago (maybe 2008) after I bleached my hair blonde and it stayed the same length (SL) for about a year. Prior to that, I had APL-BSB hair for years...when I got to college, I went hair crazy and started cutting it and dying it and getting weekly Dominican blow outs (I moved from England to DC, I was in overload) with NO conditioner or any protein or nothing! Then, with LHCF the first time, I grew out the relaxer and the dye, got it back to SL/almost APL and then I decided I wanted a "fierce" cut and did a mohawk and wore it like that for a year and in September 2010, I decided to just BC the hair I had left (not very much) and grow my natural hair out. This was for 2 reasons: weekly salon appointments were too much for a working student struggling through school and because I just wanted to see how long it could get.
Fastforward 2 years and I am about 3 inches from BSL in the back and happy
(secretly, I am hoping I'm at BSL when I do my March check-up because I am soooooo close, but that ain't happenin' cap'n! LOL)Ladies, my hair has been feeling really dry lately, can anybody recommend some affordable moisturizing options? I think I need a heavy butter/cream. Thanks in advance!
lamaria211
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I'm 99.9% sure I suffer from a nervous disorder called Trichtotillimania its a hair pulling thing. But any way back in 2009 I had pulled a bald spot about the size of a 1/2 dollar piece. I cried for a while then I started doing research on trich which lead me to someone's Fotki that Fotki member lead me here and I'm so thankful. (Thank you Pokahontas)
SimJam
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I actually found lhcf while on a weightloss site. There was a group there called ladies of lhcf or something like that, with a link to the site. I followed the link and started reading, lurked for a year or so, really improved the health of my hair from just reading and adopting new and foreign practices, cowashing, stretching relaxers, texlaxing, megatek, ayurveda, self relaxing etc, then decided to go natural.
When i went natural I came out of lurkdom and joined so i cud ask questions and such.
I decided to go natural because I had a nirvana one day when I was on a training course, I met a lady from Senegal who had just recently gone natural. She had her hair in what im now realizing was african threading. I asked her what it was and we got talking. She pointed out that it was only the ladies who didnt have their hair in its natural state that were having hair issues (it was really cold and all of us were clueless as to how to care for our hair in that weather). I made up my mind there and then that i was going to transition.... which lasted 1 month lol.
And the rest is history.
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jprayze
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You are soooo close!
SimJam
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My initial HHJ came about when an older (male) cousin was staying with us for a while. After I finished washing my hair, he asked me if I was going to DC it, I told him that it was not something I did and I didn't have anything to DC with. He gave me his tub of Le Klair cholesterol, explained some basic haircare principles and gave me some money to go to the hair shop and stock up on some products. I was 12 years old at the time and his hair couldn't have been more than 3 mm long
I've been on many HHJ over the years for various reasons, this current HHJ is all about health and length
Girl you cousin set you in the right direction
. Im sure his 3mm of hair was well looked afteryou may have to take a step back and think about what thing or things may be the culprit. Its better to find out the reason why your hair is dry rather than just slapping moisturizer on it.
that being said, what helped my dry hair was adding aloe vera juice to my regimen. I know its good for something like getting the hair back to its normal pH or something like that ... but its like fairy and unicorn tears for my hair
all my products work so much better now that AVJ is in my life.yes I think I suffer from, this from childhood. I remember I picked a bald spot right in the front of my head, then I moved to the middle (so no one could see) Last year I was in a really stressful job and I almost picked all my edges and nape clean. I actually requested a transfer so save my hair, and sanity
cant say Im over it, Ive just re-trained myself to mess with something else other than my hair. I actually gave my coworkers permission to slap me if they saw me with my hand in my hair ... they enjoyed that part lol
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Realhairdontcare
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In 2011, my hair broke off real bad in the middle back area. Around that time I had lurked on a few hair boards but had no accounts. I had been trying to grow my hair for years and that was the breaking point for me since my hair does not break off at all and my hair had actually grew pretty long up until that year like to almost past apl. So in January 2012 I took a pic, switched hair stylists a month later who was more into healthy hair care and started my journey.
