Tea Rinses!?

Hello Friends, 

I have a new idea. 

After going about the forums, youtube channels and some of my own family members, I've decided that I wanted to try out Tea Rinses. I've read that they have A LOT of benefits to strengthening your hair's overall appearance, texture and even color. 

I've been experiencing a ton of breakage when I go to moisture and seal my hair at night and it's beginning to bother me. I'm also thinking of in the next couple weeks, or even this weekend that I'll stop into my local salon and get my ends trimmed, they have been bothering me for the past couple months, it will become dry, cracked and overall just nasty but before I cut off those ends, stylists tell me they are healthy but who knows, I want to try to tea rinses to see if they improve the overall health of my ends. 

Can't have a healthy hair journey with raggedy ends. 

So I'll update on what happens with the tea rinses in my upcoming wash days, along with some new goodies I'm also thinking of picking up while I'm there to make my wash day even better.      

Finding the balance!?

Hello Friends, 

I guess I can start this post off by saying I have a problem that I haven't quite gotten the hang of yet. I'm sure that I have a protein overload in my hair and I'm not quite focusing on actually moisturizing my hair quite like I think I am. I know now that I have this problem from a little bit of research. 

Having too much protein causes my hair, and most others, to do these things

After washing the hair feels brittle, hard, rough

There is no elasticity (dry or wet)

"Fake feeling of moisture when wet"  only to be robbed once dry

I had this problem before when I started to do egg rinses, but after I stopped it calmed down. It seems to me that my hair cannot stand a lot of protein and it is best when the products I put in are very minimal. I can say it was possibly the new shampoo and conditioner I used in week two's wash day. But after further consideration I probably didn't properly moisturize, or the beginning of pre-pooing had a lot of buildup causing the weighed down feeling. In the following weeks I'll try to combat my issue, because it is making my hair look matted, gross and wrong. Basically it does not look healthy to the eye, but I believe I can come back from this minor set back. Moisture- Protein ratio is something everybody should learn on their journey. 

So my tips for right now are:

   Using a moisturizing shampoo 

Continue to moisturize my hair with the coconut and argan oil

See how using a moisturizing deep conditioner works on my hair

Stop being so heavy-handed with the products used

Getting Healthy Ends!?

Hello Friends, 

I've been contemplating cutting my hair again to get rid of the raggedy ends that have plagued me for a while now. As much as I want to say that I love my ends, I'm still not sure if they are healthy or if it's the lack of nap growth that I have. 

My entire nap is natural, which is weird considering I get that relaxed just the same as the rest of my hair, it is possible that the hair is disappearing because I wasn't wrapping, (my version of wrapping) my hair up and the way I sleep made it fall out. There would be nights that I'd just take out my buns and sleep so now that I think of it, that's probably why because I was sleeping directly on the weakest part of my head. (dumb) I suppose I'll check back each month, with a protect the nap checkup to see my progress. Hopefully it goes well because I've been making sure to baby and moisturize that area of hair the most.    

I've updated the way that I "wrap" my hair also. Instead of wrapping the scarf around my head, I just drape it over the pillow I'm sleeping on and lay like that. I enjoy the results better then wrapping. My hair feels more moisturized and bouncy then wrapped.