NEW CASTOR OIL CHALLENGE

Hey, Tiff, glad hear Yacoomba's doing better. Thanks for the update! You have a lot of hair, so I'm sure your tnc with the bigger twists and rollers will look just lovely.

@MissyCee - That mix sounds good. I've been wanting to get some vegetable glycerin myself. I'm thinking I can get it from Whole Foods. I need that and some coconut oil. I guess I know where I'm going this Saturday.

I got a little bit of hair news to share myself. I have outgrown my very simple wng stage. I mean I used to be able to literally wash and go. I would just spray my hair in the morning with water to reactivate the gel, bounce the curls around with my fingers, and go. Well, that didn't work at all last week and I was really wondering why. I was like what's up with my hair?! Everyday last week I had to spray then spend 20 min. pulling the gel through again and separating the curls. So tonight, I'm going to try and put my hair in twists (just not all the way to the end) and then spray and separate the twists in the morning. I hope it works. Fingers crossed.

Wooo hoooo Butterfly!!! Growth!!! It just snuck up on ya!! Tiff your hair is really doing well.

Ok, I finally took my second henna pics and measured. Oh ok, here it goes.

Top 3.25, R Side 3, L Side 2.75, back 3.5. I know those numbers are up. I just need to dig through all out chats to find the last measurement.........

Henna from three weeks ago, looser curls using Jamila Henna
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Henna from last week of Feb 11, just moisturized, didn't shape or anything. Tighter curls, more color, I think?? I think I'm getting thinner in the top. Must that inherited thing...... Geez another thing to worry about...
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Side of Henna from last week of Feb 11.
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MissyCee wrote:It is...... Oh i haven't put up my measurements.

Front sides and top are 2.75, back is 3. Some growth, but like I said much thicker!!! When I was relaxed, I always said I had wind blown hair, cause if the wind was blowing it ws moving. And my hair didn't hold curls for nothing..

I have to look back through the threads to see what my last measurements were. ......

Here are my last measurements, Feb 7th. There is definitely growth and thickage (is that a word)!!! Anyways!!!!! WOO HOO for me!!!

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So how do we change the title on these things anyway? Thanks Butterfly!!!

What titles, MissyCee?

Well on my page. I wanted to update my curl street journal....

Oh, sorry. I don't know anything about the Curl Street Journal, but I think I'll go read some. Oh, congrats on the non-smoking! 20 days! That's awesome, MissyCee!

Yeah yeah. I'm just glad it's getting warmer. Cause I shole do have a big appetite!!! Eating eating eating...........UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

So if I needed to change the title of one of these pages, it seems to say I can change it at the bottom.

Oh, don't read mine, if you find it, it started out sooooo sad. I'm better now....

Butterfly did you see the lady on the front of Curly Nikki last week, with the flat twist and coils in front? ummmmm Keke something, I was watching her you tubes all weekend. I think everyone thougth I was crazy looking at all those videos. But she has some great shorter hair styles. I even watched a video about how to do a flat twist correctly. I would love something different, but with this limited hair growth, I have to stick with the basics. I was thinking about a short weaved style. With kinky hair of course!!!

I saw her but didn't get a chance to watch her vids. I will definitely watch now. Thanks. I'm being very careful with styling for now because I lost hair around my hairline due to years of braids and not knowing how to take care of it. So now I don't want to lose the little "baby hair" I have there now. I think my thing is going to be hats and headbands and other hair accessories when I want to do something different

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I am counting the days til Spring Break. I got a new lead on a place for me and my sister so that really did it for me. Hopefully we will get something reasonable. Our trip to NY has been cancelled, a lot of people in my family are getting laid off or may be getting laid off soon, including my mom. We're praying the budget cuts won't effect her though.

@Butterfly
How was Nascar? Or is it this coming weekend? I have wanted to go for a while (or even just to the Talledega Speedway) but the opportunity never presented itself. Its something different. Hopefully it'll be fun. Are you excited to be growing past wng?

@MissyCee
You're mix sounds good. I can't wait for it to get hot and stay hot so I can mix myself up a little something. That may not be the greatest idea though with this ends huh? How're you feeling since quitting smoking? I know it can be hard and really effect your mood. My dad was aggravated all the time.

