Hair profile?
4a, 4b, 3c, medium and thick, coarse and wiry strands, high density, CL-NL (and a short front around bang area, about to the eyebrows), low and normal porosity (I think), protein sensitive
Reggie and products?
- Co-wash at least 1x a week with V05 or Tresemme naturals nourishing moisture
- DC 1x a week w/whatever moisturizing DC is on hand, protein treatment whenever I feel I need it-same with ACV rinses,
- Henna once in a while
- apply a leave-in and seal everyday on damp-wet hair (currently: keracare natural textures leave in, peach kernel nectar)
- scalp massage with hair trigger at least 1x a week
How do you style your hair?
Out in all its (mostly) shrunken glory, occasional braid-outs; I don't have enough for a bun or a ponytail
What problems do you have with your hair?
- Since the humidity has risen it feels REALLY parched after I come back indoors
- it takes forever for my hair to get wet
- I thought I was low porosity because I fit so many of the description, but am now questioning this because my hair feels SO DRY-it does not hold onto moisture like low porosity hair supposedly does
- ever since I've taken my two-strand twists down (which my hair did not like) it's been so iffy and frustrating.
- I have no clue what's going on with it but it's making me want to cut everything off. I might just put some braid extensions in, this whole week has been a bad hair week and my hair has not looked very good to me lately either and my efforts seem useless.
Here's what I did before my hair started acting up:
- An Acv rinse and scalp massage with black tea
- Co-washed with tresseme naturals and detangled
- Claudie's renew Protein conditioner
- Organix awapuhi ginger conditioner
- Pumpkin seed curl moisturizing conditioner as leave-in
- sealed with peach kernel nectar
After the acv rinse my hair felt wonderful, same for after the protein treatment. The awapui ginger conditioner was not satisfying in the moisture content, but for the rest of this day my hair felt okay. After that, I don't know what went wrong, but my hair has been a hot mess. I even tried DC'ing with one of my former staples from when I was relaxed (silicon mix bambu) once my hair started acting up. I know it's just hair, but it really has me raging.