I am on an official countdown until my one year anniversary! I am preparing myself for a major change for year two. I hate to hit an anniversary of an entire year with no changes made, what’s the point if life if you aren’t growing?
Anways, I will have several posts dedicated to the countdown to May 1 and what i’m doing to my hair from now to then.
April 19-22, 2009
From Sunday through Wednesday I’ve had my hair in a protective style. The style I chose was several small twists pulled back into a bun. My hair while twisted was saturated in Giovanni Deep Moisture Conditioner as a leave-in, Wild Growth Hair Oil and Yellow Natural Raw Shea Butter to assist with the retention of moisture.
April 22, 2009
I took down all of the twists. Next I used the shea butter mentioned above and emulsified it between my hands. Then, I rubbed this on the last 3 inches or so of my ends to soften them as they were a bit hard from the bun. I wrapped my hair up in, yup, good ole fashioned saran wrap to maintain the moisture and use the heat from my body to assist the shea butter in easy penetration of the hair shaft.
I also sent an e-mail to XEX salon (an Aveda salon) to inquired as to whether their Director of Color, Tracy, would be able to handle my hair. (Not everyone knows what to do with curly, let alone 4A/3C curly hair!)
April 23, 2009
Now it’s time to get rid of those scraggily ends.
I unwrapped my hair which was still in the seperate sections from the twists. I literally took one section at a time, wet the ends to assist in smoothing them out, combed them around the curve of my finger to straighten them, and snipped off all that was raggedy (not more than 1/8th of an inch in most instances). This took care of all split ends (very few) and those darn fairy knots that appear and are soo annoying.
After my “dusting”, I rinsed my hair in cold water. Co-washed with the Giovanni and styled with several conditioners (since i’m planning to dye my hair, I want to make sure i’m conditioning as much as possible as the dye will dry out my hair and if that happens.. breakage can occur!)
While my hair was dripping wet, I added HE Hydralicious Reconditioning Conditioner. Hair is still really wet at this point. Next I added a tiny amount of NOW Vegetable Glycerine. I emulsified in my hands and then just lightly patted it onto my hair. Then, I layered HEHH.
After this I seperated my hair into four different sections and finger combed Aveda Be Curly Conditioner into my hair. That’s all of the products I used, lol.
After this, I finger combed my hair back so that I can double band my head band around my hair. Lastly, I shake and wrap a satin scarf around the part that is pushed back so that it will stay flat. Then I went to work 
Tonight i’ll be deep conditioning! And hopefully i’ll hear back from the salon today as well!
