I know, I promised to do a post on how I wash my braids
which I have been doing unfailingly each week, but somehow, I haven’t got
around to posting it I tend to do my hair in the night usually from 9pm so forgive me for looking so tired…….... here goes
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I do not prepoo when washing my braids because
to me, it is likely to be a waste of time and resources (braids would consume
too much oil and may not even penetrate my strands as I am using expressions
synthetic hair)
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I section my hair into four parts, same way I do
my normal wash as I like to cleanse my scalp that way, one area at a time
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I wet my
hair and then dilute Aubrey organics honey suckle moisturizing conditioner with
some water and use my finger tips to wash scalp, massaging my scalp as well. Because
I wash my hair every week I only wash my scalp once and move on to the other
section. I rinse out with lots of water and then I squeeze out water in each section.
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Depending on if it’s a moisture week or Protein
week I do the following:
Moisture week- I pour out
Kanechom chocolate hair moisturizer into my hair bowl, add 2 tablespoons of
castor oil, 1 tablespoon of hair trigger in vanilla pound cake flavor, an ample
amount of coconut oil, 1 tablespoon of peppermint oil (I love this!) and half a
tablespoon of Rosemary oil.
Protein
week- I pour ORS replenishing Conditioner and add the other same ingredients to
my bowl.
I usually sit under my Steamer cap(Gold n
Hot) for about an hour or more. Since I got my steam cap, steaming my hair is a
ball, as I can watch tv, lie down and sleep if I’m tired or even move around
(limited movement though) all whilst I am steaming.
After steaming, I rinse out my hair, use an old t-shirt ( I have
about 3 dedicated for this purpose) to wrap my braids and then I go about my
house doing whatever I have to do.
When its 80% dry, I add my leave in either by hand or I use
my spritz bottle and then I seal with coconut oil. My hair stays very
moisturized for about 2-3 days without me needing to top up.
Right now, I’m 3 weeks into my braids and I am still
enjoying it, replaiting the braids at the front and behind as they were getting
week. As I said in an earlier post, I intend to carry them for 6 weeks and
hopefully will retain as much growth as possible.
For a detailed regime on using braids to grow your hair click on the link below
http://www.africurl.com/growingwithbraids.htm
For a detailed regime on using braids to grow your hair click on the link below
http://www.africurl.com/growingwithbraids.htm
xoxo
Fifi
Fifi,
ReplyDeleteI love the crown and glory method/technique. It was originated by Robin Woods of the then growafrohairlong site. I notice my hair thrives with it when the sections are big, I did try with tiny senegalse twists a Malian woman did for me in London, small sections very neat but I lost a lot of hair when removing them. The style I have in now is faux locs with I rinse daily with water and nothing else in the shower trying not to get the ends wet because it takes ages to dry. My scalp seems to like just water and nothing else really. I think I will start the water cleansing method when my shampoos finish and see if it works for me. In terms of growth, my hair does best under a weave with a closure, could it be because the London air is too drying? but because I like looking as natural as possible, I prefer braids to weaves, even virgin yaki textured weaves.
Best wishes, S
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