3rd day braid out hair

3rd day braid out hair. I'm too tired to typed anything else. :(

Second day Braid out hair

Okay so my hair is not long enough to "pineapple" so I put it up in a loose ponytail and my satin bonnet.

It was okay as second day hair

I dont really know how 3rd day hair is going to be. 

Which really sucks because I would like to get more days out of my style or else what is the point!

We shall see. I will be back tomorrow for 3rd day hair results *fingers crossed*

Tonight I'll try putting my hair in two loose pony tails..

braid/plait-out results

Wet Plait out results. Monday I did not take the braids out because it was raining---no point. LOL

Today this is the result at the end of the day.

I was really pleases and will do this style again. Sadly, i never get 2nd day hair.

Hello ! I'm back

It has been a VERY long time since I posted here. 2014 will be my year to keep a regular blog.
Nothing new really except I've been wearing my hair straight once or twice a month. I find that when I wear my hair straight its less maintenance and I have less shedding.

Flat Ironed hair

Today I'm  re-visiting the chunky braid/plait-out on wet hair. I have never been able to achieve this look. But my hair is a bit longer now so it may be more forgiving.

I started with freshly washed and conditioned hair.

Shampoo: Nizirol

Conditioner: dove Aragon Oil

I also used a leave in Reconstructor (I forget the name now but I will post it tomorrow with follow up pictures)

Stylers: Afroveda Heepseed twist and roll 

         Oyan Handmade:Hair dew 

         Sesame seed oil and more Hempseed  

         oil.

My ends tend to come unraveled so I rolled the ends on some of the plaits and put bobby pins on them.

I'll date tomorrow with take down photos :)

Straight

minimum product goal

Ok, so I remember me loving my hair the first year I BC's around 6 months into it. And I could never get that feeling back and I did not know what what was different.
Not I think i know what the difference was.

NO USE of Gel except for a small amount on my edges.

Its totally undefined and fluffy and  a bit frizzy but I think i'm okay with that because get this....its softer and more manageable.

I think somewhere I got lost in the perfect ringlets syndrome.

So I gave myself a major trim and left the gel alone.

THis is 2nd day hair. I made the mistake of putting my hair in a pony puff as I would have done if my hair was coated with a layer of gel.
Bad idea, because my hair w/out get stretches out very easy and the fluffiness was gone and the ringlets stretched and were less defined:

YaY one week of protective style completed!

Okay I feel really good about completing one full week of low maintenance hair. I wore my hair up in 2 strand twisted all week and it felt great!
It was also nice to NOT have to mess with my hair during the work week. Not having to do my hair meant one more hit on the snooze button :)

The down side was that I noticed more knots and tangles when I took them out to wash and condition my hair.

So here is my hair washed and conditioned. I use my Almla and Heavy cream, Hempseed twist butter and gel to mold my two strand twist.

Fingers crossed for a successful week two!