My little hair experiment was an EPIC FAIL! LOL! It looks absolutely horrible. Those ends just ruined it. It was fine until I went to seperate to get more volume. Wrong move. Its like the curls just died or something. Back to the drawing board, lol. I am exhausted though and can't bear the thought of cowashing and doing 500 twists w/ mini rods tonight. I really love my hair like that though. I can make it so full and cute. Might just have to bite the bullet.

@Tiff and her 500 twists...lol! Yeah and NASCAR was also an EPIC FAIL! Don't bother!!! Okay, they say the main race is at about 4 p.m. on THEIR schedule so we get there about 2:30. No parking so we have to park in the dirt field and walk a mile. When we get up to the attendant and he doesn't take our tickets but says, "that's okay, go ahead" I knew something was def wrong. We get in there...standing room only. Our seats were long gone. And I find out later that's because the race was more like 12:00. Okay, so once we see that we have to stand up we turn right back around, hike back to the car, and we went to lunch and a movie. The kids were happy, and I'll NEVER try that again...whomp, whomp

Hey all, i was just looking back @ some of our pages and it seems alot of other people fell off the wagon with the challenge. There were quite a few...oh well. We are still here.

Hair update... So i have not done a single thing to my hair for almost four weeks (except add my oils to my hair). I am just not feeling it right now and like i said before i am just going to leave it alone for a while.

@ Butterfly... Sorry to hear about your trip to NASCAR, at least you had a back up plan and i am sure you and kids had a much better time anyway.

Thanks, Ladybird. We all had a better time . It's probably a good idea to leave your hair alone like you're doing. I want to do the same. I always thought I didn't like or need protective styles, but it just dawned on me that I was always wearing my hair in a protective style -- braids -- when I wanted it to grow. So I saw a two-strand twist pin-up a while ago, but my hair was too short then. I'm going to try and find it and do it up with some cute bobby pins.

Do any of you know of any YT vids I can look at?

Yeah girl..our hair does grow when we do as little as possible to it sometimes.

I love two strand twist but it takes forever to do my hair. I love the pin-up look ...real classy. If your hair is to short, what about extension? they never fail

I learn alot of my styles from you-tube from people with similar texture hair like mine.

Yeah remember the Keke girl from the other day? She has lots of vids to watch. Let me get her name again for you.....

I just put in the search natural flat twist styles and lots popped up....

Hey ladies! I didn't redo my hair last night. I went to see my friend girl and ended up staying pretty late. I just decided to go with my faithful puff thingy. Still lokks a mess though, lol.

@ Butterfly
Hate to hear that about the race! That's crazy! They just oversell the tickets like that? I would have been to hot but at least y'all didn't actually pay for the tickets.

@Ladybird
Ain't that the truth. SOOOOOOOO many people have come and gone in such a short time, lol. How are you wearing your hair to not have to do anything to it for that long? I need that style, lol.

Hello ladies!! My depression from my "extreme trim" is over! I'm rocking a cute sew in and all is well. I will post pics tonight. I'm excited to see how much length I can retain by keeping my hair braided and weaved for a few months. I typically leave the weave in for about 4-5 weeks. Then I'll take it down and pamper it over a weekend and weave it back up. If I can have at least 2 inches by Aug. I'll be satisfied.

Hey, Misskris and Berry!! Long time, no see. Glad to hear you are both doing great. Misskris, your hair is awesome!! I am gonna be conceited when I get that much hair...LOL! Berry, can't wait to see your pics! So you do your own weaves? That's a great plan to pamper your hair between weaves. It'll be like a spa date .

Ah, yes, keke52284. I found her, and she is the reason why I am going to march right over to Target this weekend and buy some Miss Jessie's Curly Pudding. I know, I know, pjism at its best...lol. I had been on the fence about this product for a long time, and she just pushed me right over.

@Butterfly125 - I'm curious what you think of the Curly Pudding...

@misskris - Cant wait to hear about your trim!

@Berry - Would love to see pics of your hair.

I'm sleeping with a Jamila henna gloss mixed with Amla tonight. I've been wearing dry buns for the past three weeks and cant wait to wear a WnG tomorrow since the weather is milder than it was a couple weeks ago. Despite bunning, I've put JBCO on my scalp about every other day.