Saturday, March 19, 2011

Current regimen

For Fine haired ladies -

Once a week shampoo and condition hair.
Detangle hair with conditioner in hair.
No deep conditioning - no effect noted.
Apply leave in conditioner.
Apply styler/butter and style.
Air dry or sit under bonnet dryer on low setting for an hour
Tie hair down nightly with polyester scarf. (Have a silk one - hard to use a $20 scarf on my hair.  Will stick with the 4.99 scarf from Beauty supply store).
Every 2-3 days moisturize (If in twist/twist out - use cream moisturizer.  If loose hair - use spritz moisturizer)
After moisturizing add oil of choice
Only comb hair on wash days.
Trim hair every 3-6 months.

Let me introduce myself.....

Smallfro here.  36 year old mother of 3 sons.  I have a slight obsession with natural hair blogs.  I decided to document my own natural hair journey.  I have other interest so will post on those when appropriate.  I will primarily use this as a journal to document my life and things that interest me.

About the hair - my primary focus.
Natural hair since 5/2010.  Did a big  chop down to less than 1 inch of hair.  On the quest to have should length un-stretched hair.  I have typical afro type hair.  It is medium in density.  It is fine.  It has low porosity.  The longest my hair has been was when I went natural 7 years ago x 1 1/2 year and then relaxed it.  I ended up with shoulder length relaxed hair, which then broke off in the next several years.  I would like to have my natural hair be long and never experience the breakage associated with a relaxer again.  I have some grey hair in front and middle.  It does bother me, so I do color it.  I currently have 4-5 inches of hair.  I am a product junkie with a great job.  So I have tried a lot of things.  I hope to share those as well.