Shea Growth And Retention Regimen 2018

[IDareT'sHair]

@Daina
Glad You're In Sis.

 

[IDareT'sHair]

Shea-Slidin' In to say Hi to All the Beautiful Ladies in the 2018 Shea Challenge.

Looking forward to everybody having a Very "Hairy" New Year!

 

[Chicoro]

Shea-Slidin' In to say Hi to All the Beautiful Ladies in the 2018 Shea Challenge.

Looking forward to everybody having a Very "Hairy" New Year!

Let's grow!
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[Chicoro]

4 Days to go

It's countdown time!

 

[IDareT'sHair]

I was just sitting here reflecting on my 2017 Detangling Nightmares and how a "cure" just fell in my lap in the 11th-12th month of the year thanks to @Chicoro post.

I could not figure out why hairs were wrapping around each other and causing massive tangles each wash day.

Which had me looking endlessly for a detangling product or tool that would help alleviate this major issue for me.

It was so frustrating and was taking all the pleasure out of doing my hair. I had begun to dread wash day, because I knew detangling was going to be an issue.

So, I am thankful for not going into 2018 having not unlocked the Mystery of Slippin' & Slidin' those knots, tangles, mats right out.

 

[naturalagain2]

I'm getting my hair cut into a nice layered shape today. I plan to use my shea butter mix as part of my wash n go routine. This will help with keeping the tangles away and keeping the moisture in.

My son is always in my shea butter. I think I'm going to make a container just for him. He raves about how nice and soft his hair is since using it lol.

 

[jennex]

Shhh, but here's the link:


She looks great, right?

Beautiful! Flawless skin

 

[jennex]

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She has given me permission to post her photos. This is how my friend's hair turned out, from South Africa. I just put in some braids. A couple of things to note:

• She doesn't have 1 single broken hair near the roots of any of her braids. Incredible.
• All here braids are the same length. Amazing.
• I decided to not trim her ends. My philosophy is that freshly trimmed ends are precious. But, if you don't know how to care for your ends, they will need to be cut AGAIN the next go round. So, until she gets some more skill and comfort, we're leaving the ends as is.
• Her hair strands are highly textured but her hair is 'straight'. There is no curl or wave to her hair.
• Her braids, not her roots, were STILL wet 30 hours after I washed it.

And the last tidbit of information...she cut her hair down to about 1 inch in 2015. She removed her relaxer. She showed me a picture. Although she does not tend to her own hair, what has saved her hair is that she uses protective styling- and didn't realize it. The person that did her hair and put in her extensions, did a great job and took care with her natural hair.

At the rate she is going, with the addition of shea butter, she may hit waist length by December 2018. We'll see.

EDIT: Her current untrimmed length is about bra-strap length.

Wow!! That's all I can say.

 

[Saludable84]

@Saludable84 !

YOUR HAIR in your AVATAR! Wow! Another one trying to sneak in beautifulness on the sly. Do you have another photo that shows more of that hair on the day you took this particular photo?

Ya'll, go take a look and look really closely at that fabulous hair of hers in her avatar!

POST! POST! POST! POST!

[referencing the December 28th, 2017 Avatar for Saludable84]

Omg. Stop. I’m blushing and I’m at work. Thank you Idr when I took this picture. I can go search through my photos, but I really need to take some recent photos.

 

[Saludable84]

4 Days to go

It's countdown time!

Is that “Turn Down for What?”

 

[YvetteWithJoy]

If it's any consolation to you, I think 30 days would be enough to tell if it's working for you.

Otherwise, I don't know what to tell you! I've been on LHCF since 2003 and I have NEVER posted so much or hosted any kind of thread or challenge. But Shea Butter don't care. All of of this went down in 2017 and that's when Shea butter entered my life and, "Turned me OUT!"

I'm trying to work through my own 10 Step Addiction to shea butter.
Maybe together, we'll work it out!

Well, I'm glad you're hosting a thread.

