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| You know it's summer when you are driving around minding your business when all of a sudden a hot air balloon lands in front of you. lol |
As I revealed in my confessions post, I haven't been as good to my hair as I know how to lately and I am going to do better. For one, my once a month washing routine won't work in this heat. For two (lol), summertime = cute hair time so I'll probably be rocking more out styles and changing my style more often so I'll have to change my routine to suit. For three, I anticipate quite a bit of travelling so that will also affect my hair styling and haircare so I need to plan. These are the changes I'm going to be implementing to try to keep my hair healthy this summer:
- Washing
- Wash every one to two weeks
- Do an oil Prepoo everytime I wash to finger detangle and remove shed hair then braid hair into 10 loose braids (washing loose will take hours, washing in twists leads to locs so braids it is)
- Shampoo, condition and deep condition every wash day
- Wash my hair in the prepoo braids
- When shampooing focus on the scalp and then while the shampoo is still in the hair, coat in conditioner and then rinse.
- Try to do a Steam treatment at least once a month but every wash day is ideal
- ACV rinse every wash day
- Moisturizing
- On wash day, moisturize with my homemade leave in
- Try using the homemade leave in on dry hair between washes
- During the week spritz with infusium 23 and baggy often
- When rocking out styles, if possible try to retwist/braid at night and baggy, use shea moisture or homemade leave in to moisturize
- When rocking wash and goes, spritz daily (try a glycerin/rosewater mix)
- Seal with coconut oil
- Styling
- Finger detangle as much as possible. Only use a comb when absolutely necessary. Use the TT as a last resort
- For twists and braids - Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie
- For Wash and Go - experiment with KCKT/ KCCC, Infusium/Giovanni direct/Carefree Curl Gold Instant Activator/IC Fantasia. If just refreshing a wash and go, forego all the typical wash day shenanigans and simply water rinse or cowash.
- Protecting
- Always sleep on a satin pillow case/ with a satin bonnet
- Try to retwist/rebraid often to baggy ends
- For next day out styles, pineapple the hair overnight
- Other
- Exercise
- Drink more water
- Take my supplements
- Eat more fresh/natural food
- Reduce stress
Any other ideas on other things I can do?
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