I’d like to join!
Current length:
(Pictures are encouraged but not required)
30.5 inches
I’m about 3-4 inches past tailbone length on stretched hair. My main picture is my avatar, (I took this about 2 weeks ago? Sometime around there), and the bigger one is on my profile. Hopefully you can see it on my profile. I don’t think I have it blocked or anything.
Regimen:
I’m prone to switching stuff randomly according to the weather where I live, and how my hair is doing, or how I’m feeling.
The basic outline looks like this:
•Diluted shampoo in a spray bottle that I spray on my roots and scalp only to cleanse (every day or every other day), followed by a conditioner rinse of whatever I pick (same frequency)
•Deep condition 2x a week, rotate between moisture and protein
•Soak hair in peppermint rose water mix for 30 mins (I’ll substitute this for conditioner rinsing or cowashing whenever I feel the need to)
•ACV rinse usually for clarifying
•oil hair or just ends with serum or oil of choice (typically Almond oil), or if I’m doing twists or flat twists I’ll coat my hair with Shea Butter
•I do relax my hair (2x a year), and during that time the only thing I add in are the Aphogee hard protein treatments, and replace my shampoo with neutralizing shampoo for the next week or two just to make sure I removed all the relaxer.
Exact goal length:
When the challenge is over this year I hope to be at Classic (stretched). I think I’m 7-8 inches away last time I checked.
Plans to help you achieve your goal:
Most of everything I do has been the same for 4 years or so.
At the moment I’m working on finding things or practices that suit my fragile baby fine hair. It’s unbelievably fine, and virtually weightless even at this length. And even on perfect days, with the absolute most gentleness I will lose a few hairs from breakage just due to how fragile my hair is. I’ve ditched detangling out of the shower all together and only detangle under gentle running water, ditched brushes as well, and opted for small ,wooden, seamless combs that I use in the shower. This has been working so far since the beginning of January this year, and I’ve noticed my crown area is doing better since most the breakage occurs around there. So my focus will mostly be on that spot, and letting my crown grow back in, because on my avatar you can see how sparse the crown hairs are as they go down the length towards the middle, and how they’re shorter than the length off to the sides.
List any vitamins/supplements you are taking:
I’m vitamin D deficient, so I take vitamin D supplements, but I compete In sports, and this is something that my sports doc. And I have already gone over since last year, and it’s mostly to improve my training, which won’t be of any use concerning this challenge. It’s for my health, not my hair.
Your ends care regimen to keep them healthy:
I recently purchased an overseas brand Emulsion for my ends. I can’t seem to find it again, and I’d like to at least share other things I’ve come across with everyone, so there’s another brand I’ll be using that I have the link for:
https://www.yesstyle.com/en/elizave...-50ml/info.html/pid.1050282218##productAnchor
Its a collagen Emulsion, that’s for strengthening. You can use it all over the hair, and rinse, but I’m just going to apply it to my ends and leave it on. It’s a coating protein, and you can seal an oil over it if you wish.
I’ll also just be keeping my ends out of the way as usual and tucked away.
Trimming/Dusting/S&D'ing schedule/routine:
(I suggest you start off with a 1/4 inch dusting. Going forward, trim the same amount every 6 months. We will be working a lot on our ends during this challenge, so I plan on keeping them in tip top shape)
I’m participating in the grow longer challenge, however I haven’t trimmed or cut my ends in over 4 years. I don’t really plan on trimming them any time soon, but I think I’ll start S&Ding just to give extra care since there’s no harm in that anyways. I’ll do my best to keep with S&D at least every 3 months.
Top 10 products: Please note these are the products that you intend on using the duration of the challenge. So list your tried and true. Yes you are allowed to use other products but I want to know your foundation products. The ones that are going to rock with you to hip length and beyond
•Shea Moisture Manuka Honey and Mafura oil
•Planet&Beauty MuruMuru butter and rose water conditioner
•Mielle Organics Mint Deep Conditioner
•Peppermint and Rose water mixture
•Pantene Gold series moisturizing shampoo diluted with water in spray bottle
•Coconut oil
•Almond Oil
•Shea Moisture 100% virgin coconut oil shampoo and conditioner(I use this brand back to back every other day during the summer when I’m sweating and my coach is kicking my butt in the gym, and the pollen count in Texas is through the roof.)
• ACV
I think that’s the jist of everything.
. It's the reason why I have given up on wash and gos and just do twistouts, but I'm curious how the plopping after/before adding products works for others.
long time no see! So I've been in a hair funk the past month. Just haven't felt like doing anything with it. I even went 3 weeks without washing. Just feeling uninspired. So I'm going to try to get back to my routine and focus on the ultimate goal. Hope you all are doing better than me!