It's definitely worth a try if it ends up reducing my tangling and/or knots. The only reason I sometimes think I can't stay natural for a lifetime is the tangling and knotting. If that gets reasonable?!??

I realize that I really cannot improve upon Jakeala's Shea Amla Parfait. That stuff is perfection. I love DIYing, but the parfait won't let me!

I just put some on my flat ironed hair and it's wonderful.

For now, post-DC I guess I'll still be layering for awhile. I can't cut out the HairVeda Red Tea Heavy Cream because it makes my hair so yummy and easy to finger comb or brush. I wanted to keep my DIY liquid ayurvedic tea leave-in spray, but maybe the strength from the shea amla parfait can replace it.

Guess I'll start out with this layering:

• HairVeda Red Tea Serum on ends
• Taliah Waajid's Protective Mist Bodifier on length (this will be my "Scurl")
• HairVeda Red Tea Heavy Cream on length
• Jakeala Shea Amla Parfait on ends
• Black Castor and Flaxseed Oil Eco Style Gel on length
• Install 8 or 10 sleek twists (band the twists, wear the twist out, retwist and reband at night and wear under Walgreens "loc sock" -like thingy)

If I stick to one wash a week, this isn't bad, I guess. I had dreams of applying one product post-DC. Ah, well. I'll table it until later.

 

[Chicoro]

Is that “Turn Down for What?”

Until Day 1 in 2018! I don't know where the gif is from, but I loved that gif. It was either this or the one with Shaq and that cat shimmying.

 

[CocoGlow]

I mix with oils I know work well with my hair. Right now, I’m using henna oil and Fenugreek Oil. That mixture is kinda silky. I only made a 12-ounce batch so I have about another month to use it up.

I have so much Shea Butter in here so I got time

@Saludable84

Hey Sis, would you mind sharing your recipe for the Henna Oil & Fenugreek Oil that you blend with your Shea Butter? Like what are the base oils that you use and the ratio of herbs to oil, etc? I ask because I too have Low Porosity hair and want to use oils that will work best on my hair ... thanks in advance

 

[Saludable84]

@Saludable84

Hey Sis, would you mind sharing your recipe for the Henna Oil & Fenugreek Oil that you blend with your Shea Butter? Like what are the base oils that you use and the ratio of herbs to oil, etc? I ask because I too have Low Porosity hair and want to use oils that will work best on my hair ... thanks in advance

I will PM you.

 

[NappyNelle]

Move over so I can get in on the Shea Slide!

My ponytail is nice and 'greasy' today, since I purposely went overboard last night.

 

[caribeandiva]

Y’all I got my sister on the whipped Shea butter train too. Ever since I bought my hand mixer she’s been wondering who bought it since she knows I’m not into baking. She’s been using raw Shea butter already but she’s gonna start whipping it now cuz she saw my jars of whipped Shea butter. I guess I’m officially a Shea butter pusher!

 

[victory777]

Ok Ladies,
So , I casted my vote for the 8lbs of shea butter currently in my stash; I'm ready!!!
@YvetteWithJoy , I agree that the Shea Amla is great!!

 

[Chicoro]

I checked out my analytics on a site I use. Thank you ladies from home, France, the UK and Canada!
Nigeria hears me talking, literally and figuratively.
Come through way to get to theGlobal Shea Alliance
Conference in Abuja, Nigeria
Come through!​

 

[keranikki]

I love this thread!

Question for all: Does anyone order butters from Bulk Apothecary? Are they consistent? I'm low on mango and shea, I want to try cocoa and kokum; but I need the purchase to be cost effective without diminishing the quality. TIA

 

[beauti]

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@beauti
And this why all ya'll WL, HL, TBL

@ElevatedEnergy @Chicoro

Tis All *drops mic*

@IDareT'sHair sis, when I saw HerLucidSky fotki with ( I think tbl or classic length) beautiful hair, and saw that she kept a simple regimen of moisturizing, sealing with shea butter, and braiding up, I paid attention! THEN I noticed all the unicorns here (@Chicoro and @ElevatedEnergy to name a couple) doing the same to achieve such long, lush results, I got to work.

