Intransigentia
October 6th, 2011, 11:04 AM
I've been on LHC for a whole year now! So, as seems to be the tradition, progress pictures and a bit of what I've learned.
My hair, October 2010:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=6594&pictureid=87663
Not bad condition. The issue that made me join up here was, due to the thickness and weight of my hair (admittedly not that much compared to some here!), it was uncomfortably hot to wear it down, but updos simply wouldn't stay up. So I wanted to learn some new styles.
I not only learned some new updos, I kindof got enabled on the whole hairtoy thing, and in the process, decided that I need lots more hair so I can do more updos.... (my updos and hairtoys album (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=6595))
My hair, October 2011:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=6594&pictureid=115161
So if you include the approx. 2" of straggly-looking ends I cut off back in May, that would be 7 inches of growth in a year.
What I've learned: For my hair, less is more. My hair is pretty healthy - I'm too lazy to heat style, and too cheap to bother with chemical colour, so my hair is basically virgin. It's on the low end of porosity, and has plenty of its own protein. It likes a bit of moisture, but gets over-moisturized easily. Potions and deep treatments and sprays and leave-ins are fun to experiment with, but mostly leave my hair weighed down at best, greasy looking and gunky feeling at worst.
The routine I've stuck with for the last six or eight months and will for the conceivable future:
Every time I shower, wash the scalp only with super-dilute Neutrogena clarifying shampoo. I use a bottle with a pointy nozzle to squirt the liquid directly onto my scalp.
Every second or third shower, wash all the hair with a ~50/50 mix of Neutrogena clarifying shampoo and coconut oil. Follow with a rinse of a splash of vinegar or lemon juice in about a half gallon of water. Work a pea-size amount of coconut oil into wet hair from the ears down before detangling. Sometimes I mix the coconut oil with whatever is my current favourite BPAL.
Keep it bunned or braided most of the time.
Quarterly, if I remember, a treatment with Lush Caca Noir because I like the colour a bit darker than my natural.Thanks, LHC, for everything I've learned, and also for being such a kind and interesting bunch of people!
My hair, October 2010:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=6594&pictureid=87663
Not bad condition. The issue that made me join up here was, due to the thickness and weight of my hair (admittedly not that much compared to some here!), it was uncomfortably hot to wear it down, but updos simply wouldn't stay up. So I wanted to learn some new styles.
I not only learned some new updos, I kindof got enabled on the whole hairtoy thing, and in the process, decided that I need lots more hair so I can do more updos.... (my updos and hairtoys album (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=6595))
My hair, October 2011:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=6594&pictureid=115161
So if you include the approx. 2" of straggly-looking ends I cut off back in May, that would be 7 inches of growth in a year.
What I've learned: For my hair, less is more. My hair is pretty healthy - I'm too lazy to heat style, and too cheap to bother with chemical colour, so my hair is basically virgin. It's on the low end of porosity, and has plenty of its own protein. It likes a bit of moisture, but gets over-moisturized easily. Potions and deep treatments and sprays and leave-ins are fun to experiment with, but mostly leave my hair weighed down at best, greasy looking and gunky feeling at worst.
The routine I've stuck with for the last six or eight months and will for the conceivable future:
Every time I shower, wash the scalp only with super-dilute Neutrogena clarifying shampoo. I use a bottle with a pointy nozzle to squirt the liquid directly onto my scalp.
Every second or third shower, wash all the hair with a ~50/50 mix of Neutrogena clarifying shampoo and coconut oil. Follow with a rinse of a splash of vinegar or lemon juice in about a half gallon of water. Work a pea-size amount of coconut oil into wet hair from the ears down before detangling. Sometimes I mix the coconut oil with whatever is my current favourite BPAL.
Keep it bunned or braided most of the time.
Quarterly, if I remember, a treatment with Lush Caca Noir because I like the colour a bit darker than my natural.Thanks, LHC, for everything I've learned, and also for being such a kind and interesting bunch of people!