Relaxed Hair Tings

This is a photo after today's wash day. After deciding to go on a flat iron regimen and my hair being short again I thought it would be good to have monthly check ins. My hair is doing great! It's thick, soft and fluffy. Keeping it straight has meant very little tangles or knots. There has been very minimal shedding and hardly any breakage. I have also been wearing my hair out more. All around a great experience so far. I have started doing two shampoos as part of my routine.  One clarifying and another for moisture. I am using my ors shampoo for clarifying and my tresemme for moisture. I have done this for two wash days now and I like the outcome. This will help me get through my product stash too. I have gone through my oil mix and olive oil and I will not be bringing them back into my routine. My scalp did not like them so they have to go. I still have coconut oil which I am mainly using to seal after styling my hair. I am still perfecting my flat iron technique. This time I...

First flat iron of the year! My hair is still too short and I haven't been able to get my hands on a pencil flat iron. I noticed the plates on my cordless flat iron are a tiny bit smaller than a standard one and decided to give it a go. I flat ironed on 190degrees and the flat iron lasted about 25minutes. I had to finish the top part of my head using my standard flat iron and it wasn't too bad but it's definitely too big at the moment. After debating on whether to wait until my hair had grown out a bit more to flat iron it I ended up giving in and doing it. There's no better time than now to start practising. My new goal is to flat iron my hair in 25minutes before the flat iron dies. My hair is soft, healthy and has plenty of volume. I am happy with this wash and flat iron outcome. It is a bit uneven in some spots since I hacked it off but I am not too worried about it at the moment. This will get fixed up later. How is your hair going?

First wash post relaxer was yesterday. Since I decided to use up as many products as I can washing has to increase.  Currently looking at weekly and see how that goes. Before I get into this wash some observations from the past week. Heat styling is sustainable at the moment. The major factor is whether or not my scarf stays on  my head at night. If it doesn't stay that means I would need to freshen up the style with heat during the week. Ideally I would like set and forget styles with minimal manipulation.  Safe to say I wake up without my scarf more often than not. At my current length it's not quite simple when it comes to refreshing a style.  With that in mind blow drying is on hold until I can easily put all my hair up in a bun. I want to stick to the bun as my go to protective style. Braiding and me don't really seem to mix well especially when it comes to take down. Back to this wash day. I started off with applying my oil mix all over my hair and covering it with a ...

Another new year! Hope you are well and your hair is thriving.  I was supposed to finish up 2021 with a trim but that ended up being a cut. I am not really worried about it and am looking forward to what I can achieve in the new year. The picture was taken after emptying products in the shelf under my bathroom sink. I was trying to take stock of all my products. Let me tell you after going through my cupboards, I could start a shop! I am not posting that here... My main goal for this year is to simplify the number of products I use. To find my go to. I would then stock up on these going forward. Right now it's all over the place from product types to various brands. Some I have used some I haven't. In line with the above goal I also want to perfect my blow drying and flat ironing. Which is great as I have so many products I can experiment with.  I'd hate to waste stuff so will be making adjustments to my routines for this year. Who knows it might actually work and end up be...