It's really that simple! DC often, moisturize and seal with whipped shea butter, and protective style until wash day again! We can all surpass our goals this way!

Back to lurking

 

[Chicoro]

@IDareT'sHair sis, when I saw HerLucidSky fotki with ( I think tbl or classic length) beautiful hair, and saw that she kept a simple regimen of moisturizing, sealing with shea butter, and braiding up, I paid attention! THEN I noticed all the unicorns here (@Chicoro and @ElevatedEnergy to name a couple) doing the same to achieve such long, lush results, I got to work.

It's really that simple! DC often, moisturize and seal with whipped shea butter, and protective style until wash day again! We can all surpass our goals this way!

Back to lurking

How long have you been doing this process with shea butter? Do you remember your starting length? And your current length? And the time frame in which you went from starting to current length? It was fast with lots of length based upon my understanding, right? Don't go back to lurk mode just, yet!

 

[IDareT'sHair]

@beauti

 

[beauti]

How long have you been doing this process with shea butter? @Chicoro I've been doing the shea thing consistantly for 9 months. This thread: THOUGHTS ON THIS HOMEMADE HAIR GROWTH OIL?
kickstarted it all for me. I went from making the ayurvedic growth oil to making curly proverbz shea butter recipe.
Do you remember your starting length? I was full bsl in April when I provided pics for that challenge at 18.5in
And your current length? Im wsl now, and I think I'm at 22.5in . I was 22in in September but I did trim a little a few weeks ago
And the time frame in which you went from starting to current length? Now that I think about it, it was definitely a short period of time although it felt like eternity. I gained 4 inches in 5 months, from April to September, but I also did the inversion method which I think had a role to play in conjunction with my shea butter regimen.
It was fast with lots of length based upon my understanding, right? Definitely! At the beginning of the year I certainly didnt think I would achieve wsl! Once I realized this regimen was producing, I held on to hope and stayed committed.
Don't go back to lurk mode just, yet! Thank you! I will pop in from time to time if thats allowed but this is something I do automatically throughout the week and I might forget to post consistantly

 

[IDareT'sHair]

@beauti
Sooo....What is in your Super Growth Mix?

9 months is definitely some great progress!

I know you said CP SB Recipe? I'm not familiar with that.

 

[Chicoro]

@beauti

Thank you for the detailed response. Congratulations on your success! Growing 4 inches in 5 months is incredible. Your shea butter mix, originally from CurlyProverbz, worked well. Wow, going from 18 inches to 22 inches in 5 months, using a shea butter mix, is incredibly inspiring. Go, beauti!

 

[Froreal3]

I love this thread!

Question for all: Does anyone order butters from Bulk Apothecary? Are they consistent? I'm low on mango and shea, I want to try cocoa and kokum; but I need the purchase to be cost effective without diminishing the quality. TIA

I've only ordered once from them and the Shea Butter seems fine to me. I ordered mango too. They were all hard when they arrived so I left them out and they were fine to scoop out. The mango butter wasn't as soft as I liked it, but the Shea butters were super smooth after leaving out (since it's winter).

 

[beauti]

@IDareT'sHair its Curly Proverbz shea butter mix. Here are the videos. She used the oil infusion from first video without the olive oil to make her shea butter mix.

Oh and skip to 6:06 for actual demo


I add way more shea butter than any other butter. I also add mahbringrahj (sp) oil or powder. Make sure you strain your oils after infusing, before you let it solidify.

 

[keranikki]

I've only ordered once from them and the Shea Butter seems fine to me. I ordered mango too. They were all hard when they arrived so I left them out and they were fine to scoop out. The mango butter wasn't as soft as I liked it, but the Shea butters were super smooth after leaving out (since it's winter).

Thank you ma'am.

 

[VinDieselsWifey]

Just ordered some fragrance oils from Bulk Apothecary so my mixtures can smell good.

 

[TopShelf]