@Gracie
Please tell us about your hair. What products are you using now? Are those products working for you or do you just want to try some new stuff? How are you wearing your hair? I don't wear my curly/wavy hair out because if I did it would be very difficult to manage and get very tangled. We can't be lazy with our hair because it needs to be taken care of to thrive (just like our bodies and mind).
I'm natural, and my (flat ironed hair) comes past my tail bone (ok, it comes to my crack ). My curly hair shrinks quite a bit (doesn't even come to my waist, as shrinkage is a beast - see pic in my avi). I'm 3c with a bit of 4a going towards the back.
I am natural. My flat ironed hair reaches my waist but if I got a trim it wouldn't. When it is curly it comes to my shoulder and if it is dry it comes to my neck. Depending on who's chart you look at my hair is 3b and 3c in the middle or 3c and 4a in the middle. Usually when I wear it curly I cowash with VO5, detangle, apply coconut oil and then some put it in some type of bun. I usually wash it with shampoo when I plan to flat iron. I use a clarifying shampoo when needed otherwise I use the original CON green (that's right I still have some LOL) I condition with a reconstructor or queen helen cholesterol and I use eggs or duo tex for protein. If I am flat ironing I use a leave in and a heat protectant. That is the base of my reggie. Of course I have some indian powders and oils, SAA, HE hello hydration (does nothing for my hair), castor oil and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember right now.
I went through a break up and was scared to do anything with my hair because I was afraid that I was going to cut it. I don't know why men make you want to do that. During my lazy/sad year and a half season, I cowashed, put my hair in a pony tail and detangled every so often. That was it
Now that I am back I need to get my hair together. I know this may seem like a bit much but I have to be a vigilant. Saturday I washed it detangled (lost a ton of hair) and cholesterol overnight. My original plan was to do a protein treatment but I couldn't find my duo tex. Early Sunday morning when I rinsed out the conditioner my hair felt hard, even while wet my hair felt dry. So I combed through some porosity control and rinsed it out. It felt a little better. I put in some restruct. cond in and let that sit for about 20mins. It was a bit closer to what my hair normally feels like but not exactly. I let it air dry for the most part, leave in conditioner, heat protect., coconut oil, blow dried the rest of the way and flat ironed. Since then I've been putting in coconut oil and protective styling and it is feeling much much better.
Surprisingly my ends aren't that bad as far as being split but I do have some breakage throughout, nothing noticeable. I'm open to new things if it will help. I don't want to become a product junkie, been there done that. I want the shorter strands to catch up and of course retention is huge. I do have a concern about thinning because it runs on my moms side.