*Muffin*
New Member
Hello Everyone 
! Welcome to the "Get your hands outta your hair" (GYHOYH) challenge for 09'. The purpose of the challenge is the same as last time, to tame the overmanipulation beast and to help achieve and maintain beautiful, healthy hair by length retention. A lot of times we lose a great deal of the length that we grow due to excessive heat styling and just putting too much tension on our strands overall. But it can be overcome. But remember, length is not all that's important. What really matters is developing good hair habits and achieving healthy hair. Healthy hair is beautiful hair and if your hair is healthy the length will come in it's own time 
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Challenge Rules:
*Challenge will continue for all of 2009, but you can commit to as much or as little time as you want. If you join the challenge you have to commit to at least one month, but you could even commit to the entire year, if you would like.
**Make sure you post how many months of the challenge you are committing to and your starting and ending dates.
***Please let us know how you're doing on the challenge. You must check-in a minimum of once per month to let us know how you're doing. If you'd like to check in daily, weekly, or bi-weekly that's also acceptable
****You may rejoin this challenge after finishing the commitment time of your previous challenge as many times as you want before the end of 2009.
*****Try to post updates a minimum of once per month. You can also share what protective styles you used, what challenges you've been running across, what routines work for you, etc...
1. You may not manipulate your hair (as in flat iron, blow-dry, hot comb, or otherwise apply direct heat to your hair).
2. Daily grooming (like combing) is all right, but just ONCE per day. You may not excessively comb or touch your hair (and be gentle with your hair while grooming). Once your hair is in it's set style, leave it that way for the whole day.
3. You can use direct heat a maximum of once per month (Indirect heat like roller setting under a hood-dryer can be done regularly)
4. You don't always have to wear protective styles. You can wear your hair down or curled just so long as it's not done using direct heat (pin-curls, bantu-knot outs, braid-outs, rollersets, etc...) and you don't twirl your fingers in or otherwise bother with your hair throughout the day. This leads to breakage.
5. You may keep your current washing/conditioning and various other hair routines the same (such as scalp massaging, prepooing, etc...), just so long as they don't involve putting unnecessary stress on your hair.
6. Try to sleep with your hair wrapped in a satin/silk scarf, or otherwise secured (like in a bun or clipped up, for example). Hair can get very tangled when you wear it loose while you sleep, and this can lead to breakage.
**Helpful Tips**
-I find that it's helpful to plan out what styles you are going to utilize through the week. That way you have a plan and you'll stick to it.
-Spice up your protective styles! Make it appealing to you and express yourself. Getting board with your style choices? You could add accessories to add color and appeal to your look. You could also research different kinds of protective styles to give you a bit more variety.
Challenge Members
Neemo
*Muffin*
Simply Kelz
justnotsure
Blackbird77
Shay72
longhairdreamzz
blasianbeauty
SouthernStunner
Prettyhair73
omnipadme
maddywoo13
november wind
supermodelsonya
angiet1985
jmac
runrunrunner
AmbyC92
prettyFine
Mrs. Fitness
sxyleogrl
mslittlelala
Neith
SweetSpirit86
IDareT'sHair
P.S. Don't forget to subscribe to this challenge's sister thread "GYHOYH" Mothly Heat Pass/Final Reveal Thread.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me, and I hope you enjoy the challenge
! Welcome to the "Get your hands outta your hair" (GYHOYH) challenge for 09'. The purpose of the challenge is the same as last time, to tame the overmanipulation beast and to help achieve and maintain beautiful, healthy hair by length retention. A lot of times we lose a great deal of the length that we grow due to excessive heat styling and just putting too much tension on our strands overall. But it can be overcome. But remember, length is not all that's important. What really matters is developing good hair habits and achieving healthy hair. Healthy hair is beautiful hair and if your hair is healthy the length will come in it's own time .Challenge Rules:
*Challenge will continue for all of 2009, but you can commit to as much or as little time as you want. If you join the challenge you have to commit to at least one month, but you could even commit to the entire year, if you would like.
**Make sure you post how many months of the challenge you are committing to and your starting and ending dates.
***Please let us know how you're doing on the challenge. You must check-in a minimum of once per month to let us know how you're doing. If you'd like to check in daily, weekly, or bi-weekly that's also acceptable
****You may rejoin this challenge after finishing the commitment time of your previous challenge as many times as you want before the end of 2009.
*****Try to post updates a minimum of once per month. You can also share what protective styles you used, what challenges you've been running across, what routines work for you, etc...
1. You may not manipulate your hair (as in flat iron, blow-dry, hot comb, or otherwise apply direct heat to your hair).
2. Daily grooming (like combing) is all right, but just ONCE per day. You may not excessively comb or touch your hair (and be gentle with your hair while grooming). Once your hair is in it's set style, leave it that way for the whole day.
3. You can use direct heat a maximum of once per month (Indirect heat like roller setting under a hood-dryer can be done regularly)
4. You don't always have to wear protective styles. You can wear your hair down or curled just so long as it's not done using direct heat (pin-curls, bantu-knot outs, braid-outs, rollersets, etc...) and you don't twirl your fingers in or otherwise bother with your hair throughout the day. This leads to breakage.
5. You may keep your current washing/conditioning and various other hair routines the same (such as scalp massaging, prepooing, etc...), just so long as they don't involve putting unnecessary stress on your hair.
6. Try to sleep with your hair wrapped in a satin/silk scarf, or otherwise secured (like in a bun or clipped up, for example). Hair can get very tangled when you wear it loose while you sleep, and this can lead to breakage.
**Helpful Tips**
-I find that it's helpful to plan out what styles you are going to utilize through the week. That way you have a plan and you'll stick to it.
-Spice up your protective styles! Make it appealing to you and express yourself. Getting board with your style choices? You could add accessories to add color and appeal to your look. You could also research different kinds of protective styles to give you a bit more variety.
Challenge Members
Neemo
*Muffin*
Simply Kelz
justnotsure
Blackbird77
Shay72
longhairdreamzz
blasianbeauty
SouthernStunner
Prettyhair73
omnipadme
maddywoo13
november wind
supermodelsonya
angiet1985
jmac
runrunrunner
AmbyC92
prettyFine
Mrs. Fitness
sxyleogrl
mslittlelala
Neith
SweetSpirit86
IDareT'sHair
P.S. Don't forget to subscribe to this challenge's sister thread "GYHOYH" Mothly Heat Pass/Final Reveal Thread
.If you have any questions, feel free to PM me, and I hope you enjoy the challenge
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. It looks a lot healthier since I've started DC'ing more frequently.
