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After some research – 5 tips for your hair (before the background to this post).

1. Wash or Co-Wash it as often as your hair can stand to be washed. Cleanliness is usually considered close to godliness and it’ll also give you some lush goddess type hair ;-).
2. Use Castor Oil (Or Jamaican Black Castor Oil) on your scalp – daily if you can cope with it. (if you’re aiming for growth)
3. Alternating Hot oil treatments  (moisture) with protein (strength and thickness) treatments is a good look – but no more than twice a month for both and for no longer than say 4 months.
4. Just to name drop some more natural things that will help sustain or grow your hair! :Red Cayenne Pepper, Black Tea, Avocado Oil < Enfuse them together!
5. Try to keep it natural – not your hair necessarily but the products that you use, so that you don’t end up loading up on protein or moisture without realising it.

I’ve never actively done anything to grow my hair before, I had always had “long”ish hair and everyone who remembers me from University remembers me for my long hair. I went on a bit of a spree shortly after I graduated from ’08 til 10’ where I was cutting my hair into lots and lots of short, short styles!!

In October 10’ my then stylist cut it wrong, it was– shorter than I was comfortable with and very, very blonde (blonder than before).

I started to wear instant weaves – which I loved but needed something that would be a little more permanent and for which I didn’t need a new one every month.

Then weave – I became a bit of an expert (as per some of my previous posts) and worked my way up to Virgin Peruvian hair from Premium Now / Milky Way and via Indian Remi. Until, my amazing weaveologist – made a mistake!

So I’m back to my “own” hair. I don’t think this is a hair journey – I have no intention of becoming obsessed with my hair. I also have no intention of going natural. If there were any such journey to discuss it would be the one that begun when I was 5 and became aware of my hair in the first place and all the colours, tongs, relaxers, weaves and products it’s seen in 20 years.

I’m just trying to grow my hair “back” and make it look like this is totally deliberate ;-) and I’m going to share my experience  - hints and tips with you! (P.S My hair is relaxed)

Keeping the weave lurvely...

3 things that you can do to keep your weave lookin' nice and "healthy" - now this goes for hair that is virgin ( Remy Brazilian Moroccan whatever… but has to be virgin).

1.      1.  Deep condition – quicker than you think!! Just take the hair – rinse it through (remove any debris) Put it in a ziplock or sandwich bag – leave the top of the wefts out saturate the hair with a mid range conditioner (one that actually does something) Frizz Ease, Tressemme that kind of thing. And then put the bag with the hair in it – in the microwave for 1 minute (or 30 seconds if you’re not feeling brave). Take the hair out after 30seconds – 1minute and leave it to cool. Then rinse the conditioner out in ice cold water

2.     2.   Co Wash it when ever you wash your own hair (and after the gym once a week its fine to wash it up to twice a week). Use the same conditioner as above – let it sit in your head for as long as you can cope with – and rinse with as cold a temperature of water as you can cope with!

3.     3.   Use IC gel to blend– for me – I wanted to love Olive Oil Edge control – but I found once I was more than 2 weeks post relaxer it did absolutely nothing to hold anything down and would even flake up – BUT Fantasia IC Gel (I have the Ice version) works wonders for me all the weeks through J It holds it down and doesn’t dry to leave your hair dry and bristly… it leaves you soft! Perfect blending!!!

(Tip 3 can be used for any kind of 100% human hair weave – doesn’t have to be the Remy or virgin kind! )