My Current braid challenge & update

spritz bottle

I am currently doing a braid challenge, here is a summary of my regimen;

I decided to go on a two (2) years braid challenge, I think its a great way to grow my hair without having to deal with the maintenance and protecting those ends. Two years is a long time and I know I will miss my hair CRAZY so I will give this challenge a try to see how far I get.

I will give my hair rest for a couple of weeks in between taking out and putting the braids back in, during this time I will take lots of pix to see the progress and to update with you all.

Its important to keep the scalp clean and since extensions takes moister out of our hair I plan to double up on my moister regimen. My regimen will go as follows;

1. scalp oil treatments the nites b4 wash days
2.wash weekly
3.co-wash ever other day
4. used braid spray and spritz for moister


here is a great link/website that teaches u how to properly wash,cowash and treat hair while in braids http://www.growafrohairlong.com/braidreg.html the creator of this site was able to grow her hair waist length in just 2 years, the fact that she relaxes is aside the point, its a good method.

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Yesterday (11/6/10) I took down my braids after having them in for about 1 1/2 month, I know I said I would leave them in longer (2 months) but 2 seek wont make a huge diffrence. I miss my hair soo much over the pasyt month and I pampered it very nicely once the braids were out, here is what I did;

Bentonite clay treatment
Shampoo w/ KCCC
conditioned with vo5 tea therapy nourishing condish and didn't rinse out
 

 * the results were satisfying granted my hair was happy. I also tried the tightly curly method which took me 2 hours to do!! Its was a great turn out but with all the shrinkage and not being a fan of wash n gos I will wait for longer hair before trying it again.

For info about Terrys' tightly curly method check out her website http:///www.tightlycurly.com 

length check with tightly curly hair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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