2011 Hair Resolutions

What are your hair related plans for the upcoming year?

Here are mine:

- Get my PJism back under control
- Learn how to cornrow
- Reach full APL stretched by my 2nd natural-versary
- start making YT videos...I think

A few more:

- Use my comb less
- Apply JBCO to my edges at least 2-3 times a week

Step my natural only products game up and watch my hair bloom

and

@lynnieluve...hell yes u should make vids!!! i love ur freaking hair

great post Lynn!!

*keep my hair healthy
*try some at least one of these treatments I keep reading about

I mean I don't have much to strive for because length is not my goal. As long as I can maintain Sasha's health I am good!

1. my ultimate aim is to see GROWTH.
2. to set a solid, weekly (at school) regimen
3. to reach shoulder length(stretched) by my one year relaxer free anniversary (april 14th)

Hey Lynnieluve, sitting with this henna on my head is the start of my 2011 hair resolution. This is second time I'm doing it and will give it two months to see growth in density, less tangles, and smoothness . If not, then it's a trip around the corner to the chop shop .
I will no longer cut tangles out of my due to my lack of patience and total frustration.
I will remember to wash my hair more often especially in the winter months.
I will experiment with more natural tonics, etc. Although, I have over $200.00 worth of products under my kitchen & bathroom sink that I must use or give away. I need an extra job to buy all this hair stuff.
I will not od on all the information on this site.
I want to love, appreciate, understand, and respect the kinks, rolls, frizz, shrinkage, and multi textures that God has given me.
However, I will fight grays, and discipline uncooperative locs wiith the scissors.

I'm getting locs. That's it, I guess.

-Going completely natural (BC date is 1/8/11)
-Getting and maintaining moisturized hair
-Growing out heat damage
-Not straightening my hair until my bday and at most, 3 times a year
-Learning how to do twist outs/bantu knot outs and use curlformers
-Not buying anymore hair products until I've used up 3/4ths of mine (the hardest one!!!)

*new girl on the block*..lol

1 - MORE GROWTH

2 - Find a great regimen for my hair. I'm so inconsistant

3 - Wear more natural styles.

I've been completely natural for two years and I have NOT been taking care of my hair in the manner it which I should. I just started wearing it out this past summer - I was so scared at first, but after day 2.. I embraced it. I've been out of work for the past 5 months and I went on interviews with my natural hair (pulled back in a nice professional puff) and no one hired me. I caved in and straightened my hair, the first interview I went on after I straightened my hair, I got the job. I cried after I straightened my hair because I felt like I was giving in. So, now I've been wearing my hair straight for about 3 weeks - only touching up twice. I have been thinking of wearing it straight until my 90 days are up and then bringing out my natural curls. I'm a little apprehensive about doing that because I don't want to damage my hair and unable to get my curl back..aarg - what is a girl to do!?!?!?!?

1. I wanna continue with & see progress on my healthy journey.
2. Always appreciate & embrace the hair and texture God has given me.
3. Use my growing stash of products w/o buying more unnecessarily.
4. I would like to retain as much length as I can by treating my hair right!
5. Get a great hair regimen down that works for me.
6. Encourage another woman to love her natural hair as well.

my only hair resolution is to keep my protective styles in longer..I always take my twist out early because i miss my hair..hopefully i can leave these yarn braids in for 8 weeks!!

!. Stop experimenting with my hair
2. Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize
3. Put down the scissors
4. Keep my hair twisted (for real this time) for 3 months
5. Nightly scalp massages

Lynn, I love this.

-To learn to treat my hair more and more gently
-To reach APL stretched by the summer
-To get that Huetiful steamer...smh
-To meet at least one of you fab curlies by way of a natural hair meet up
-To enjoy wearing my curls as they are this summer

1. Reach full APL length in 2011
2. Retain all growth
3. Be patient during detangling.

***maintaining moisturized hair
***Finding a good regime
***Low maniupulation
***Learn how to do 2 and 3 strand twist outs
***Maintain health hair!

* Nail down a consistent regimen
* Learn to how to 2 strand twist, bantu knot, and flat twist
* Understand that frustation is part of learning
* Learn to truly love my hair

* get a Heutiful steamer
* use up my arsenal of products I have
* stick with what works
* keep my hair healthy and moisturized
* find a stylist in NC that can give me a trim on my 1 yr. anniversary
*learn to perfect a wash-n-go (w/o going thru 10,000 steps)

~Control my PJism by finding the right combinations amongst the plethora of products I already have!

~Reach past SL by the end of the year throughout the majority of my hair by wearing more protective styles

~Perfect my wash-n-gos by summer (hopefully this won't make me go against my first resolution!)

~Keep my hair healthy

Good question Lynn.

1. Stop bashing the hair steamer and give it another chance. lol
2. Commit to taking hair and skin vitamins.
3. Learn new protective styles and ways to style my hair when its out.
4. Continue to keep my pjism under control.
5. When my scalp itches pat instead of scratching.

Goals:

--Keep it simple. Even if I get a full time job, that doesn't mean I can buy TONS of stuff. LOL

--Get to BSL! I expect to be there by summer

--Learn how to cornrow as well, since I've given up perfecting the three strand twist.

Get my pjism under control
Learn how to make my cornrows last longer and look neater
Eventually BC in the Summer
Keep the regimen I have and not change up

-Mini BC in January (1 yr post relaxer)
-Final BC in May!!! (16 months post)
-Try henna
-More hot oil treatments
-Less direct heat
-and for next summer: go swimming and stick my head in the water for once! LOL

Lynnieluve wrote:What are your hair related plans for the upcoming year?

Here are mine:

- Get my PJism back under control
- Learn how to cornrow
- Reach full APL stretched by my 2nd natural-versary
- start making YT videos...I think

Yes! make videos! I might do that too. But besides that:
- continue with styling my hair creatively
- retain length, maybe be BSL by the end of 2011
- continue to help my childhood friend transition and style her hair

1. Protective styles: two-strand twists Monday through Friday; twistouts on the weekends (unless I get over my fear and get kinky twists)
2. Shampoo, moisturize, and deep condition my hair more consistently. I'm fine on co-washing, but everything else I really need to step my game up on, and I think I need to start using a butter-based moisturizer.

My ultimate goal is to be able to hold a real "ponypuff" by my 1st naturalversary (8/13/11).

We can do it!