**traveljunkie08**

Your hair does have a lot of shine. It looks good.

Courtney, oils helped with my dryness. If I shampoo, I pre poo with oils overnight. If I co wash, I wet my hair first, add my oil (I prefer olive oil), then add the conditioner on top of the oil. Hope this helps.

Thanks Lynn-
I'm going to try both methods...

@Intelligent: I thought it'd be helpful. A pic is definitely worth a thousand words in this case.

@JnB: I'm glad it gives you hope. As the days and weeks go by, you'll be surprised at how much your own hair changes!

@Vmichelle & Pinkrage: Thanks!

@Courtney: As with Lynnieluve, oils (EVOO specifically) helped me too. I either pre-poo w/ EVOO or DC before every co-wash, and both when I shampoo. Even with using oils though, it took a while for the post-BC dryness to go away. And I did co-wash everyday for a week to help with the dryness.

I use the usual suspects (HE, AO, Giovanni and Suave) plus other random things I find to co-wash. I think Karen's Body Beautiful and Qhemet Biologics helped take my moisture game to the next level. Through trial and error, you'll find what works best for your hair. Try to keep a journal of what you used and how your hair felt to keep track of what you think works and doesn't for your hair. I found that helpful.

@Courtney: I forgot to answer one other question you asked about the diff between a twist out and a chunky twist out/curly fro. In my mind, a twist out is done with a lot of small twists, resulting in a curly/spiraly kind of look. It looks neat and sleek, in my opinion. A chunky twist out is done with fewer twists (I do 12), and your hair is bigger, more fro-like but with a curl. I also roll them sometimes to make it looks curlier. Not sure if that's how others see it, but that's the difference to me. Here are pics to show the difference.

Twist out:


Chunky twist out/curly fro (used rollers):


If I don't use rollers, it's just bigger. Kinda like this:


The pic quality isn't that great since it was taken with my computer, but I think you get it. Lynnieluve has great twists and twist outs, so check her thread for tips. HTH!

Beautiful!!!!

Oh I love ur fro

Your hair looks FLY in all 3 photos!

---Reese

ok being sick is making me miss everything!!!! I love all threee pics..but you are rockin da hell out of that fro sis!!

Thanks, Ladies!

I'm really starting to appreciate the versatility of natural hair!!!

Your fro is the bomb! Now I have fro envy

HumanNature wrote:Your fro is the bomb! Now I have fro envy

Thanks!

Your Rosa Parks roll turned out cute. What happened with the twist?

Lynnieluve wrote:Your Rosa Parks roll turned out cute. What happened with the twist?

Thanks! Which twists? If you mean doing small ones, I just don't feel like spending the time. That's why I was hoping I could do a ponytail. I might try flat twists. Or I might just end up going to be doing nothing.

Girl - I am still loving your fro - it looks really good on you!! That rosa parks roll works too.

Cute hair today. I love it. Tell me more about the flour sack towel?

I love the roll. I'd also like to know more about this towel...

What I gathered from Chrs is that the flour sack towel is good for drying the hair w/o frizz much like a micro fiber towel or t-shirt. I like to style my hair when damp, so I used it last night to help that process along. Worked just as well as (if not better than) my microfiber towel and was a lot less expensive (4 towels for about $5; I paid $8 for one microfiber towel from Marshall's). I imagine it'll be particularly helpful when doing wash n go's. I'm not sure why it works or if there's more to it, so maybe Chrs will pop-in and let us know.

Chrs talks about flour sacks on page 11 of her thread.

Rocking that Rosa Park's roll!!

SheeTacular_Napps wrote:Rocking that Rosa Park's roll!!

Thanks!

**wishing TravelJunkie lived in MS so I could dig through her trash for the EVCO**

Love your Rosa Park's roll...very cute.