Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

Colocha said:

@Lute, how long is your hair? Can you do big twists? My ends used to tangle together too when my hair was shorter and I had to do small twists. I had to soak my ends in olive oil to get them to separate. Now I do really large ones instead.

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Lute said:

My hair in the back part of my head is touching top of bsl. The hair near the crown touches my shoulders. Sides of my hair is apl. I think I can do thicker twists but it makes it look scalpy. Also they don't last as long. Usually if I make the twists thinner they can last for about 2 close to 3 if I push it but I don't have the patience to take them out.

I'm going to try and see if I do them thicker tonight.

@PJaye I'll will try that technique with the ends of my hair.

With the hair braiding situation. The braider I had didn't give two boos boos about doing that. I thought she was going to do that. but she kept on attacking me with the blowdryer cause my hair isn't like perm straight. Which is very difficult for me to achieve as a 4 a/b natural when I try to blow dryer my hair straight..

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PJaye said:

That's unfortunate. Any real braider knows that the optimal conditions for braiding is on textured, un-straightened, clean, non-greasy hair. Back in the day, everyone knew that no one would touch a straightened or relaxed head of hair for braiding. For the life of me, I cannot understand why they beat the stew out of the hair before braiding it.

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melahnee said:

I saw my cousin's stupid wife for the first time since I cut my hair... she looked at me with the dumbest look(the kind that makes you wanna slap a B) and said.. WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR LONG, BLONDE HAIR??
I said........... obviously I cut it. She said why?? Umm cause I wanted to, obviously
She was like omg, what did you do? What were you thinking?! Staring at me like I had made the dumbest decision in my entire life!
I looked at her when an equally dumb look and said girl please, what have you done to YOUR hair? Cut that matted mess off already and get over my hair.
She proceeded to tell me how she has so much hair. I laughed and said yeah girl I can tell
Excited for these next couple of months to go by when she'll be obsessing over my hair and how fast it grows again. dummy.

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AdoraAdora24 said:

I want to see a long haired natural. . . . IN PERSON.

I wanna some long type 4 hair at Shoprite. I wanna see some fluffed Roll-N-Tucks at CVS, some big nappy buns with coiled edges at BurgerKing and some puffy flat twists at Kmart. I want that to be the norm...along with world peace.

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YvetteWithJoy said:

Adora, you're adorable. I'm so glad you're here on the hair board (again).

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Lute said:

Took out my cornrows yesterday. I know my hair grew from an 1/2 inch to almost a full inch in some places. After having the ends of my hair ripped out when I got my cornrows in June. I need to look for a new place even though there right down the block from me (soooo convienent -_-).

In the meantime I'm going to focus on gaining length I feel like I've plateaued for the past few years. So far I've done the following within the past 2-3 months.

1. Adding a heavy oil or butter to the ends of my hair.
2. Pre-pooing/ finger detangling my hair with coconut oil
3. Adding a deep conditioner after every wash day.
4. Every two to three months do an protein treatment with either a constructor or aphogee treatment.

My go to style has always been two strand twists. Unfortunately I don't know how to cornrow. So I'm going to bounce over to the twist/braid bun challenge to get more info. It's already to late to join so I will lurk...

But I feel like I always seem to lose hair when I take down my twists due to my ends getting tangled together and then trying to separate them.

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fifi134 said:

I have a family member like this...I cut and color my hair very often and because my hair is like teflon, it grows back healthy with no issues. Meanwhile, she's taking all types of hair growth pills, buying all kinds of products, and her hair is still short and brittle.

It's just projection but I don't mind. I know my hair's poppin and you will deal

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Colocha said:

I have a tentative wedding to go to in September and I want to try new stuff. I used to wear big fluffy curls when I was relaxed and the product junkie forces have all aligned to lead me to buy the stuff to do this style:

(Green perms rods on blow dried hair)

How it came out is how I would wear my hair every day if I could. If this works, I'm not averse to blow drying my hair weekly to achieve this as a regular style.

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YvetteWithJoy said:

It's the linked HairRules product: https://hairrules.com/products/kinky-curling-cream.

One of the ingredients toward the end behaves like formaldehyde. Can't remember which: I was copying and pasting from the list to check safety, and one was not good at all. I was going to deal with the mineral oil, 'cones, etc.

The company gave me a refund, though, so it turned out alright.

ETA: I forgot that I did not use PayPal. So glad for the refund before the product was shipped and needed returning.

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YvetteWithJoy said:

@Sharpened!!!

Broccoli seed oil!!!!

Thank you. I love it!

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Sharpened said:

You're welcome, but I give @snoop the credit for describing it. So, does it behave like a silicone or serum? I have not tried mine yet due to Derma-E oil giving me a serendipitous shock and I need to double check to make sure the shed decrease is sustainable.

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ItsMeLilLucky said:

@Miss Kane Had me laughing hard as hayle when I got my package (16 oz of Marula and Honey and the Lotus Wash.). I felt like I was unwrapping one of those Russian nesting dolls. In my head I heard:
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Here's the package
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Miss Kane said:

Lol! Thanks for ordering, Sis.

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