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ojemba
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This would be a leap for me but If I get 6 inches this year I should be very close to BSL again but now natural .
I am currently shoulder length
Natural
I plan to wear ps for the most part of the year with maybe 1-2 week breaks
I will co-wash every weeks or 2 max
Moisturize every other day with spritz
I will dust ends as needed.
I will do a deep protein and moisture treatment before each PS
PS of choice are full head weaves and braids.
2013 Starting length
Current PS until March
I am currently shoulder length
Natural
I plan to wear ps for the most part of the year with maybe 1-2 week breaks
I will co-wash every weeks or 2 max
Moisturize every other day with spritz
I will dust ends as needed.
I will do a deep protein and moisture treatment before each PS
PS of choice are full head weaves and braids.
2013 Starting length
Current PS until March
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I wanted to say that I really love CourtneyNaturalHair of YouTube's conditioning mix. I use it for mines and my sister's hair, and detangling is a breeze.
I started my hair journey when I lost my job and couldn't afford to keep going to the salon. I was afraid to self relax, and since I wasn't getting UC I really couldn't afford to go get it done professionally, I was also tired of my hair looking flat and lifeless. I went about two months without a relaxer got frustrated with the tangles and the two different texture and took a scissor and started cutting. After I cut it off I started looking at videos and doing research on how to care for natural hair.
I started my hair journey when I lost my job and couldn't afford to keep going to the salon. I was afraid to self relax, and since I wasn't getting UC I really couldn't afford to go get it done professionally, I was also tired of my hair looking flat and lifeless. I went about two months without a relaxer got frustrated with the tangles and the two different texture and took a scissor and started cutting. After I cut it off I started looking at videos and doing research on how to care for natural hair.
Angel of the North
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Angel of the North
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..........double post sorry ..............
growbaby
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My answer to the QOTD:
I stumbled upon ulovemegz on YouTube and from there, the rest was history lol.
So in other news, I detangled my hair last night and put it in 2 French braids for a braidout bun today and my braids hang down to APL
Here's how my braid out bun turned out today.
I stumbled upon ulovemegz on YouTube and from there, the rest was history lol.
So in other news, I detangled my hair last night and put it in 2 French braids for a braidout bun today and my braids hang down to APL
Here's how my braid out bun turned out today.
Evolving78
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SETBACK ALERT!
i had my mom to apply my relaxer touchup and she applied it root to tip! my hair is breaking like crazy! it is so rough looking! i am doing a protein treatment now. i don't have anymore Aphogee, but i am doing an egg/mayo treatment. i really hope it stops the breakage. i am so upset! what the heck was she thinking? who does that?
please pray for my hair! ya'll know i have been through enough with getting my hair back in order. something told me to just do it myself, since she was acting so tired to do it.
plus she tried to comb my hair with a rattail comb! i was like use that to just part, not to comb. then she was so rough with my hair.
i had my mom to apply my relaxer touchup and she applied it root to tip! my hair is breaking like crazy! it is so rough looking! i am doing a protein treatment now. i don't have anymore Aphogee, but i am doing an egg/mayo treatment. i really hope it stops the breakage. i am so upset! what the heck was she thinking? who does that?
please pray for my hair! ya'll know i have been through enough with getting my hair back in order. something told me to just do it myself, since she was acting so tired to do it.
plus she tried to comb my hair with a rattail comb! i was like use that to just part, not to comb. then she was so rough with my hair.
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BeautifullyExotic
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My answer to the QOTD:
I stumbled upon ulovemegz on YouTube and from there, the rest was history lol.
So in other news, I detangled my hair last night and put it in 2 French braids for a braidout bun today and my braids hang down to APL
Here's how my braid out bun turned out today.
I watch her video too. Shes awesome. Learned a lot from her
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