LCT, we should definitely make a thread on detangling long 3's, if it doesn't exist already! pity the sutherland sisters can't post...
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LCT, we should definitely make a thread on detangling long 3's, if it doesn't exist already! pity the sutherland sisters can't post...
LOL!! Yes! Great idea!! I think the iii thickness is the problem... :( but here our our hairtwin Sutherland sisters::thudpile::crush:Quote:
Originally Posted by ghanima
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I can't detangle with a comb at all or my hair breaks. Finger detangling with conditioner and making sure my hair is properly moisturized cuts down on a lot of tangles.Quote:
Originally Posted by LongCurlyTress
However, I see that you have fine hair which could make a big difference on what your hair can tolerate.
I have about 5" to go until I reach APL, I'm thinking of trying catnip again and getting another henna application. Right now I'm washing my hair once a week max with a Lush stout shampoo after using oil (coconut, amla and/or castor) on my ends throughout the week then on wash day I put it all over my hair and leave it like that all day until I wash in the evening. I've also started to S&D (I wish hairdressers did this, or there were services for S&D :'))
Yeah I had googled them already! amazing, and so combed...
I must say I should probably check again on my thickness, after a major shed of last autumn. Which I think was caused by my experimenting with weekly dry detangling with oil, pre-shampoo: pull once, pull twice....
Definitely, as likelikepenny said, finger combing is a good thing, especially when it comes to corkscrews. The linear comb will easily make a knot of a perfectly legitimate corkscrew. I also have the impression that detangling every day instead of waiting for washday (which for me is weekly) could be another good idea. I plan to experiment in the future with detangling sprays to use when I dry detangle intra-wash, try to find a good one. I bought a random one (Timotei) but it didn't work at all.
Another poster here who has 2c-3a hair at hips (trying to remember her handle) said she rinses the hair with water and conditioner under ears every second day, expressly to detangle. I tried doing that and it didn't work well but I was also in a hurry, so I will give it a second try some day.
For now, not even at APL, doing WCC (not even with silicones) seems to make the knots resolve themselves more easily. Also, as I noticed, I had always detangled as soon as I applied the conditioner, while it works much better to leave the conditioner on a few minutes and then begin to finger comb.
All of this. I "wash" (no shampoo) my hair every other day and it cuts down on tangles so much. I use to finger detangle dry and it literally took me five hours (very thick hair and only detangled once a week) and had major breakage. I came up with a new system.Quote:
Originally Posted by ghanima
Now detangling takes me about ten or fifteen minutes and my hair is moisturized from the water and conditioner. It's killing two birds with one stone because I just put it up when damp/dry and I don't have to deal with it for the next two days.
@ likelike Penny and Ghanima, I really didn't have any major detangling problems at apl or even through bsl... it was after my hair grew to hip and beyond that the detangling breakage started to become a problem resulting in alot of breakage, especially on the halo outside layer of my hair. I think the extra length made the tangling worse... alot worse... so frustrating!!! If I made a bun with my hair, the halo broken hairs stuck out all over... I almost cried in the shower when I was detangling... finger detangling didn't work any more as it was too much hair, like a thick blanket that went down to my tush!!! And it just matted and tangled horribly. I think that at that length, detangling should only be done out of the shower so it can be done very slowly and gently. We have had a water shortage/drought where I live in California, and had to take fast showers, hence quick detangling... or a huge water bill! This did not help solve the breakage problem as I could not really take my time during detangling for fear of a huge water bill. The perfect storm for halo breakage..... Oh well! I am starting over. This short length is so much easier to detangle!!! Grow on my curly LHC friends! :o
Hello guys! My hair just got to APL, I've been growing it since January :happydance:
Sadly, my phone died a couple weeks ago and I lost all the hairgrowth monthly pictures I took and can't show up the progress :wail:
LHC had help me a lot, and being here this last 5 months had been very rewarding, I think my hair has never been so loved like this year so far :D
My hair and I are thankful for all your help! and we are very excited to move to the next milestone :cheer:
irisa2005, congratulations!
:cheer: WOOHOO!! Congrats on APL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by irisa2005