I did a henna treatment yesterday. I was a little worried b/c I can't even recall how many henna/cassia treatments/glosses (and at least one hard protein) I did over the last two months and I thought I'd overdone it. It's worth noting that I hadn't henna'd or used protein for like 3 years and my fine strands were splitting or just breaking somehow.
2 weeks ago, I decided to do my own balayed highlights (totally misspelled). Me, the girl whose go-to style for any occasion is a ponytail. The girl who is so happy the top-knot is in b/c it's one of two styles I can do.
Well, I did a bleach bath/conditioner on my ends. For some ridiculous reasons eventually put it higher up, on my roots, immediately got bright pink/orange hot roots and looked like a flame. I, then, had to dye my hair b/c a toner would not cut it. I used a semi-permanent and I'd been scratching my head ever since.
I've babied my hair with my favorite dc, sprayed it with Mane and Tail leave in mixed with drops of lavender oil, ghe'd at night and barely manipulated it at all for 2 weeks.
Yesterday, I did a henna gloss for about 2.5 - 3 hours while cleaning, running errands, and doing laundry in my immediate hood. I rinsed it out for-ev-er. Shampooed with some leftover sample Just For Me hair milk shampoo I'd gotten for like 50 cents. Rinsed some more, applied ors with silk dreams added onto my ends, watched some tv, rinsed it out. Rinses tan. Ugh. Dunked my head in a sink full of water 3 times for literally 10 minutes each, did a final rinse and perhaps I just hoped myself into believing it ran clear. I then did an aloe vera tea rinse, followed by an ACV rinse. My hair felt awesome.
I put a little rosemary mint suave condish on it and blew it partially dry on warm/cold at the low speed.I'm about 8 weeks post, so I have to stretch my roots a bit in some way at the start of it air drying. Or it will loc. Into very small locs. Today I go in for a roller set and I can't make it to Juanita. I scurred.