Be careful with kinky twist hair. I used the sensationnal and it felt good while doing it: rough but soft. My style only last two weeks because I don't know how to do it tight enough... but what happened afterward is what hurts.
When I put my hair into the twists, I was 11 weeks post relaxer. My hair was in great shape. I still able to get smooth buns without heat and my hair was holding moisture and shine longer. But I wanted a break from the standard bun routine.
With the kinky twists, I moisturized everyday, shampooed with very diluted shampoo (twice), and condition with diluted conditioner (three times) during those two weeks. So I knew something was very wrong when I started to take the twists out and my hair was bone dry. My hair was soo dry I had to wet the kinky twists in the shower in order to be able to take them down AND comb my hair out afterwards.
So I carefull comb my hair out to take out all the shedded hair and wash the next day without any problems. I thought that was the end of the scare. After two days my hair still felt too dry and hard to comb so I did an amla oil treatment, which soften the hair and made it easy comb. But I still needed more moisure. So on Friday night I did a intensive conditioner treatment combining the amla oil (slip and detangling) with the molasses conditioner (strength and some moisture). Well that worked great and I felt good about my hair, until I noticed on Saturday morning, the first time I actually took time to look at the ends of my hair, that I had spilt ends in the likes I had not seen since I started to take care of my hair in December 2003.
I spent 1 hour and 25 minutes, nonstop, cutting splits individually from just the front section of my hair alone. I had 1" long splits, splits in the middle of the hair, hair strands with 2-5 splits along the strand, strands that were healthy at the top and bottom, but 4" up from the bottom there is a split in the middle of the hair, strands that looked as if something chewed it. It was awful. I know that my hair wasn't like that before I did the kinky twist. I am amazed that all that could happened in two weeks. I didn't even check the back and sides, but I know that a 1" or 2" trims won't get rid of all these splits because my hair isn't even and the splits are at various length.
So this is another set back, but I'm still going to continue stretching until 22 weeks. My hair grows slow and I don't think I have enough newgrowth to get a touch up without overlapping. I have 1" (side edges) - 1.5" (crown area) stretched. For some reason though I'm pretty happy and I'm just seeing this as another learning experience.
I've decided to try wigs as a protective style. I'm going to update my album within the weeks to show how I am going about it.
Sorry for the long post ya'll...
For experimentation only, I bought one pack of twist hair that the BSS said was for twists but it was terrible! Anyway, the Sensationnel website has a store locator feature, so I continue on my quest.
